On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 11:15:28AM -0700, "Penney, Sean" <seanp at ea.com> wrote: > >Another effective tactic would be to begin with a disarm -- strike > >at the rapier itself rather than the wielder. Pin the blade, even > >briefly, and you can snap it, or bend it sufficiently to reduce > >its usefulness; advantage greatsword, from then on. > The rapier fighter would have to be incompetent to allow that to happen. > Bull-fighters do not attempt to outbull the bull, and neither would a any > rapier fighter with half a brain. If all we consider is what the rapier-fighter allows to happen, then yes, it will be a short fight indeed. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt