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[lumbercis]

It seems to me that if one were making a melee focused adept, that because of the way melee combat allows either of the participants to hit on any exchange, that the increased reflexes power is pretty much useless. I can see how it is usefull for adepts who want to be good ranged fighters as well, but for melee, the adept would be better off taking increased ability or combat sense so they would have a better chance of dominating any exchange. Is my assumption correct or is there some hidden benefit to acting first in a melee exchange?

One other question; could someone explain how the counterstrike power works? The book says it adds dice to "counterattack tests" in melee. Since the main rulebook doesn't mention counterattack tests, I'm assuming that they mean any time the character makes a melee success test when he doesn't have the initiative. In other words, on the character's action, he doesn't get the bonus, but when he rolls an attack test on his opponent's initiative, he does get the bonus. So does this power serve to make the character more powerful on defense than on attack?

Thanks for the help,
lum