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<blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 6403166" data-attributes="member: 2011"><p>Actually, I did take martial arts for several years. A guy was taking his Black Belt test and the test was to fight two Brown Belt guys at the same time. He had never been taught how to do this, so he went back and forth attacking one, then attacking the other.</p><p></p><p>I was a much lower belt, but I was sitting there thinking "That's not how you do it, you grab one guy, keep him between yourself and the other guy, and beat the crap out of the nearest guy.".</p><p></p><p>Sure enough, after about 30 seconds or so, the master stopped the fight, went over and told him how to do it, and then he did much better. He had actually never sparred with two foes or been trained to fight two foes.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The assumption is that both sides fight to the best of their ability. When outnumbered, always try to position yourself so that as few guys as possible can attack you.</p><p></p><p>When done properly, too many foes can actually get in each others way and give themselves disadvantage.</p><p></p><p>So instead of figuring out if the two guys have "flank and advantage" or whether the one guy "positions himself to prevent one of the foes from attacking him", it's just easier to not worry about this kind of thing.</p><p></p><p>With miniatures, it's often impossible to stop the miniatures from flaking and also often impossible to position one foe between yourself and the other foe and keep them that way. That's an issue of how miniatures and one turn at a time works. It's has nothing to do with real world fighting where time is not segregated into individual turns.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KarinsDad, post: 6403166, member: 2011"] Actually, I did take martial arts for several years. A guy was taking his Black Belt test and the test was to fight two Brown Belt guys at the same time. He had never been taught how to do this, so he went back and forth attacking one, then attacking the other. I was a much lower belt, but I was sitting there thinking "That's not how you do it, you grab one guy, keep him between yourself and the other guy, and beat the crap out of the nearest guy.". Sure enough, after about 30 seconds or so, the master stopped the fight, went over and told him how to do it, and then he did much better. He had actually never sparred with two foes or been trained to fight two foes. The assumption is that both sides fight to the best of their ability. When outnumbered, always try to position yourself so that as few guys as possible can attack you. When done properly, too many foes can actually get in each others way and give themselves disadvantage. So instead of figuring out if the two guys have "flank and advantage" or whether the one guy "positions himself to prevent one of the foes from attacking him", it's just easier to not worry about this kind of thing. With miniatures, it's often impossible to stop the miniatures from flaking and also often impossible to position one foe between yourself and the other foe and keep them that way. That's an issue of how miniatures and one turn at a time works. It's has nothing to do with real world fighting where time is not segregated into individual turns. [/QUOTE]
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