Bash

Bash or Shield Bash is a type of attack done with a Shield. As opposed to a Shield Rush which is a type of Slam (HPxSpeed based damage) the Bash uses Striking ST.
In 2008 Kromm said it doesn't suffer the -4 DX for off-hand use as shields assume off-hand use http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?t=38490
29 November 2007 at http://forums.sjgames.com/showpost.php?p=494152&postcount=13
:A shield bash is Reach 1 for the same reason why a rapier is Reach 1, 2: you hold it forward, toward the foe. And this logic is the same as the logic that gives a point of movement on a retreat: you could be anywhere in your hex, so that yard on a map needn't be more than a few extra inches in reality. It isn't perfect logic, but it seems to work well if you actually game out combat with the system rather than look at it as an abstract entity.
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