>If he tried to close then he has forced you to
>enter a new close combat contest. Perhaps to
>your great surprise (penalties to your close
>combat ability from the first contest).
So how does this contest proceed? Do you carry forward AP losses? If so, the archer starts off already defeated, if not, then the archer has achieved nothing unless he took the "wound" option. There's no precedent in the Hero Wars rules for continuing a contest by restarting a new one - it's the same contest, but different skills are being used. It's much simpler, IMO, to stick to the standard contest rules, but fix the archery problem by giving archery a big edge. There's no need to invent new rules when the existing ones can be made to function adequately.
Philip Hibbs http://www.snark.freeserve.co.uk/ Opinions expressed may not even be my own, let alone those of any organisations, nations, species, or schools of thought to which I may be affiliated.
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