Zhuge Strategist

Bonus: +1 Intelligence

Skills: Battle, Engineering - Siege, Games - Go, Lore - War, War Fan, any one High or Bugei skill

Starting Honor: 3

Outfit: Robes, Wakizashi, War Fan, Scroll satchel, Travelling pack, 3 koku, any 1 weapon

Techniques:

Rank One - The Thirty Six Stratagems

A student of The Thirty Six Stratagems is taught the many basic essential stratagems the family uses. You gain a bonus of +1k0 when making any School Skill Roll. When spending a Void Point to augment a School Skill Roll, you gain a bonus of +2k2 instead of +1k1. These effects are not cumulative.

Rank Two - Create Something from Nothing

When you roll on the Mass Battle Chart, you may modify your result (up or down) by an additional amount equal to half your School Rank.

Rank Three - Wait at Leisure While the Enemy Labors

The educated strategist can see through the games, tricks, and deceits of the material world. Any time you fail a Contested Social Skill Roll to resist someone trying to influence your emotions, opinions, or behavior (such as with the Courtier, Temptation, or Intimidation skills), you may re-roll using Intelligence as the Trait for the second roll in place of whichever Trait was originally required. You must keep the results of the second roll. This Technique cannot be used to resist Fear.

Rank Four - Ancestral Strategy

The Zhuge Strategist spends his entire life studying the teachings of the empire's great generals from centuries past. He benefits from their collective wisdom and hones himself into the perfect strategist. You may reroll any one of your dice in each Battle Turn of Mass Combat. Additionally, when fighting with a wakizashi or war fan, you may make melee attacks as a Simple Action rather than a Complex Action.

Rank Five - Mastering the Art of War

When you roll on the Mass Battle Chart, you may add or subtract your entire School Rank to the total of your rolls on the Mass Battle Table (this replaces the Rank 2 ability to add or subtract half your School Rank).