You can make this call when you hit a target with a non-Spear Heavy Weapon or your attack with such a weapon is blocked by a target’s shield.

Your target is knocked to the ground, and must touch either their butt or their shoulder to the ground before regaining their feet. If the terrain or situation renders this unsafe, they must either put a knee to the ground for at least 3 seconds or suffer the effects of a Repel call.

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Please use your best judgement when deciding how to take this Call. Ideally it should be a cinematic moment, being smashed by your enemy’s blow and falling to the ground for a moment before you stand back up heroically. However, there are some safety guidelines fo this Call:

• If there are a lot of people pressed tightly together around you then dropping to the ground even for a moment might be hazardous and leave you vulnerable to trampling, so use the take-a-knee option in that case.
• If you have a mobility limitation that makes going down or standing up difficult or dangerous, use the take-a-knee option.
• If there are a lot of objects projecting from the ground (rocks, tree limbs, stumps, cacti, fence posts, etc.) take a knee instead of dropping all the way to the ground.
• In wet, unstable, or prickly terrain you shouldn’t be making any unnecessary contact with the ground, so use the Repel option in that case.

If you do act out the full Crush effect and throw yourself to the ground, please be safe when you do so; don’t do it with so much energy that you hurt yourself in the fall, and always look where you’re going to land before you do it.

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