garhkal
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Good points all.
I guess i just see it strange that any trooper who is supposedly elite has combat skills but not their defensive ones.
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ZzaphodD
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| cheshire wrote: | | ZzaphodD wrote: | | garhkal wrote: | | Interesting. They have brawling but no brawl parry. |
Its not an uncommon mistake. You can sometimes even see seasonded bounty hunters with the melee skill but no melee parry...not very logical. |
The melee makes some sense depending on what style of fighting they're used to. When I was learning a particular style of German longsword fighting, there weren't really any blocks as such. There were beginning guards that gave you a level of defense from most attacks that would come in on a particular plane (with six guards). The rest was all a series of attacks that could be launched from those six guards. The idea is that you're supposed to be killing the other guy. If he's dead, then there's nothing to defend against.  Seriously, though, the real thought process was that if someone is constantly defending, then the odds are against them in terms of how many blows they could successfully deflect before one got through. If you taught them basic postures that were kinda defensive, and from those they could launch attacks, the chances were better that someone else would die before you needed to block another shot.
I'm not sure that our friends at WEG put that much thought into it, but simply because it is counterintuitive doesn't mean that it is unrepresented in life.
Come to think of it, I'm not sure how much "fencing" training Civil War officers had when they were carrying their sabers. I think they were mostly concerned with riding by folks and lopping bits and pieces off, weren't they? |
But in real life offence is a part of defence as well as your example shows, which is not really represented in the rules mechanic, quite the opposit actually.
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