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I have a tangential question stemming from the previous discussion of the Switch-Hitter battling the Ettin - though, it has nothing to do with the validity of such an exercise. It's a general tactics question in regards to the Switch-Hitter.

I am a relatively inexperienced player when it comes to tabletop - aside from a small amount of time as a 3.5E caster, pathfinder is really my first foray into tabletop D&D. That being said, I'm wondering if someone could discuss what is meant by "skirmish tactics" and how that might negate the Ettin's full attacks? My interpretation is that there is some way to get standard action attacks against the Ettin while gaining positioning that only allows the Ettin to make a standard action attack. The problem I've run into when examining this situation on my own is that the Ettin has reach and the R anger does not. Thus, the only way I could come up with to negate this is to take the Lunge feat to attack with reach followed by a 5ft. adjust after attacking, but this seems less than ideal since it costs -2 to AC.

Is there some other better way to handle this situation that my inexperience is preventing me from seeing?