Nu Feat: Rank & File

[Winternight]

Rank & File [General, Fighter]
Soldiers are trained to fight with enemies and to fight within a group.
Prerequisite: Military training, (comrades fighting with you)
Benefit: If two or more characters fight alongside with the same set of weapons, all of them get a +2 competence bonus on attacking. If the set of weapon also includes a shield they also do get also a +2 armor bonus to AC. The characters must attack the same foe (a horde of orcs counts as the same foe), must stand within the same unit (and therefore not more than 5’ apart and must use the same set of weapons. (Weapon must be of same size and same damage type). At least one of your partners fighting next to you must have this feat also.
Note: That bonus does not stack. E.g. if three watchmen are fighting in line against an assassin, the middle watchmen does not get a +4.
That bonus is on all attacks even on trip attacks or if they fight defensively or if they aid another

I have several Questions:
How do you like the feat?
Whould you change something, if yes what?
Am I missing some game text

 

[CRGreathouse]

Rank & File [General, Fighter] If two or more characters fight alongside with the same set of weapons, all of them get a +2 competence bonus on attacking. If the set of weapon also includes a shield they also do get also a +2 armor bonus to AC.

This is very powerful for PCs (a pair of fighters) and extremely powerful for soldiers/guards/other NPCs who fight this way. The restriction of using the same weaon as the guy next to you is about the same limitation as Weapon Focus; though you must attack the same foe, you get double the attack bonus and +2 AC.

I'd tone this down, perhaps making it part of a feat chain?

 

[Wippit Guud]

Whoa... combine that with 100 soldiers equiped the same, and the Cry Havok feat (whose name escapes me at the moment) that lets you grant a feat you have to everyone in an army, and this becomes deadly.

 

[Winternight]

This is very powerful for PCs (a pair of fighters) and extremely powerful for soldiers/guards/other NPCs who fight this way. The restriction of using the same weaon as the guy next to you is about the same limitation as Weapon Focus; though you must attack the same foe, you get double the attack bonus and +2 AC.

I'd tone this down, perhaps making it part of a feat chain?

It is more or less a NPC-feat. (preq: Military training.)
to tone it tone. Not stackable with Weapon Focus?

Feat chain:
* rank & File I: You can aid your comrade and can take the full defance
or
* rank & File I: aid as a move equivalant action, if comrade has the same feat

as feat preq?