Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24901923-20150701220818/@comment-14909251-20150707234527

LiveandSound wrote:

........DA......you could have just told me that. Would have saved this whole confusion.

When I hear CQC, I imagine fighting at close range, because CQC means Close-Quarters Combat. It never specifies that it's Hand-to-Hand, only that it happens at close range.

As such that's why I kept insisting CR and Ruby are more than fine at close range. You could have just told me you thought CQC=Hand-to-Hand Combat. Well, I also don't think of an open forest or an open intersection empty of people as being close quarters. Even if it is what you would call close range, the fact is she has more than enough room to maneuver and can establish as much distance as she likes. The military generally defines it as involving short-range weaponry and close-up physical combat. Crescent Rose is a long-range weapon that is also a scythe, but a scythe isn't considered that great for close-up physical combat.

Ruby's usage of Crescent Rose at that range against multiple opponents usually still sort of uses it as a ranged weapon by taking advantage of her speed ability to get up close and strike fast before returning to a safer distance. It is a tactic that works fine in more open spaces, but probably would work much less effectively in a building and the gun mode is not gonna work too well there either. Even in an open space at close range she is able to do it because she is not caught unaware and is usually against weak opponents in the first place.