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Re: (TFT) Sports stuff

There is also no reason to think of an attack in Melee as counting as one attack. I've fenced myself, and what you say is true, but the fact that each 'attack' involves mutliple thrusts and parries is what many don't seem to understand... just as we'd call that 'an attack' in fencing, an attack in melee is not a single swing with the axe.
This also arguably makes the armor rules make more sense.... strong armor will prevent a lot more individual hits from doing much (or any) damage, while weak armor will let the hits add up to their full effect.... hence armor doesn't really 'block' in TFT, it mostly just reduces. 
On Apr 18, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Mark Tapley wrote:


At 11:23 -0400 4/18/11, Jay wrote:
I have a strong suspicion that the whole 5 second turn resulted from a 
trained archers assumed average rate of fire.
1 arrow/5 seconds is reasonable for me. I'm not a "trained archer" really, but I've spent a fair amount of time practicing at it.
2 arrows/5 seconds seems out of reach to me, but maybe someone *really* good could do that.
In fencing, I'd say 1 attack/5 seconds is reasonable. It takes me 5 seconds or more to map out the feint, thrust, decieve, whatever else I'm going to do next to try to beat my opponent's defenses. Once the action starts, of course, there can be several "attacks" (counting parries, stop-thrusts, etc) within much less than 5 seconds, but at the end of the action, usually nothing happens for a while while each fencer thinks through what just happened, where a weakness might be for the next attack, etc. 
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