Defending Against Attacks from the Back

Defending Against Attacks from the Back is a rule cited by Kromm in 2013 saying it does not impede Blocks against Runaround Attacks: http://forums.sjgames.com/showpost.php?p=1677971&postcount=7
:Running around mandates that the person doing it choose a side to run around; the fact that he ends up in a "neutral" back hex – one that favors neither side – is totally irrelevant. The defense is assumed to occur as the attacker passes along the chosen side and not when he arrives in back. This is an abstraction necessitated by the turn system. Use Defending Against Attacks from the Side – the attacker can pick weapon side and face a parry at -2 without DB, or shield side and face a block at -2 with DB, and this is the entirety of the effect on defense. He isn't truly attacking from the back, so you can completely ignore Defending Against Attacks from the Back.
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