11-07-2016, 08:15 AM | #21 |
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Soldier
I've always allowed soldier skill to be used in place of many fear and will checks. This is mostly at low tech.
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11-07-2016, 10:00 AM | #22 |
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Soldier
I think I'd apply this if you're in a situation where you can "let the training take over" and respond in a standard way. So when you're one pikeman in a square, and the cavalry are charging at you, yes, absolutely (or indeed when you're a 1950s cold war grunt and the horizon flashes white); when you're scouting with a small squad and there's a horrible roar over the hill, not so much.
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11-07-2016, 10:09 AM | #23 |
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Soldier
Soldier is just the skill that fills in the middle ground of the profession. It's like having Law (Police) and Interrogation, but wanting to know whether the inmates awaiting trial are held. It gives you the "lay of the land" on a military base or a battlefield and handles the esoteric knowledge that makes the difference between civilians and veterans so obvious.
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11-07-2016, 06:50 PM | #24 |
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Soldier
I sometimes when driving in hilly country find myself wondering what pieces of ground I would want to occupy. What would Soldier(amateur-dabbler) be?
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I can easily picture the old lag who's too lazy to do the job well but knows all the rules, the newbie who's got the basic training down but hasn't yet picked up the "way things are done", or the shipboard specialist who's at a loss when he's dropped into a staff job, and they all have different combinations of these skills.
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11-09-2016, 09:26 AM | #28 |
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Soldier
Having been a radiation remediation tech, an electricians assistant, and a correctional officer, I think that 'knowing how to use job appropriate load bearing equipment to properly stow all your job appropriate goodies on your person' is definitely a professional skill thing in general, and would probably allow a default for such purposes between different such skills
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11-09-2016, 11:22 AM | #29 |
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11-10-2016, 02:12 AM | #30 | |
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Soldier
That is entirely depending on the army, i would it only allow in very narrow circumstances as a default.
What i learned in boot camp was at best not entirely useless, and was suboptimal at best.
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