Maybe this is a silly question, but my friends say that a fighter is weak without a tactic. Is that true and when it is have you examples for tactics? (Level 2 Fighter)
Ummm. Run up next to the bad guy and hit it with your hitting stick of choice?🤷♂️
Unless you’re ranged. Then stay back from the bad guy and shoot it with your shooting tool of choice.
Fighters are not exactly subtle. Maybe if you’re a battle master, you should consider your maneuvers, but 9/10 times it’s still going to come down to hitting the bad guys.
Don't forget position to block the baddies from reaching the more squishy members of the party. The only thing hard about playing a fighter, is staying alive given how much damage anyone entering melee ends up taking.
What is the original poster's definition of a tactic?
To minimize your frontage but maximize the enemy frontage is a tactic. Always keep your shield pointed toward the weapon hand of the opponent is a tactic. Keep your feet mobile to shift position or the opposite keep feet planted to prevent from any going around you.
Maybe this is a silly question, but my friends say that a fighter is weak without a tactic. Is that true and when it is have you examples for tactics? (Level 2 Fighter)
Ummm. Run up next to the bad guy and hit it with your hitting stick of choice?🤷♂️
Unless you’re ranged. Then stay back from the bad guy and shoot it with your shooting tool of choice.
Fighters are not exactly subtle.
Maybe if you’re a battle master, you should consider your maneuvers, but 9/10 times it’s still going to come down to hitting the bad guys.
Don't forget position to block the baddies from reaching the more squishy members of the party. The only thing hard about playing a fighter, is staying alive given how much damage anyone entering melee ends up taking.
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Have played every version of the game since Basic (original Red Box Set), except that abomination sometimes called 4e.
What is the original poster's definition of a tactic?
To minimize your frontage but maximize the enemy frontage is a tactic. Always keep your shield pointed toward the weapon hand of the opponent is a tactic. Keep your feet mobile to shift position or the opposite keep feet planted to prevent from any going around you.
Thanks for your replies. I will choose the battlemaster and will try to be a Tank for the group. Also because we don't have a barbarian.
Fighters being tactical ????
I never saw a fighter acting like this....
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