OgreBattle wrote:Salah is stronger. Marrion is braver and more attractive. Short Round is more skilled in combat, but lacks default weapons.
So is the optimal way to play to give the child Indie's gun and have him kill people?
No. Because shooting requires you to look up Hit locations on a chart, and even a hit to the head with the highest possible wound level isn't automatically disabling.
Your best bet is actually to give Short Round a blackjack. You don't check for hit locations when brawling with blunt weapons (brawling with sharp weapons is a bit confusing), so any injury counts at a head injury. A blackjack automatically increases damage by 2 levels, and there are only 3 damage levels.
So give Short Round a blackjack and if he hits at all (80 or lower without modifiers) then the target's attributes are all automatically cut in half and he has to make a strength check, at half strength, to stay conscious.
Wu Han is actually better, though, with 84 Prowess. He's the best fighter in the game.
The fact that Short Round knows karate also makes him the only character who can make disarm attacks, and other magical tea party special combat actions without penalty. Which is nice.