Quite a cohort, I would say. Rustling, rambling, marching - good fine, good core, and a sizable contigent of various specialists.
If we live out the day, we might have some thing good here.
>>5999676You can, if you'd like, to exert control over your own Fate, always up to associate <span class="mu-i">personal action</span> with a roll.
There's a fair amount of modifiers; but you can, generally speaking, treat your core competence as an officer as 10+ Affiliation, or your particular influence skills. Or, in some rarer but still common cases, your influence skills + your affilition.
Suppose you wanted to order a gaggle of Legios, personally, to form up around you and fall in. Your Authority (12) is combined with your Legion (2, for 14), and having both Service Records and Ferrata backing your authority adds +1 per (16). The issue here, of course, is that is the shaking formation is dazed, half shattered and down 4 members, penalties modify up.
For <span class="mu-s">Orders</span>, it's actually easier - your particular affilitions and authorities add a slight bonus to the Formation(s) in question carrying out the deed if the test succeeds (you got the orders right, as it were). Generally speaking that should immediately confirm for you that a Scholae (Auth 12) commanding Legion troops (2) can be fairly assured that the base check on the Order side is passed with scant difficulty. Then the troops, sufficiently commanded, carry out their particular actions with more vigour.
Of course "carries out their particular action" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. All the best orders in the world won't help a recruit wrestle a spitescorp.
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Direct rolling and tests become more relevant at certain points; it will be quite apparent. Great big letters and <span class="mu-s">told text</span> apparent. Up until then, it remains an optional courtesy.
