Combat Writ Large

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by whswhs

I don't see how you get the move.

Because altered time rate reduces it, so you need enough enhanced move to make up for it. It's essentially '16x stride length, 1/4 as often'.

Originally Posted by whswhs

As to altered time rate, do you suppose that a tyrannosaur (about 3x human height) had altered time rate about 4/7? That doesn't strike me as evident. What are you taking "altered time rate" to be a measure of?

How long actions take. If acceleration doesn't change, the time required to complete any action scales with the square root of the distance which must be covered (also, energy scales as mass x distance; if it's 16x human height and 4096x human weight, it actually strikes with 16384x human energy). Real-world creatures are much harder to talk about because they change in build so much as size changes, but if you look at things like heart rate, it's about -1/4 in mass, and reaction time is more or less linear in nerve path length.