Character focused on Charge and Bullrush

[Kat']

Combat Brute (CWar) gives a few options: for each 5 feet you successfully Bull Rush an opponent, you get +1 attack and damage on them in the next round and if you successfully Charge an opponent, and then on the following round use Power Attack with at least a –5 penalty, the bonus damage for the power attack is x1½ for a One-Handed weapon or x3 for a Two-Handed weapon. But that has the prerequisites of BAB+6, Improved Sunder and Power Attack.

Combine this with a two-handed weapon, Shock Trooper and Knockback for the following madness:

Round 1, charge your opponent with full PA (if you Leap Attack, even better, it makes the free Bull Rush even more powerful). You get a free Bull Rush attempt from Knockback that's likely to succeed.

Round 2, you bull rushed your opponent and even charged him, meaning you get +X to hit and damage as well as x3 damage if you use PA with -5, which you're gonna do... If you need to charge your opponent for this second attack, you can do this tactic over and over again.

 

[MarkB]

Theoretically the Bo9S is available, but none of us have read it yet. I'll take a look and see if there is anything I can work in. Do you need to take a level of their special classes or a feat to use the maneuvers?

Either. A class level will get you a suite of maneuvers, a stance, and an in-combat recovery mechanic, whilst a feat will give you (IIRC) one or two maneuvers as once-per-encounter abilities.

Your levels in non-Bo9S classes count as half-levels for purposes of qualifying for higher-level maneuvers, so if you do take a class level, taking it as your highest level will let you pick stronger maneuvers.