Interact

"Interact" is one of the possible Actions that a Hero or Alien Unit can do during its Activation. Unlike the other available Actions, the Interact Action doesn't do anything in itself; it can only be used when something explicitly says an Interact Action can be used.

The normally available Interact actions are:

• INTERACT: PICK UP ITEM. When standing on a Square with a Spanner token on it, a Hero or Alien Unit can make an Interact Action to pick up the object: discard the token, and draw an Item card. If the Item is an Equipment, the Hero who picked it up can equip it immediately if their "IN USE" slot is empty, and if the Equipment icon on the Item matches on of the Equipment icons on the Hero Profile board. If the "IN USE" slot already has something in it, the new item goes into the "BACKPACK" slot. (This was clarified in an FAQ answer by Archon.)
• INTERACT: EXTRACTION. Heroes standing on an Extraction Point may use the Interact Action to go back to the Space Station. They can then, on their next Turn, use another Interact Action to move back from the Space Station down to one of the Yellow Squares that was the initial deployment point for the Hero Players at the start of the Mission.

Action

On a Model's or Alien Unit's Turn, it may perform two Actions, which must be different (that is, not two of the same Action).

The available Actions are:

• MOVE. Move a number of Squares up to the Model/Unit's Movement Value. Diagonal movement is allowed in open terrain, but only if both of the two Squares that are bypassed by the movement are open. If there are walls or obstacles blocking either, the Model/Unit must move orthagonally.
• SPRINT. The Sprint Action is a variant of the Move Action, which uses half the Movement Value. It exists for situations when the MOVE action has already been used, but the Model/Unit has nothing better to do.
• MELEE ATTACK. Can normally only be performed against Adjacent targets. Roll as many Combat dice as indicated by the Model/Unit's Melee attribute, and resolve the damage.
• SHOOT ATTACK. Can normally only be performed against non-Adjacent targets, and only if there is Line of Sight between the attacker and the target. Units capable of Shoot Attacks usually have two different combat values depending on whether the attack range is short or long. If the unit is within short range, the short range Combat Value must be used, and otherwise, if the unit is within long range, the long range Combat Value must be used. Roll as many Combat dice as indicated by the applicable Combat Value, and resolve the damage.
• INTERACT. The Interact action provides a way for Heroes and Alien Units to interact with various things in the environment. It has no basic effect; it only does something if something in the environment provides an ability for using an Interact Action.
• OVERWATCH. This places the Model/Unit in Overwatch mode, at the ready to make a Shoot attack against any enemy unit that moves to a Square where it is possible to perform an attack. OVERWATCH can use either both the Model/Unit's Actions to enter full-powered Overwatch mode, or just the Model/Unit's second Action to enter a weaker Overwatch mode. Place an Overwatch token next to Model that is in Overwatch mode; the tokens are double sided, so use the red side with a plus in the centre for the full-powered Overwatch, and the blue side without a plus in the centre for the weaker Overwatch.
• PSYCHIC ATTACKS. Alien Units with "psychic" or "psy" in their ability names or descriptions are able to perform Psychic Attacks. Psychic Attacks don't require Line of Sight, and can't be defended against with the normal Defence/Shield Value, but otherwise work similarly to regular Melee or Shoot attacks.

The Alien Units have an extra action available:

• FLIP BLIP TOKEN. If the Alien Unit being moved is still a Blip Token, it can be flipped up and revealed as an action, and may then perform its Alien Behaviour Action.