[Rq-rules] Aiming and attack speed

[Den, Tony T]

I like this especially when you consider how dubious the "Close Combat"
rules are in RQ III. I don't have the rules in front of me but as I
recall it could result in someone with a gladius stepping in to get a
strike on someone with a polearm, only to have pole arm step back. As
such no one would get anywhere unless a wall/cliff or such came into the
picture. Of course I speak from memory here.....

-----Original Message-----
 Bjorn Stole

In my houserules, I have discarded A% and P% for weapons (as i use a
restistance roll to decide both active and passive activity (there is
really no such thing as an attack and parry-skill, as many actions in
real historical weapon-melee were both active and passive at the same
time).

In stead, I've incorporated a consept from a longswordmanual from 1410,
"giokko lago" and "giokko stretto" (roughly translated into english as
"Close play" and "Long play". Long play is basically what you see in
fantasymovies as "fencing", whereas Close play is "the art of
grappeling, using a weapon". So in your example, the character with the
2h spear would have a CP% and a LP%, and if he got an opening on the
left arm with the kite-shield, he could use his Spear-CP-skill, charging
the opponent, banging the side of the kite-shield to flip it around,
then grappeling the left arm, then imobilise/break it. (In my houserules
armor doesn't count vs. 
grappeling, as a neck breaks equally easy wether it have a pot helmet on
top or not.

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