Lucerne

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Lucerne

Name	Damage	Critical	Range	Qualities
Greathammer	3	2	Reach 1	Disorient-2; Stun-3; Set Defence; Uniweldy; Crushing

Reach-1:

• A weapon with Range: Reach-1 adds +d to Melee Attacks made against targets with non-Reach weapons.

• A weapon with Range: Reach cannot be used to full effect when Engaged, instead it uses the profile for a Staff, except that it gains the Unwieldy trait.

Disorient-2:

• This weapon can spend aa on a successful melee attack to inflict +d on the target's next Skill Check.

Stun-3:

• This weapon can spend aaa from an attack any number of times to inflict 1 Strain each time. The attack does not need to be successful to do this.

Set Defence:

• When a charging enemy ends their Charge Move within the range of one or more fighters with Set Defence not engaged with any other enemies, one of those fighters makes a Melee Attack targeting that enemy. This attack gains +d for each other unengaged fighter with Set Defence within range of that enemy at any point during their Charge Move.

Unwieldy:

• This weapon is less ideal for defending against attacks. Decrease the difficulty of any melee attacks targeting the equipped model by -d, to a minimum of dd.

Crushing:

• This weapon can spend an additional a when it scores a Critical Hit to score a Crushing Critical Hit instead.

Lucerne in Military Units

When equipped by a Military Unit a lucerne is one of many kinds of Polearm, adding the benefits of Reach (+d to Attacks against non-reach enemies; +d to Defence checks against non-reach enemies) to its Melee Attacks as well as adding +dd to Defence checks against Cavalry Charge attacks.

Potential Improvements

• Bec-de-Corbin: Some Lucerne can be crafted with a secondary Military Pick built into the reverse of the head. They may make choose to make attacks with the secondary weapon at any time but such attacks are made at -d. The pick-head gains the Reach-1 quality from this weapon.