Lanefan
Victoria Rules
Ah, then you're using modified declarations; as in 1e by the book you also had to pre-declare your target.Oddly enough, "losing" an action has never played in all my years of gaming with always declaring actions. At worst, character might have had to change targets for an attack or spell if the original target was dead or out of sight, but that's about it.
That said, your way makes tons more sense.
We don't use them but I wouldn't mind getting back to them at least at a general level: "I'm casting a spell this round" is your declaration and commits you to a spell but not until your turn do you have to decide what that spell is or where it's going; "I'm attacking with my mace" commits you to melee but not to a specific target; "I'm keeping a lookout, sword in hand" commits you to doing nothing other than keeping watch unless melee comes to you; and so forth.I don't have any issue with using declarations as it makes sense to me from playing this way for so long. Our biggest reason in trying NOT using it was to see if things sped up, which so far it seems to have done so.