What do you mean by the term "melee"
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DdraigGwyn
Cymru
The word is defined as
"noun:
a confused hand-to-hand fight or struggle among several people."
So, the key elements are hand-to-hand (not ranged) and multiple people (not one-to-one).
However the term "melee weapon" can be applied to anything that could be used in a melee, even if the current fight is one-on-one.
"noun:
a confused hand-to-hand fight or struggle among several people."
So, the key elements are hand-to-hand (not ranged) and multiple people (not one-to-one).
However the term "melee weapon" can be applied to anything that could be used in a melee, even if the current fight is one-on-one.
MetalHeadManiac
Aela's TRUE husband
Step 1: be within range of smacking your opponents with something heavy or sharp.
Step 2: Smack the living crap out of them with said item
Step 2: Smack the living crap out of them with said item
Morgan
Well-Known Member
For me, the word has always had the connotion of clashing masses, so the definition DdraigGwyn gave is more in line with that. In period literature, the "mêlée" event at a tourney was a hand-to-hand fight between all contenders at once, with the last one not yielded, ruled out, or injured too badly to continue awarded the prize. The word itself, although borrowed from French, can actually be linked to the same proto-Indo-European root as the English word "mix." RP games tend to use it as the opposite of ranged, regardless of the numbers involved though.
ColleenG
When in doubt, follow the fox.
ColleenG
When in doubt, follow the fox.
Ah, I see. That always led to disatrous results when I did that. Now I hang back and let them all kill themselves, and occasionally pick them off with an arrow.
Morgan
Well-Known Member
If you're shooting you're not in melee, under any definition. Your companions are, but not you.
ColleenG
When in doubt, follow the fox.
yeah, I think I like it that way.
ColleenG
When in doubt, follow the fox.
sticky runes
Well-Known Member
In most video games it means close quarter combat, for example hitting or stabbing enemies with short range weapons when they are close enough to touch you, instead of using long range attacks such as arrows, guns, projectiles or spells from a distance.
Daelon DuLac
How do you backstab a Dragon?
It's fun! I like to drop it at the cave bar up by Markarth and watch from the entrance balcony. Always a good show and there's a chair to sit in to! Of course you've got to deal with the last man standing and any late comers, but you can solve that by going downstairs and having a seat after casting to the entrance balcony. Ah... good times... good times...
original_funk
Iron is coming
Well it's traditionally meant to mean a hand-to-hand fight with more than two people involved, all fighting against each other. I think in most gaming contexts it's when you use any melee weapon, which in Skyrim are the swords, daggers, axes, maces and warhammers, as opposed to bows, destruction magic and the shouts which inflict damage from a range.
