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[bannockburn]

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[Epicedion]

Was not a reward unless the slower fighter was actually better. The better fighter was rewarded, as He/She should be, in my opinion. *shrug*

It means the more skilled fighter gets to do his damage as often as there is contact.

It still didn't make any sense. It meant that the unaugmented 1IP swordsman could stab the move-by-wire street samurai 5 times, but could only stab the clumsy ganger once. So your swordsman automatically becomes five times as efficient at stabbing another person just because the other person happens to be moving very quickly.

Seriously, you can't possibly be arguing that point. It's ridiculous on its face.

[Tymeaus Jalynsfe...]

It still didn't make any sense. It meant that the unaugmented 1IP swordsman could stab the move-by-wire street samurai 5 times, but could only stab the clumsy ganger once. So your swordsman automatically becomes five times as efficient at stabbing another person just because the other person happens to be moving very quickly.

Seriously, you can't possibly be arguing that point. It's ridiculous on its face.

Nope, what I am arguing is that when defending with a knife (for example), the attacker takes the risk that he will get hurt each and every time he chooses to attack the knife weilder.

[Epicedion]

Nope, what I am arguing is that when defending with a knife (for example), the attacker takes the risk that he will get hurt each and every time he chooses to attack the knife weilder.

That's because you're thinking of each action phase of each IP as a completely new engagement. It's not. You can't move into melee and attack and then simply break away before you get stabbed at. You move into melee, make your attack, the other guy dodges or blocks or however, and then he gets a chance to stab you back with your chance to dodge/block/etc. If you're fast, you make some extra swipes (with dodges and blocks and so on), and if he's fast, he does the same. If he's not fast, he needs to focus on defending against your wired-reflexes-fueled furied onslaught of dikote steel. Not smugly stab you in the gut 5 times faster than he could if you were a kitten.