Nope, this was the basics that I found very confusing. I only played the training scenarios which involved troops and then troops and vehicles.
I was completely fine with the basic firing rules but where I found things confusing was once assaults were engaged, other units being drawn into the combat, resolving the combat and assigning additional hits to the losing side.
I love the idea of units being suppressed because of incoming fire as it makes great logical sense, but in practice I found the placing of markers and then rolling to see if you could lose them in the end phase quite tedious.
I'm sure there are probably people sitting sniggering as they read this, but even after playing 6 consecutive games the penny would not drop and we spent more time referring to the rules than engaged in the game. These games which only involved a handful of units took hours to play. In NetEpic I could have hammered through the scenarios in probably 15 to 30 mins.
From what I've heard, things only get worse once War Engines get involved so I'm glad I cut my losses when I did. Maybe if I played along with someone who had some experience of E:A I may have been able to pick things up better, who knows...
I found the NetEpic rules fine, but I was one of those players who knew the Space Marine rules inside out so I'm not best placed to comment properly on this. I think the system is far easier for new players to pick up, but yes I am biased!
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