Re: (TFT) Is a sweeping blow physically cutting thru your target?

["Charles Gadda" <cgadda@earthlink.net>]

I wouldn't use it, since I think slashing a throat from ear to ear is every
bit as effective as lopping the poor sods in half, but I would not
discourage you or anyone else from using this variant. Hell, I've never
actually seen a sweeping blow performed so who's to say, maybe you DO have
to cut everyone in half...:-) And until I can find three volunteers to stand
in front of me to test the practical aspects of sweeping blows with my
Austrian Masterpiece war sword or my broad axe, I don't think I'll ever know
for sure   :-0

I would be content with the progressive adjDX penalty I suggested in an
earlier post (i.e. -2 DX first target, -4 second, and -6 or -8 for the last
one) as being a suitable abstraction of the possibility of a blow being
stopped by previous target(s). Besides being (purely in my own mind) more
realistic I just think its simpler then worrying about damage done, etc.
Just a bit of a cleaner rule. The best rules are those that model reality to
the degree desired and are simple and elegant.


----- Original Message -----
From: <dwtulloh@zianet.com>
To: <tft@brainiac.com>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: (TFT) Is a sweeping blow physically cutting thru your target?


> Wow.  I'm not sure I meant to spark this much debate  :)
>
> Calling all attacks from a sweeping blow a graze seems a
> bit hokey to me, but on the other hand I agree that they
> dont all cut through the victim either.
>
> What about this idea then:  If I conduct a sweeping blow
> against several targets in my front hexes, I have to declare
> a direction (right to left or left to right).  If I hit a
> target but don't do enough damage to get through the armor,
> then the sweeping blow has been stopped and I can't continue
> the attack against other figures in my front hexes.
>
> Dan
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