Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-27860585-20160227122451/@comment-25101690-20160520185156

Celeborn of Lothlorien wrote: In fighting against a standard orc I think a dwarf and an elf that have trained for the same amount of time end out nearly equal for the simple reason that while elves are a lot faster than dwarves, they're quite a lot weaker? Dwarves are generally heavy and strong. So say, in 2 seconds an elf has made 3-ish weaker stab or cut wounds and a Dwarf has swept his hammer only once but with that sweep just hammered in the face of his opponent. I think in a 1v1 against a single orc, an elf would clearly be superior. Combat is not primarily about hitting the enemy as hard as possible, but about hitting him at all. A duel between two trained fighters is in most cases a situation where both sides seek for an opening in the cover of the enemy. As soon as you wounded the enemy once, he will be weakened and shocked and you can easily use that to finish him off. Now you might say common orcs are no trained fighters, but in that case it's no combat but a slaughter, and an elf could kill the enemy with the first strike.

Please don't mix up the absolutely unrealistic MC combat system with reality. Reality has no hitpoints.

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