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Old 12-14-2014, 12:15 PM   #103
DouglasCole
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Default Re: Unarmed vs. Knife

You're actually going to call me on whether something meets the literal definition, precisely applied in a totally legalistic and game mechanical fashion, after the pages and pages of hairsplitting that you and Tom's dad are doing?


The key is that the wait condition is triggered by the closing of the range. That does not necessarily mean that the step and movement is complete, and I would certainly allow The defender to react to your motion, since all of this attack and defense is not the turn by turn regimented, precisely sequenced, defined it down to the last minutia event that you seem to portray it as. All of this happens at the same time, which means that in the spirit of the rules a rotation to match the attempted run around attack is the right game feel. Everything else, to me, is a bunch of overly legalistic noise.
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