Clansmen look much cooler though.

@Whafrog: it says in the SBG faq that every model comes with a hand-weapon unless specifically stated other-wise (which kinda makes elven blades nothing special) correct me if I'm wrong, though.

Right, but for clansmen it specifically states they *only* have their 2H weapon, and are otherwise unarmed.

Clansmen look much cooler though.

...Also, as Clansmen of Lamedon will generally have a higher fight, so using a 2H weapon effectively just makes your FV lower than theirs.

This isn't really a good way of saying it. If winning a Fight was calculated by F + 1d6 then yes, but the Fight only comes into play on a tie. Meanwhile, the -1 is all the time. So the only time your higher Fight will have an effect is if you tie because of the -1. If you roll a 4 and your enemy rolls a 4, you get the -1 and loose the Fight. If you roll a 5 and your enemy rolls a 4, you get the -1 and tie, and you may win now via that higher Fight but you could still have a roll off.

Look at how many times in a game a Fight comes down to a tie, regardless of -1 or not. You'll see it's only a fraction when compared to the number of times you roll to determine who wins a Fight. I wouldn't risk a -1 for anything more than a small number of "shock troop" units and then only if I have a reasonable chance of teaming them up with some normal units.

I was just pressuming you would be fighting the typical FV3 guy. I probably didn't word it very well, though.

On another note, I always thought it was weird how Fight value rarely, if ever, factored into things.

If the models are uneven, it's 16.7% of the time

But yeah, I wish the Fight score also reflected how many enemies you could take on.