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<blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 8401476" data-attributes="member: 87792"><p>In short your One Unique Trick For All Situations was strong rather than devastating.</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile my experience is that 4e ambushes are effective without being devastating - but other strategems, like pushing monsters into their own pit traps are <em>only</em> rewarded sufficiently in 4e. Things like Bull Rush actions require giving up your entire attack - but 4e has a lot of forced movement. There is no reason to be sporting.</p><p></p><p>Indeed. You use tactics to win. Tactics <em>aren't fighting fair.</em> And no one wants a fair fight.</p><p></p><p>If you were to have said "Combat as strategy vs combat as tactics" I'd not have had a problem. 4e <em>is</em> more tactical - and 4e and 5e both have lower ambush success effects than earlier editions.</p><p></p><p>You're making up what people want when you say anyone wants CAS - or it's even a dichotomy.</p><p></p><p>What's up with me? I tend to react badly to naughty word edition war phrases. Why do you use them?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Neonchameleon, post: 8401476, member: 87792"] In short your One Unique Trick For All Situations was strong rather than devastating. Meanwhile my experience is that 4e ambushes are effective without being devastating - but other strategems, like pushing monsters into their own pit traps are [I]only[/I] rewarded sufficiently in 4e. Things like Bull Rush actions require giving up your entire attack - but 4e has a lot of forced movement. There is no reason to be sporting. Indeed. You use tactics to win. Tactics [I]aren't fighting fair.[/I] And no one wants a fair fight. If you were to have said "Combat as strategy vs combat as tactics" I'd not have had a problem. 4e [I]is[/I] more tactical - and 4e and 5e both have lower ambush success effects than earlier editions. You're making up what people want when you say anyone wants CAS - or it's even a dichotomy. What's up with me? I tend to react badly to naughty word edition war phrases. Why do you use them? [/QUOTE]
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