The philosophy behind the rules is the primacy of human actions as opposed to the cumulative material effects of ballistic combat. In the chaos of battle, humans begin to ignore the increasing material flotsam around them and fall back on their training. Small Deadly Space portrays this reality by reducing the pages of material modifiers, which we think, erroneously, are the main factors in determining human behavior, and increases the role of psychology in battle as influenced by training, drill and unit elan. —description from the rulebook

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