Fight!: Some advanced questions

[dpolan (David)]

@Gnosego

I’m not exactly sure what kind of procedure you’re describing. If you’re saying that 4 Block successes – for instance – have to be split 2 to each attack. That seems more like you’re forcing the defender to Block the weak attack, rather than tricking them into it.

Maybe I didn’t state that correctly, I meant that the defender could divide successes as wanted, choosing what attack to block and in what measure.

@Gnosego

I don’t understand how that would make the double-strike more powerful. Min-maxing the dice pools mean that the weak strike is likely to miss altogether or absorb only a success or two, while making your main attack less likely to inflict a solid wound. Splitting your dice pools evenly means that you’re likely to start out with weak hits that may get whittled down to nothing.

Maybe not overpowered but dicy, as you could render the block useless if the attacker spends all the dice but one on the other attack so, at -1D cost, you could strike your second attack against no defense. I don’t know if that’s the original intention as in this post (Two Fisted Fighter Training - #6 by Thor) @Thor states that the double strike it’s not very useful.

@Gnosego

That looks right, but it also doesn’t contradict what I said, I think?

No, no, just making clear that the opponent would be at advantage even if you use again your sword, it just applies no penalty as it’s the same weapon length.