Re: (TFT) Disengaging - Revision in Melee

[Peter von Kleinsmid <pvk@oz.net>]

I think, since we didn't pay much attention to new versions of Melee 
after Advanced Melee came out, I didn't hear about the disengagement 
revision. It didn't make it to Interplay or the Codex, did it?

I don't remember it ever being a problem in play without that 
revision. Sure the higher-DX figure can avoid being attacked, but it 
also takes his entire action to only move one hex. It's not like you 
can attack and then disengage.

My feeling, from a realism and fairness perspective, is that if 
someone is using their action to back out of combat, and someone 
follows them to attack, that the disengager might also deserve a 
chance to counterattack that person. Stepping back a hex as an action 
wouldn't, I think, give a disadvantage in such a fight.

I.e. If I were to use this, I would add something like: If a lower-DX 
player opts to try to attack the disengaging figure, they may do so 
at the specified penalty. If they do so, but the disengager is left 
in condition to fight (not knocked down, disarmed, etc), then the 
disengager may also counter-attack them at the same penalty.

PvK

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