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Generic Specialist combatant

Specialist combatant
With a particular expertise in a specific area, the specialist can roll a 1d8 as their skill for tasks related to their speciality, despite having ordinary skill otherwise.
8
1d6
4

Some troops have an unusual level of training and experience in a particular task or tasks. These troops are similar to the "average combatant" statistics, but have a higher level of skill in their specialty.

Players should be sparing about designating a unit as a specialist combatant; this designation should reflect genuine expertise or significant additional training, not merely assignment to a particular military specialty or branch. For example:

  • A soldier trained in basic first aid is not a specialist in medicine. A medic or corpsman with extensive additional training and access to specialized medical equipment, however, might be.
  • A generic special operations soldier may be considered a specialist in relevant skills, using a 1d8 for skill in close-quarters marksmanship or negotiating book deals. However, they'll still use a 1d6 for most tasks outside their very narrow area of unusual expertise.

Players may house-rule that greater degrees of specialization can grant higher abilities still, but this is left as a house rule between players.

This icon is used to denote this unit in order of battle diagrams.