Battle-Visionary's Foresight

Cost: 10m, 1wp; Mins: War 5, Essence 3
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: General of the All-Seeing Sun, Transcendent Warlord's Genius

The Solar taps a legacy of war greater and longer than the length of her life. Her battle-hardened visage stares into the Essence of the world through ancient eyes, seeing primal battles play out in ages lost. This Charm is used during strategic warfare, and requires one to five minutes to complete— the Solar concentrates on her foe, her army, the battlefield, and her memories, merging them into a single interlinked tactic that allows her to create a perfect response to enemy stratagems. The player privately chooses two stratagems (p. 212) and writes them down, not revealing them to fellow players. The selected tactics are hidden face down.

If the opposing player wins the Strategic Maneuver roll and chooses to employ one of the strategies the Solar's player has selected, the enemy finds that his stratagem has led him into a terrible mistake: the Solar general is ready with a perfect counter-tactic. In this case, treat the battle as if the Exalt's player had won the strategic roll and deployed a stratagem of equal value to the one she just countered.