The British Empire
The British Empire does not recruit with promises of glory or appeals to adventure. It does not need to. A century of naval mastery, global logistics, and hard-won battlefield experience has produced something that no other faction in the sky can replicate: a military culture built on the understanding that consistency beats brilliance every single time. British captains do not win through a single dramatic stroke. They win through the steady, methodical accumulation of correct decisions made under pressure, turn after turn, until the opponent runs out of answers.
British aerial doctrine is simple to describe and demanding to execute. Find the opening. Correct the aim. Press the advantage. Repeat until the engagement is decided. British crews are drilled to notice what works, remember what does not, and improve their performance in real time as the battle develops. A missed shot is not a failure. It is information. The next shot lands better because of it, and the one after that better still. This is not luck. It is the product of training and discipline applied with patience and precision, and it compounds across the turns of an engagement in ways that opponents consistently underestimate until it is too late to adjust.
The British Empire rewards commanders who are comfortable playing the long game. You are not here to gamble on a single decisive strike or to chase the dramatic repositioning that might open a perfect angle. You are here to execute, to correct, and to press every small advantage until the sum of them becomes insurmountable. The British fleet does not beat its opponents in a moment. It builds toward a conclusion that was always coming, and it arrives there with the quiet confidence of a force that never doubted the outcome.
Disciplined Crew puts this into practice every single Round. One reroll per British airship per Round, applied where it matters most, turning near misses into hits and good shots into decisive ones. Over the course of a full engagement those rerolls represent a meaningful and compounding advantage in accuracy that the opposing fleet cannot match.
Faction Trait: Disciplined Crew
Once per Round, a British airship may reroll one of its own attack rolls. This reroll applies only to the ship using the trait and cannot affect allied ships or enemy rolls. If a British airship has access to additional reroll abilities through a Veteran or Legacy Captain skill, only one reroll may be applied to any single die roll. See Section 5.3 for the complete reroll stacking rule.
When the British commander judges that the moment has arrived, Nelson's Gambit opens the sky. Ten bonus Command Points distributed freely across the fleet at the start of the Allocation Phase, added to the normal allocation, and deployable in any combination across any category. In the hands of a patient commander who has been waiting for exactly the right turn to spend them, those ten points hit with the weight of everything the British fleet has been building toward.
Strategic Command: Nelson's Gambit
Once per game, at the beginning of the Allocation Phase, the British player gains 10 bonus Command Points to distribute freely across any of their airships in any category including Reaction. These bonus CPs are added to the normal allocation and may be split across multiple airships in any combination. Normal category limits still apply to each individual airship.
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2D Airships included as artwork in the game rules!
