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<blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 6885312" data-attributes="member: 1">Let's see if this works:The Amazon can feint, can get higher ground, can flank, all sorts of stuff. Say she shoots with her longbow at 6d6; she aims (+1d6), she's on higher ground (+1d6), and maybe they've gotten a crossfire (+1d6). She's got a dice pool of 9d6 to play with. On average that's a roll of 31.5 - an easy hit on your player.&nbsp; Spend two dice on extra damage, and roll 7d6 and she's still hitting over half the time and doing 3d6+5 damage (average 15.5). Knock off the scale mail SOAK, around 10 points per hit. That's OK. Though using her bow and some tactics, that's more like 3 times; and if you have a couple focusing fire, you can take a PC down in a round.Using the same Amazon, with defences of 24 and 23 respectively. Your PC has 6d6. Doing the same tactics as above, you can get that up to 8d6 or 9d6. Let's be conservative and say 8d6 (an aim/feint and a flank, say). That's an average roll of 28, which is an easy hit. Throw in a LUC die, spend 2d6 on something, you're now rolling 7d6 (average roll 24.5, so a 50% hit) with two dice to spend on damage or some other exploit.What I think here is that if you're not using tactics, you're going to find combat tough; the game is *so* dependent on tactics and positioning, deliberately so. It may just be a case of having a group of Amazons pretty much wipe the floor with them by using good tactics to shock them into seeing how much of a difference it makes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Morrus, post: 6885312, member: 1"] Let's see if this works: The Amazon can feint, can get higher ground, can flank, all sorts of stuff. Say she shoots with her longbow at 6d6; she aims (+1d6), she's on higher ground (+1d6), and maybe they've gotten a crossfire (+1d6). She's got a dice pool of 9d6 to play with. On average that's a roll of 31.5 - an easy hit on your player. Spend two dice on extra damage, and roll 7d6 and she's still hitting over half the time and doing 3d6+5 damage (average 15.5). Knock off the scale mail SOAK, around 10 points per hit. That's OK. Though using her bow and some tactics, that's more like 3 times; and if you have a couple focusing fire, you can take a PC down in a round. Using the same Amazon, with defences of 24 and 23 respectively. Your PC has 6d6. Doing the same tactics as above, you can get that up to 8d6 or 9d6. Let's be conservative and say 8d6 (an aim/feint and a flank, say). That's an average roll of 28, which is an easy hit. Throw in a LUC die, spend 2d6 on something, you're now rolling 7d6 (average roll 24.5, so a 50% hit) with two dice to spend on damage or some other exploit. What I think here is that if you're not using tactics, you're going to find combat tough; the game is *so* dependent on tactics and positioning, deliberately so. It may just be a case of having a group of Amazons pretty much wipe the floor with them by using good tactics to shock them into seeing how much of a difference it makes. [/QUOTE]

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