Your thoughts on persistent wounds?

        Missing limbs instantly tell a story. Whether you ask for the story or speculated on how this could have happened, interested is piqued.
        I don't plan on just amputations but cuts, gashes, broken, and crack bones as well. I see combat as a series of misses and glancing blows inflicting minimal damage with one or two significant blows . Those strikes that lands flush and stagger the opponent so they cannot counter your means of finishing them off or walking away.
        With the natural response to danger flying at your face being a raised hand, it seems like dismemberment is just an inevitable  part of playing with swords, axes, light sabers etc ...