Linked Attribute: Intellect
Specializations: Guerrilla Warfare, Mechanized Ground Warfare, Sea Combat, Small-Unit Tactics
A character with Planetary Tactics can conduct tactical and strategic military operations on or in planetary surfaces or atmospheres. A commander who succeeds with a Planetary Tactics Test (possibly in an Opposed Test against an enemy commander) provides his forces with a –1 Difficulty modifier for all attack, defense, and movement actions for one round.
- Routine: Defending a well-supplied strongpoint against technologically-inferior attackers
- Moderate: Defeating an outnumbered force in a single battle
- Challenging: Defeating an outnumbered army in a single campaign
- Difficult: Defeating a superior force
- Nearly Impossible: Defeating a superior force at odds greater than 10:1