Same with closing though - you can't close on a spearman and use your shield to knock his spear aside, you have to use Evade to close the distance. As has been quoted before - "Hoplites, no dodging in the ranks!"Mikko Leho said:There would not be any downsides for charging if one could charge and parry on the same action. I see charging as a mad dash toward your enemy, an act of desperation rather than careful planning, to which the current rules correspond. I remember Guy Windsor, the founder of The School of European Swordsmanship, saying that charging would be quite suicidal for fencing like situations. Larger battles are a different matter.
Also, like I said earlier, charging jousters parry the enemy's lance all the time.