09-21-2007, 04:13 PM | #21 |
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Re: Where the pike?
Yeah, use Supers to scale up a proper personal-combat spear. A pike is too unwieldy for anyone under 3m tall even to attempt to use with the kind of precision needed for individual combat. It has less to do with strength than with arm length; spear moves involve placing your hands some percentage of the spear's length apart, from the head, from the butt, etc. If somebody that big did get a pike, and was strong enough to use it as a spear, then the pike would likely be too slender for his mighty strength. A pike isn't a scaled-up spear; it's a really long spear. A scaled-up spear would be much thicker.
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09-21-2007, 04:15 PM | #22 |
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For the record I'm converting some AD&D monsters to GURPS. The pike is listed as one of the weapons orcs use. From what's been said here AD&D gets it wrong.
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That said, I think pike should have been included in Basic Set, just in case you're caught with one, but the real reason was that the optional rules for using it can be kind of complex, and the space was better served with coverage of other material.
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09-21-2007, 04:41 PM | #24 | |
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09-21-2007, 05:26 PM | #27 | |
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The pike was a weapon used to wound. maim and kill sarriisaari and swiss pikemen were used to use the pike in phalanx and pike blocks as an offensive weapon and tactics Used in both hands i think it was also possible to feint with it, as well as parry, thrust and strike, which was done if soeone went behind the point. Quote:
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09-23-2007, 01:41 AM | #29 | |
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SPEAR (DX-5, Polearm-4, or Staff-2) TL Weapon Damage Reach Parry Cost Wt. ST 2 Pike thr+3 imp 3,4* -1 $70 dunno, 6-7? 10+ or something like that, anyway, to represent a 4m-4.5m pike, or a 6m pike cut down to combat length. That's just off the cuff, though.
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And yes, I have a copy of Supers, but yet not enough time for reading it thoroughly :-/
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