Just by sheer chance, I had turned to a page in the 1E DMG (pg. 228), and found, under "Melee" the following:
"Melee - Combat with hand-held weapons between more than two figures. This is distinguished from list combat, which is between two opponents, and missile combat, which is at a distance and involves thrown or propelled weapons."
"List" combat? I've never seen this before, and probably never noticed it until yesterday. It seems to be referring to older, Chainmail style war-gaming rules, I assume. Has anyone else ever come across "list combat" mentioned elsewhere?
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Hazarding a guess as to what it IS, I think it refers to jousting. I do remember the word list being involved with it, as you 'move up the lists' as you keep winning.
But that is just a guess, I suspect you are correct about it just being a left over from an earlier game that wasn't caught in the editing.
Mira wrote: ↑Fri May 09, 2014 6:12 am
Pretty sure I never saw anything about it either.
Hazarding a guess as to what it IS, I think it refers to jousting. I do remember the word list being involved with it, as you 'move up the lists' as you keep winning.
But that is just a guess, I suspect you are correct about it just being a left over from an earlier game that wasn't caught in the editing.
The lists was the term for the area for jousting..
I've never seen this before, and probably never noticed it until yesterday. It seems to be referring to older, Chainmail style war-gaming rules, I assume. Has anyone else ever come across "list combat" mentioned elsewhere?
