Light Mace

A light mace is a small mace, usually with a simple wooden handle and a metal head. It is small, light and easy to carry.
Light Mace

Name	Damage	Critical	Range	Qualities
Light Mace	2	4	Engaged	Light; Stun-4; Crushing

Light:

• This weapon can be equipped very quickly. It can be equipped as part of another manouevre during the turn, or by spending a Story Point outside of the turn.

• This weapon can be used to make an off-hand attack as part of an Attack action. If the other weapon is also a Light weapon then this attack adds +d, otherwise both attacks add +d.

• This weapon is less ideal for defending against attacks. Decrease the difficulty of any melee attacks targeting the equipped model by -d, to a minimum of dd.

Stun-4:

• This weapon can spend aaaa from an attack any number of times to inflict 1 Strain each time. The attack does not need to be successful to do this.

Crushing:

• This weapon can spend an additional a when it scores a Critical Hit to score a Crushing Critical Hit instead.

Light Maces in Military Units

When equipped by a Military Unit a light mace is one of many kinds of Hand Weapon, it has no effect on the unit's fighting capabilities.

Potential Improvements

• Spiked Flanges: Sometimes referred to as a 'morningstar', a mace can have spikes affixed to its head. It changes its Stun quality to Stun-5, gains the Pierce-1 quality and replaces its Crushing critical hits with Piercing Critical Hits.