Gangs of Rome: Bases und Nahkampf

GoR Combat hint.
BLOOD style combat effects an opposing fighters flesh.
BRAWL style combat effects an opposing fighters position on the field.

OUT FOR BLOOD…
Blood style combat is the „default“ combat style in all Gangs of Rome’s hand to hand combat.
Unless a fighter states otherwise before rolling attack dice, we assume that any attack made in hand to hand is in the blood style.
Blood style attacks focus on potentially causing the most amount of damage to an opposing fighters „flesh“ total.
Damage to a fighter’s flesh score will go on to reduce their movement and agility.
The number of attacks and the way they charge an enemy will remain fixed throughout the game, however, as any fighter facing their imminent death will find the strength to engage a nearby enemy and give it all they possibly can.

BRAWLING FOR POSITION.
Before rolling dice to attack while engaged in hand to hand, a player must declare they will be using a Brawl style attack if that is their intent.
Brawl style attacks are not repelled using opposing fighters defence, escaping a Brawl attack is directly related to fighters current Agility, which in turn corresponds to how much damage a gang member may already have suffered to their Flesh total.
Simply put, the weaker a fighter becomes, the more likely they are to lose a brawl style encounter and be pushed or thrown from their current base to base position with their foe.
This forced movement can have various effects from mild to catastrophic depending on the terrain surrounding the melee itself.
First and foremost, what a successful brawl first achieves, is the separation of fighters.
A more significant risk to the thrown fighter, however, is what surrounds them when this „forced separation“ occurs.
Being thrown into a solid wall, cart, or cluster of sharp pottery shards, would be the least of their problems.

What about being thrown off the high roof of a building to the hard cobblestone streets below?
What about being thrown into the boiling lava of Vesuvius as chunks of the great city of Pompeii drift on a burning ocean of disaster?
What about being thrown into a wall of spikes in some back alley Gladiator pit?

We have designed Gangs of Rome with cinematic drama utmost in mind. Take your seats for the show is about to begin!
Here at Footsore, we cannot wait for you to see what wonders we have gathered, you won’t be disappointed, and this we can assure you, is only the beginning.
Gangs of Rome is no mere game it’s a system, designed to grow and grow, with the help and guidance of the citizens and Senators that will make up the future of our community.

Gangs of Rome is coming…

Natürlich spielt es sich in Rome am besten mit passenden Würfeln. Das denkt sich wohl auch Footsore Miniatures: