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Re-reading the responses makes me realise i missed an important point with this in the original post. You can of course make both in the same round (regardless of definitions etc). You would still probably choose second attack if you could only choose 1, because it doesn't require any preconditions,...

Cheers for that. Looking through the book, you can see there are "better" talents than other, for a given value of better of course!

I have never been overly worried about absolute balance in games, so not a major problem

As someone fairly new to ED, i was wondering what the advantage of Momentum Attack is? For MA you need a Good on your initial attack, and then you test MA vs the defender Physical Defence. SA is just test vs PD. They both cost 1 strain. SA does require Karma, but this is not an absolute requirement ...