Academy Graduate

Your character went through Sandhurst, St. Cyr, West Point, or the Kriegsakademie, making him a member of a special club within the army leadership. Academy-trained officers get +2 Charisma for all dealings with headquarters and staff officers of their own service behind the front lines, but not the field officers out in the trenches. The hero can also ignore any Rank requirement for Leadership Edges.

Enlisted men are suspicious of junior officers from the “old boys’ club.” Academy Graduate lieutenants get a −2 Charisma penalty when dealing with enlisted troops, until they reach the rank of Captain. Troops obey orders sullenly, move slowly, and show only as much respect as required to avoid the stockade.