Special Terrain

Battles throughout the Gundam universe have taken place in every imaginable locale—from sun scorched deserts and dense, tangled jungles to the crushing depths of the ocean and the vast silences of space. Gundam Assemble recreates these environments with specialized terrain that affects gameplay.

• Q.20 · If I Push a unit that’s Engaged or that would receive movement penalties from unique terrain like water, is the Push distance affected by those movement penalties?
• Q.63 · What does "Accuracy" mean?
• Q.95 · What does "Hover" mean?
• Q.100 · What does "Move" mean?
• Q.106 · What does "Pull" mean?
• Q.107 · What does "Push" mean?
• Q.127 · What does "Terrain Movement Penalties" mean?

Water

• When moving.
  • Units receive a -1 hex penalty to any move action initiated while in water.
• When attacking.
  • Units receive a -1 Accuracy penalty when attacking enemy units in water.
  • Units receive a -1 Accuracy penalty when attacking from water.
  • Collectively, if both the attacker and the target are in water, the attack receives -2 Accuracy.

Impassable Terrain

• When moving.
  • Units may not move through hexes containing Impassable Terrain unless they have Hover.
  • No unit may end their movement in these hexes.

• Q.96 · What does "Impassable Terrain" mean?

Debris Fields

• When moving.
  • Units receive a -1 hex penalty to any move action initiated while in a debris field.
• When attacking.
  • Units receive a -1 Accuracy penalty when attacking enemy units in a debris field.
  • Units receive a -1 Accuracy penalty when attacking from a debris field.
  • Collectively, if both the attacker and the target are in a debris field, the attack receives -2 Accuracy.

Minovsky Particles

• When attacking.
  • Units receive a -2 Accuracy penalty while inside Minovsky Particles when making any attack against a non-adjacent target.
  • Units receive a -2 Accuracy penalty while outside Minovsky Particles when making any attack against a non-adjacent target that is inside the Minovsky Particles.
  • The Accuracy penalties from Minovsky Particles are not cumulative, so units will only receive -2 Accuracy if both the attacker and the defender are inside the Minovsky Particles.

Setting up Terrain

Some scenarios allow players to place terrain however they want when setting up the board. For these scenarios, players must agree during setup how and where they want to place terrain.