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<blockquote data-quote="Lyxen" data-source="post: 8606386" data-attributes="member: 7032025">Legolas does this to orcs all the time, you know, it's just that you're not aware that you are the orc. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />And then, in the fiction, characters are not aware of the guy, facing the wrong direction, or too slow, or focussing on something else, etc. and this is realistic too. People usually don't understand that the 360 vision of characters represents the fact that, over a round, they will probably have the time to look in all directions, but it does not mean that, at the time an adversary does something, you are facing him and are ready to react, especially if you already haver 3 orcs in your face.And honestly, that is realistic (not necessarily a quality in itself, but it reinforces the genre fiction), I've been in LARP melees with hundreds of people, and I can guarantee that the one thing that you strain first is your neck, and you STILL are incapable of taking into account threats from all around. The only tactic that works well is coordinating with one or two friends to fight back to back, and that gives you a huge superiority, but it does not guarantee that you will be able to do something about someone with a bow 30 feet away.And if you are specifically watching someone and expecting him to do something and want to be ready to interrupt him, ready an action.That I completely agree with, on the other hand.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lyxen, post: 8606386, member: 7032025"] Legolas does this to orcs all the time, you know, it's just that you're not aware that [U]you[/U] are the orc. :D And then, in the fiction, characters are not aware of the guy, facing the wrong direction, or too slow, or focussing on something else, etc. and this is realistic too. People usually don't understand that the 360 vision of characters represents the fact that, over a round, they will probably have the time to look in all directions, but it does not mean that, at the time an adversary does something, you are facing him and are ready to react, especially if you already haver 3 orcs in your face. And honestly, that is realistic (not necessarily a quality in itself, but it reinforces the genre fiction), I've been in LARP melees with hundreds of people, and I can guarantee that the one thing that you strain first is your neck, and you STILL are incapable of taking into account threats from all around. The only tactic that works well is coordinating with one or two friends to fight back to back, and that gives you a huge superiority, but it does not guarantee that you will be able to do something about someone with a bow 30 feet away. And if you are specifically watching someone and expecting him to do something and want to be ready to interrupt him, ready an action. That I completely agree with, on the other hand. [/QUOTE]

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