The knife has a nice looking ‘puncture’ (ignore armour) alternative attack but i’ve never seen anyone’s Lets Play showing someone equip this weapon (weapon swapping doesn’t seem to be popular at all so far), and in the combat demo i’ve never chosen to use it, even though I make sure always to give them to people if they don’t already have a back-up weapons.
Problem seems to be the 4AP cost to swap weapons makes it pointless to swap to it, as you might just land a hit with that billhook next turn…maybe.
Therefore, why not then give the knfe a second special ability, which allows you to equip it for less (or no) AP? This would be akin to simply dropping your heavier weapon to grapple your opponent if that’ll give you an advantage. Perhaps couple this with a reduction in the AP for actually using the knife to reflect its ease of use and to allow many stabs!
It might also be cool if it were to give you some kind of temporary ‘executioner’ or ‘opportunist’ bonus whereby if your opponent is not just overwhelmed, but totally swamped, then you might get a substantial to-hit bonus, to simulate you just dodging in while he’s facing off against someone else, allowing you to give him a nasty cut causing ‘bleeding’ that’ll quickly weaken him. If he were weakened this ‘opportunistic’ cut might be too the throat or, worse:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollock_dagger
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