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Grav Armor

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Grav Armor is a science fiction tank combat board game designed by Arnold Hendrick and published by Heritage Models in 1982 as part of its Dwarfstar Games line of small boxed microgames. It is a two player wargame in which one side commands the forces of the Lerlam Empire and the other commands rebels of the Panumatic League. Combat uses a system built around Electronic Warfare, or EW, ratings rather than simple line of sight, so a unit's ability to detect and fire on an enemy depends on its EW rating and the range to the target rather than whether a clear line can be drawn between them. Players alternate moving individual units across the board, and an opponent may be able to fire on a moving unit during that movement if its EW rating and the range allow it. When an attack occurs it is resolved on a Combat Result Table that weighs the attacker's EW rating against the defending unit's defense value, the terrain the target occupies and a dice roll, producing a result ranging from a miss to a destroyed unit.

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Game Type (category)
Board Game 1
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Player Count
Two-Player 1
Origin Year
1982 1
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1. Grav Armor (Wikipedia)
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    Grav Armor is a science fiction tank combat board game published by Heritage Models in 1982.
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    Grav Armor is a science fiction tank combat board game published by Heritage Models in 1982.
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    Grav Armor is a two-player science-fiction tank wargame designed by Arnold Hendrick, with graphic design by David Helber, with Tom Maxwell, and cover art by Bob Depew.
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