Wrestling in Armor - A vid for you low-tech guys

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by Gigermann

We can see this work IRL, but why would you do that in GURPS? Why would you not follow the parry with a blade attack, if there's no specific benefit to doing otherwise? In game-terms, how does that parry momentum have any effect on the pommel strike?

Because, constructed as a technique, having to follow a parry with a less damaging attack than your primary sounds like a special drawback to me. Which justifies a reduction of -1 to the default penalty.

A kind GM might even allow a -2, since these are two drawbacks (must follow a parry, uses pommel of sword instead of blade).