Official Guide

This is the officlal guide of Full Metal Sergeant.

General Tips

Recruits:

• Having 12 recruits is not always a good thing.
  
• If a recruit skips training for the week, he will recover a bit of Stamina and Stress.
  
• You can push the recruits in the last week; low Stamina and Stress won't impact on the mission.

Traits:

• After week 7, will come back recruits with easiest traits in order to help finishing the game.
  
• At the beginning of each season the game chooses traits; you can reload the save if it the choosen traits are too difficult.

Mission:
When you run out of supplies your men suffer a penalty to the stats.

What does each stat impact during mission?

• Strength: Capacity to carry supplies.
  
• Melee: When the ammunition runs out...
  
• Agility: For stealth operations.
  
• Shooting: % to hit.
  
• Intelligence: Affectiing reloading speed.
  
• Discipline: Affect chance to flee in combat.

Traits

Season 1

Icon	Trait	Malus	How to remove it	If not removed	Prestige
	Fat	When Stamina is less than 90, this recruit has a 30% probability to fail in Strength, Agility and Melee trainings.	Agility training will eventually remove this trait.	If not removed, there is the possibility to consume additional supplies during missions.	+10
	Dumb	This recruit has a 20% probability to fail in Intelligence and Shooting trainings.	Intelligence training will eventually remove this trait.	If not removed, there is an added possibility of injury during missions.	+10
	Sick	When Stamina is less than 90, this recruit has a 40% probability to fail in Strength, Agility and Melee trainings.	Strength training will eventually remove this trait.	If not removed, there is an added possibility of injury during missions.	+10
	Lazy	When Stress is more than 10, this recruit has 30% probability to fail in Strength, Agility, Melee and Shooting trainings.	Discipline training will eventually remove this trait.	If not removed, there is the possibility to flee during missions.	+10

Season 2-3

Icon	Trait	Malus	How to remove it	If not removed	Prestige
	Insecure	When Stress is greater than 20, this recruit has a 10% probability to leave the camp.	Melee and Shooting training will eventually remove this trait.	If not removed, there is the possibility to flee during missions.	+15
	Fear of water	When Stress is greater than 20, this recruit has a 10% probability to leave the camp.	This trait will be removed with water-based activities.	If not removed, there is a possibility to flee when traversing swamps or lakes.	+15
	Nervous	Always gains less from shooting. 10% chance of leave after an activity on the shooting range.	Trait will be removed at shooting range.	If not removed, there is an added possibility of injury during missions.	+15
	Insomniac	Always fails all training.	Trait will be removed when Stamina is less than 70.	If not removed, there is an added possibility of injury during missions.	+15
	Loner	When Stress is more than 10, this recruit has 25% probability to fail in Strength, Agility and Melee trainings.	May remove this trait if he goes on a unit run.	If not removed there is a chance they will join the enemy.	+15

Season 4-5

Icon	Trait	Malus	How to remove it	If not removed	Prestige
	Timid	When Stress is more than 20, this recruit has 25% probability to fail in Strength and Melee trainings.	Will remove this trait if Melee > 30.	If not removed, there is the possibility to flee during missions.	+20
	Thrill Seeker	Takes unnecessary risks, likes explosion. When Stress is more than 10, this recruit has 15% probability to be injured.	May remove this trait through training at a PT area.	If not removed, there is an added possibility of injury during missions.	+20
	Pyromancer	Obsessed with fire. When Stress is more than 25, this recruit has 15% probability to be injured.	May remove this trait at the punitive area.	If not removed, there is an added possibility of injury during missions.	+20
	Unstable	When Stress is more than 10, this recruit has 15% probability to be injured.	May remove this trait through Intelligence training.	If not removed there is a chance they will join the enemy.	+20
	Ashmatic	Loses Stamina quickly.	Remove trait if Agility > 30	If not removed, there is an added possibility of injury during missions.	+20

Season 6

Icon	Trait	Malus	How to remove it	If not removed	Prestige
	Angry	Easily provoked. Gains additional Stress.	May remove this trait at the punitive area.	If not removed there is a chance they will join the enemy.	+25
	♥♥♥♥♥♥♥	Hated by fellow recruits. Other recruits training in the same area gain additional Stress.	May remove this trait through Discipline training.	If not removed, there is the possibility to flee during missions.	+25
	Trafficant	Sell goods to comrades. 20% chance to lose a 10 Prestige after training.	May remove this trait through Discipline training.	If not removed there is a chance they will join the enemy.	+25

Note: After the season 7th some of the easiest traits will come back in order to help finishing the game.

Special

Icon	Trait	Malus	How to remove it	If not removed	Prestige	Note
	Gamer	These are the worst recruits: lazy, insolent, flabby. They spend their whole existence playing and do not care much for personal hygiene. Some of them even fill the house with animals. If Stamina < 90 --> 30% probability to fail.	Strength, Agility and Melee trainings will eventually remove this trait.	none	+50	Reserved for newsletter subscribers. When starting a new game you will have a recruit with your nickname and better stats (Intelligence and Shooting)

Classes (aka M.O.D.)

Name	Tip	When promoted as assistant
Infrantry	Due to high HP can better resist without a cover.	+1 to any trainings
Rifleman	Useful when put into front line behind a cover, so he can maximize his damage.	+2 to Agility based training.
Logistic	For the earlier stage of the game when recruits' Strength are not too high yet.	+2 to Strength based training.
Sniper	Weak if not placed behind a cover. Very good in combination with Machine Gun which acts as a cover.	+5 Sniper Qualification at the Shooting Range
Diver	Very strong if the combat is on a swamp. Useful in the earlier stage of the game when recruits' Strength are not too high yet.	+5 Diver Qualification at the Swimming Pool
Scout	Useful to know how many covers are in a combat encounter.	+2 to Intelligence based training.
Mortar	Powerful after 3rd sector in which there are more enemies per combat and they are usually close together.	+3 to Shooting, -1 to Melee based training.
Assaulter	Can be always placed in the front line. His sneak bonus is useful for the non-combat events.	+2 to Agility, +2 to Melee, -1 to Strength, -1 to Shooting based training.
Antitank	Only useful against Tanks, in order to gather Prestige and Supplies.	+3 to Strength, -1 to Agility based training.
Machine Gunner	Best in combination with Sniper behind him.	+2 to Agility, +1 to Strength, -2 to Melee based training.
Paratrooper	Strong if placed behind enemy lines so he can make lot of kills in melee.	+2 to Agility, +2 to Melee, -1 to Strength, -1 to Shooting based training.

Events

Image	Name	Week	Note
	Postman	2, 5, 7, 10
	Senior Inspector	4, 8, 12 (Season 1-2)
	Company Commander	4, 8, 12 (Season 3-4)
	Battallion Commander	4, 8, 12 (Season 5 and above)
	Dog	Random	Can be adoped as a mascot (see Badges section)
	Chef	Fifth week starting the first season	Reclutable (see Reclutable people section)
	High Command	First week after second season
	Young Journalist	Random week after the second season	Reclutable (see Reclutable people section)
	Broken Car	Random week after the second season
	Local Farmer	Random week after the second season
	Family Visit	Random week after the second season
	Wife	First week of each season starting from the second
	Veteran	Third week starting from second season
	Colonel Kurtzen	Sixth week starting from third season
	Tonic Guru	Random week starting from third season
	Craig Handler	Ninth week starting from third season	Reclutable (see Reclutable people section)
	Car Accident	Random week starting from third season
	Sharpshooters	Random week after the third season
	Luke Hughes	Random week starting from fourth season
	Museum curator	Random week after the four season

Badges

		Senior Inspector	Recruits with Stamina > 80 and Stress < 20
		Company Commander	Recruits with Stamina > 80 and Stress < 20. All recruits must have trained at least once in the past three weeks.
		Battallion Commander	Recruits with Stamina > 90 and Stress < 10. All recruits must have trained at least once in the past three weeks.
		Dog	Feed the dog at least twice before adopting it as a mascot.
		Colonel Kurtzen	If all recruits have Discipline > 30 they can clean the camp
		High Command	Do any task from High Command
		Young Jornalist	After the 3rd interview she can be recruited.
		Veteran	He comes if a recruit survied from last mission. Any given answer will be provide the reward.

Reclutable people

Attention: you need a free slot at the camp; if you have already 12 recruits, no more are allowed.

Image	Name	Week	Requiremens	Stats
	Chef	5	Scold him 2 times and then he can be recruited.	Trait Fat (50); Strength 5; Agility 5; Shooting 70
	Young Journalist	Ninth week starting from third season	After she come back 2 times she can be recruited.	Trait none; Intelligence 50-60; Discipline 50-60
	Craig Handler	week 4th after the 3rd season	M.O.D. Machine Gunner bought.	Trait none; Class Machine Gunner; Strength 50-60; Discipline 50-60

Custom names

Warning: This feature is in beta.

Here you find the instructions how to customize the recruits' name in game.

1. Go in the Options menu and enable Custom Names.

2. Press the little "Export Template" button next to the Custom Name. A text file will be downloaded, put it whereever you want in your PC.

3. Edit that file by replacing the default names with yours. The file it's a simple text file and can be edited with the common programs like Notepad.exe

4. Uploaded the edited file with the "Import text file" button (same in the Options menu next to the Custom Names).

5. Now starts a new game and you'll find your custon names for the recruits.

General rules:

• Only special characters from supported languages are allowed.
  
• Max name length: 12 characters
  
• The game will ignore more than 73 names in the file.

Write in the Discussion any problem about this features.

[Flaick]

No, agility is used only in map events, not in combat. That +50% of covers is the same for everyone regardless of agility. In Full Metal Sergeant 2 I'm gonna improve that; agility will affect the number of movement squares during combat.

[GaelicSaint]

Does agility affect evade chance? For example, when behind cover it says +50% evade

[antoniuscaliber]

Is there a way to see what each M.O.D requires as it's minimum skill level?

Diver and sniper need special training but some of the others just require that a certain stat be increased and it only shows that on a once weekly basis

[Flaick]

Hi Gallahad43, there is no such feature, but I write it down for the future. Thanks, it sounds helpful.

[Gallahad43]

i just wanted to ask is there a way to reorganise the recruits when they are in formation? It would make managing traits easier by letting you add multiple angry/poopoo heads to punitive training less tedious and help manage specialising troops

[Flaick]

This is indeed the desided bahavior. Then you can edit even with Notepad and re-upload inside the game.

[Steven Thomas Gaming]

Nope, I had to actually export thefile to my desktop to get it to create it.

[Flaick]

Hi Steven, doen't open up a save file dialog in Windows? Did you get any error messge?

[Steven Thomas Gaming]

I hit export and it never creates a .txt file ANy help with that?

[Flaick]

Check which stat they raise, it must match one of the training stats. The tooltip while dragging the recruit doesn't keep track for the assistant bonus, but after the training you can check the recruit's sheet stats.