Forward Observer
Aerial | Berserk | Booty | Camouflage | Chain of Command | Climbing Plus | Combat Instinct | Combat Jump | Commlink | Courage | Counterintelligence | Cyberplug | Decoy | Doctor | Dogged | Engineer | Explode | Exrah | Forward Deployment | Forward Observer | Frenzy | FT Master | G: Jumper | Guard | Hacker | Hidden Deployment | Immunity | Impersonation | Impetuous | Infiltration | Inspiring Leadership | Journalist | Lieutenant | Limited Cover | Marksmanship | Martial Arts | MetaChemistry | Mimetism | Minelayer | Mnemonica | Morpho-Scan | Natural Born Warrior | NCO | Neurocinetics | No Cover | No Wound Incapacitation | Non-Hackable | Number 2 | Parachutist | Paramedic | Peripheral | Protheion | Regeneration | Religious Troop | Remdriver | Remote Presence | Request Reinforcements | Sapper | Sensor | Shasvastii | Sixth Sense | Specialist Operative | Stealth | Strategic Deployment | Strategos | Super-Jump | Surprise Attack | Tactical Awareness | TAGCom | Tech-Recovery | Technorganic | Terrain | Total Reaction | Transmutation | Triangulated Fire | Vulnerability | Warhorse
This Special Skill characterizes Troopers who move before the bulk of their own forces and take positions beyond the established allied lines.
FORWARD OBSERVER
SHORT SKILL / ARO
REQUIREMENTS
- The user must be able to draw LoF to the target.
EFFECTS
- The use of Forward Observer is a form of Attack with a BS Weapon with the BS Weapon (WIP) Trait, and instead of forcing the target to make a Saving Roll, causes them to enter Targeted State.
- Place a Targeted Token (TARGETED) beside the target of a successful Forward Observer attack.
| Name | 8" | 16" | 24" | 32" | 40" | 48" | 96" | PS | B | Ammo | Save Attr. | Save Rolls | Traits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forward Observer | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | -3 | -3 | -6 | -- | 2 | -- | -- | -- | BS Weapon (WIP), State: Targeted, Non-Lethal, [***] |
FAQs
N5 FAQ
Version: 0.0.0, Oct 2025
Q: Do Skills that let you perform a 'BS Attack Roll' (for example Intuitive Attack and Speculative Attack), or have the BS Attack Label, count as a BS Attack for MODs? For example, if the Trooper has 'BS Attack (SR-1)', 'BS Attack (+1 SD), or 'BS Attack (AP)'.
A: Yes. Note that +1 SD MODs don't apply to Long Skills.
Related Pages: BS Attack, Forward Observer, Intuitive Attack, Labels, Triangulated Fire