"5core players - What is essential in the system?" Topic

Not that I am fiddling with anything in particular, but if you had to boil FiveCore down to the absolute essentials what would those parts be?

Talking to players elsewhere, some sort of action/turn die and dual firing dice seems the things people hit on.

Anything else that's key to the experience in your view?

The dual firing dice is the absolute essential component. The next thing is the reaction/snap fire. With those two mechanics, you can use a number of different activation systems and still have a good game.

In no particular order:
Shock and Kill dice
Random Scurry/Firefight turns
The ability to play with fewer than 12 models per side (you may remember I like to play with more but the fact that it works perfectly with only a few models is great feature.)
Super simple reaction fire
Placing the die next to the figure/stand that was attacked, to be re-rolled later as a moral/delayed results system

These are fundamental and indispensable things for me that make Fivecore what it is and make it great.

Going to be a bit redundant, repetitive, and verbose and restate the above.

- The shock / Kill die system with morale results baked into the roll.
- Using a 1 or 6 to indicate a result makes die roll resolution SUPER fast
- Emphasis on morale impacts of suppressing fire, especially in company commander / Brigade commander.
- Reaction fire forces the attacker to find those covered and concealed avenues of approach.
- The randomized turns. Lulls do happen (scurry) and increased fire tempo (firefight) in ways commanders cannot control and that provides a challenge.

I think you have already nailed it. Also, it is hugely customizable, and actually reminds me of Black Powder in that way. I can tag on as many or as few special rules as I want and easily adapt it to specific conflicts.