"Real People who Exceed the Rules" Topic

I'd have said "break the rules" but that's ambiguous. Calling here for real people whose conduct or abilities so far exceeded the human norm that you'd have to use special rules to use them in a skirmish game. My nominees:
Sir Richard Grenville (Morale & Constitution)
William the Marshal (Melee combat & Longevity)
Phil Kearney (Morale)
Baron Ungern-Sternberg (Morale & Charisma)
Sir Walter Cowan (Morale & Longevity)
Rasputin (Constitution & Charisma)

Who else have we got?

Simo Häyhä – Finnish master sniper (Skills with ranged weapon, Constitution)

Léo Major – Canadian soldier, "the one eyed ghost" (Melee combat and Constitution)

Carlos Hathcock – US Marine sniper, "the White Feather" – (Skills with ranged weapon, Constitution)

Audie Murphy?

I've always associated "breaking the rules" with smug hippies. (Did I date myself with that? Does Gen Z even know what a hippie is? 🤔)

I will also insist that these are "Real People".
In a game where every other character had 3 Hit Points, I gave Hawkeye, Uncas and Chingachgook 5. Note that every other squad had 8 characters, but they only had themselves.
Note also that I gave them no special abilities, except giving Hawkeye an automatic musket reload even while running.
Flashman? 🤔 Charisma, certainly. Definitely saving throws being automatic.

As for Real People;

"Mad Jack" Churchill. In World War 2, skill with longbow and broadsword.

Adrian Carton de Wiart. He can take as many wounds as are dished out, but he only loses bodily function for that wound. But he has infinite hit points. No saving throw, but with infinite hit points, so what?

Google them. I shall leave explaining as an exercise for the student. 😄 Wikipedia is sufficiently worshipful.

Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. Disregarding orders is the same thing as breaking the rules, right?

Sargent Hollis VC. In fact all those awarded with a VC.

Billy Dixon, ranged weapon

Chuck Norris, everything.

Banastre Tarleton – Hatred, Determined

Sir Evelyn Wood VC (Morale & Constitution)

As a 16yo midshipman he fought at Inkerman and was made AdC to the commander of the Naval Brigade. Despite being bedridden with cholera, he roused himself to join the assault on the Redan at Sevastopol where he was severely wounded. He refused to let the surgeons amputate his arm. Invalided to England, he joined the Army, returned to the Crimea, and was almost immediately stricken with typhoid and pneumonia which came very close to killing him. After recovering he was posted to India where he was promptly attacked by a tiger, then later nearly trampled to death by a giraffe. He was miraculously unscathed during the Mutiny, despite being frequently in CQB with mutineers and bandits. He finished his time in India by nearly dying of fever and sunstroke.

His later exploits would include surviving an accidental overdose of morphine (prescribed for insomnia), being shot in the chest during the Ashanti War (which slowed him down for one day), and having a horse killed under him in the Zulu War. Against all odds, he remained unscathed during the Gordon Relief Expedition.

Sgt. Alvin York. (Marksmanship, Humility.)

Lawrence Chamberlain

Sergeant Reckless, the hero Mongolian Mare of the Korean War

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Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald

Bruce Lee, Brian Shaw, and George Saint Pierre.

Chesty Puller (wins outnumbered 10-1, bonus for jungle warfare and against Asian enemy)

Wolfhag

Julius Caesar

He can can rewrite any rule (to simulate his writing down the "history").

None.

Don't need to break the rules to play any of the feats of the above (the ones I know).

Richard I

Has to depend on your rules

Miyamoto Musashi legendary swordsman and duelist who purportedly switched to a wooden sword as using a steel blade was no longer a challenge.