Weapons & Armours

Name	Type	Power	Handling	Description	Target attributes
Strength	Toughness	Health	Speed	Agility	Alertness
Lucky stick	Blunt	16	8	It's a staff with a coconut or a pineapple tied on one end. It's also useful during the third half.	1	4	1	1	1	4
Knucklecleaver	Slash	12	12	A cleaver with a… quite unusual handle. Designed by mistake, mass-manufactured as a prank.	4	1	4	1	1	1
Pointy spikey	Pierce	8	16	Stolen from a trap in an ancient Persian dungeon.	1	1	1	4	4	1

Name	Type	Protection	Fit	Description
Blunt	Slash	Pierce
Hardened wind	Light	8	12	12	16	It's wind, pressed so hard it becomes wearable as a light armour. Just be careful to remove it after the match, or you might catch a cold.
Wet notebooks	Scale	12	8	16	12	Used notebooks, held together with glue and hope. The recycling industry has never been so happy!
Inflatable rock	Mail	12	16	8	12	There's a warehouse full of these things.
Live tortoises	Plate	16	12	12	8	Yes, live tortoises, walking all over your body, protecting you with their shells. Not terribly effective, nor comfy to wear… but in such an outfit, you'll be the star of the party.

During the Tactics step, every Brawler will be assigned one Weapon and one Armour. Here's what they do.
You can also find here both a general and a detailed explaination of how the Brawl actually works.

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Weapons & Armours, values

Weapons

Power: together with Brawler's Strength, it determines the damage inflicted, and the chances that KOs are injuries.
Handling: together wish Brawler's Speed, the higher it is, the less initiative you will spend for each attack (hence you'll make more attacks overall), and it will also be easier to land a successfull rebound; also, together with Brawler's Health, it determines who attacks first in case of two Brawlers with the same initiative (this means that it determines who attacks first in a match, since they all start with the same initiative!).
Target attributes: every weapon will tend to damage some attributes more than others.
Type: this determines which Protection value will the opponent's Armour use.

Armours

Protection: depending on the attacker Weapon's Type, one of these values will be used to oppose Weapon's Power, together with Brawler's Toughness.
Fit: this slows down opponent's attacks and reduces injury length (both together with Brawler's Health); it is also used to oppose rebound attempts (together with Brawler's Speed).
Type: Brawlers will gain skills in the Armour category they wear. This doesn't happen yet.

Brawl, general

The Brawl is split in three phases: lineup, tactics, execution.

Lineup

Every Team will have to set up its lineup for the upcoming Match… that is: select 9 non-injured Brawlers. During this step, lineups are secret.
That's it, not a big deal.
This is fairly easy: most of the times, you just want to pick your 9 strongest Brawlers.
Currently, the deadline for this step is Tuesday at lunchtime.

Tactics

This is the most important step: every Team will have to set up the tactics for the upcoming Match. During this step everyone's lineup is revealed (and is no longer modifiable), while the tactics themselves are secret.
For every Brawler in your Team's lineup, you'll have to select:

Tactic proper & target: every turn, these will determine which opponent will be attacked by this Brawler.
Weapon: a good Weapon will help the Brawler wound its opponent, and will also allow to attack faster and before others.
Armour: a good Armour will help fend off opponents' attacks and slow them down, and alleviate both the damage and the injuries suffered.

Currently, the deadline for this step is Friday at dinnertime.

Execution

Every Team's tactics is revealed and can no longer be modified.
This step is fully automated: the Brawl will take place, with every Brawler hitting its opponent based on the previously selected tactics, using the selected Weapon and Armour.
The Brawl will go on until one Team is completely annihilated, or until time runs out.
Currently, this will take place one hour after the tactics' deadline.

Brawl, details

This is how the Brawl algorithm works, step by step.
You are absolutely NOT required to fully understand this in order to play successfully. It might help some dedicated Brawlers, though.

Preparation:

All Brawlers start with the same initiative.

Loop:

The Brawler with the most initiative acts. In case of a draw, the active Brawler is the one with the highest Health*Handling.
The active Brawler picks its target according to its tactics.
The active Brawler spends a variable amount of initiative, based on its Speed+Handling vs. the target's Health+Fit.
Values are between 8, 16, and 24.
There's a "to hit" roll, based on the active's Agility+Weapon Skill vs. the target's Alertness+Armour Skill.
Currently "Weapon and Armour Skills" are not implemented.
Outcomes:
- Fumble: the active Brawler fumbles, and the target Brawler attempts to hit it instead (rebound).
- Miss: nothing happens.
- Hit: the target is hit (+1 wounds).
- Crit: the target is critically hit (+2 wounds).
If the target is hit:
- An attribute of the target is picked for every wound, based on the attacker Weapon's "Target attributes".
- The damage amount will be a percentage of the attacker's original Strength, between 28.1%, 53.1%, and 78.1%.
- This percentage is based on attacker's Strength+Power, versus target's Toughness+Protection.
- That value is immediately taken from the target's attribute. If the attribute is now equal or less than 0, the target is KO.
- If the target is KO'd, a new roll will determine whether it's an injury or not. This too is based on Strength+Power vs. Toughness+Protection. In case of a critical hit, the chances of it being an injury are increased.
If the "to hit" roll ended in a fumble, the target Brawler will attempt to counter-attack the active with a "rebound" roll, based on the target's Speed+Handling vs. the active's Speed+Fit.
Outcomes:
- 2*Miss: nothing happens.
- Hit: the active Brawler is hit (+1 wounds).
- Crit: the active Brawler is critically hit (+2 wounds).

Aftermath:

If a Brawler has been KO'd, there will be an "injury roll", based on the average of its attributes vs. its Health+Fit.
This means that your injuries will tend to be shorter if your Health is higher than your other attributes, and vice-versa.
If it was seriously injured during the match, the outcomes are:
- Nothing: he's so healthy or lucky, that he immediately gets back in shape!
- Minor: minor injury.
- 2*Major: major injury.
If instead the Brawler was just KO'd during the match, the outcomes are much less dangerous:
- 3*Nothing: well, nothing happens.
- Minor: it managed to get a minor injury anyway…
Duration depends on the severity of the injury:
- Major injuries last between 7 and 18 days (between 6 and 15 in the feeder).
- Minor injuries last between 1 and 7 days (between 1 and 6 in the feeder).
After 100 total days of injuries, there's a significant chance that the Brawler will decide to retire.

(this doesn't happen yet)

Weapons