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E is nowhere near the wall.  Now with a 2 square radius the most you could hit here, assuming they don't move before you can fire, are three of them with BAE and ACE as possibilities.  BAE would be at 8/9,11/12 and safely in the middle of the room.  ACE would need placement at 9/10,12/13 (A's lower right) and would hit that corner especially as it may need to be a bit higher assuming C is up on the catwalk; of course it could hit all those warrior types.

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Ties are supposed to be broken by Initiative modifier.  My "records" indicate Akunar at +16, Ghost is just +10 (good roll however), and I believe the Warmaster is at +14.  This should make the order Akunar-Warmaster-Ghost-Furbal which I'd say is easier for me as it puts the characters I'm controlling together without always needing to wait to see what happens.  There's also a tie at the bottom end where it seems Torkad is at +14 while I believe the Hunter is +13.

Edit:  Now while Initiative modifier is supposed to be the tie breaker if you needed another then I'd go with ability modifier before the coin toss/roll off

While it's probably easier when the two smaller YV warriors act together a little voice makes me think Torkad doesn't want to wait until the end of the first round to lose his FF status even if it just to the Hunter.

Yep, I should have kept Juggernaut.  That one lost square of movement is costing me the first melee attack of this encounter.

But not all is lost.  Since Krusseck is starting his turn without cover from at least one opponent, Face the Foe and Luck Favors the Bold both activate, granting Krusseck 12 temporary hp and a +1 morale bonus on attack rolls that he does not have cover from.

He is going to designate the Warrior as the target of his Unbalance Opponent, preventing the Warrior from using his Strength bonus on melee attack rolls against Krusseck.

Question, FakDendor:  not that any enemies in this encounter are using their Dex for melee attacks, but would you allow Krusseck to be able to use Unbalance Opponent against a foe who was gaining his Dex to his attack instead of his Strength (such as through the use of Weapon Finesse)?

And since I want to make an attack and keep myself from spoiling the area attacks of my allies, Krusseck will make a rifle attack against the Intendent.

Blaster rifle against Intendent.  1d20+14=19.  Going to use Desperate Gambit to take a -2 Penalty to Reflex and gain an attack reroll.  1d20+14=23.  Not sure if that hits, but here is damage:  3d8+8=17.

I see no reason not to allow unbalance opponent to work on an opponent using weapon finesse.

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The walkways can be accessed by a steep stair represented by the four 'gradient' squares on either side of the hallways. For convenience, I will treat this as a single square.

This was my ruling back on page 1 so I'm going to stick with it here as acting as only a single, sloped square. I'm open to a counterargument, however.

Aside from that, Krusseck will be up next. The surprise round is over, and now all PCs and NPCs can act normally, and are no longer considered flat-footed for the purposes of surprise.

I took that to mean the "access area" is a single square as opposed to having some longer staircase.  If it's still two squares up or down I'd take that to then take 1 square of movement to move to the middle of the access and then another square to move to the other end.  All said I'd figure you could "stack" two, maybe even three characters on that square at different levels.  Moving would effectively be one square to enter the elevation change space, two squares to change elevation, and then it would be the fourth square to exit the space.  If you were standing in the space to start with it would take two squares of movement to go up although you could presumably jump down without any additional movement requirement.

Looking at the hunter I figure he could move one square left jumping down the two squares (DC 15 Athletics to avoid damage), move three more to get to the other side, and then use the last two squares of movement getting to top of the ladder/stair.  He could maybe try jumping the 4 squares from one side to the other but without the running start that would be a DC 36 Jump check.

If you're saying that entering that square means you can gain 2 squares of elevation change up without any additional cost I think that would be overly simple.  With a Jetpack I'd believe you would need to use 2 squares of movement to go from the floor to the walkway level; move up 1 places you at crate top level and another square up places you at walkway level.  Those elevation change locations probably should be no less that that.