Some Focused Defense questions for playtesters

[Polydamas]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

Regarding the Close Combat Technique: it wasn't a very good investment the day MA came out. It would've made sense with the Basic Set interpretation of CC, but not the 'CC starts when you start in CC on your turn, if you don't somehow step out'.

And its certainly realistic to refuse the weapon side to use a weapon in close combat (I've done it a few thousand times) but this rule makes swords just as good as knives in close combat. I would hope that the playtesters carefully considered it, but there are enough rules issues that I'm suspicious.

I'm not sure what you mean about rarely needing to use long weapons in Close Combat though. You could always step out of Close Combat, but once you or your opponent have grappled you sometimes want to use the weapon in hand and not waste a turn drawing a knife.