- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Now that we have mastered hand switching for Branarhune we can pull off the classic "I am not left handed" reveal.
[X] Guard Bypass
[X] Guard Bypass
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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
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Is there such a thing as a "fair fight" when your opponent is a grandmaster with a runefang? In that sort of match up, you either die or you cheat.
- Location
- Hiding in the walls.
- Pronouns
- She/Her
In fairness, if they have a Runefang, then we should probably get to keep Branalhune, at which point it becomes a question of if they can completely avoid parrying or taking even what would ordinarily be a glancing hit, while Mathilde has no such restrictions.
It probably wouldn't make it an easy fight, even so, but "You win if you get any hit on me, I need to get something properly incapacitating on you, and also I lose if I parry" seems like the sort of thing you might see a swordmaster impose on themselves to make a fight against a less-skilled opponent relatively even.
I'm pretty sure we aren't even close to the best human alive at Swording. We can get away with a hell of a lot due to Branalhune, but in pure technical skill I would expect a bunch of people to be ahead of us, such as the heads of knightly orders.
And that's fine. Mathilde is a Wizard, gunner, sword-using sneaky girl. She probably shouldn't have as much pure skill as a Knightly order grandmaster. She doesn't have to. She just has to cheat harder.
- Location
- Aotearoa
Not sure what exactly would happen if a cuts-through-anything Runefang parried a Cannonball-blade, or vice versa. But it seems to me likely it would not be good for at least one of the weapons.
"whilst you were studying the blade, I was studying magic. And shooting. And also the blade too, swords are neat."
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- She/Her
Cue Boney: "Try it and find out."
- Pronouns
- He/Him
If we go Guard Bypass we never need to worry about that because people try to parry but the blades never actually touch.
- Location
- Germany
[X] Double-tap
- Location
- Brazil
As if flexing on other wizards could ever be a waste of resources.
From who made the runefangs i do think the fang survives it better. The wielder still has to deal with the transfer of the force so how he's doing is another matter. But Alaric was very good at making bs weapons when he set his mind to it.
- Location
- UK
- Location
- Hiding in the walls.
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I suspect that regardless of which sword wins that exchange, the more pressing problem for whoever's on the other side is that the Runefang winds up going through you when a cannonball hits it because you put it between you and said cannonball, yes. Whether that's because it explodes or because it's ripped out of your hands is somewhat academic.
- Location
- Milky Way
[X] Both
- Location
- Earth
[x] Guard bypass
RandomTechPriest
He Who Steals Toasters
[X] Both
Sinsystems
Patron Librarian
I know it probably won't happen, but I can't help but imagine Eike wearing a full imitation of Mathilde's usual outfit during her journeying and thus spreading Mathilde's legend further as people mistake her for Mathilde.
dinomannitro6
all your gender is belong to us
- Location
- The Land Where The Sunflowers Bloom
Wait dies Eike wear a hat? I don't remember
I feel you have to earn the hat by having a handsome older witchhunter fall in battle next to you and then entrust you with their legacy. Otherwise it's like witchhunter chic. And Eike is too young for handsome older witchhunters.
So I just realized that we actually have one more piece of evidence in the puzzle that is Eike's charsheet:
There's three +1 boni there. One is Pistols, one is Greatswords, so that leaves just one +1 unaccounted for. So it can't be that both of the remaining skills are uncompleted, unless Eike also has a general trait that improves martial*. One has to be complete and provide Eike with a +1 martial bonus. I think it can't be a weapon skill, because Greatswords just got completed and that would imply that she has another weapon that she's been training with more than the one she's receiving private lessons for, and in that case why wouldn't she use that weapon instead? And it can't be Strategy and Tactics, those skills don't give a generic Martial bonus. I think the only plausible skill left is Riding, though I don't know if that would give +1 Martial.
*maybe Book Protagonist, +1 to all stats - ah but actually that can't be right, learning just has a +2
Tasoli
Life is for Living
- Location
- Behind the Keyboard.
Fitness does give +1 to Martial right? It is probably that.