Gravity works for you, and it works against you. There's a science behind combat (and a channel called sports science) that relies very heavily on physics. By being strafe + deflected, your force is being redirected outward, away from someone. If you're charging someone and they move away and you don't connect at all, you'll eventually, so to speak, burn out your gathered force and slow down.
If you're toting around a horseman's pick (it looks like a really big pickaxe) or another heavy weapon like a war hammer, or a morning star, you have a disadvantage because your weapon's 'head', is heavier than the rest. Imagine a person with a really big head – they'll flop over, which isn't to say that those aren't very effective weapons. Armor isn't as effective against blunt damage.
You've probably split wood before, or watched someone split wood either in real life or in a movie. The principle for maces is similar, you gather a lot of force and bring it down – it “tips* into the bit of the axe and cool things happen. What if the log you were about to split suddenly disappeared? You would continue the movement, because that's where you're going, that's where all of the weight and force is gathered, for better or for worse. Consider it like someone pulling your hair – the rest of your body will follow.
How destabilized you'll be depends on how you were trying to strike, what your posture was like and what kind of weapon you're wielding and its weight.
I am going to break your arm so that the bone juts out and then I will stab you to death with your own insides. I will win this chess game, is what I am saying.
24-Feb-2015 19:13:13
