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You have a Style that can be used for wrestling, yeah. A dedicated wrestling style would be better, but it's serviceable if you get a few more Rotes for that kind of thing.
Knight of Wessex (A Written World Quest)
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You have a Style that can be used for wrestling, yeah. A dedicated wrestling style would be better, but it's serviceable if you get a few more Rotes for that kind of thing.
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[X] Hordebreaker - Martial Style for fighting multiple foes.
CedeTheBees
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[X] Thunderous Charge - Cavalry style based on using a lance.
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I don't think we need a style for fighting multiple inferior foes, which seems to be what Hordebreaker does, Knights are already pretty good at that.
Ranged attacks… I can see the reasoning, but I think we should get better at melee
I like the idea of either Wrestling for obvious reasons or Thunderous Charge because being Cavalry is fantastic.
[X] Francisca - Martial Style for ranged combat involving thrown weapons
[X] Lutter Corps à Corps - Dedicated wrestling style with appropriate moves.
[X] Thunderous Charge - Cavalry style based on using a lance.
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While Hordebreaker is certainly primarily used on multiple weaker foes (because multiple equal foes is probably gonna go badly even with a Style) it does have stuff for fighting multiple opponents in general.
Speaking of that, for the record, a francisca is a throwing axe used by, well, the Franks. Often to mess up enemy shields before battle. Reinald will probably teach you the very basics of them regardless of picking the Style (as a Combat Rote), but the Style would make you much more specialized with them and other throwing weapons.
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[X] Hordebreaker - Martial Style for fighting multiple foes.
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[X] Hordebreaker - Martial Style for fighting multiple foes.
[X] Thunderous Charge - Cavalry style based on using a lance.
DangerKitty
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[X] Hordebreaker - Martial Style for fighting multiple foes.
The horse one is kinda cool, but we don't have a horse and it would also be useless for indoor fights, fights in dense forests and also cave fights like the one we just had.
Hordebreaker will p much always be useful.
Others not really interested in.
The horse one is kinda cool, but we don't have a horse and it would also be useless for indoor fights, fights in dense forests and also cave fights like the one we just had.
Hordebreaker will p much always be useful.
Others not really interested in.
AeonIlluminate
The power of friendship and aggressive landscaping
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[X] Hordebreaker - Martial Style for fighting multiple foes.
[X] Lutter Corps à Corps - Dedicated wrestling style with appropriate moves.
A Style for killing groups is really nice as we are gonna be outnumbered for the vast majority of fights we get into. A wrestling Style would be rather nice as then we have a chance in hell against EVERY FUCKING NORSEMAN HAVING GLIMA, although we can cover it somewhat with the generic one that the king makes everyone learn. A cavalry Style will be really nice for when we eventually get given our Horse and Bird, although it is just a waste to grab it now as we don't have nearly the Training to get anything from it or a horse for it, so it would be a money sink with no return for a while, and we're rather weak right now. A throwing Style would be nice, but we are gonna be rushing into melee as soon as possible the majority of the time, so we won't use it much.
[X] Lutter Corps à Corps - Dedicated wrestling style with appropriate moves.
A Style for killing groups is really nice as we are gonna be outnumbered for the vast majority of fights we get into. A wrestling Style would be rather nice as then we have a chance in hell against EVERY FUCKING NORSEMAN HAVING GLIMA, although we can cover it somewhat with the generic one that the king makes everyone learn. A cavalry Style will be really nice for when we eventually get given our Horse and Bird, although it is just a waste to grab it now as we don't have nearly the Training to get anything from it or a horse for it, so it would be a money sink with no return for a while, and we're rather weak right now. A throwing Style would be nice, but we are gonna be rushing into melee as soon as possible the majority of the time, so we won't use it much.
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[X] Francisca - Martial Style for ranged combat involving thrown weapons
Couldn't you dig into Celtics or Welsh stuff? Not like they were shy about the old grapplin'
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Yes, but this is a Martial Style taught by Reinald, who is French (well, Frankish). That would be a bit odd.
AeonIlluminate
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Reinald is French, he's been in Wessex for 50 odd years but he was initially trained and learned his craft in France, so the Style he knows well enough and has the mystical right to pass down is probably French
[X] Francisca - Martial Style for ranged combat involving thrown weapons
Thematically, our existing Hard-Fall style is something that takes advantage of weaknesses & openings. And with our Soma specialty, we'll be able to throw sharp things very hard, right into weak vulnerable points with Francisca.
...Also being a specialty of the Franks, its likely one of the styles we uniquely have access to since Reinald is a Frenchman. And if its one of the last styles we'll get taught by Reinald, I want it.
Mechanically, shield-breaking is very nice and a good counter for some of our common enemies. It also gives us an answer to ranged enemies we can't just rush down, like what would have happened if things had became a 2v1, with the first guy backing off to cast fire magic.
Thematically, our existing Hard-Fall style is something that takes advantage of weaknesses & openings. And with our Soma specialty, we'll be able to throw sharp things very hard, right into weak vulnerable points with Francisca.
...Also being a specialty of the Franks, its likely one of the styles we uniquely have access to since Reinald is a Frenchman. And if its one of the last styles we'll get taught by Reinald, I want it.
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Cecylene
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[X] Hordebreaker - Martial Style for fighting multiple foes.
Action economy is a killer, even if all this does is help level the playing field it can be huge if played correctly because normally the trick to fighting a Knight if full-plate is to have enough men-at-arms dog-pile them and go at them with anti-armor weapons like pick-axes or round-head hammers. Even if that isn't always the case, rarely will a near-peer level enemy likely not having support in one form or another. Something designed to avoid the normal pitfalls of that situation is a great foundation.
Action economy is a killer, even if all this does is help level the playing field it can be huge if played correctly because normally the trick to fighting a Knight if full-plate is to have enough men-at-arms dog-pile them and go at them with anti-armor weapons like pick-axes or round-head hammers. Even if that isn't always the case, rarely will a near-peer level enemy likely not having support in one form or another. Something designed to avoid the normal pitfalls of that situation is a great foundation.
Also, minor note. Should be "your Excellency" not "Father".
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[X] Hordebreaker - Martial Style for fighting multiple foes.
Know what would suck? Dying to multiple opponents.
Know what would suck? Dying to multiple opponents.
You sure? They certainly got around Europe for at least hundreds of years before the Roman Empire
Alectai
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Those are on the table for questing later on, this is just what Reinald knows, and more importantly, has the right to teach.
But if you have, say, a good Gaulish thing, maybe we can work that in.
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It's not impossible, but it would be unusual for that to be one of Reinald's primary Styles. If you had a specific example and how it got to the mainland, perhaps.
