Combat

Tactics

How hard your blows land: half damage at 0, full at 50, half again at 100.

Group: Combat
Title it gives: Tactician
Grows your stats: Strength (50%), Dexterity (50%)
Head start: Roman (most of all Sol Invictus)

How it grows

Like every skill it runs from 0 to 100 and rises a tenth of a point at a time as you use it: quickly while it is low, hardly at all on work far beneath you. Every swing, shot or bandage you use trains it, and the harder the foe, the more it teaches.

All your skills together hold 700 points. Set Tactics to rise, fall or hold in the Skills window (K). A people that is good at it starts 10 points higher, 15 on its own path, and raises it a fifth more often for life.

Using it can also raise your stats a point at a time, leaning towards: Strength (50%), Dexterity (50%).

Titles

When Tactics is your best skill, it names you:

30 Neophyte Tactician
40 Novice Tactician
50 Apprentice Tactician
60 Journeyman Tactician
70 Expert Tactician
80 Adept Tactician
90 Master Tactician
100 Grandmaster Tactician

More in the guide: Fighting · All skills