This has just occurred to me. (Which means of course that it hasn't happened in any gameplay I have been involved with!)
1A. A player hero is fighting in (say) Open. They get their attack in, and receive a blow from an adversary with an axe. Soon after that, but in the same round, an enemy archer firing from Rearward hits the player with a Heavy Blow.
Can a player roll with the punch received from an arrow? Does " knockback" work against missiles?
1B. And is the total damage (axe + arrow) picked up from the adversary reply halved, or - as I would expect - just the arrow damage?
2. And, what if the arrow strike is from an Opening Volley? Can a player moving forward to close quarters still take Knockback to avoid half the damage from a Heavy Blow with a missile?