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If your weapon can [[thr]]ust for [[imp]]aling damage, you can instead swing it so that the tip pierces and rips across your target laterally. This is called a Tip Slash. Treat it as a cutting attack for all purposes: wounding modifiers, [[Injury Tolerance]], etc. It can be useful when impaling damage doesn't affect your target much!

A Tip Slash is an attack at full skill, distinct from other attacks listed on the weapon table. For the purpose of [[Targeted Attacks]] and [[Combinations]], it's a different basic attack from "[[Thr]]ust" or "[[Sw]]ing." [[Cut]]ting damage equals the weapon's [[imp]]aling damage, at -2. [[Weapon quality]] affects this normally. Where the rules distinguish between thrusts and swings (e.g., parrying unarmed), a Tip Slash is a swing, despite using thrust damage.

A Tip Slash uses the weapon's current maximum reach. If holding the weapon in a grip that permits two or more different attacks, use the longest reach. [[Parry]] and [[ST]] are unaffected.

''Examples:'' A Tip Slash using a [[dagger]] ([[thr]]ust-1 [[imp]]aling) inflicts [[thr]]ust-3 [[cut]]ting at reach [[C]]. A Tip Slash with a fine-quality [[rapier]] ([[thr]]ust+2 [[imp]]aling) does [[thr]]ust [[cut]]ting at [[reach]] 2. A Tip Slash with a long spear held in two hands ([[thr]]ust+3 [[imp]]aling) delivers [[thr]]ust+1 [[cut]]ting at reach 2 or 3, depending on how you hold it.

[[Category:Martial Arts]]
[[Category:Combat]]