Surprise Round

There were questions raised about surprising your enemy last game. I looked through the rulebook and found that they have really neat rules for it.

-surprise rounds begin under the same conditions as DH, they don't know you are there
-the surprise round ends the moment they become aware of attackers, a.k.a. the time someone moves into their LOS, or makes a loud noise it ends
-therefore only one person may get to make a surprise round attack
-there is a battle plan ability that lets everyone attack at once in a surprise round, holy shit would you kill a lot of people if you had that
-once they know someone is there we begin normal initiative, from the top

Which means if we get ambushed by a group of marauders, only one of them would actually get to attack us before we respond?

Depends. One could take a shot, ending the surprise round, or if one moved into LOS the surprise round would end at the end of their advance.

The key to continuing the surprise round is silent takedowns (anthony uses silence'd shots). There is also a battleplan ability that lets everyone immediately attack, so that's the best way to take advantage of the surprise round.