Tactics

[jmanski]

[CRMcNeill]

[garhkal]

[Rerun941]

I'm a little surprised that no one has mentioned what really makes Tactics work:

Practice

There's a reason that militaries constantly run exercises and mock wargames. The best way to learn tactics is to practice them... and practice them against enemies with DIFFERENT tactics.

Imperial Officers and Stormtroopers have high tactics because they practice working together and know how one another acts during combat. They can react with instinct because they know each other so well.

Teamwork is what's really represented by a high tactics skill. Command is there to initiate that teamwork.
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[CRMcNeill]

[CRMcNeill]

[garhkal]

So hows about the big bonus (like my IP showed) for planned stuff, and smaller bonuses for on the fly reactioning.
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[CRMcNeill]

[garhkal]

Lets see...

Tactics over diff (or opponent)
For planned situations
0-5 over. +1 to initiave for first rouond.
6-10 over. +2 to initiave for first 2 rounds.
11-15 over. +1d for first round of init.
16-20 over. +1d for first 2 rounds of init, or auto go first in first round.
21-25 over. +1d+1 for first 4 rounds of combat, or auto choice to go first for 2 rounds. Also gains 2 free dice to allocate to any person(s) the one making the tactics roll sees fit.
26-30. +1d+1 for 5 rounds, or auto first for 2. Same 2d for allocation.
31-35. +1d+2 for 6 rounds, or auto first for 3. Allocation now up to 3d. Can give 2d max to 1 person.
36-40, +1d+2 to all initiave through out combat, or auto choice for first 4 rounds of combat. 3d allocation.
41+, +2d to initiave through out combat or auto first pic for 4 rounds. 4D allocation OR everyone gains +2 pips to skill of their choice through out combat.

If applying as an on the fly reaction to a situation, the bonuses go to
0-5, +1 init/2 rounds.
6-10, +2 init/2 rounds
11-15, +2 init/3 rounds.
16-20, +1d/3 rounds. +1d that can be given out in 1 pip increments.
21-25, +1d/4 rounds. +1d that can be given out in 1 pip increments.
26-30, +1d+1/4 rounds. +1d+1 that can be given out in 1 pip increments.
31-36, +1d+2/5 rounds. +1d+1 to give out
37+, +1d+2/5 rounds, +1d+2 to give out...
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[CRMcNeill]

Well, for one thing, your 0-5 and 6-10 brackets seem to be almost identical for planned vs. on-the-fly (assuming I'm reading it right). I would suggest slashing those two to no bonuses at all for on-the-fly. Maybe just have 1-10 be a stalemate bracket, where the tactical situation is so fluid that it is mostly dependent on the skill of the individual combatants.

Also, another thing to consider would be modifiers to the Tactics skill roll itself, reflecting the overall situation. With that sort of thinking, we would technically be moving from Tactics to Strategy, but perhaps it would be best to keep things all under one heading.
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[garhkal]

Good catch.. should have been 1rnd bonus for the 0-5 and 6-10 brackets for on the fly.
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