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| − | '''Combat Regimen''' (●● to ●●●●●)
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| − | '''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.
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| − | ''Advance & Fire'': The character may fire when running, suffering a -3 penalty to their attack roll for doing so.<br>
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| − | ''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>
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| − | ''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>
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| − | ''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>
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| − | ''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>
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| − | ''Dragoon'': The character suffers no penalties from firing from horseback while moving.<br>
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| − | ''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>
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| − | ''Marksman'': When aiming with a rifled weapon, the character benefits from the 8-again rule.<br>
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| − | ''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>
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| − | ''Parry'': The character may ignore penalties to their Defence caused by multiple melee attackers.<br>
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| − | ''Resilient'': The character benefits from an additional point of Armour against all Bashing attacks.<br>
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| − | ''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>
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| − | ''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>
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| − | ''Weapon Drill'': The character reduces the reload time of pistols and muskets by 2 rounds.<br>
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| − | The following Combat Regimens are elements of the Adamant Hand technique and can only be chosen by Awakened of the Adamantine Arrow.
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| − | ''Thunder'': The character reduces the penalties inflicted against them by another character's Shielding spell by 1.<br>
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| − | ''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>
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| − | ''Star'': The character may spend a Willpower point to both cast a spell and perform a physical action in the same turn.<br>
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| − | ''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>
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| − | ''Abyss'': The character may spend a Willpower point to suffer no Paradox on a spell delivered through a grapple.<br>
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