Monday, August 11, 2014

Backgrounds for Canadian leaders for Chain of Command

With his At the Sharp End CoC supplement, Rich provided several tables in which you can roll to see the backgrounds of the senior and junior leaders. Sadly, he only provided those tables for British, American, Soviet, and German units. Here's my attempt to fill this omission:

Location:
1 Down East
2 Quebec
3-4 Ontario
5 Praries
6 West Coast



Canadian Officers
2
A scion of a prominent family, you could have avoided the war.  But there's the family name to consider and no shirking is allowed. The CO is very happy to have someone so connected in the regiment. Add +1 to the CO's opinion.
3
Mountie. They always get their man and you left the RCMP to go and get the biggest baddest guy around.  +3 to your age roll
4-5
University graduate. Your degree won't help much on the battlefield, but at least you are an officer. + 3 to your age roll
6
A manager in a company. Your skill at dealing with people has helped your career in the army as well. +3 to your age roll and +1 to the men's opinion.
7
A patriot. Pa fought in the Great War and now it's your turn to give the Hun a thrashing.
8
Government administrator. You oversaw a number of government work projects and invested well. Curiously, the men, many of whom spent some time on the dole, don’t seem to like you. Subtract 1 from the men’s opinion and +3 to your age roll.
9-10
Up from the ranks. An enlisted man pre-war but your professionalism and expertise were needed when the army expanded.  Roll again on the NCO background table. Add +4 to your roll for
age. Add +1 to the men’s opinion
11-12
A newspaper man. Just when your career hits rock bottom with the obituary beat, you became the lead writer of the great story of the 20th century: the liberation of Europe. Providing you survive.




Canadian NCOs
2-3
A food preparation architect. Your skills with the knife and various ingredients make you popular with the men and officers a like. Farm animals are not safe in the vicinity of the unit.
4
A transportation engineer.  You can drive anything with wheels provided you don’t mind the occasional dent or ding.
5
A railroad engineer. You’ve seen all of Canada, and now it’s time to see Europe. At least you are not shoveling coal to do it.
6
A natural resource engineer. Whether its fish from the sea, wheat from the field, or syrup from the tree, you harvest with the best of them.
7
A lumberjack and you’re OK. Even if your choice of undergarments is a bit curious and you are an amateur herbier.
8
An information specialist. Your typing skills should have made you a clerk in the army, but somehow you have ended up with a gun. Hopefully you will survive until you can get back to your rightful position in the safer rear areas .
9
A handyman who can do a little of everything, which helped your family survive the dirty 30’s. Perhaps you should have added a fancy descriptive title to your profession….
10-11
A hockey player. Because
12
An innovator who hopes that serving double cream double sugar coffee and donut holes will take off, eh!

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