Re: defense

[Wright Frazier <khelek@ns1.cioe.com>]

Catching a ball in the outfield.  You have a baseball headed right at
your head.  So you stick out your heavy leather glove and catch it to
avoid it hitting you.

Japanese Gunsen.  Its an iron fan, one of the ways it was employed was
to deflect missiles.  

A defensive tackle batting down balls while they are mixing it up on the
line of scrimmage with an offensive tackle and offensive guard in a game
of football.

Hyli(sp?) players catching and whipping those balls around the court that
will _KILL_ people with ease.

The use of a shield by the franks to block a thrown roman pilum.  

The use of a shield to block a thrown bearded war axe by a frank.

The use of a shield in general.

I can't remember the name of it, but a martial arts technique known as
	'arrow-cutting'.

That enough?

Wright

Bunting in baseball(watch any baseball game for examples).




> Excuse me?  _Far_ from impossible?
> 
> Time for a reality check...
> 
> Why don't you give me an example of _any_ individual
> who can, even on the off chance, whack an arrow out
> of the air as it bears down on them (and while they are
> busily engaged in killing and defending against the
> person(s) in front of them).  Any concrete example will
> do (and movie theatrics to not count).
> 
> Lyle
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Wright Frazier [SMTP:khelek@ns1.cioe.com]
> 
> [ other stuff removed ]
> 
> I agree you should get some benefit against missile weapons.  If for no
> other reason than the off chance that you wack the arrow out of the way.
> Thats good enough for a 1 in my opinion.
> 
> What about this?
> 	Give the normal bonus that your weapon gives to GDV and CDV to MDV,
> 	and then for the defense option, make it so that you get +1/die
> 	against missiles instead of 2.  This is to reflect the fact
> 	that missile weapons ARE harder to block, but far from impossible.
> 
> Wright
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