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Azi Demonica

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Chris Cook9 said :
If your wielding a weapon that takes 2/3 AP and your opponent duel wields two 1AP weapons or even shield and board you've lost because they have doubled their damage output or simply have more attacks to hit you with.

This is made worse with conditions as your also doubling your chances of making your opponent suffer. ...Exactly as you would expect in a real fight. If you are armed with a halberd, and your opponent has two daggers, you will destroy him within seconds. The same applies if you are wielding a spear, longaxe, or any two-handed that is at least a metre long.

Did you watch this video? I have shared it here and there before, but here it is, just in case,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A4-TIvKCNw
I am assuming such activeness even in armored combat. Armor protects, but does not make you invulnerable.

There is Braced Defending, which overrides Great attacks. If you have greater Speed, you can immediately sprint away. Auto Defending protects you as well, as does Evasion.

As for poison, presenting a shield and wearing full armor helps.

Anyways, I also forgot a critical aspect I had planned: in crosada , a historic term that applies when two foes are locked against one another. I will have to put this in.

21-Dec-2017 19:20:16 - Last edited on 21-Dec-2017 19:20:57 by Azi Demonica

Westenev

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Creating a victorian themed character based on your system is kind of a pain in the ass; moreso since the idolised victorian era envisoned by steampunk favoured guns and frilly clothes over melee weapons and bulky armour!

You seem to be missing revolvers on the list; I've never seen a victorian themed production without one! For the purposes of *cough* internal testing, would such a weapon be considered OP?

Revolver:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enfield_revolver
Classification: 6 shot.
Cost: +.5 AP per shot that turn (5 shots = .5+1+1.5+2+2.5 = 7.5AP)
Reload: 3 shots per turn

The compounding AP cost is to punish targets for taking a full volley, while punishing the character for compensating for successive recoil.
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21-Dec-2017 20:27:50

Azi Demonica

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I made a dozen or so edits in Impurity, such as adding accuracy modifiers, firelock misfire/backfire possibility, grappling, and so on.


No, revolvers are not OP. Give me a little bit to get some eye witness accounts of revolver effectiveness. I may not have enough room for revolvers/repeaters, though!
Oh, and your system there would work for sure, I may try to copy-paste that somewhere and credit you.

21-Dec-2017 20:29:06 - Last edited on 21-Dec-2017 20:31:04 by Azi Demonica

Azi Demonica

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Capt. V. J. Applin (a former commander of H.M. Legation Guard), On Military Equipment, Journal of the Royal United Service Institution,
“The Japanese use two-handed swords. . . . I remember that in one case, after a man [possibly a samurai] had been shot through the chest with two bullets from a Colt’s revolver [a Colt revolver], he succeeded in killing two men, giving one man sixteen wounds, every one of which was death. This I saw with my own eyes, and I brought in the man myself.”

Capt. H. H. Wigram, Scots Guards,
“ . . . There is another argument against the revolver, and that is that it is absolutely inefficient against a savage . . . Over and over again, a savage has been seen to charge with blood spurting out in half a dozen places from bullet hits. If he does not happen to be hit in the right place, it does not stop him . . . ”

Maj. Eden Baker, R.A., quote from Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, 1886,
“In 1879, I saw Captain H., of the Bengal Cavalry, empty five barrels [the chambers of a revolver] into the back of a Ghazi [ religious warrior, who apparently was “running amuck through the camp”] at less than five yards’ range without stopping him. A Martini-Henry bullet pierced him as well, and yet he kept on till brought up by an infantry bayonet.”

These are just three accounts, however I have literally read DOZENS of accounts of complaints of the revolver. It seems that, unless you shot someone in the heart, brain or spinal cord, a revolver would not stop someone in the short-term.

Gunslinger Z said :
Matchlocks/flint-locks and/or cap and ball weapons might be another good category to add. I did, they are referred to as firelocks.

21-Dec-2017 20:34:11 - Last edited on 21-Dec-2017 20:36:33 by Azi Demonica

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