Game-aids v2 (English)

[Arthadan]

Hi,

I've just noticed the description of the Counterattack (riposte in French) hasn't been corrected. It says:

"When a character attacks this character with a Melee Attack, after the attack is resolved, this character may immediately attack that character with a free unarmed Melee Attack rolling  instead of their normal dice."

Now, a Unarmed Melee Attack means it attack power is reduced by 2 (Heroes Rulebook p. 9).

But the French description of Counterattack says it's an attack "sans bonus d'arme", that is without using any weapon but also not having the attack power reduced by 2 since it's not *unarmed*.

Am I wrong or the English game-aids need to be corrected? 

 

 

[Ellou]

Yes, it's indeed a poor choice of translation. It should have been written as in French, i.e "with a free Melee attack (without any weapon bonus)...". To translate "an attack without weapon bonus", they wrote "an unarmed attack", which in Conan has a different meaning.

You don't have to suffer the -2 malus from unarmed attack (otherwise it would indeed have been a very poor ability).