Allies can pass around guns and items

When playing in team mode, players can pass around guns and items to their allies. This can only be done (1) at the start of the game after all players received their starter guns and items before player 1 lands on the battlefield to start the game. (2) If allies are in the same field and one of them has the turn and did not move or act yet.

The team loses if all of its players are eliminated

When playing in team mode, players can pass around guns and items to their allies. This can only be done on (1) At the start of the game after all players receive their starter guns and items before player 1 lands on the battlefield to start the game. And (2) when an allies are in the same field with other allies and one of them has the turn and did not move or act yet.

Friendly fire and other team mechanics

Players can choose to attack their allies. Attacked allies can react as usual, this can be advantageous in some scenarios in which allies can react to move or use medkit to relieve themselves in tight situations. Some splash damage can include allines. E.g. when the damage mechanic reads “dmg to ‘everyone’ in a field” -this includes your allies and yourself. Some character cards can affect all allies, all enemies, or everyone in the field. Check character card descriptions for exact mechanics.

Guns and Items Distribution

Landing on the battlefield safe distance adjustment for 5, 6, 7 and 8 player games

On the standard 4-player game, players are only allowed to land on fields that are 2-fields away from enemy players. For 5 and 6 player free for all, players can land with 1-field away from each other. For 7 and 8 players, there is no safe distance. In all team-based games, 2-fields safe distance is used.

Ultimately, players can alter the rules and adjust all of this to suit their liking.

What is Ban-N-Pick?

Ban-N-Pick phase is only used on serious games that uses character cards. This phase is a way for players to make unwanted characters unplayable for both teams while also strategically picking characters which players think has a good chance to win given the odds of the current game set up.

When is the Ban-N-Pick Phase?

The Ban-N-Pick Phase happens after all players have received their starter guns and items, after the battlefield has been set up and after the player order has been agreed.

How to do the Ban-N-Pick?

The team with the Player 1 is Team A. In this case, Team A will initiate the Ban-N-Pic.

After the ban and pick phase, player 1 will now land on the battlefield to start the game.

All adjustments under team mode applies in tournament mode

Since 2v2 is team based, all adjustments under ‘Team Mode’ stated above is applied.

Order of turn of player can change the gameplay

In 2v2, the order of who goes first and who are the next players to have their turn is randomized. For instance, Team A is played by Mike and Jason, however their player cards are Player 1 and Player 4, this means that while ther are in the same team, Mike will be the first one to have the turn of everyone and Jason is the last to move, while Team B has Players 2 and 3 which has a possible focus fire combo strategy.

Nuke has higher chance to be used

Since 2 players are working together and can pass around items, they can focus to chase items to get a chance for a nuke. There are also characters that can view cards on the field, view all cards of an enemy, as well as steal an enemy card. Good luck!

High chance that characters hold their specialty guns

Since the starter guns and items are distributed before picking a character, there are good chances that players will pick characters than specializes in the starter guns they have. So if you see your enemies pick Cecilia, there’s a high chance that a sniper rifle is in their hands. Also, all guns only has 1 duplicate, so whatever you have means that there is a lower chance that your enemies have them too. Good Luck!

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Learn about how gun damage and range works

The Shotgun and the Sniper Rifle B are the best guns to learn or teach about how gun damage and range works in Fatefield. Additionally, new players can ignore the dice roll effects of each gun to not add complications early in the game.

Skip the use of ‘react’ mechanic

On each turn of players, moving with the use of a dice and then doing an act can already be too deep especially for non-board game players. It would be best to not include the ‘react’ mechanic because there are tendencies for new players to follow or get confused about whose turn is it now.

Show the character cards but don’t use it yet

The character cards help to make the game more interesting so it is great to show it to new players to tell them how deep this game can be. However, there are character skills that requires the players’ full understanding of how act and react works and also how damage and range are implemented.

Set up a smaller battlefield

New players, especially when playing 1v1 on a smaller table or space can create a smaller battlefield with the use of only 12 field cards.