React with uncanny speed to ambushes and give your team the edge in the first crucial seconds of combat.
Opposed Roll — Skill + d100 vs. opponent’s ambush or equivalent stealth-based roll.
Allows you and your allies to react with 1 AP (not attack) in a round where you’d normally be surprised.
+1 AP per 10 success rate to you and each ally affected.
No modifiers - those are applied to the original roll of the opponent.
Your squad is caught in a planned ambush in a derelict corridor. You roll Advanced Warning and beat the attacker’s stealth roll by 20. The team each gains +2 AP to reposition or activate defenses.
Advanced Warning represents the rare but invaluable ability to detect danger just before it strikes and to immediately prompt others into coordinated action. Whether through intuition, battlefield experience, or reading the flow of a room, you can sense hostile intent and respond decisively—even before weapons are drawn.
When successful, this skill allows your team to act during what would otherwise be a surprise round. You can issue orders, reposition, activate protective spells or tech, or shift into tactical formations—but not initiate attacks.
It is particularly effective in missions involving infiltration, recon, or negotiation—any scenario where being one step ahead can determine life or death.
Advanced Warning + Formation Control — Rearrange your group’s stance or spacing
Advanced Warning + Battlefield Awareness — Use the gained tempo to evaluate the full threat landscape
No direct counters