09-21-2007, 12:37 AM | #1 |
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Where the pike?
I need stats for the pike but I can't find it either in Characters or Martial Arts. It's such a well-known weapon I can't believe it would be left out.
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09-21-2007, 12:40 AM | #2 |
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Re: Where the pike?
I generally just use the stats for a Long Spear.
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09-21-2007, 02:00 AM | #3 | |
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09-21-2007, 03:11 AM | #4 |
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Re: Where the pike?
Because it's a bloomin' silly weapon to use in single combat, and few roleplayers are terribly interested in standing around with three hundred other schlubs hoping that the artillery don't notice them and the cavalry are stupid enough to charge them frontally rather than flanking them?
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09-21-2007, 04:27 AM | #5 | |
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This has actually happened in my campaign, yes. There were only a hundred orcs and not all of them had pikes, but the point remains.
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09-21-2007, 05:08 AM | #6 | |
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Re: Where the pike?
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Still, a spear is a spear is a spear when you're running in to it, no?
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09-21-2007, 05:12 AM | #7 | ||
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The horses that they were riding died, but that wasn't a surprise to anyone. Anyway, they didn't just decide to charge, one of them just critically failed a default Riding roll and the others decided that following him was a bright idea. The PCs had good armour, very good skill with their weapons and once they got over having charged the orcs, actually developed some decent tactics. Plus Healing potions. Many for each of them. Quote:
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09-21-2007, 06:31 AM | #8 | |
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09-21-2007, 08:23 AM | #9 |
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Re: Where the pike?
It's not much of an individual combat weapon - the other stuff in martial arts is, generally. We have some group combat rules, but the emphasis is on martial artists in general and PC martial artists in specific. Pikes aren't the kind of weapons they use.
Bill's write, a hypothetical low-tech book would cover both TL2 (pike warfare at it's finest), and TL4 (pike-and-shot), and would be a logical place to discuss pikes.
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09-21-2007, 11:59 AM | #10 | |
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For that matter, I'm sure that a pike could be made perfectly satisfactorily at TL1. The reasons why this doesn't seem to have happened would be more socio-economic than military, I think. Whether Macedonian pikemen would have Hoplomachia style is probably not a question with which I'd want to engage.
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