The new Heavy Gear Blitz Field Manual - Core Rulebook Companion is a rules supplement that adds a new and exciting style of game play to Heavy Gear Blitz! This book takes the field test rules featured in the first 3 issues of the Gear UP eZine and revises the Locked & Loaded rulebook sections with new rules flow charts for ease of use and new datacards for the Heavy Gear Blitz! miniatures. - New Heavy Gear Blitz! rules section layout with flowcharts for quicker game play. - Scenario generator with army priority levels, terrain, deployment, objectives, and support options. - New army combat group options, Blitz options, and Field manual TV adjustments for earlier releases. - New Gear options: Wildcat, Copperhead, Gladiator, and Boa. - Model perks & flaws, weapon traits & tables, plus a weapon recognition chart. - Updated datacards from HGB!: Locked & Loaded, Return to Cat's Eye, Shattered Peace, Terra Nova Gambit, Operation Drop bears: Dive!, and Gear UP issues 1 - 4. Reduced size versions of this new primary 'core' rule booklet come packaged with certain larger miniatures boxed sets.