Consider it changed.

Per frame.  In other words a PI trooper in an army list with a max PI weapon cost of 60 PV could carry a 60 PV rifle in addition to a 5 PV grenade and a 15 PV augmentation. 

Make sense?

These will be useful for many different games.  Kudos!

Ooh, tell us more about the demo.

Maybe a separate topic, with battle report? 

Or just a few thoughts would be great.

On a frame per frame basis, this is generally true, but, due to statistical issues not worth getting into at this time, close combat armies will be able to offset their opponent's points spent on ranged weaponry by keeping their infantry AR's around zero (-1 to +2).  Two quick reasons for this are:

-heavy armor tends to be maximized if you advance slowly from cover to cover, in which case it will make the odds on may shots drop off of the linear curve pretty quickly.  If you charge straight at someone, however, the enemy's stationary bonus will often offset your armor.

-weak armor is terrible against suppression fire or AOE, two of the main tactics against close combat or "swarm" armies.

Another somewhat statistical point is that it will generally be worth spending the points to get a high reflex and multiple HTH dice.  This will maximize your offnese to defense ratio.  Also, it will allow relatively few close combat specialists to take out a fairly large enemy unit that has not spent such points.

Finally, tactical advantages can be taken that allow you to get the most tournament bang for the buck when using a close combat army.

In the end, close combat armies will still only be viable if they have some way to circumvent being forced to run into fire lanes.  This means investing some points in indirect support fire, flight ability, or a few troops with ranged capability.  If you look at most CC armies out there (40K, WZ, even SST), this tends to be the case for all of them.

-Demian
whose favorite Defiance force is the Meraxilla, which are likely the most point-for-point CC heavy of the army lists.

Close combat armies can easily be made using the Customizer.  The important difference between Defiance and many other sci-fi skirmish games is the fact that VG is a bit more "realistic" about the power of ranged weaponry and the usefulness of suppression fire.  In other words, if you just charge forward and hope for good die rolls, it won't be too hard for your opponent to mow you down in short order.

With some thought put into movement, field saves, sneaking and hiding, specific tactical advantages and judicious use of close defense weapons, however, an army of "thoughtful chargers" can be quite effective.

-Demian

Good luck getting the situation fixed quickly.  Let me know if there's anything I could work on in the meantime that would help you when your new machine is up and running.

Based upon the robots shown as the antagonists in the movies, the "Terminators" themselves should probably be heroes, either veteran or elite.

The final movie, however, gave hints of other bots with different capabilities and I think that there is plenty of room in the background for the design of linked and matrix units.

As for PI vs. SI, I would go with PI just to keep things simple, though one could argue that SI fits the human-like mobility of the Terminators...

-Demian

One more point that may not be obvious to people looking at the computerized Customizer is that the core mathematical formulae can *not* be back-tracked using it (though you could make some good guesses).  In other words, its proprietary aspects remian in my own personal files.