06-05-2021, 10:35 AM | #1 |
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Verification re: Move and Attack
Consulting the combat modifiers at the end of Basic Set, is says a Move and Attack in melee has a -4 penalty and a skill cap of 9. For ranged attacks it says a penalty of -2 or weapon bulk, whichever is worse and it does not mention the skill cap. So, is there no skill cap for ranged weapon Move and Attack or is it supposed to be implied? I've been playing it with no cap, but always wondered about that.
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06-05-2021, 11:35 AM | #2 |
Join Date: Aug 2019
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Re: Verification re: Move and Attack
ranged move and attack has no cap.
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06-05-2021, 02:30 PM | #3 |
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Re: Verification re: Move and Attack
Good to have it confirmed, thanks.
It's odd though, why it's so much easier to use a pistol on the run vs. a knife. |
06-05-2021, 02:40 PM | #4 | |
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Re: Verification re: Move and Attack
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Knife is swung or thrust, you need to both aim it and deliver a technically correct strike. It's the question of more stuff to do. Most videos that might be produced to portray 'how it is IRL' involve a man closing in via Move, and then using All Out Attack to both approach the target and then strike at a bonus. Move & Attack portrays strike on the run, or run-by strike, which is harder to do than simply stopping the run when you're in range and then thrusting/swinging.
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06-06-2021, 02:53 PM | #5 | |
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Re: Verification re: Move and Attack
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It's also possible to deliver a slam using a long weapon held horizontally across your body (MA112 Slams with Long Weapons) which gives a bonus to your crushing damage as well as (similar to a Shield Rush) lets the weapon take the damage instead of you. Move and Attack gives the option of substituing slam/collision damage for your thrust if it is better (MA107, no special heading) which sort of muddles the water of "I'm stopping to thrust" though. Despite substituting slam damage I don't know that it would count as a slam for other purposes such as knocking people down, not taking a -4 to hit / skill cap 9 on a Move and Attack (slams don't suffer those) probably because you're trying to thrust with a narrow weapon tip as opposed to "throwing my entire torso at someone" or whatever a slam is meant to be (it never seems to specify point of contact, which is a big deal for body armor) Even though RAW this substitution rule probably only applies to Move and Attack, I'd be for allowing it as a generic rule. It's generally not going to be useful for your standard attack (or even committed attack) since 1-2 steps don't give you much velocity (same reason why you wouldn't tend to deliver a slam using those maneuvers) It'd mostly just be useful for All-Out Attack since you get 50% move. In the situation of substituting slam damage for a thrusting weapon, I wonder if maybe 100% move should be allowed on an All-Out Attack? To balance it out maybe a -4 to hit should be applied to All-Out Attacks which do that, as you would suffer on a Move and Attack. I'm basically just looking for the full sprinting speed of AOA slams, not the accuracy slams enjoy in M+A. Slams basically get a free "+4 to hit" during a Move and Attack (to ignore the usual -4 penalty) which isn't enjoyed in other contexts such as a Move and Attack. This makes me wonder if maybe we should just always give +4 to hit with slams (you're running into something, it's very instincitve) rather than special treatment with only M+A |
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06-06-2021, 05:30 PM | #6 | |
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Re: Verification re: Move and Attack
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*For weapons that can't be thrown and thus lack a Bulk entry, approximated it based on the closest weapon. A Spear is -6; a Long Spear is comparable but longer, so -7; a Halberd is of comparable length to a Long Spear, but has more fiddly bits, so -8. Of course, given how spears were often thrown after a run-up, I'm not certain that Bulk value is entirely appropriate as a penalty here (then again, those were probably All Out Attacks, which sidestep the Bulk issue entirely).
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06-06-2021, 05:44 PM | #7 | |
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Re: Verification re: Move and Attack
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Keep in mind that for most kinds of attacks, you can still take a step. And you can generally spend a fatigue for an extra step or use an aggressive attack for half-move. In most cases, this gives you enough movement to cover a walking pace. It's only when running around that you're swinging wildly. |
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06-06-2021, 05:57 PM | #8 | |
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Re: Verification re: Move and Attack
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I could also see working Reach into it somehow... I think it's probably easier (while running) to stab someone 1 yard away with a Reach 1 spear than to stab someone 4 yards away with a Reach 4 spear for example. The deviations on the point of your weapon which happen from the increased body movement are basically going to be amplified, slipping an inch off target for a reach 1 weapon is probably slipping 4 inches off target for a reach 4 weapon. Do we say guns use the same policy as thrust weapons since they are direct line of fire rather than spinning? When it comes to arrows, even though they used thrust it's the thrust of the weapon rather than directly applied thrust so I could see it work more like a gun, if we gave guns lesser penalties than thrust weapons. |
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06-06-2021, 08:36 PM | #9 |
Join Date: Aug 2014
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Re: Verification re: Move and Attack
Videos of real gun fights where people are dashing about shooting seem to have a lot of misses, far more than seem to be the case in recreation melees or fencing matches.
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06-07-2021, 07:43 AM | #10 |
Join Date: Aug 2018
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Re: Verification re: Move and Attack
Maybe that's because of the speed/range penalties on guns combined with the lack of using Aim to get an Acc bonus?
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