Combat Flow

1. Roll initiative: Wits + Alertness, diff 4 - the number of sucesses is the segment on which you act
2. Rage: If people are going to spend rage, then they say so. People work out what segments they go on.
   eg: If wits+alertness gets 4 successes, and the person has three actions, they go on 4 2 and 0.
3. Fastest first: The person with the highest sucesses goes first. Simultaneous actions happen simultaneously.
   1. If they are performing an attack, roll the appropriate dice. Hitting things is Dex + Brawl, hitting things with other things is Dex + Melee and guns is Dex + Firearms.
   2. If the attack suceeds, roll damage. Difficulty is always a 6. Reroll 10s.
   3. Thing hit soaks (Stamina or Gnosis, diff 6) and rerolls 10s too.
   4. Non-combat actions (jumping, fleeing, whatever.) resolved
4. Next person: Move down the segments of a round until everyone is finished.

Complications

• Splitting: You can split your dice pool into as many actions as you have points in wits. If you are doing different actions, you have the smallest dice pool only to use.
  eg: Tom has a wits of 2, so he can split his dice pool once (into two pools). He wants to both hit someone and be able to dodge. He has a dex of 3, a brawl of 3, and a dodge of 1. His hitting pool is 6. His dodging pool is 4. He thus has 4 dice to split between hitting and dodging.

  Splitting allows you to do two things in one segment. However, it becomes correspondingly harder. The first action is at +1 and the second at +2 difficulty
  eg: Tom splits his pool evenly, 2 into each action. He swings a punch at difficulty 6 (5 + 1) and then tries to dodge a blow at diff 8 (6 + 2).

  You can avoid this added difficulty by spliting over two segments.
  eg: tom has rolled an initiative of 3. He splits his actions as above, but opts to punch on 3 and dodge on 1. Both actions are at the standard difficulty, and still roll 2 dice in each.

  Combined with rage, this can make you a combat nightmare.
  eg: Vilna the Umbral Ahroun has a dex of 4 (5 in crinos) and a brawl of 3. He has a wits of 4. He rolls 9 on the initiative. He spends a point of rage, and thus has 5 actions. He goes on 9, 7, 5, 3 and 1. He opts to split each action down a segment. He now has an action on 9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 and 0, each rolling 4 dice.

  Any resulting dice roll is made at the full number of dice - if any of Vilna's blows connects, he rolls full strength, not split for damage.

  Any action may be split in order to take two actions at once, not just combat actions. The only disadvantage is having less dice for each action

• Special maneuvers. See book.