Martial Discipline (sage study)
Martial discipline is a sage study in the field of Mastery at Arms, which increases the combat advantage of characters in combat, enabling persons to engage the enemy with greater maneuverability, order and with the use of tactical formations. The ability enables a commander to organize combat trained units with sufficient commanders to order up in lines, columns, squares and wedges. Operating in close order formations, with more than one combatant per combat hex, is also a part of the discipline's training.
On the whole, persons without military discipline act as 'skirmishers,' open order formations that harass an enemy but are not essentially defensive in their arrangement. Military discipline is intended as a study that changes the way that combatants operate with each other, in tandem, rather than giving benefits to specific fighting abilities.
Sage Abilities
The sage abilities below are those acquired by a character through the study, according to status.
Amateur Status
- Artillerist I: the character is able to manage a team in order to fire a ballista or a catapult.
- Phalanx: the character is trained to stand in line, to defend against one hex.
Authority Status
- Artillerist II: the character is able to manage a team in order to fire a trebuchet.
- Dual Combatants: allows a primary and secondary combatant to fight from the same hex.
See also,
Fighter Sage Abilities
Paladin Sage Abilities
Ranger Sage Abilities
