Editing 18thCenturyMage/Combat Regimens

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Combat Regimens replace Fighting Style Merits in their entirety. 

'''Combat Regimen''' (●● to ●●●●●)

'''Effect''':  At ●●, this Merit grants a character a single choice from the list of Combat Regimen talents below.  For each additional ●, one additional Combat Regimen may be chosen.  Dots in the Combat Regimen Merit cannot be taken without appropriate access to training and technique teachers, or appropriate combat experience.

''Advance & Fire'':  The character may fire when running, suffering a -3 penalty to their attack roll for doing so.<br>
''Agility'':  The character can ignore terrain penalties on their movement of an amount up to their dots in Dexterity; so a character with Dexterity 4 could ignore up to -4 in penalties. Ladders, crates, low walls and so forth are easy for this character to handle. Their speed is also increased by 1.<br>
''Ambush'':  When attacking an opponent who is not aware of the character, they add a +2 bonus to their attack pool. Perception rolls made to hear the character attacking suffer a -2 penalty.<br>
''Bodyguard'':  The character can choose to serve as cover for allies when they are between the ally and attacker or are adjacent to that ally, inflicting a -1 cover penalty on attacks against that character. This increases to -2 if the ally is willing to allow the bodyguard to drop them prone and shield the ally with their whole body.<br>
''Close Order Drill'':  As long as the character is armed with a bayonet or spear, and is adjacent to at least two other allies with bayonets or spears, the character gains a +1 bonus to melee dice pools and +1 Defence.<br>
''Dragoon'':  The character suffers no penalties from firing from horseback while moving.<br>
''Main Gauche'':  When wielding two melee weapons, the character may choose a single opponent each round, gaining an additional +1 to Defence against that character.<br>
''Marksman'':  When aiming with a rifled weapon, the character benefits from the 8-again rule.<br>
''Open Hand'':  When armed with a single-handed weapon and the other hand free, a character gains an additional +1 bonus to grapple checks with the Brawl skill and an additional +1 Defence against attempts to grapple them.<br>
''Parry'':  The character may ignore penalties to their Defence caused by multiple melee attackers.<br>
''Resilient'':  The character benefits from an additional point of Armour against all Bashing attacks.<br>
''Riposte'':  When undertaking the Dodge action, the character may reflexively make a melee attack against any enemy who attacks but misses them.  A riposte may be made only once per turn.<br>
''Smash'':  Whenever the character spends a point of Willpower to increase a melee attack pool, he may choose to knock the target prone if he hits.<br>
''Weapon Drill'':  The character reduces the reload time of pistols and muskets by 2 rounds.<br>


The following Combat Regimens are elements of the Adamant Hand technique and can only be chosen by Awakened of the Adamantine Arrow.

''Thunder'':  The character reduces the penalties inflicted against them by another character's Shielding spell by 1.<br>
''Diamond'':  The character may improve the strength of a Shielding spell against a single enemy by 1 for a turn, but reduce the penalty inflicted against other enemies by 1 during that time.<br>
''Star'':  The character may spend a Willpower point to both cast a spell and perform a physical action in the same turn.<br>
''Blood'':  The character may choose to take Aggravated damage to increase their spell dice pools for one turn, adding 1 die per point of Agg damage taken.<br>
''Abyss'':  The character may spend a Willpower point to suffer no Paradox on a spell delivered through a grapple.<br>

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