Expulsion

[svenlein]

In expulsion it says to refer to beat for an example, should expulsion act more like beat?
Ex.
I am in a rapier duel with someone else with a rapier.  He attacks me, I do an expulsion and succeed.  I gain initiative right?  Is the only benefit that I gain is that when I attack it will be harder for him to do sim block strike, or ignoring attack, or stealing initiative attack?  It seems me doing an expulsion on his attack has given me almost no benefit.

Scott

[Jake Norwood]

He also loses 1 cp for every die in your margin. So if your Parry beats his attack by, say, 4 dice, than he loses 4 dice from his pool--if it's empty, then it comes out of the next exchange.

Jake

[svenlein]

Jake that is how i thing expulsion should be, but in the rules it says "If the parry is effective, then each die in the defender's success margin causes a -1 CP penalty against thrusting attacks to the defender in the following exchange."
should this say:
"If the parry is effective, then each die in the defender's success margin causes a -1 CP penalty to the attackers combat pool."

Do expulsions make the expulsed weapon not usable in the next exchange like beats?

Scott

[Jake Norwood]

Hmmm... Your rewording is correct. I'll add that to the errata (one of these days). However it does not put the other weapon out of commission.

Jake