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I know with a lot of skills (visors come to mind) say that if you have level 2, it also includes the abilities from level 1. Is this true of all skills? For example I was thinking of picking up a Oniwaban Shinobi Kitsune, who has Martial Arts 5, does that mean he automatically has the bonuses from MA 4,3,2, and 1? If so he must be a beast in CC.

Shinobu kitsune is a SHE.

Yes, MA5 includes MA1-4 as well.

She gets first strike, denies 'turn to face ARO' in ZoC and strikes ALL models she is in b2b with with one attack. And she has smoke.

Do NOT use her to take out remotes in cc. The electric pulse drops her to cc14, even with a first strike dam12 weapon, it's not guaranteed to kill it.
Use a combat camo SHOOTING attack to do it.

Most include the previous abilities too but some specifically that they don't. Like Holoprojector has two separate levels.

 CDK wrote:
Most include the previous abilities too but some specifically that they don't. Like Holoprojector has two separate levels.

HP2 can be used as HP1, they just can't use both effects at the same time. I can't think of any skills offhand that don't include all previous levels. Just remember that for things like i-Kohl the bonus isn't cumulative with previous levels, but rather the lvl 3 is the value to use.

Ya that was a bad comparison. There are very few others though. Like Cadmus are obligated to use Combat Jump. They can not do any Lesser version of it. I have not found out however if they can deploy normally with the rest of the force.

If the wording is MUST DEPLOY by ... then that is how they must deploy. Like the imetrons or netrods for Aleph.

A similar thing is Inferior Infiltration vs (Superior) Infiltration. It says that the (Superior) Infiltrator can deploy normally, however the same is said about the Inferior one.