Fight! Elmo vs. Elihu

[Tobias]

I said I was going to put my guy here, but he should be in the sticky thread with all the fighters, so I'll put him there instead.

http://www.burningwheel.org/forum/showthread.php?p=37393#post37393

I'll also make a discussion thread.

[Tobias]

Ok, so I need to make a Riding test against SE's will (2), Riding 6 +1D for stirrups etc., I get:

3,5,5,4,4,1,6=5s. So no problem during this fight/R&C with further positioning.

My honorable opponent agreed to R&C with me starting with the crossbow, so that's how we'll run it. Since he's using a spear (btw, you have axe skill 6 but a sword as a secondary weapon... I presume you want to change that?) and I'm using a crossbow, I guess I get 2D for the initial positioning, and he gets.. nothing? Which sounds quite bad, until you realise my horsie's speed and movement modifier are both higher than mine, as well as his speed's 8, so my dear opponent rolls 10D where I roll 7. I can't think of any cool FoRKs for either of us, so I'm just going to hope I get lucky with those 7D. Otherwise, I have no clue what range he can/will chose to be in.

Here goes 7d: 2,6,1,3,2,4,2 = 2s.

(That's bad, obviously.)

Now, I probably need to waste some time dropping my crossbow, and getting the lance out, but I'm probably going to get pwnd here, right? When I have the lance, and he has the spear, we're going to be 5d for me, 10d for him, and only the winner strikes. Which is cool, if that's the intended effect (=light cav owns heavy cav), I just wanna be clear.

(Replies on good strategy to the discussion thread, please).

[Tobias]

Hello?