Soldier

Legion/PMC frontline.

Soldiers serve wherever organised violence survives: the Confederation Legion, corporate security forces, PMC contract battalions, House navies, colonial militias, clans, and warlord crews. Some enlist for a cause or a home; others sign because the alternatives are indenture, debt, or hunger. The class describes the person trained to keep fighting when a plan collapses, not one mandatory employer or origin.

Asset Realisation contract ledgers reduce corporate Soldiers to combat-hours: how long a body can fight before medical rotation, augmetic replacement, or burial. The Legion offers a different bargain, built around service, citizenship, and the hope of promotion. Rim militias, clans, and free crews write their own terms. Whichever institution trained the Soldier, survival creates reputation, obligations, and enemies.

The Soldier operates on the Combat chassis (d10 HD, full BAB, Fort good, Ref/Will poor, 4 SP). All armour, all weapons -- the Soldier is the corp's investment in violence and the corp expects returns. Prime requisite: STR. The Soldier's Weapon Specialisation is not talent -- it is the one weapon group the Soldier has fired more times than the Soldier has eaten hot meals. The Soldier knows the weapon's weight, its recoil pattern, the sound it makes when the magazine is one round from empty, the exact point on the stock where the cheek-weld feels like home.

Rules Reference

Field	Value
Armor Allowance	All
Bab Tier	full
Base Skill Points	4
Hd	d10
Hd Sides	10
Max Level	20
Multiclass Notes	Soldiers can multiclass with any Warrior-group archetype. Non-human soldiers use simultaneous multiclassing rules.
Primary Abilities	STR, CON
Prime Requisites	STR
Save Tiers / Fortitude	good
Save Tiers / Reflex	poor
Save Tiers / Will	poor
Weapon Allowance	All weapons

Notes

Archetype Niche: The Soldier is the definitive frontline combatant. Weapon Specialisation provides unmatched damage output with a chosen weapon group, and the deep bonus feat progression allows the Soldier to build wide (multiple combat styles) or deep (master one tree). No other class matches the Soldier's combination of full BAB, d10 HD, all armour, and scaling damage reduction. The Soldier's niche is reliability: they are never the wrong tool for a fight.

Level Table

Recruit

Field	Value
bab	1
fortitude	2
level	1
reflex	0
skillPoints	16
title	Recruit
will	0
xp	0

Trooper

Field	Value
bab	2
fortitude	3
level	2
reflex	0
skillPoints	4
title	Trooper
will	0
xp	2000

Veteran

Field	Value
bab	3
fortitude	3
level	3
reflex	1
skillPoints	4
title	Veteran
will	1
xp	4000

Sergeant

Field	Value
bab	4
fortitude	4
level	4
reflex	1
skillPoints	4
title	Sergeant
will	1
xp	8000

Hard-Case

Field	Value
bab	5
fortitude	4
level	5
reflex	1
skillPoints	4
title	Hard-Case
will	1
xp	16000

Gunnery Sergeant

Field	Value
bab	6
fortitude	5
level	6
reflex	2
skillPoints	4
title	Gunnery Sergeant
will	2
xp	32000

Lieutenant

Field	Value
bab	7
fortitude	5
level	7
reflex	2
skillPoints	4
title	Lieutenant
will	2
xp	64000

Captain

Field	Value
bab	8
fortitude	6
level	8
reflex	2
skillPoints	4
title	Captain
will	2
xp	125000

Major

Field	Value
bab	9
fortitude	6
level	9
reflex	3
skillPoints	4
title	Major
will	3
xp	250000

Colonel

Field	Value
bab	10
fortitude	7
level	10
reflex	3
skillPoints	4
title	Colonel
will	3
xp	500000

Brigadier

Field	Value
bab	11
fortitude	7
level	11
reflex	3
skillPoints	4
title	Brigadier
will	3
xp	750000

General

Field	Value
bab	12
fortitude	8
level	12
reflex	4
skillPoints	4
title	General
will	4
xp	1000000

Warlord

Field	Value
bab	13
fortitude	8
level	13
reflex	4
skillPoints	4
title	Warlord
will	4
xp	1250000

High Warlord

Field	Value
bab	14
fortitude	9
level	14
reflex	4
skillPoints	4
title	High Warlord
will	4
xp	1500000

Legate

Field	Value
bab	15
fortitude	9
level	15
reflex	5
skillPoints	4
title	Legate
will	5
xp	1750000

High Legate

Field	Value
bab	16
fortitude	10
level	16
reflex	5
skillPoints	4
title	High Legate
will	5
xp	2000000

Marshal

Field	Value
bab	17
fortitude	10
level	17
reflex	5
skillPoints	4
title	Marshal
will	5
xp	2250000

High Marshal

Field	Value
bab	18
fortitude	11
level	18
reflex	6
skillPoints	4
title	High Marshal
will	6
xp	2500000

Lord Commander

Field	Value
bab	19
fortitude	11
level	19
reflex	6
skillPoints	4
title	Lord Commander
will	6
xp	2750000

Supreme Commander

Field	Value
bab	20
fortitude	12
level	20
reflex	6
skillPoints	4
title	Supreme Commander
will	6
xp	3000000

Special Abilities

Weapon Specialisation

Field	Value
level	1
name	Weapon Specialisation

description: The Soldier has fired this weapon more times than they have eaten hot meals. Choose one weapon group: blades, slugthrowers, energy rifles, pistols, heavy weapons, or unarmed. +1 attack and +2 damage with that group. At level 4, damage bonus increases to +3. At level 8, +4. At level 12, one extra attack per round with the chosen group (stacks with other extra attack sources). The Soldier knows the weapon's weight, its recoil pattern, the exact point on the stock where the cheek-weld feels like home. No other class matches this mastery.

Bonus Combat Feats

Field	Value
level	1
name	Bonus Combat Feats

description: The Soldier trains where others sleep. At level 1 and every 4 levels thereafter (4, 8, 12, 16, 20), gain a bonus combat feat from the Combat feat list. Must meet prerequisites. Six bonus combat feats over 20 levels, on top of universal feats every character receives at 1, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18. The Soldier has the deepest feat tree access of any class -- not because the Soldier is smarter, but because the Soldier has spent more hours drilling than any other class has spent conscious.

Combat Training

Field	Value
level	3
name	Combat Training

description: The Soldier's drilling goes past the range and into the maneuver yard. Choose one combat maneuver (Bull Rush, Disarm, Grapple, Sunder, or Trip): +2 to checks made with that maneuver, and +2 to the Soldier's own defence against the same maneuver used against them. A second maneuver may be chosen at level 9, a third at level 17. Not raw strength -- the footwork and grip a drill instructor beats into a recruit until the recruit stops thinking about it.

Battle Hardened

Field	Value
level	5
name	Battle Hardened

description: The Soldier's body has learned to take hits that would drop a civilian. Damage Reduction 1/- against physical damage. DR 2/- at level 10, DR 3/- at level 15, DR 4/- at level 20. The Soldier does not dodge. The Soldier absorbs. Additionally, once per encounter when reduced to 0 or fewer HP, Fortitude save (DC 15) to remain at 1 HP instead -- the Soldier's body refuses to fall until the fight is over. The Soldier has seen too many comrades die, and spite is a powerful preservative.

Tactical Awareness

Field	Value
level	5
name	Tactical Awareness

description: The Soldier reads a battlefield by instinct, before the conscious mind catches up: +2 to Initiative and +2 to Perception checks made during combat. The Soldier cannot be caught flat-footed during the first round of a combat they have not been ambushed into (a genuine surprise round against the Soldier specifically still applies). At level 12, the Initiative and Perception bonus increases to +4.