Re: DM: Kill-Less Dueling

From: Ben 'Critical' Hitz

Date: Thu, 03 Feb 1994 14:42:59 +0000

In article <1994Feb2.090910.1@afit.af.mil> gtriplet@afit.af.mil writes:
>:In article <CKKqMp.Esz@ucdavis.edu>, ez007195@dale.ucdavis.edu (Yeon
Choi) writes:
>:Defense is commonly thought to be 'dodge'.  I believe it also represents
the
>:ability experienced fighters have of reducing the effect of an
opponent's
>:blows.  While this serves to benefit fighters who can take normal or
better
>:>:ammounts of damage, it is deadly to 'very frail' and
>:'cannot take a lot of >:damage' fighters.  The very frail
>:warrior can survive to ADM by going down if >:he gets hit once
>:(thus avoiding the second hit required by the kill sequence)
>:>:The 'cannot take a lot of punishment' fighter will take the
>:second hit and get >:himself killed.  Now, the very frail
>:fighter who starts learning defense may >:reduce the damage of
>:the first blow just enough that he takes the second hit.
>:>:This is the most significant cause of deaths I have taken
>:in the 10-20 fight >:range: 'very frails' who think they can
>:take another hit.

That's certainly possible.  But I'm not sure a second 'real' hit is
required.  I have a kill where I hit (a very frail warrior) _once_ with a
HA, went into death sub, and killed him with 1 'fake death subroutine
blow'.  If those 'killing blows' are irrelevant, then you _can_ kill
someone, with one _effective_ hit, it will just always _look_ like at
least 2 shots.

Ben

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Re: DM: Kill-Less Dueling
gtriplet@afit.af.mil
Wed, 02 Feb 1994 04:09:10 +0000