Tactics skill

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I was reminded of this in another thread and decided to split it off here.

Originally Posted by TiggerCCW UK

My players are more normally fantasy gamers, so they've very little interest in, or need for, a rigid command structure. One of the guys tried playing as a hard line officer, but sadly made a number of poor decisions - players fault, not the characters

I think the lack of any kind of tactics skill is flaw in the T2K rules. I don't know if it was simply an oversight or a design decision to use the player's skill. The problem with this is that while it's possible to roleplay a character with worse tactical ability than yourself, the reverse isn't really possible without something to roll against.

So, how do you handle things when the character should be a skilled tactician (say, a special ops major with 20 years of service) but the player is tactically incompetent?