01-17-2012, 05:35 PM | #11 | |
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Re: Armed Parries against unarmed attacks.
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Another thought, on the subject of 0U Parry / ST‡ weapons getting to parry and damage (and thus violate the implicit restrictions on these weapons' use). A parry isn't a full swing, but more often a sort of "jab" with the haft or pole. As such, perhaps even an Aggressive Parry with these unbalanced weapons should inflict thrust-based crushing damage instead of the normal damage type. This could apply to balanced weapons too, though swords would still inflict cutting rather than crushing. |
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01-17-2012, 05:40 PM | #12 |
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01-17-2012, 05:44 PM | #13 |
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Re: Armed Parries against unarmed attacks.
Well, I think this would be a case of using the Aggressive Parry technique - ie, the swordsman accepts a penalty to his parry to attempt to inflict real damage to his opponent. The fact that this has a penalty compared to a normal parry indicates that he's using it in a manner he may not be trained for. For sticks or staves this involves parrying with more force than usual; for swords it also includes parrying with the edge instead of the flat.
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01-17-2012, 05:48 PM | #14 |
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Re: Armed Parries against unarmed attacks.
I have always thought of this as imposing your weapon in the path of the attack, rather than slapping the blow aside. They punch at you, you put the mace in the way such that your power and theirs is combined. The punch at you, you angle the sword in such a way as to force them to punch a sharp edge, or you draw cut them on the way end. In this way, I find half damage most appealing. What does Aggressive Parry do in this regard?
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01-17-2012, 05:53 PM | #15 | |
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01-17-2012, 06:00 PM | #16 |
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Re: Armed Parries against unarmed attacks.
If there was a book out there on using a sword or polearm to defend against unarmed attackers I'd like to see it. As a police baton trainer we taught baton weilding officers to attack the legs unless the assaliant had a knife. Then you target the arm with the knife. From a boxing stance it would be hard to differentiate between an aggressive parry or a wait and attack. In both cases you try to hit the arm and keep the knife from hitting home.
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01-17-2012, 06:03 PM | #17 | |
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01-17-2012, 06:06 PM | #18 |
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01-17-2012, 06:08 PM | #19 |
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01-17-2012, 06:13 PM | #20 |
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Re: Armed Parries against unarmed attacks.
Take a look at any of the various Fechtbuchs (Fechbuchen?) out there. They often show armed defenses vs. unarmed. They show more unarmed defense versus armed, but I'm sure that's more from need to explain than popularity. Learning to stop a knife when you don't have one takes a lot more explanation than stopping someone with a sword when you have one and they don't. But humorous fechtbuch pictures of being losing a hand or arm(s) to swords influenced some of the rules in GURPS Martial Arts.
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