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I've flicked through BRP Rome and Cthulhu Invictus, neither have any stats for soldiers that I saw.

sadly it doesn't, but it does have is a lot more items, which is great.

not sure where i implied i couldn't do it, just pointing it out.

Also BRP Rome looks great, thanks.

i generally post the roll results first, then write fluff for it below.

yeah, i wanted to do it within regular human standards, since the game i run doesn't use supernatural/magical/etc. basically no skills over 80% for anyone in game, it's a straight historical army/navy game.

Also where would i find this? just a quick google search?

WEll now that i actually understand the system well enough, i was wondering if there were any templates for classical/hellenistic era NPCs/enemies. Mostly soldiers, since that is what the game i run is in, the army/navy. i know i use a rather modified pirate from the core book for the enemy pirate captains (since the most pirates were poorly trained farmers and such) Wondering if they have any for regular army peoples from a historical standpoint

In your example, you roll your shield skill, and if you roll a success or better, the attack is blocked.

The rules mean to say that if you are armed with a weapon or shield that CAN parry attacks, you would roll that weapon's (or shield's) respective skill to parry. This is the simplest way to do it, and there are options that further detail the system, such as having separate skills for a weapon's attacks and parries (i.e. Sword Attack 75% and Sword Parry 30%).

Note the Attack/Defense Matrix that factors in different results (such as a Successful attack vs a Special Parry) on page 193 of the BGB.

Hope this helps.

OH! crap i feel stupid, it was so simple. Thanks man!

well i'm trying to do my first round of combat with BRP, and I find that the rules for parry are horribly explained,

If your character is armed with a weapon or shield

that could parry an attack, he or she may roll against

the relevant weapon skill to parry the blow. You do

not need to announce this beforehand, and it is done

in reaction to a successful attack roll from another

player or non-player character.

This tells me nothing,

what do i do if a character with 75% shield skill and a half shield, tries to parry an attack from an NPC with a hand axe and 40% axe skill? The attack was a success.