I just played this game where my opponent would have drawn if his WIP roll to score an objective point at some console would have succeeded. He failed and thus lost, just because of this one die roll he cannot influence. (I know there was an entire game behind that, but still.)
This got me thinking again that this WIP roll to score objectives (in the broadest sense) as we have in ITS and 20x20 is not ideal. I have thought about it with some friends and one interesting idea came up:
All troopers can score by spending a short skill and passing a WIP -3 check. Specialists have the option of either taking that test or spending an entire order and passing it automatically.
This would give players a choice of whether they want to risk wasting half an order on failing a test or spending an entire order with the security of passing it? Would that be attractive or would it be more attractive to simply have the specialist take a pretty secure WIP +3 test for a short skill?