Combat

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To engage in combat was to battle, or related to engaging in battle or conflict, or simply to fight. (TV: Boom ^[+]Loading...["Boom (TV story)"], The Wedding of River Song ^[+]Loading...["The Wedding of River Song (TV story)"], GAME: TV Comic's Counter Game ^[+]Loading...["TV Comic's Counter Game (1967 game)"]) The word could be used in a literal sense to combat, or in a figurative sense to battle or combat a situation or condition. (TV: The Abominable Snowmen ^[+]Loading...["The Abominable Snowmen (TV story)"], AUDIO: Colditz ^[+]Loading...["Colditz (audio story)"])

Daleks saw opportunities of conflict as potential for combat. (TV: Resolution ^[+]Loading...["Resolution (TV story)"])

Strax often dreamed of dying in combat. (TV: A Good Man Goes to War ^[+]Loading...["A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)"])

In March 1963 Susan Foreman considered games (netball and hockey) played at Coal Hill School to be gladiatorial combat. (PROSE: Time and Relative ^[+]Loading...["Time and Relative (novel)"])

Areas of conflict

An area of conflict or battle could be described as a 'conflict zone'. (TV: The Wedding of River Song ^[+]Loading...["The Wedding of River Song (TV story)"], AUDIO: The Shadow Heart ^[+]Loading...["The Shadow Heart (audio story)"], PROSE: Autumn Mist ^[+]Loading...["Autumn Mist (novel)"])

Conventions

In the 51st century war had conventions of formal combat, compared to chess by Turlough explaining to Tegan Jovanka that convention insisted that acts such as bombings had to be declared beforehand. (AUDIO: The Butcher of Brisbane ^[+]Loading...["The Butcher of Brisbane (audio story)"]

Training

Individuals could be prepared for combat with training. (TV: Terminus ^[+]Loading...["Terminus (TV story)"], Resurrection of the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)"])

Sara Kingdom had years of combat training, (AUDIO: The Five Companions ^[+]Loading...["The Five Companions (audio story)"]) which included unarmed combat in all forms. (PROSE: The Mutation of Time ^[+]Loading...["The Mutation of Time (novelisation)"])

Clothing

Military or camouflage clothing could be described as "combat suits". (TV: Day of the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["Day of the Daleks (TV story)"], Genesis of the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)"])

In the 1970s, UNIT had a combat uniform. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Claws of Axos ^[+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Claws of Axos (novelisation)"])

In 2026, a BAN suit a Body Area Network suit was a combat suit available to some militaries. (AUDIO: Project Destiny ^[+]Loading...["Project Destiny (audio story)"])

In 2593, combat clothing had a olfactory presence, due to the chemical treatments applied to the clothing. (PROSE: Deceit ^[+]Loading...["Deceit (novel)"])

During her time in the Spacefleet Ace wore combat gear, which included: black combat gear, with deflector pads on the upper arms, a reinforced comms collar, and long powerboots. (PROSE: Deceit ^[+]Loading...["Deceit (novel)"])

Ace had a combat suit designed defuse phased energy weapons. (AUDIO: The Dark Flame ^[+]Loading...["The Dark Flame (audio story)"])

Formation

Individuals could form up into a "combat formation" in preparation to combat an enemy. (TV: The Name of the Doctor ^[+]Loading...["The Name of the Doctor (TV story)"])

In the 51st century soldiers of The Church had a combat distance which was 10 feet when they were on Byzantium combating Weeping Angels. (TV: Flesh and Stone ^[+]Loading...["Flesh and Stone (TV story)"])

During the Last Great Time War Dalek saucers adopted combat formations when attacking battle TARDISes. (PROSE: Engines of War ^[+]Loading...["Engines of War (novel)"])

Readiness and preparation

A combat state was a state of readiness that a organisation, group, army or area could be organised into to be ready for combat. (TV: The Armageddon Factor ^[+]Loading...["The Armageddon Factor (TV story)"])

UNIT in the 21st century had combat protocols for when it was under attack. (TV: The Power of the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["The Power of the Daleks (TV story)"])

On Gallifrey, the Chancellory Guard declared a "full combat situation" when the Daleks were on Gallifrey. (AUDIO: The Apocalypse Element ^[+]Loading...["The Apocalypse Element (audio story)"])

Fighting styles

Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart once described the Third Doctor's Venusian akido as unarmed combat. (TV: Invasion of the Dinosaurs ^[+]Loading...["Invasion of the Dinosaurs (TV story)"])

When she was a vampire Nyssa briefly considered the idea of gaseous combat interesting, if circumstances that led her to the proposition of it different. (PROSE: Goth Opera ^[+]Loading...["Goth Opera (novel)"])

One-on-one combat

In Troy circa 1200 BC Achilles combatted Odysseus. (TV: The Myth Makers ^[+]Loading...["The Myth Makers (TV story)"])

In 15th century Tenochtitlan Ian Chesterton fought Ixta in combat. (TV: The Aztecs ^[+]Loading...["The Aztecs (TV story)"])

In Carbury in 1997 Morgaine wished to combat Arthur in combat, but was informed by the Seventh Doctor that he perished years previous. (TV: Battlefield ^[+]Loading...["Battlefield (TV story)"])

On Earth in 16087 the Fourth Doctor challenged Styre to combat. (TV: The Sontaran Experiment ^[+]Loading...["The Sontaran Experiment (TV story)"])

Whilst on a diplomatic mission Leela challenged Sugru combat. (AUDIO: Time in Office ^[+]Loading...["Time in Office (audio story)"])

Trial by combat

On 4 March 1215, Kamelion posing as King John pushed the Fifth Doctor into a trial by combat with Sir Giles Estram. (TV: The King's Demons ^[+]Loading...["The King's Demons (TV story)"])

On Peladon in 3885, the Third Doctor engaged in trial by combat with Grun. (TV: The Curse of Peladon ^[+]Loading...["The Curse of Peladon (TV story)"])

Ranks

Combat pilot was a rank in the Third Galactic Fleet of Kantra. (TV: Destiny of the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["Destiny of the Daleks (TV story)"])