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Originally Posted by Homer
Does anyone have a mechanic for COMSEC and radio security? Like a roll against Electronics or INT to use an SOI or put up a directional antenna? Or breaking simple substitution cipher?
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For radio COMSEC I would probably go for the Electronics skill roll. A lot of military encryption devices are black boxes that connect to an otherwise unencrypted radio. Attaching them and loading keymat strikes me as more Electronics than Computers. The same holds for basic radio operations like setting up an antenna and such.
Breaking a cipher I would use the Computer skill rolled as an opposed check against the person doing the encryption.
While there's no specific rules for them, Merc2k has some radio electronics on the equipment list. They sort of just work so long as you have them and they're intact and do what they say on the tin.