Great example of how people will find a way to exploit anything. Gotta wonder how a culture like that ever formed; I never played online, but in the boardgame campaign rules, shooting the legs off was the best way to get valuable salvage.

Just like in martial arts, if you’re not allowed to strike the opponent in the head, no-one uses helmets because helmets are heavy and uncomfortable. But that only applies in a competition with referees and rules etc. One of my favorite moments in the Modesty Blaise book Taste for Death is the scene where Modesty lures a much better fencer into believing they’re fencing by the rules, then kicks him in the nuts.

When you’re fighting for your life, go for the nuts. If you would lose to someone kicking you in ther nuts, wear a groin guard, rather than trusting them not to kick you in the nuts.

Sun Tzu would’ve kicked him in the nuts, too.

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