Art De La Guerre

[A4]

A swordsman with a two-handed cutting weapon but without armour fights an armoured spearman. They both roll 4.

What happens?

Alan

[Hazelbark]

Page 16. Right column. Very explicit.

2HW rolls 4
Armor Spear rolls 4

2HW wins tie goes to 5.
Armor comes next spear goes to 5.

[A4]

I am coming to feel that the result is a draw.

However, that section says that in the special case of a draw v spear or pike the 2HCW win the melee. Earlier in the paragraph it says if you win the melee you add 1 to the dice roll. When I read this first I thought this would be cumulative. Ie that the 2HCW would win the melee (ie, in effect their score would increase to 5). Then they would add the normal plus 1 that 2HCW get against any opponents they beat, bringing them up to 6. The spearman's armour would take this down to 5, leaving the 2HCW one ahead.

So far nobody has read it that way, so I guess it should be a draw.

[Hazelbark]

p 16 right column
under two handed weapon
2nd para
mid way through the 6th line.

"The tie bonus is added after the applying quality modifier but before the applying the effect of the armour ability...."

It is very clear win to apply.