Battle drills

[garhkal]

[Dredwulf60]

[garhkal]

No, cause as i mentioned, a lot of those are the same, just re-named.

A room entry and clearing drill will be the same.

Same with ambush and counter ambush drills..
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[Dredwulf60]

[garhkal]

Roger that..

One other option you can go with, is allowing the time taken to TRAIN these drills, granting 1-2cp that each pc can apply to increasing (or if needed, Learning) one of the skills under the drill..
Each PC can only gain said bonus once per separate skill in each drill type, and must train at least 2 different drills (or have a decent amt of time between drills) before going back to the same drill..

So say the team did an ambush training drill, pc 1 could use the 1-2 cp bonus to advance his sneak skill, while pc2 uses it for advancing tactics. After a few successive rebel missions, they again go back to training, and do a minesweeping drill. Right after the drill week, they get orders from RebHQ to run a blockade runner from where they are to planet Y for a supply drop, and use the time, to run a shipboard Damage control drill...
When they get off the supply run, they could go back to running an ambush drill, but each pc would have to pick a separate skill from the first one, to gain any new 'bonus CP'.

At most a player can earn 7 total CP per 'drill' type, regardless of how many skills it involves..
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[Naaman]

I'm thinking that each battle drill might have a specific difficulty level, and the leader rolls tactics against that difficulty.

The difficulty is modified by things like the followers' knowledge of the drill, the group's familiarity with each other, etc.

On a successful tactics roll, you might want to consider any of the following ideas:

1) Instead of rolling initiative, the entire team uses the leader's tactics roll as their initiative.

2) The success of the tactics roll provides a bonus to actions relevant to the battle drill.

3) The success of the tactics roll provides a bonus to initiative (which is otherwise rolled normally).

4) A successful tactics roll provides a bonus to one single skill (leader's choice) and anyone using that skill during the drill gains the benefit. Other skills may be relevant, but are not prioritized by the leader, so don't get the bonus.

Anyway, just some ideas...

[garhkal]

That might work as well..
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[Naaman]

After thinking about this some more, I'm feeling like the battle drills should actually be a list of team skills each with specific rules and benefits. For example, if we were to list out all of the skill level one battle drills, with standardized difficulties and advantages and perhaps disadvantages spelled out, then players and NPCs could use them to add some real flavor to their games.

Furthermore, advanced teams could train together and develop their own battle drills, spending time and perhaps CPs with GM's approval for the particular benefits and/or drawbacks of each new drill.

As an example, one battle drill could simply be "Assault the Objective." Let's also assume that the tactics roll replaces the initiative roll, and all members of the team use that as their initiative (the team can choose which actions are resolved in what order).

The team leader rolls tactics against a moderate difficulty. For each character on his team that has at least 3D in tactics, the team leader gets a +1 bonus on this roll. If successful, the following effects are realized:

The team is divided into two groups. Group 1 provides a base of fire (suppressing the enemy). Group 2 maneuvers into a flanking position.

Group 1 gains a +1D bonus to any cover they are using, but cannot use the dodge skill (if a character chooses to dodge, then he is no longer participating in the battle drill). Group 2 gains a +1D bonus to sneak rolls to avoid being detected as they flank, but cannot use the dodge skill (if a character chooses to dodge, he is no longer participating in the battle drill). Also, all shooters in both groups deal additional damage if any of their shots hit: their damage all counts as combined (even though no command roll was made to combine fire). For example, with a team of 6--3 in each group--any shooting attacks that hit with a 5D blaster rifle deal 6D+2 damage (5 additional pips for the 5 additional shooters).

In addition, if an enemy attempts to shoot at any member of group 2, a single members of group 1 gain a free attack against that enemy, resolved immediately after the enemy's attack, and the enemy's cover bonus is lost (reduced?) for that one shot.

[Dredwulf60]

I very much like this idea.

As a further clarification/ alteration;
instead of allowing everyone who has at least 3D in tactics to modify the leader's roll, I would have every member of the squad roll their own tactics skill against a set difficulty based on the complexity of the drill. (ie 10). Every one who does gains the benefit that comes with participation in the drill. Those who do not, are still technically a part of the drill but do not gain the benefits.

This works better for me because:

a) The leader is not getting a benefit merely for having a LOT of trained members; a 24-man highly drilled team is not necessarily going to eexcute battle drills better than a 4-man highly drilled team.

b) Every PC who is part of the drill feels more part of the execution when they roll their own tactics skill and

c) Every PC has incentive to continue to increase their tactics skill beyond 3D once they attain it.

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The leader's roll could have modifiers based on how long the squad has been drilling together, and/or how much respect the squad has for his leadership ability. (possibly based on how often the drill has been successful in the recent past.)

[garhkal]

I agree. Additionally, you could have it where for every "trooper that succeeds" it could reduce the difficulty for the leader, where the opposite is also true, where if too many troops fail THEIR tactics roll, the leader has a harder difficulty to make his roll.
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