RE: [SG] Withdrawl from close combat

As long as you make a confidence check every time you voluntarily
withdraw
(unscrupulous players will argue they don't need to if they voluntarily
withdraw), there is no reason you can't keep withdrawing.
Eventually either the bugs or you are going to fail a test for the
chase/pursuit & then somebody will die.

Neath Southern Skies -http://home.pacific.net.au/~southernskies/
[mkw] Admiral Peter Rollins; Task Force Zulu
[pirates] Prince Rupert Raspberry; Base Commander

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Beth Fulton [SMTP:beth.fulton@marine.csiro.au]
> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 10:59 AM
> 
> Anyways, we're were using the overrun and pursue close combat rules.
Now
> given the fact I was trying to survive long enough to get airlifted
out,
> any chance I got (i.e. when there was a sensible escape route, so not
when
> I was backed against a wall etc) I would voluntarily withdraw from
combat.
> Bugs would pursue, I'd withdraw, bugs would pursue again, I'd withdraw
etc
> etc. Now were we doing this right or is there actually some limit to
the
> number of times you can voluntarily withdraw? Nik felt he was pushing
it
> up
> hill if I could just run away all night until his combat move fell
short
> of
> the 6" needed to catch me, so maybe you can only volunatrily withdraw
once
> in a linked series of close combats (so under the case in point if I'd
> failed confidence tests I could have kept running away, but would only
get
> to run away voluntarily once)??? Other point that came up is whether
or
> not
> being in close combat uses up the defender's activation for that turn
too
> (I had a avgue feeling that I';d read that it had, and it made sense
so
> that's what we went with)?