Expulsion

[GreatWolf]

My apologies if this has already been addressed, but I am confused by the expulsion maneuver.  If I'm reading it correctly, on a successful defense, the individual performing the expulsion inflicts a -1 CP penalty (per success in the margin) against his opponent for his opponent's next attack, if it is a thrust.  However, does this make any sense?  If the defense is successful, shouldn't the individual doing the expulsion gain the initiative and therefore be attacking?  Can someone enlighten me?

Seth Ben-Ezra
Great Wolf

[Jake Norwood]

I got you, Seth.

The expulsioner does gain the initiative, and the thruster has just lost some CP. Here's you post:

...on a successful defense, the individual performing the expulsion inflicts a -1 CP penalty (per success in the margin) against his opponent for his opponent's next attack, if it is a thrust.

And here's me re-writing your post so that it's right:

on a successful defense, the individual performing the expulsion inflicts a -1 CP penalty (per success in the margin) against his opponent for his own next attack, if it is a thrust.

I hope that helps. This stuff can be hard to explain!

Jake

[GreatWolf]

Lightbulb.  Thanks, Jake.

Seth Ben-Ezra
Great Wolf

[Enoch]

Heh, I ran into a differant kind of problem with Expulsion.  I have no clue what its supposed to be.  What does it look like?  I didn't use it in my more recent game because I didn't know how to explain it.

-Joshua

[toli]

I always imagined it as a sort of hard (as in strong, not difficult) parry.  He swings, you smack his sword out of the way good and hard so it makes it more difficult for him to parry in return....

NT

[Jake Norwood]

actually it's a really soft parry... as he thrusts in you thrust back, displacing your hilt towards his blade so that you hit him while he's still thrusting at you. It's a kind of thing seen modern sport fencing very often, and that's where I took the name.

Jake