Re: DM: Need Advice For My Roll-Up

From: Ben 'Critical' Hitz

Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 23:34:48 +0000

In article <1994Feb22.225328.11796@relay.acadiau.ca>
860099w@dragon.acadiau.ca (Marty Ward) writes:
>:Hey Gang!
>:
>:I got my turn in today for 39!  I missed last turn, because they simply
>:didn't run it, so I had to wait a long time to get some new fights.
>:(And don't tell me to join a fast arena. :)

Whatever you do, don't join a fast arena.  Happy?

>:So, some help with my roll-up.  He's a keeper.  No need to DA this one.
>:
>:  6 - 4 - 17 - 11 - 11 - 12 - 9
>:               +6   +6        +2
>:
>:  6 - 4 - 17 - 17 - 17 - 12 - 11
>:
:
>:Striker or Lunger?  Help me.  Would anyone suggest PL or PS?

Bleah!  I hate 6 ST!  (You probably don't want to train to 7 ST, you
_will_ lose an attack and a parry skill) SH-tsword city!  This rollup is
too good to waste on a Striker.  I would go Slasher, because (yes!  an
actual concrete reason!)...  You will have less trouble with heavy armor.
The 6 ST can technically use only the SH (for both LU/SL), but is a small
reach to the EP (but you would need a 15 DF, which you lack)  or HA (SL
only).  It's a bit of a reach to the 9 ST weapons, SS for LU but SC for
SL.  Against ASM+ the SC is _much_, _much_ better.  In summary:
LU: Well suited to SH, marginally to SS.  Bleah.
SL: Also WS to SH, but practically HA, and marginally SC.

SC is much better than any of these (especially re: heavy armor), and the
HA is better than the SH, anyway.

Also, (though this is more debateable) SL may utilize the high SP better.
(SL need decis more than LUs, becuase Slasher's dodge suck.)

Finally, I wouldn't go PL, becuase the CN & DF are two low (either higher
would compensate); This would make a damn good PS (similarly ST), but I
think it's a waste of a good rollup.  Much easier to get a decent-good
ST/PS rollup than a LU/SL.

Ben Hitz
PUG
--
"With humor Comrade, always with a bit of Humor"
         From 'The Manchurian Candidate'

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DM: Need Advice For My Roll-Up
860099w@dragon.acadiau.ca (Marty Ward)
Tue, 22 Feb 1994 22:53:28 +0000