Ideas for Higher-Resolution Combat - Feedback Requested

[Andreas]

Opportunities for opportunistic attacks can happens for a few different reasons. One important one is that an opponent focuses on defending against a particular kind of attack at the expense of defense against other attacks. For example, someone with armor covering everything except the head focusing on defending the head at the expense of other parts.

A simple rule could be that during your maneuver you are allowed to declare that you are focusing on defending against a particular set of attacks. This gives -2 to all other defenses.

If the set of attacks you are focusing on is much smaller than the rest of them (GM judgement), you get +2 to defense against those attacks. Otherwise you get + 1 to defense (unless the set of attacks focused upon are much larger than the rest, then you get nothing).