Re: (TFT) Weapon Multiplier --> Repost

["David Michael Grouchy II" <david_michael_grouchy_ii@hotmail.com>]

> >      So the question is this.  How many rats does it take
> > to engage an armored knight?  I know most players balk at
> > the very idea of being engaged by nuisance creatures.  It
> > seems that a swarm of rats should be able to reach critical
> > mass at some point though.  Ten, twenty, or maybe thirty > two?

> From: "Neil Gilmore" <raito@raito.com>
>
> I'd guess however many it would take to take up 1/3 of a hex...
>
> Really though, I thought rats had to get into your hex to attack
> you. If so, then they don't engage from an adjacent hex.

Neil,
  Excellent point.  Consider the image spell.  A wizard creates an image 
three hexes away.  It is a bear and it engages an orc.  The orc perceives 
that he is endangered.  When the orc attacks it, it disappears.  But the 
whole process has bought the wizard a turn, maybe two to flee.
  With that precedent consider wasps.  It seems that a swarm of wasps dense 
enough could constitute a percieved endangerment.  Stinging the character 
and then forcing them back one hex to drive them away from the next.
  Rats have to move onto a figures hex to attack that figure.  Being much 
smaller, they can be considered to be in HTH but the figure isn't.  He can 
trample and move as though they are not there.  It seems to me that at some 
point they should be able to drag the wizard down to the ground.  Just from 
sheer mass of numbers.
  By extension look at the giant.  One lone man can't engage a giant in 
HTH.  Neither can two.  The way the rules are neither can three.  No number 
of humans can engage a giant in HTH.  What I'm proposing is that if the 
total ST of the humans exceeds the giants attribute total, that they can 
engage the giant in HTH and get him on the floor.
  It would take about four brave souls with a giant.  About six braver 
souls for a 4-hex dragon.  And about fourteen of the bravest souls to do the 
same to a 14-hex dragon.

  David Michael Grouchy II


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