Re: DM: New Roll-up

From: ez007195@dale.ucdavis.edu (Yeon Choi)

Date: Sat, 19 Feb 1994 20:09:23 +0000

In article <2k5pmgINN8ut@uwm.edu> dray@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Daniel Ray Giese) writes:
>Just got it : 9-6-16-14-10-3-12.

Pretty good.

>WT->17 DF->17 WL->15 is what I was thinking,
>but is that speed too low,

There is no such thing as a speed that is too low, unless of course you get a
starting SP of 0.  This used to happen in the old days.  One of my original 5
had a starting WL of 1.  I made him into a 11-8-17-17-7-7-17 AB.  Naturally,
he was my first death.  The funny thing was, I thought he was really a horrible
warrior.  I could have had a warrior capable of challening Necron-99 for the
best AB ever award.  Little did I know . . .

I think that was a bug which they have since fixed.  I haven't seen a 0 WL
in a long time.

>and what would a
>9-6-16-17-15-3-17 (+1) warrior be (seems too
>low speed for offense and no con for defense)

I would either go 11-6-16-17-13-3-17 or 9-6-16-17-13-5-17.  Probably the second,
since I've had really poor luck with SP 3 characters (actually, only one, but
I'm superstitious).

Crip's comments notwithstanding, SZ 16 characters don't really make good pure
defensive warriors, nor are they spectacular finesse warriors (although this
guy has a chance).  If you want to go for the pure win strategy, I'd go with
9-6-16-17-13-5-17 SL.  If you want something interesting, try the same numbers
with AB.  If you're feeling *really* daring, try Plunger, Piker, or Ripper.

I'd go with Aimed Blow.  I'd run him ALE/F with a SC and no back-ups going
10-6-6-RA-BD-None (in other words, just like a slasher except for the protect
location) and train skills until his 5th fight.  At that point, if it's obvious
he doesn't like the SC, I'd try the SH and EP with the same strategy.  Hell,
I'd even try DA/DA.  After all that, I'd try LO and QS.  This experimentation
should last 12-15 turns, at which point you may want to train ST to 11.  I
wouldn't, but you might like to.  If either LO or QS is his fav, he'll do fine
without the necessary ST, and he'll be well suited once he gets to AD anyway.

Nice character, very interesting.

Trump
ez007195@dale.ucdavis.edu

References

DM: New Roll-up
dray@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Daniel Ray Giese)
Sat, 19 Feb 1994 19:35:44 +0000