Combat Strategies

[Sir Mathodius Black]

Actually i have done that and as long as your reflex is above 3 your usually ok if both go for a simultaneous attack.

[Turin]

On a simultaneous attack, the giant can afford to bleed of attack dice to gain initiative.  With a strength of 20, getting one sucess on the attack will still cause a very damaging wound.

Also, the giant should never be defensive unless he just received a pretty bad wound.  Gamewise it doe not make sense, and something as powerful as a giant would not take a defensive stance against something human sized.

[Sir Mathodius Black]

Yes but if you strike first on the sim attack and put all of your dice into the attack, assuming you have a fairly nasty weapon such as a greatsword of flail or some such thing, you can take him down.  Im not saying, however, that this is a sure fired way, or even a decently reliable way to do this.  You still need a decent amount of luck but it can be done.