Re: (TFT) Weapon Multiplier --> Repost

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

> From: "John Paul Bakshoian" <hailmelee@hotmail.com>
>
> One example of why it wouldn't be HTH is boxing.  In the ring,
> a boxer is in his own hex.  He reaches out and attacks with
> an extended arm. The hex may seem to shrink when they get up
> close and go "head  to head", but they still seem to be in
> their own hex.  If they go "Hand to Hand" then they are
> hugging each other and the Referee will break them up.

John,
  Exactly.  Boxing has rules.  Civilize rules.  Most combat is not so 
polite.  I'm sure a boxer would want others not to grapple them but if they 
are close enough to punch, the other person is close enough to grab.

> Is this a good analogy of what is not TFT Hand-toHand combat?
>  Or is TFT Hand-to-Hand combat refering to any fighting in the
> same 3 foot diameter? Is this why you concluded that you can't
> hit a character in an adjacent hex with your hands, because it
> would be under 3 feet?

  Close.  This enters the realm of theory so it may not be relevant or 
germain.  I find the TFT combat system can work great as a squad level 
system.  You can "flank" a unit, you can "fix" the enemy positon by engaging 
it, missile weapons get to shoot before they get engaged, etcetera.  On the 
squad level if two units go into HTH they break formation and intermingle.
  At that point I go to individual Melee.  The scale of the conflict has 
been broken and becomes smaller.  In the same sence I have always viewed 
individuals who engage in HTH to be breaking the scale into an even smaller 
one.  They become entangled in a wresting match.  Consider this rule.  Any 
missile weapon fired into HTH will strike either figure at 50/50.  The same 
is true of a squad of archers shooting at two squads of combatants that have 
intermingled.  Remember the scene from Braveheart.  "But sire we'll hit our 
own men."  "Yes.  But we'll hit theirs as well."

   David Michael Grouchy II



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