Any blow that misses a target who is not Dodging or Ducking has been either weapon or shield parried.

There is a chance that even parried blows may cut through a shield or knock aside a weapon to injure the target.

A shield reduces the Impact Damage from a stabbing attack by 18 and, from a slashing attack.

by five times the shield weight.

Reduce a slashing or stabbing blow's Impact Damage by four times the weight of the parrying weapon for a one-handed weapon parry.

and eight times the weight of the weapon for a two-handed weapon parry.

If the Impact Damage of the blow after correction for Glancing (section 10.2) on PL armor exceeds the above limits, the blow has penetrated or knocked aside the parrying device.

The remaining Impact Damage after subtraction of the above figures is then used to determine damage to the target.

Example:

Haft brings his battleaxe down on a brigand who parries with a short sword.

Haft's blow delivered 26 ID points.

Haft rolls a 28 for the glancing roll.

With a cutting blow the glancing table is entered with a 28 + 10 = 38 against PL armor and gives a G factor of .35.

So Haft's blow does .35 x 26 = 9 ID.

The short sword parry stops 4 x 1.1 = 4.4 = 4 ID so 9 -4 = 5 ID continues through the parry and hits the brigand.

Damage from this blow would follow the normal combat rules for a blow of 5 ID.

10.05-cutting_through_shields_and_parries.txt