Keep in mind that sometimes damage weapon is THE way to go- especially if the attacking weapon is smaller than the parrying weapon. Sure there are other CMs that work (trip, blind, disarm, etc), but damage weapon has a certain finality to it- with disarm the victim of the cm can pick up the weapon again, tripped opponents get up, blind opponents eventually can see- but a broken weapon is done. Especially 2h weapons. In my groups games, one handed weapon weilders have used the damage weapon CM to overcome much better equiped opponents (at least weapon damage wise). A Greathammer weilding Troll can be reduced to unarmed attacks after two damage weapons attempts by a 1h wep weilding human, one a critical 1h attack vrs successful parry (that does not let any damage through anyway), and one succesful attack vrs unsuccesful parry! Ta-Da! The Troll is evading, or parrying his arms to ribbons, until he can connectwith a right cross that knocks your head off of your shoulders. Still, I'll take my chances against an unarmed Troll over one with a greathammer anyday...
