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Multiple Damage to Multiple Targets
Correction, p 119
On page 119 KAP are three references to striking multiple targets but doing damage to only one of them.
I was a bit shocked to read that, because that's not how I play it. If someone divides their attack and manages to strike multiple targets, they do full damage to each of them.
I even went back to my copy of the submitted manuscript. Whew, I'm not entirely nuts. None of those three entries on page 119 were in my original submitted manuscript.
In fact, when I did the maths to make this game I tried to make it so that a knight could ride through a crowd of infantry slashing right and left, and disabling a man with each blow.
When your character is housed in 14-18 point armor, it is even easier. Georges Duby, a keenly insightful scholar whose works are always good to read, suggests that it was exactly this impunity of the knight over the normal man that created and guaranteed the knight's sense of class and superiority.
Combat with equals is different, of course, and done with Honor deserving of the class.
