Map Reading

[Peregrinefalcon]

Hello
What does the skill Map reading do? Navigation says that it is navigating using a map and compass or dead reckoning. I'm confused.

[Mike Montesa]

Well, that's one of those 1st edition weirdness things I guess. I took it to be two ways of saying the same thing, though it could be parsed different ways I suppose. Still, if you know how to navigate you probably also know how to read a map. So just decide which one you want to use and go with that.

[Gustav]

I am pretty sure this issue has been up before. Try a search on this and the old forum and you might find some answers.

The skills do overlap a bit but to me navigation is the skill to find the way from point A to point B using the stars, the sun, a compass and/or a map as guide. Map reading is more about finding usefull information on a map. Information such as where is the best place to cross a river, which bridges will hold for a tank and where have the enemy most likely positioned their forward observers (maybe in combination with tactics).

[Shane Ivey]

Personally, in my games I always do away with Map Reading and make it a function of Navigation.