According to the selection options, the Rifleman MOS should have the Career Talent options of: Banter, Overkill, Past the Limit, Stealth and Watchful.
And yet, when selecting a Career Talent as a Rifleman the only option I’m presented with is Banter. And if I go into the options and select “Display All Talents” to try and get around this “Watchful” isn’t even in the list.
So I assume something is going on there.
Also, what exactly am I supposed to do with the “Field Events” section? It’s supposed to give me a bit of random character backstory that will, I would presume, attach to my character sheet after running through the creator. It’s also supposed to (typically) give a small buff, which I would also assume would be done within the creator.
Thing is, the only thing I can do is click “Roll” which gives me a dice roll and then… nothing. Okay, it rolled me a 31, so according to the book the result is:
“You threw yourself in front of a colonist and saved them from an insurgent attack. Your M3 armor saved you and you saved the colonist. You gained a Marine Commendation Medal and the [Bodyguard] talent.”
The Field Events button on the creator stays at 0/1, it doesn’t automatically add “Bodyguard” to my character, it doesn’t give me another talent pick and the ability to select it myself. So I have no idea what the creator wants me to do with that 31.
If I leave the creator and view the end product character sheet “Bodyguard” still isn’t there and it doesn’t add the Field Event flavor text anywhere either.
Am I missing something here, or am I just supposed to write my roll down and manually edit the sheet after creation and change stuff to reflect the Field Event? And if so, why is it even in the character creator and constantly stuck at 0/1, offending my sense of completion? If the section doesn’t really “do” anything other than offer a random roll which you’re supposed to fill in later, I feel like there should be a note to reflect that and there shouldn’t be a 0/1 there to indicate that something is left undone.
I might be missing something or doing something wrong here… but I’m not sure.
Edit:
It also appears that if you select Officer while using the Marine Campaign rules they don’t get the M41A Pulse Rifle, Binoculars, Seegson P-DAT the “Specialty Gear” section of the manual seems to suggest they should get.
Also, if there’s a method to flag a character as “Sergeant/Staff NCO” I don’t see it anywhere. The NCO should apparently get a second “Field Event” roll on another table, the ability to select from Officer talents as well as their selected MOS ones, and different Specialty Gear ( M41A Pulse Rifle and Binoculars) as opposed to whatever their selected MOS allowed. If the option to make someone an NCO exists I don’t see it in the interface.
Further Edit:
It actually seems like a number of MOS are missing talent options that the selection screen says they should have, and several only offer Banter.