From: Pasha and Rick Smith <pnrsmith@istar.ca> Subject: RE: (TFT) Charging and HTH Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:53:36 -0700
By the way, I say that if an friendly unit is in your rear hex when you have a long pole weapon (spear or longer) you are at -4 DX using it. If you have a wall or an enemy in your rear hex when you have a long pole weapon, you have a -6 DX using it. This small addition, goes a surprisingly long way to make pole weapons feel awkward in tight fighting. Rick ***
I'm OK with the concept of giving some liability to polearms in dungeons or rooms. The back against the wall penalty is a good idea.
I think the penalty should be lower, like around -3 DX. Although, now that I look at it you're saying LONG pole weapon. By that do you mean Longer that a halberd?
Also, ancient wars were fought with phalanxes of long pole weapons 3-4 rows deep. Do they all have that penalty when grouped like this? I would give a friendly rear perhaps a -1DX.
Hey, what about giving a halberd a "sweeping blow" ability? Hail Melee John Paul _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ===== Post to the entire list by writing to tft@brainiac.com. Unsubscribe by mailing to majordomo@brainiac.com with the message body "unsubscribe tft"