I wanted to add, without editing the last entry. It's long enough as it is. That Mad Dog wanted to know if there was any way to flank using a missile weapon. The answer turned out to be no, according to a rule designed to give more weight to the melee fight, contrary to known historical data. I pointed that out, but made several errors as I got to know the rules better, with the helpful hints from several other posts. Once I realized that flanking was a restricted term solely used in melee, I was appalled by such usage. I was further appalled the more I read about the archer skills and feats, by how weak the archer appeared to be. Some of the postings made it blatenly clear this was "intentional" in order to give the melee fighter more of an edge in combat.
For whatever reason, many players of Conan believe that the hack and slash of attack by Conan is what makes Conan, Conan. Therefore any attack threatening that perception has to be "dumbed" down. Archers, as such in this game, become weak and not as effective as the melee fighter. The Mongols and Huns would have found that particularly hilarious. I will point out that these guys were "mounted" archers, and so had mobility on their side, enabling them to get at the "flank" of the enemy more easily. Archers in the Hyborian Age do not seem to have this ability to a heightened degree, and therefore suffer the penalty of being approachable by the melee fighter. So, not having a flanking attack just cripples the archer unnessarily. But, I play a large variety of "realistic" games, so find this type of restriction galling. Oh, but this is a fantasy game (so what RPG game isn't?). And it would be too hard to create a realistic game. Excuses, excuses, excuses...
But most of you seem quite happy to play the rules and not ever questions the rules cause they "work just fine for me." Of course they do. Chess works just fine, but it doesn't come close to reality. You can play chess if you like, I want to play an RPG.
Oh, I didn't insult anybody did I? Or am I being too sarcastic? Or am I too (insert appellation here).