Body Attack
This action is considered a Body Attack; it can be performed with an appropriate weapon using either STR or DEX.
Typically Body Attacks are resisted with a Body Defense Check.
Actions with the Body Attack Trait
- Aim: Target a specific enemy that you can see clearly; if your next action this turn is a Body Ranged Attack against that target, you can roll with Finesse instead reduce the range increment by
1
(min0
). - Charge: Move
Movement + 1
hexes in a straight line, followed by a Melee Body Attack with Muscles instead (you still pay the AP cost for that action). This can be used for a "tackle" if the Shove Attack Action is chosen, in which case a+3
CM is granted to the attacker. - Disarm: Body Attack against Muscles or Finesse. Requires at least one Shift to succeed.
- Feint: Body Attack against Tenacity. Causes Distracted. Crit Shifts deal FP damage.
- Focused Strike: Spend 1 FP to perform a Strike with a +3 CM.
- Grapple: Body Attack against Evasiveness. Causes target to become Immobilized.
- Shove: Body Attack against Stance. Shoves opponent to the next hex in the incoming direction. A Shift can be used to apply the Prone condition.
- Strike: Body Attack against Body Defense. Deals VP damage. Crit Shifts deal extra VP damage.
- Stun: Body Attack against Body Defense. Causes Off-Guard. Crit Shifts deal VP damage.
- Trip: Body Attack against Stance. Causes opponent to be Prone. Shifts deal VP damage.