Heroes in FT space battles

	A couple of thoughts on adding heroes into FT/MT battles, mostly
as
part of campaigns;  NB, this is very much "movie reality"!  The idea is
to
let such characters have a big (-ish) effect on small battles, and a
noticeable effect on bigger battles, without overbalancing them.  None
of
this is playtested, I only just thought of it!

	A hero or heroine is given a grade at the start of the campaign,
possibly by dieroll.  For each grade point, a skill or characteristic is
chosen from the table below.  The hero's presence is marked on the
record
sheet of any ship he joins, and he's rolled for at threshold checks .  

Skill				       Effect
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Fighter-0 (Possibly free?) Hero is incompetent fighter pilot- makes any
group "turkey"
Fighter-1		   Hero is competent fighter pilot 
Fighter-2		   Hero is competent fighter pilot
Gunner-1		   Adds 1 die to any 1 beam weapon or SM pack
fired,
counts as extra 			   Firecon
Gunner-2		   As level 1 but also uses C-Batt as normal
PDAF, 
			   12" range bonus for beam weapons
*AF Gunner-1		   Adds 1 die to any 1 PDAF/ADAF weapon fired
*AF Gunner-2		   As level 1 but also uses C-Batt as normal
PDAF,
PDAF as ADAF, 
			   and uses extended ranges 12" PDAF, 18" ADAF
Engineer-1		   Counts as 1 extra Damage Control Party
Engineer-2		   Counts as 2 extra Damage Control Parties
Survivor-1		   Ignores first threshhold check (personally-
the
ship rolls as normal)
Survivor-2		   Ignores first two threshhold checks
Survivor-3		   Ignores first three threshhold checks
Sensors-1		   Raises carrying ship's sensors and ECM by one
level
Sensors-2		   Raises carrying ship's sensors and ECM by one
level

Rob Paul

Rob Paul
NERC Institute of Virology 
Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3SR	  Tel. (01865) 512361
rkp@mail.nerc-oxford.ac.uk
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