Tactics

This broad skill provides a character with basic training in and an understanding of tactics and tactical situations. While tactics may come into play in many types of situations, it’’s most commonly used during infantry combat, space combat, and vehicle combat. A successful use of the skill provides a penalty to the opponent’’s next skill check, indicating that you developed a tactical plan and successfully employed it against him.

Tactics Check Results

• Critical Failure: The opponent sees through your intentions and receives a -1 bonus on their next skill check.
• Failure: No modifier to the opponent’’s next skill check.
• Ordinary: +1 penalty to the opponent’’s next skill check.
• Good: +2 penalty to the opponent’’s next skill check.
• Amazing: +3 penalty to the opponent’’s next skill check.

Infantry tactics

The specialty skill covers battlefield strategies when the main component of the battle is individual troops.

Rank Benefits

⊗ Increased Effect: As a character achieves higher ranks in a Tactics specialty skill, he receives a situation die bonus for dealing with opposing forces (infantry, space vessels, or vehicles). The bonus is -1 step at rank 4, -2 steps at rank 8, and -3 steps at rank 12.

Space tactics

Battlefield strategies involving combat between spaceships.

Rank Benefits

⊗ Increased Effect: As a character achieves higher ranks in a Tactics specialty skill, he receives a situation die bonus for dealing with opposing forces. The bonus is -1 step at rank 4, -2 steps at rank 8, and -3 steps at rank 12.

Vehicle tactics

Battlefield strategies involving combat where vehicles other than starships (air, land, or water) are the main component.

Rank Benefits

⊗ Increased Effect: As a character achieves higher ranks in a Tactics specialty skill, he receives a situation die bonus for dealing with opposing forces. The bonus is -1 step at rank 4, -2 steps at rank 8, and -3 steps at rank 12.