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<blockquote data-quote="Moon-Lancer" data-source="post: 4246244" data-attributes="member: 35798">I picture it like this. Your faceing your foe and fighting him. Then a guy comes up from behind you... AHHH your your in a difficult position. Then a guy shows up on one of your flanks. what advantage do the first two guys have that this third guy should not have?If we want to get brutally realistic... if two allies are adjacent to echother, they should get a combat bonus if they are facing a single foe together. I have done some swordplay and its really hard when 2 or or 3 guys (no flankers) are fighting you at the same time. Every&nbsp; time I swing, if they are tactful, they will go in for the kill at the same time, leaving me defenseless. My only real safe option is to remain in total defense and even that doesn't help much. I tend to disengage at that point, and look for someone else who is engaged and flank them. Its really easy to hit them when they dont know you have engaged them from behind.I am sorry i cant give you a real rules perspective, only a perspective of why the rules might work in a given manor.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Moon-Lancer, post: 4246244, member: 35798"] I picture it like this. Your faceing your foe and fighting him. Then a guy comes up from behind you... AHHH your your in a difficult position. Then a guy shows up on one of your flanks. what advantage do the first two guys have that this third guy should not have? If we want to get brutally realistic... if two allies are adjacent to echother, they should get a combat bonus if they are facing a single foe together. I have done some swordplay and its really hard when 2 or or 3 guys (no flankers) are fighting you at the same time. Every time I swing, if they are tactful, they will go in for the kill at the same time, leaving me defenseless. My only real safe option is to remain in total defense and even that doesn't help much. I tend to disengage at that point, and look for someone else who is engaged and flank them. Its really easy to hit them when they dont know you have engaged them from behind. I am sorry i cant give you a real rules perspective, only a perspective of why the rules might work in a given manor. [/QUOTE]

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