Jeff Wilder
First Post
Tonguez said:Exactly - Barbarians have all the speed and manouveability of light infantry (not much behind cavlry even) with all the power of heavy infantry
- their the perfect skirmishers and will bet a heavy infantry fighter in a proper fight (proper meaning one where terrain etc is a factor)
I dunno about that. In bad terrain, they're going to trade blows. In a typical situation, a fighter is going to have a vastly better AC than a barbarian ... the barabrian will occasionally miss. Meanwhile, the fighter is going to be using loads of Power Attack, and is still going to hit the barbarian. When each rounds results in trading 15 damage for 25 (or 45 for 75, with Improved Critical), the barabarian's superior hit points aren't going to last very long.
Ignoring the fighter's repetoire of other tricks -- Sundering, Disarming, Combat Expertise, whatever -- it's at best a close match. Throwing in those other tricks, and give me the fighter every day of the week.