What does main-gauche buy me?

lambda · 08-27-2007, 02:24 PM

I'm coming back to GURPS after not having played in probably 7 or 8 years. I'm constructing a character, and would like to have some interesting fencing abilities, so I looked into getting Sabre and Main-Gauche, along with Knife for when I don't have the sabre on hand. However, after taking a look at the combat rules, I'm kind of confused about how Main-Gauche would actually help me without also buying double weapon attack and off-hand ability. As far as I can recall (I don't have the book in front of me right now), Main-Gauche eliminates the penalty for parrying with an off-handed weapon, and that's about it. If I just spent the points on my main weapon skill instead, I could be better at parrying with my main weapon than the off-hand weapon, so the main-gauche skill would be useless. Am I missing something? As I said, I don't have the books in front of me right now, so I could very well have just missed something critical.

08-27-2007, 02:24 PM	#1
lambda Join Date: Aug 2007	What does main-gauche buy me? I'm coming back to GURPS after not having played in probably 7 or 8 years. I'm constructing a character, and would like to have some interesting fencing abilities, so I looked into getting Sabre and Main-Gauche, along with Knife for when I don't have the sabre on hand. However, after taking a look at the combat rules, I'm kind of confused about how Main-Gauche would actually help me without also buying double weapon attack and off-hand ability. As far as I can recall (I don't have the book in front of me right now), Main-Gauche eliminates the penalty for parrying with an off-handed weapon, and that's about it. If I just spent the points on my main weapon skill instead, I could be better at parrying with my main weapon than the off-hand weapon, so the main-gauche skill would be useless. Am I missing something? As I said, I don't have the books in front of me right now, so I could very well have just missed something critical.