Quick question regarding High Guard

[BFalcon]

What exactly is the skill training for an officer going through Naval College?

I know they train and then graduate and then serve the next term as a crewman, before going onto their chosen branch, but the question is: what skills do they get? Do they get the basic crewman skills? Service skills? Both?

Also, how do they get into each type of navy? Just make the entry roll to see which they're able to get into? What happens if a player lucks out and doesn't pass any of the entry rolls?

Cheers in advance...

 

[AndrewW]

If admitted the new midhsipman undergoes a series of tests over the course of his term. If he succeeds he is deemed to have passed out of the college with a commission, basic training for his chosen field and can roll on the service skills table for the assignment of his choice.

So yup a graduate gets the normal basic training for his field and another service skill.

Just roll of the navy they are interested in, if they don't make it they can try one of the other navy types. If they fail they get to choose a different career. Note a naval college graduate is automatically accepted.

 

[locarno24]

Also, how do they get into each type of navy? Just make the entry roll to see which they're able to get into? What happens if a player lucks out and doesn't pass any of the entry rolls?

They can't. They can fail to get into naval college, but if they get in they will automatically qualify for the navy itself (with a commission to boot).

You try and enlist (skill test). If you fail, pick something else.
If you pass, try to test for success - if you fail, then the term retroactively becomes a drifter term as you flunked out.

If you succeed, you get an 01 commission, basic training appropriate to one naval specialty (i.e. the one your college is for, not the crewman role you'll be going into), a service skills roll for that naval specialty, and automatically get accepted as an 01 crewman in the navy for term #2

 

[BFalcon]

Thanks guys - just the confirmation I needed... both were the way I saw it, but the wording left me a bit unsure...

Andrew: A good answer - I hadn't considered the Enlisted options...