Chainsaw

[Actinguy1]

Greetings, super friends!

After reading through the FAQ's on this board, I discovered my group had not been playing weapons correctly. Heroes usually announced our intent to use weapons before rolling any dice. After reading the FAQ, I felt that we were supposed to announce this intent AFTER rolling the standard two dice. Specifically, I'm referring to the FAQ about reusing the bat, which adds fight dice each time rather than re-rolling the additional fight die every time you use it in the same fight.

However, this became a problem with the chainsaw. I'd roll my two dice. If I beat the zombie, I'd roll a third die to represent using the chain saw (extra fight die), but I'd be guarenteed to kill the zombie no matter what I rolled because I had already beaten the zombie with my first two fight dice. If the zombie beat me...especially with a six...I would not use the chainsaw, so it became impossible for me to lose it.

We made a temporary houserule that you had to declare using the chainsaw at the beginning of the fight, like we used to play, but what were we doing wrong? Do you announce weapons before or after initial combat?