Squad Leader Archive

Excelent!!!

The squad leader is the one on the battlefield that the troops look up too. At this time when you use boost morale it heals the wounds of your soldiers and gives a message something like "The words of your squad leader steal you away from your enemies" or something like that. As you can see I rarely use it, a very useless skill unless you have a few tka's in your group to med their wounds then keep using it.

What I think they should do with boost morale is not just make it that health gets healed instead of wounds, that would be nice but it still isn't what boosting morale should be. If you ever remember Starship Troopers, at the end Johnny Rico says to his squad, "C'mon grunts, YOU WANNA LIVE FOR EVER!!" and then they all charge into the heat of battle. Just with him saying this, the morale of the troops raised and even though many would probably end up dead, they still charged with the fearless leader. This is something we need for boostmorale.

I think that when you use it, the SL should say something like in steady aim and form up, lets make it YOU WANNA LIVE FOREVER!!, then it would give your troops a temporary defensive mod that maybe cuts down any dmg done to them in half. Depending on the character, it could be ranged(eg pistoleer, commando) or melee (swordsman, tka). It would also give a temporary mind buff of say 300 to Willpower or Focus. It should only last about the same time as what rally does but would be an incredible defense move.

Just imagine you are leading a group of rebel troops on a raid to an imp base, maybe a little outnumbered. You use boostmorale and charge at the outpost.

Well that about sums up my thought, i always believed that boostmorale should be one of our best skills to use, if rally is supposed to be for offense, boostmorale is the defense mod.

Fellow SLs, what are your thoughts?

This boostmorale could be put in the master level box, having regular boost morale at novice.