From:	Marc A Renouf <jormung@*****.UMICH.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Melee Combat
Date:	Sun, 25 Jun 1995 12:15:10 -0400

On Fri, 23 Jun 1995, Sebastian Wiers wrote:

> Does anybody else play it that you must decide how many people to attack and
> then apply the full penalty to every attack? This makes more sense to me, and
> I think the rules just say +2 per aditional attack. After all, every atack in
> the series is going to be rushed, so why should the first atack have no
> penalty whatever?

You are concentrating on the first one. He is your primary
target. He should be no harder to hit than if he were alone. It's when
you try to attack others that the problems come in. You are not devoting
as much energy towards them. They are targets of opportunity. The
difficulty results from the fact that when you try to attack them, your
target numbers are so high, they will probably hit you on the
counterattack. That's where attacking multiple opponents becomes really
challenging.

Marc