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From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: Combat Mechanics
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 01:17:36 -0500
At 09:33 PM 12/14/97 -0800, Crane wrote these timeless words:
>If a runner (Skwaaaaaark! 8/8(A2)) is fighting 3 runners (Hollywood 2/2,
>Moon Shadow 3/3, Stomper 6/7(A1)), I don't think they add up their threat
>ratings into 1 big attack. I think the online rulebook on FASA's web page
>indicates that they all do damage as if Skwaaaaaark! was a chellenge.
>Now how do you choose who gets to choose where damage goes.
>I always went by Rulebook- "attacking runners choose the initial
>pairings....the single combatant chooses how to allocate damage against
>multiple combatants". So Skwaaaaaark! could distribute his damage as he
>sees fit?
>
The way we play it (and interprate it) is that Skwark would get to assign
the damage... This is basically analagous to him deciding that he's better
off killing Stomper and ignoring the smaller threats... Or deciding that
the shaman is a bigger threat, and kills him (her?) first.

Bull
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