05-02-2010, 04:48 PM | #1 |
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Sacrificial Dodge
Does a successful sacrificial dodge (p. B375) actually move you a step between the attacker and your ally? If so, and the attacker and ally are adjacent (facing each other), in what hex do you move to?
I did a search of the forums, but could not find the answer. Thanks in advance.
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05-03-2010, 09:40 AM | #2 |
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Re: Sacrificial Dodge
A success at the active defense roll will place you between the attacker and his intended target [you can only attempt it if you are close enough for a Step to take you there]. I suppose that in the case where the two combatants are in adjacent hexes, the sacrificer (having succeeded his defense roll) would get to choose which hex he wanted to end up in.
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05-03-2010, 08:48 PM | #3 |
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Re: Sacrificial Dodge
Put them wherever is most dramatically effective. Is it a sacrifice so the other character can keep fighting? Then they end up in the target's hex, so that they can be caught and either admonished or die in the character's arms. Is it meant to allow the other to escape? Then they end up in the attacker's hex, possibly impaled, holding him off while the others escape.
More seriously, I believe there is a rule somewhere about not being able to enter into close combat with someone with a Retreat (which is what a sacrificial dodge is... kind of). Thus, the character would have to enter his ally's hex (where he is more welcome). Alternatively, give the player a choice - while normally you can't enter an enemy's hex with a Retreat, the fact you are basically jumping on his sword makes a special case. Another alternative would be to disallow him from making the sacrifice - the two are simply too close together (if he really wants to save his ally, he'll need to do a sacrificial dodge and drop instead).
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So how can you help your buddy by throwing yourself to the ground between him and his foe? Doesn't the Sacrifice part of this already involve willingly impaling yourself om his sword? In the same way a Sacrificial Dodge and Retreat isn't possible IMHO. If what you want really is to draw the foe's attantion away from your buddy and present yourself as an easier target, you should've started the round before. I dunno, use a feit or a deceptive attack to get his ttention, ot simply engage him and give your buddy time and space to get away. But without this set-up, there really isn't snything else to to than to take the blow yourself...
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05-04-2010, 05:50 PM | #7 |
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Re: Sacrificial Dodge
Hand grenades are probably the most common use of sacrificial dodge a real life, and it figures on a goodly percentage of posthumous citations for bravery.
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I apologize in advance if I seem aggressive about this, but I merely wish to understand the RAW correctly. That said, I would rule that one cannot do a Sacrificial Dodge into an enemy's hex.
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An alternative reading would be that you can Retreat and then later (in the same round) make a Sacrificial Dodge. That doesn't seem right at all (as you are getting an additional two Steps), but there isn't anything in the RAW against it.
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