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Originally Posted by Steve Plambeck
The subtle difference between the two options is that you are making a choice between (1) possibly putting hits on your opponent, or (2) possibly avoiding hits on yourself. You can't have it both ways, so choose wisely. But none of this has any effect on what your opponent does or how they do it if they are going first.
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I'm a dissenter on this, because if you are actively avoiding being skewered by a pole weapon then you should not suffer the extra damage, only if you are attacking would you need to close the distance beyond the pole weapon and then you risk getting stuck like a pig, but anything else and the pole weapon user just gets a regular attack.
Note that there is still some minor advantage as the pole weapon user gets in an attack whilst the non-attacking opponent does nothing, and if he does enough damage he can push him back.