Medals from events without rolls

[walkir]

And another question regarding medals.
I recently got High Guard and Mercenaries, and I guess the rules in High guard (DMs, Long Service medal) replace the mercenaary ones for army/marine/mercenary characters, too.
But there's one thing I don't quite get.
It says a medal is awarded every time a character makes a pretty good roll to avoid injury. Makes perfect sense.
But there are cases like Army event 21: "surrounded and outnumbered by the enemy, you hold out until relief arrives. [...]" or war time event 7 "you save a member of your unit's life[...]" That's heroism, but as there is nor roll there will be no medal? Does this work as intended?

 

[rust]

I would just award a medal in these cases, provided it makes sense
within the setting.

 

[whtknght]

remember, in real life when you are "put in for a medal" it usually comes back as a lesser medal or a Letter of Commendation. I have a stack of LoC that have no bragging value.

 

[whtknght]

As a Referee, you can always add medals and awards to help add color and depth to characters.

Army Achievement Medal
Navy Commendation Medal
Imperial Defense Medal
Theater Medals

 

[walkir]

remember, in real life when you are "put in for a medal" it usually comes back as a lesser medal or a Letter of Commendation. I have a stack of LoC that have no bragging value.

Sorry, my only military experience are computer games and reading Tom Clancy.