Tactician

Here are some of the ideas tossed around the forums for this new Fighter power. How it works for your table is up to you.

How about "Tactician" where your background enables your team to be more well prepared prior to and during combat. Less susceptible to ambush... more successful during movement on a battlefield due to effective covering ranged fire...advantage on planned ops etc.

That would be a really cool power. I would love to Roleplay a Tactician. Maybe it could be for a fighter. Enabling him to not be Suprised in any combat. He could make a move, even when an enemy rolls a 20 and has the jump on the players.

Perhaps add a +x to initiative for those in your party, kinda like the leadership feat.

That +x could be your wisdom or intelligence modifier (obviously this fighter/whatever class this is will have to be a little smarter to be a Tactician).

Could just easily be a background power, though it clearly adds way more than the usualy backgrounds give.

Yes. Great suggestions. Also, advanced formal or informal military schooling would have to be part of a Tactician's backstory. This has been a good discussion for me, because it solidifies the need for a storyline requirement prior to allowing the reward of any chosen feat.

You could use it to compliment the Battlemaster... kind of like the operations expert behind the leader... the two would be quite a combination indeed.

Could also have this like a special reward after the completion of a militaristic / strategic quest, aka leading army or mounting a defense. - Collab