Fortress of Necessity
EarthDescrição
While some generals favor a barren battlefield where steel can face steel, many others look for places where their forces can draw on cover. These locations offer troops a place to regroup, resupply, or take defensive action, but not all battlefields are so accommodating. In such cases, the commander has their army make their own fortifications.
Regras
- Ativação
As a downtime activity or a Support action during a mass battle, using adequate supplies and a suitable area, you may make a TN 3 Command (Earth) check targeting a position you can reach.
- Efeitos
If you succeed, you erect a defensive structure of trenches or short barricades in the area. In a mass battle, this structure is treated as a fortification with difficulty value equal to your ranks in Labor plus your bonus successes, which reduces attrition suffered by the cohort occupying it by 2. In a skirmish, this structure is treated as Obscuring terrain by anyone attacking those inside from outside. This structure is temporary, and degrades completely if left to the elements for more than a few days. It can be maintained with a TN 2 Labor (Earth) check as a downtime activity, which might need to be made more frequently in harsh weather conditions such as rain or snow.
Novas oportunidades
- Earth : When you perform the Reinforce action in this fortification during a mass battle, treat the TN as reduced by 1 (to a minimum of 1).
- Earth +: Add one of the following terrain qualities per spent this way to the area extending from range 1–3 around the building: Dangerous, Entangling, Obscuring, or Recessed. During a mass battle, enemies attacking a cohort in the fortification are treated as being in terrain with the added qualities.
Texto do livro
Fields of Victory · Chapter 2 : Defenders of the Empire › New Techniques › Earth Shūji · p. 100
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While some generals favor a barren battlefield where steel can face steel, many others look for places where their forces can draw on cover. These locations offer troops a place to regroup, resupply, or take defensive action, but not all battlefields are so accommodating. In such cases, the commander has their army make their own fortifications.
Activation: As a downtime activity or a Support action during a mass battle, using adequate supplies and a suitable area, you may make a TN 3 Command (Earth) check targeting a position you can reach.
Effects: If you succeed, you erect a defensive structure of trenches or short barricades in the area. In a mass battle, this structure is treated as a fortification with difficulty value equal to your ranks in Labor plus your bonus successes, which reduces attrition suffered by the cohort occupying it by 2. In a skirmish, this structure is treated as Obscuring terrain by anyone attacking those inside from outside. This structure is temporary, and degrades completely if left to the elements for more than a few days. It can be maintained with a TN 2 Labor (Earth) check as a downtime activity, which might need to be made more frequently in harsh weather conditions such as rain or snow.
New Opportunities
Earth : When you perform the Reinforce action in this fortification during a mass battle, treat the TN as reduced by 1 (to a minimum of 1). Earth +: Add one of the following terrain qualities per spent this way to the area extending from range 1–3 around the building: Dangerous, Entangling,
Obscuring, or Recessed. During a mass battle, enemies attacking a cohort in the fortification are treated as being in terrain with the added qualities.