Unconventional Warfare Units

While these units - of which US Army Special Forces (the “Green Berets”) are the prototype - are perfectly capable of “direct action” commando-style raiding and are highly skilled light infantry, they specialize in training friendly forces in peacetime, and building guerrilla movements in enemy (or in the case of some nationalities, friendly) territory in wartime.

Entry: Strength+Constitution+Agility 17+, Intelligence 5+, Language: 2+, and (for officer only), OCS, military academy, or commission. '

First Term Skills:

• Parachute: 2

• Instruction: 1

• Small Arms: 2

• Language: 1

• Survival: 1

• EITHER Combat Engineering, Electronics (or the proposed Communications skill) Medical, Persuasion, Computer, or additional Small Arms: 2.

Subsequent Term Skills:

• Acrobatics

• Armed Martial Arts

• Autogun

• Forward Observer

• Grenade Launcher

• instruction

• Interrogation

• Language

• Leadership

• Medical

• Navigation

• Observation

• Parachute

• Persuasion

• Small Arms

• Stealth

• Survival

• Swimming

• Tac Missile

• Thrown Weapon

• Tracking

• Unarmed Martial Arts

Promotion: 6+ (7+ for Officers), DM +1 if INT 7+

Contacts: Two per term, military, intelligence or (for officers) diplomatic community. Roll 1D10 for 6+ for thecontact to be foreign.

Speclal: Depends on individual nationalities.

Note: The "Language" skills in this specialty are nearly as important in terms of cross-cultural literacy as for conversation and communication. Troops in this speciality get a benefit in not offending the cultures they deal with, as well as potentially not giving off glaring (and mission-threatening) examples of cultural impropriety, above and beyond being able to communicate. This should be handled by referee's discretion.