Measures the core competencies needed to successfully command larger scale military units be they fleets or armies. This includes a sufficient base of knowledge on and application of: allied and enemy capabilities, common strategies and tactics and how to employ them.

Tactics +0: “Shoot back you idiots!” You understand the basics strategies of war and conflict and know what it takes to pull them off... in theory. In practice, it often comes down to the skill of the troops under your command and a bit of luck.

Tactics +1: You have seen your share of battles, and are versed in the more popular strategies used in war and conflict and can employ them to varying degrees of success.

Tactics +2: You know how to draw on past experiences and apply them to your current situations. Your have studied war and conflict to not only execute strategy in real time, but to counter the strategies of your opponents with high percentages of success, even without the ideal troops for the strategy.

Tactics +3: You understand the difference between spending lives under your command, and wasting them. You have a keen understanding of complex strategies employed in war and conflict, have studied the maneuvers and techniques employed throughout history, and can mix them with your own experiences to craft new strategies that others may not have come up with yet.

Tactics +4: You have watched and rewatched holovids of every major conflict in Galactic History (but don’t ask about the reasons behind those conflicts, since, that’s for history nerds) and can modify them to create your own unique strategies that often leave enemy commanders flat-footed.

Tactics +5: You know how to hold an enemy army at bay when outnumbered 5:1. Your name has been mentioned in the same breath as Ackbar, Pellaeon, and Bel Iblis. But not Thrawn, obviously.

Related Feats: Improvise, Adapt, Overcome, Resistance Is Futile, Unrelenting Offensive, Unyielding Defense, and Yes, I Said Closer

Prerequisites: None