Template:SubSkillDef

Flat per-sub-skill ("perk") record. 617 rows in 2026-05-05: 203 production + 203 arena + 203 campaign + 8 test. Each sub-skill is a discrete pickable perk that the player chooses when their hero gains a skill mastery level — e.g. picking "Offense" vs "Defense" off the skill_assault Basic-mastery offering.

Sub-skills don't have levels of their own; they're flat. They carry identity (id, variant), display fields (name + desc + icon), the parent skill they were offered by (recovered from scanning every skill level's offered_sub_skills list), and the bonuses they grant. Bonuses flow into the unified BonusDef table with parent_type='sub_skill'.

Page layout

Sub-skills are inlined on their parent skill's page (Data:Skill/<parent_skill_id>) — they share the page with the parent's {{SkillDef}}, {{SkillLevelDef}}, and per-skill {{TranslationDef}} rows. The 77 unreferenced sub-skills (8 test + ~69 arena legacy *_old) emit onto the catch-all page Data:Skill/_orphan_sub_skills with parent_skill_id=NULL.

Each sub-skill contributes:

1. {{SubSkillDef | id=… | parent_skill_id=… | …}}
2. {{TranslationDef | type=sub_skill | target_id=<id> | …}}
3. M × {{BonusDef | parent_type=sub_skill | parent_id=<id> | … }}

Schema

This template defines the table "SubSkill". View table.

{{SubSkillDef
| id = String
| variant = String              <!-- production / arena / campaign / test -->
| parent_skill_id = String      <!-- nullable; null for orphans -->
| name = String                 <!-- resolved English -->
| name_sid = String
| description = Wikitext               <!-- resolved English; nullable -->
| desc_sid = String             <!-- nullable -->
| icon = String                 <!-- nullable -->
| source_path = String
}}

Field notes

• id is the source JSON id (e.g. sub_skill_offense, arena_sub_skill_offense_old, sub_skill_marchOfWar).
• variant distinguishes production / arena / campaign / test variants. Most analytical queries should WHERE variant = 'production'.
• parent_skill_id is derived: the id of the Skill whose {{SkillLevelDef}} rows include this sub-skill in their offered_sub_skills list. NULL when no skill in the corpus references this sub-skill — those 77 orphans live on the Data:Skill/_orphan_sub_skills catch-all page (test entries + arena legacy *_old).
• name_sid / desc_sid point at the L10n entries; name / desc are the resolved English mirrors.

Related tables

• Skill — joined on parent_skill_id = Skill.id (N:1).
• SkillLevel — joined on SkillLevel.offered_sub_skills HOLDS SubSkill.id (N:M; a sub-skill is typically offered at exactly one (skill, level) but the relation is general).
• BonusDef — joined on parent_type='sub_skill' AND parent_id = SubSkill.id.
• TranslationDef — one row per sub-skill with type=sub_skill, target_id=id.