Rules of Engagement: The Rebel SpecForce Handbook

"In half an hour I can put together a strike team of twenty soldiers, capable of succeeding at any mission, under any circumstances, anywhere in the galaxy."

―General Crix Madine

Rules of Engagement: The Rebel SpecForce Handbook is a sourcebook for Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game. It covers various topics related to the Rebel SpecForce.

Publisher's summary

They undertake only the most difficult missions.

They are experts in hand-to-hand combat, weapons, tactics, and survival.

They are the Rebel Alliance's most elite soldiers, fighting the best the Empire has to offer.

They are the Rebel SpecForces.

Infiltrate a secret Imperial installation to rescue captured Rebel spies. Steal prototype weapons from the heart of the Empire. Sow confusion and destruction behind enemy lines. Perform missions that other soldiers consider impossible.

Rules of Engagement gives you all the information needed to run a SpecForce campaign, featuring:

• Detailed descriptions of the elite forces of the Empire.
• New weapons, equipment and vehicles.
• New SpecForce character templates.
• Dozens of optional rules that reflect the dangerous nature of hit-and-fade combat.
• A guide to commando training and SpecForce operational tactics.

Fight the battle against the Empire from the front lines where the rules of engagement are simple: achieve your objective and make it back alive.

Contents

• Chapter One: Rebel SpecForces
  • Introduction
  • Historical Special Forces
  • Special Operations
  • Regulars and Partisans
  • Creation of Alliance Special Forces
  • Special Forces in the New Republic
• Chapter Two: SpecForce Life
  • Candidates
  • Training
  • Specializations
  • Troopers
  • Officers
  • The Daily Grind
  • Ranks in Alliance Special Forces
  • SpecForce Terms and Jargon
• Chapter Three: Operations and Missions
  • Strategies
  • Operations
  • Special Forces Missions
  • Raids
  • Ambushes
  • Critical Strikes
  • Reconnaissance
  • Operational Principles
  • Intelligence and Operational Execution
  • Field Tactics
  • How to Stay Alive in the Field
  • Optional Rule Contaminated Drinking Water
  • How to Secure a Zone
  • Unit Formation
  • Hand Signals
• Chapter Four: Quartermaster's Supplies
• Chapter Five: Transportation
  • Ships
  • Landing Craft
  • Troop Transports
  • Vehicles
  • Assorted Conveyances
  • Jetpacks
  • Gliders
  • Mounts, Pack Animals and Droids
  • Foot Travel
  • Droids
• Chapter Six: Weapons
• Chapter Seven: SpecForce Organization
  • Introduction
  • Divisions
  • Regiments
  • Companies
  • Platoons
  • Squads
  • Fire Teams
  • Taskforces
  • 1st Regiment
  • 2nd Regiment
  • 3rd Regiment
  • 4th Regiment
  • 5th Regiment
  • 5th Regiment
  • 6th Regiment
  • 7th Regiment
  • SpecForce Drivers and Pilots
  • SpecForce Scanner-Communications Operators
  • SpecForce Interrogators
  • SpecForce Procurement Specialists
• Chapter Eight: Notable SpecForce Units
  • Taskforce Shen
  • Taskforce Shen Adventures
  • Team 19
  • Team 19 Adventure Ideas
  • The Nishr Taskforce
  • Nishr Taskforce Ideas
• Chapter Nine: Bases and Staging Areas
  • Base Basics
  • Nishr Base Three
  • Nishr Base Seven
  • Nishr Base Ten
  • Section Desh-32
• Chapter Ten: The Enemy
  • Imperial Army
  • CompForce
  • Stormtroopers
  • Cold Assault Stormtroopers
  • Aquatic Assault Stormtrooper
  • Desert Assault Stormtroopers
  • Zero-G assault stormtroopers
  • Stormtrooper Scout
  • Radiation Zone Stormtrooper
  • Storm commandos
  • Coruscant Guard
  • Imperial Royal Guard
  • Imperial Special Weapons and Equipment
  • Vehicles
  • Weapons
• Chapter Eleven: SpecForce Campaigns
  • Introduction
  • SpecForce Campaigns
  • Imperial Campaigns
  • Mercenary and Planetary Defense Force Campaigns
  • Advice to Players
  • Games master Advice
  • Villains
  • Multi-character Play
  • Developing SpecForce Missions
  • Missions
  • Campaigns
  • Drop Camp
• Character Templates

Appearances

By type

Characters	Creatures	Droid models	Events	Locations
Organizations and titles	Sentient species	Vehicles and vessels	Weapons and technology	Miscellanea

Characters

Antilles (First mentioned) Miko Beski (First mentioned) Fisk Csino (First mentioned) Jan Dodonna Nareel Dre'lara (First mentioned) Hoff (First mentioned) Hork (First appearance) Dunn Jassigan (First mentioned) Jop (First appearance) Haras Jundop (First mentioned) Obi-Wan Kenobi Vin Kollis (First mentioned) Crix Madine Merqs (First mentioned) Mon Mothma Vu Nin (First mentioned)

Bail Prestor Organa Evar Orllincus (First mentioned) Judder Page Palpatine Qarl (First mentioned) Anena Seertay (First mentioned) Jeph Shannessi (First mentioned) Mishowan Shigormallan (First mentioned) Luke Skywalker Han Solo Pashna Starkiller Mart Stevez (First mentioned) Adar Tallon Whumparrin (First mentioned) Vanden Willard Zast (First mentioned)

Creatures

Bantha Bergruutfa Bird Cetacean Cracian thumper Cy'een Dewback Fish

Insect Lizard Methnap Runyip Tauntaun Tsaelke Tuggle

Droid models

AD-series weapons maintenance droid (As "AD armorer") MGAD-47 (First mentioned) ASP-series droid Exploration droid F2 Exploration Droid (First mentioned) Medical droid 2-1B surgical droid FX-7 medical assistant droid MSE-6-series repair droid (As "mouse droid")

PackTrack 41LT-R (As "Mechanical Universal Labor Eliminating Droid PackTack 41LT-R" and "MULE droid") Probe droid Protocol droid C-7NO (First mentioned) SE4 servant droid Supervisor droid (As "overseer droid") EV-2-E (First mentioned) Translator droid (As "interpretation droid")

Events

Galactic Civil War Battle of Endor Battle of Yavin Destruction of Alderaan Nishr Campaign Nishr Suppression Operation Shadowplay Primtara Offensive Siege of Kyrska Yelsainian anti-tax insurrection

Locations

Alderaan Chad Colonies Core Worlds Corporate Sector Coruscant Duro system Duro Endor Hoth Karideph Kuat Lianna Mid Rim Minntaa Mirshilan

Outer Rim Territories Nishr Feldt Lukhur Badlands Nishr Base Seven Nishr Base Ten Shirshir Desert Nishr Base Three Nishr Imperial garrison Prishella III Selsor Tatooine Thyrsus Tran Mariel Tuggle Yavin 4 Jedi Praxeum Yelsain

Organizations and titles

Adventure Hiker and Hunter Agent Alliance to Restore the Republic Alliance Army Alliance Fleet 14th Roving Line Alliance High Command Alliance Intelligence Alliance Special Forces Special Forces Command Combat Command Division Heavy Weapons Specialists Infiltrators Katarn Commandos Pathfinders Recon Marines Sea Commando Task force Alderaanian Death Legion Nishr Taskforce Taskforce commander Taskforce Shen Team 19 Technicians Urban Guerrillas Wilderness Fighters Alliance Special Operations Free Agent Mission group Procurement and Supply Sector Force Sector Command Starfighter Command Rogue Squadron Supreme Commands Arakyd Industries Aratech Repulsor Company Armorer Army Athlete Audio Performance Incorporated Ayelixe/Krongbing Textiles Battalion Assault battalion Line battalion Repulsorlift battalion Battle group Big-game hunter BioTech Industries BlasTech Industries Bothawui Communications Conglomerate (As "BCC") Bounty hunter Chiewab Amalgamated Pharmaceuticals Company Churhee's Riflemen Combat engineer Comm tech Commando Company Light armor company Corellian Engineering Corporation Courier Communications Creshaldyne Industries Cybot Galactica Czerka Arms Deckman Senior Deckman Division Line division Drill instructor Emperor Fabritech Field Sports Fighter wing Fire Team Freedom Warriors Frohard's Galactic Firearms (As "Frohad Galactic Firearms") Galactic Empire Commission or the Preservation of the New Order CompForce Assault CompForce Assault trooper Observation Imperial Security Bureau Sub-Adult Group Emperor's Royal Guard Imperial Sentinel Imperial Sovereign Protector Imperial Advisor Imperial Army Engineering squad Heavy weapons squad Imperial Army trooper Imperial Hammers Elite Armor Unit Sharpshooter squad Special missions company Special missions platoon Imperial High Command Imperial Navy Imperial Navy trooper Imperial Security Bureau New Order Stormtrooper Aquatic assault stormtrooper Cold assault stormtrooper Blizzard Force Snow Hawks Coruscant Guard Desert stormtrooper Moff's Own Radiation zone assault trooper Scout trooper Storm commando NightWhispers Zero-G assault stormtrooper Ubiqtorate

Galactic Republic Republic Navy Rocket-Jumper Elite Advance Unit Gandorthral Garrison Gatrellis GFBS Golan Arms Governor Governor-General Gunner HoloNet Idellian Arrays Illiseni Aerodyne Imperial Mining Corporation Infantry Interrogator Jedi Order Jedi Karflo Corporation Kelliak Arms and Armor Company Kitel Phard Dynasty Atrisian Assault Corps (Also as "Atrisian Corps" and "Atrisian Royal Corps") His Majesty's Roto-gunners Imperial Atrisian Grenadiers Queen's Own Armored Cavalry Troop Kuat Drive Yards LaserHone Legion Locris Syndicates Luxan Personal Armaments, Ltd. Master Sergeant Medic Meller & Dax Mercenary Merr-Sonn Munitions, Inc. MicroThrust Processors Mobquet Swoops and Speeders Moff N'Gant-Zarvel Navy Non-commissioned officer Petty officer Chief Petty Officer Sergeant Sergeant major Nen-Carvon Neor-Yatten Neuro-Saav Corporation New Republic New Republic Special Forces Nishr Resistance Officer Admiral Captain Colonel Commander Ensign First Lieutenant General Grand Marshal Lieutenant Major Major General Marshal Senior Lieutenant Operative Pilot Pirate Platoon Prax Arms Prospector Prisoner Privateer Quartermaster Raflkind Industrials Regiment Assault regiment Rendili StarDrive Republic Sienar Systems Salamini Chemical Munitions Scan-com Scout Sensor operator Sienar Fleet Systems Sith Smuggler Sniper Soldier SoroSuub Corporation Spacer Special forces Speizoc Arms Spy Squad Sub-Prefect Sun Guard SureGrip SurvivalGear Tarascii Explosives Telgorn Corporation Terrorist Thief Trooper First Trooper Senior Trooper Urukabb VargeCorp VidGraph Voyage Enterprises Xana Exotic Arms Ziko Zone Control Zone Supplies, Ltd.

Sentient species

Chev Cracian Defel Duros Hortek Human Alderaanian Yelsainian

Mon Calamari Near-Human Nish Quarren Twi'lek Whiphid Wookiee

Vehicles and vessels

Aquatic Terrain Armored Transport (As "swimmer armored transport") Drogue DS-1 Orbital Battle Station Freerunner Glider Heavy Tracker Hovercraft Microweight Hobbycraft Microweight Para-sail Para-wing glider R-444 Imperial Sky Swooper ShadoWing-4 ShadoWing-6 R-19 Paraglider R-23 paraglider Repulsorcraft Repulsortank Skiff WorkStar Repulsorlift Skiff Speeder bike Overracer Starfighter TIE/gt starfighter TIE/LN starfighter TIE/sa bomber X-wing starfighter

Starship Capital ship CR90 corvette (As "Corellian corvette") Cruiser Mon Calamari Star Cruiser Mantan Wanderer Section Desh-32 Dreadnaught Drop pod Dropship F7 "Landing Brick" Drop-Ship MT/191 drop-ship Escape pod Freighter Spice freighter Frigate Assault Frigate EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigate (As "escort frigate") Star Galleon-class frigate Imperial Troop Drop Pod Landing craft Shuttle Aegis-class Combat Shuttle Assault shuttle Kappa-class shuttle Katarn-class boarding shuttle Mu-class shuttle Mu-3 Shuttle Squad Pod Star Destroyer Troop transport BR-23 courier Kleeque-class transport Submersible Submarine Transport Ultra-Light Assault Vehicle Walker All Terrain Armored Transport All Terrain Personal Transport All Terrain Scout Transport Water-skimmer Wave-skimmer

Weapons and technology

440 Super-Heavy Armored Chassis Adhesion Disc Air pistol Airlock Armor Armored spacesuit Battlesuit Blast helmet Blast vest Camo scout armor Coruscant Guard armor Field armor Helmet Powersuit Scout Armor Stormtrooper armor Desert stormtrooper armor Radiation zone assault trooper armor Royal Guard Armor Scout trooper armor Seatrooper armor Snowtrooper armor Storm Commando armor Zero-G Assault Stormtrooper Armor Mark I Artillery M102 Fire Arc SP.9 Anti-Infantry Artillery Vehicle v-188 Penetrator Auto-steady gyrogimbal Automap Bacta tank Baffler Bipod Blaster Blaster cannon Blaster carbine 9118 heavy carbine Freedom Two (As "Stormtrooper Two") Blaster pistol IR-5 "Intimidator" Blaster rifle Model AXM-50 "Blast and Smash" Freedom One (As "Stormtrooper One") Freedom Three (As "Stormtrooper Three") Heavy blaster pistol Hold-out blaster Repeating blaster E-Web heavy repeating blaster Heavy repeating blaster Light repeating blaster Medium repeating blaster Repeating blaster cannon Sniper rifle LD-1 target blaster rifle Sporting blaster Penetrator MB-450 Blaster gas canister Blaster power pack Blaster speargun Seatrooper One blaster speargun Bolt-thrower Breath mask Easy Breathing breath mask Bubble tent Camouflage net CN-15 camouflage netting Camo-tent Canister CryoBan canister Dye canister Fex-M3 canister Plank Gas canister Smoke canister Spore/B canister T-238 canister Club (As "cosh") Comlink MultiNode communications link Comm scanner Courier Communications Scanner Computer Navigation computer Portable computer Comset OmniNode communications set Concussion missile launcher Cooling unit Dagger Dart Datacard Datapad Deflector shield Detonite Compound Flex-5 Detonite Tape Detox hypo Directional transponder Graph 18 surface locator Disruption bubble generator Sheer Silence Bubble Generator DuraShelter ECM-598 Medical Backpack Emergency Procedure Database Enviro-suit (As "space suit") Filtration Mask Flamethrower Flame Carbine Flame Rifle Vehicle Flamer Flare Flechette Flechette launcher FC-1 flechette launcher Force pike Garrote Glowrod Grappling gun Grappling Gun Grappling hook Grasper jaw Gravity compensator Grenade BNO impact grenade Concussion grenade Gas grenade Smoke grenade Nacht-5 smoke grenade Stun grenade Grenade launcher Viper grenade launcher Viper 2 Grenade Launcher Grenade mortar Espo grenade mortar Heat Closure Pack Heavy weapon Holoflat Holorecorder Holo-tank Hyperdrive Backup hyperdrive Inertial compensator (As "inertia damper") Ion flare Jammer ComTech Eavesdrop Protection Unit Jetpack Whisper (jet pack)

Knife Laser cannon Laser cutter Laser scalpel Lifting claw Lock-picking kit (As "lock-breaking kit") Luma flare Model-3287 Macrobinoculars 1000 Field Macrobinoculars 1020/A 1125 Heads-Up Macrobinoculars Model TT4 Holorecording Macrobinoculars (As "holorecording macrobinoculars") Peer Macrobinoculars Magna caster Magna Caster-100 Magnetic coupler Med-bed Medicine Dispenser Medkit Medpac FastFlesh medpac Multi-Frequency Targeting and Acquisition System Micro-grenade launcher Model MGL-1 Mine Vehicle mine XG Anti-Gravity Field Bomb Miniature proton torpedo launcher Missile Gravity-Activated Mode guided missile Missile launcher CSPL-12 PLX-1 portable missile launcher PLX-2 Model RDP-12 Rocket Launcher (as RDP rocket launcher) Model RPS-8 Rocket Launcher Molecular stiletto MSW-9 Molecular Stiletto Monofilament Multi-weapon Multipack Night goggles No-Show Overload sturm dowel Oxidizer Photoreducer Pistol Planetary shield Plasma Cut Boarding Device Plasticene Thermite Cube Portable beacon Landing Beacon Repulsorlift stretcher Portable uniform fresher Power generator Power pack Pressure Cuff R82 Jump Boots Radiation deflection badge Radiation Screener Radiation tent Rail gun Recording rod Refresher Repulsor field Repulsor motivator Repulsorlift Rifle Riot gun Rocket pack Satellite Communications satellite Hunter-killer sat Weather satellite Scomp link Scope Targeter ranging scope Self-destruct mechanism Self-sharpening sheath (As "auto-sharpening sheath") Sensor Audio sensor TeleSonic Model Audio Pickup Heat detector (As "heat sensor") Lifeform scanner ILF-5500 Medisensor RFX/K Medisensor Motion sensor Olfactory sensor Omniprobe sensor array GroundSweeper-3 Photoreceptor (As "video sensor") Sniffer ChemDetect Sensor beacon Sensor pack 9320/B sensor pack Motion Security Scanner Sensor scrambler Com-Repeater Sensor trip Heat trip Heat Sensor Trip Motion trip MoveSense 34 Motion Trip Pressure trip Pressure Plate Trip Repulsorfield trip Repulsor Trip SFX Smoke Generator Shaped charge Pre-shaped Detonite Charge Silencer NonSonic Silencer Slicewire Slug Explosive slug Slugthrower Slugthrower pistol Adjudicator SH-9 slugthrower pistol Snap baton Sound baffler Sound damper Stealth boots Sterile Heating Cloth Stylus Survival pack Survival pack (Alliance) Syntherope Climbing Syntherope Thermal detonator Thermal tent Thermal well Tool kit Transponder Turbolaser Universal Plasma Fluid Sack Vac Attack Mk-127 VACX Vibrodagger Talon vibrodagger Vibroknife Viewplate Wash-up kit Water filter Water JugFilter

Miscellanea

Agent T-238 Alien Alliance masternav Alliance SpecForce Officers Training Manual Anesthetic Anti-radiation pill Atmosphere Atrisian Order of the Nine Stars Aurebesh Baradium Base Delta Zero Black market Blaster gas Tibanna Body glove Bothan stun spore Cafstim Carbonite Centimeter City Cloning Clothing Boot Camouflage poncho Climbing Boot and Glove Set Climbsuit Glove Jumpsuit Tuff1 Combat Jumpsuit Shadowsuit Snowboot slipper Terrain-grip boots Thinsuit Corellian Bloodstripe CryoBan Desert Di-chrome Disease Drop-camp Duranium Fishing Foodstuff Forest FrictionGrip Fungus Galactic Credit Standard Garhol's Pain Gas Plank gas Graphite Gravity Harlsen's Laws of Functional Military Intelligence Homeworld Hunting Hyperspace Imperial standard meter Jungle Kilogram Kilometer Laboratory Lightfight Liter Map

Medal Coruscant Star of Valor Crescent of Valor Cross Crosslet Redbird Superior Service Medal Meteor Metric ton Micron Micronite Mineral Mining Moon Mountain Nerve toxin Fex-M3 Ocean Order of Battle Oxygen Para-sailing Parasite Phospha Photoreactive fiber Planet Plasteel Plastic Political gain operation Poison Prismatic crystal Radiation Infrared Ultraviolet Ration pack Reflec Sabacc Sector Shadowsilk Shockball Shyriiwook Slavery Spin-sealed Spore/B Square meter Standard Standard day Standard hour Standard minute Standard month Standard second Standard week Standard year Star system Steel Telekinesis The Force Third Law of Military Success Torture Unarmed combat (As "martial arts") K'tara Utility belt Water Water pack Ytterbium

External links

• Whiskers on Hyperspace (content removed from StarWars.com; backup link)
• Rebel SpecForce Hand Signals on Hyperspace (content removed from StarWars.com; backup link)

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