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PlainDre wrote:Hey All,

regarding melee combat with weapons....if two trained swordsman are going at it, they have the same # of attacks, are they allowed to only attack or defend? Or can they attack and get a free attempt at parrying (just like unarmed combatants that are trained with HtoH)?

If they have auto-parry in unarmed combat, they have it in melee combat with weapons.

Where I'm going with this is this......if two trained swordsman are going at it, and they have the same # of attacks, BUT one of the swordsman has paired weapons and is using two swords would he have the upper hand at attack + Parry? (clearly he'd have the upper hand at doing two attacks at once ~ rolled separately of course; and the defender would need to roll to parry..if that's allowed without burning up an action)

It used to be, I believe, that if you made twin strikes against the enemy with your paired weapons, you'd give up your auto-parry in order to do so, but I see no mention of this in RUE.
So it seems like now it's as you say- you'd have the clear upper hand because you'd get two attacks for every one attack of theirs (although you'd only roll one strike roll), and they could only block one strike, AND you could still auto-parry anything they throw at you.

Previously, or if the original rule is actually still in effect, the better bet would be to not attack them on your turn, then to spend your action to parry their attack with one sword (weapon) and counter-attack with the other.