Shattered Kingdoms

Dirt kick always, when it lands, allows you what I thought to be "free" hits to capitalize. The counterstrike is on the melee attacks that follow, not on the dirt kick itself.

I don't think so. One could always try dirt kicking a reaching barbarian from the second row to test.

I believe bash to be the exception as opposed to dirt kick. Backstab does damage, it's counterstrike-able.

Both bash and trip deal damage when you hit the ground, after you are bashed or tripped. You can be bash prone, but take no damage because of the armor message.

You bash blah blah and they break their neck.

Dirt kick, when you kill someone with it, sends a rock in their eye and they die or some [REDACTED]. Bash and trip both imply a check for prone and a check for damage in succession. I think dirt is simultaneous with damage and dirt kick check.

Dralan's right I think. Bash doesn't trigger cstrike because its damage occurs after the prone affect hits. Might be interesting to knock a barb prone, flee off, and hit him while he's down to see if cstrike occurs then. I doubt it would. I'll test this soon.

Too bad bash doesn't knock you to "resting" anymore. 1.5x dmg cleave ftw!

I know. And people complain about bash nowadays.