From:	Phil Smith phil_urbanhell@*******.com
Subject:	multiple opponent melee.
Date:	Fri, 30 Jun 2000 17:32:00 GMT

>From: Aristotle <antithesis@**********.com>
>This may be answered in the rules, but if it was I haven't found it. If you
>are facing more than one opponent in melee combat and you strike at all of
>them with the same attack, do they all get counter-attacks? If I strike at
>only one, does only that one get a counter-attack?

Okay,

Cannon; you roll an attack once per attacker, every attacker gets a counter
attack roll. Each attacker after the first gets -2 TN to hit you and gives
you a +2 TN to hit them, these modifiers are cumalatibve so the third
attacker gets -4 to hit and gives you +4. You also tend to run out of
combat pool quite quickly and die more easily than is normal.

I think that the above rules assume that your opponents wait patiently for
you to finish with their predicesor before jumping in. So I just give the
character a +((opponents-1)X2) TN and the opponents the same as a -TN.
Because after all, you are fighting everyone simultaniously not one at a
time so each of them should be just as difficult to hit.

Phil

That's it; get out of my castle!
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