Re: DM: Roll-up and question

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

Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1993 05:27:53 +0000

In article <CII4ts.1or@news.tufts.edu> gharris@jade.tufts.edu (George W. Harris) writes:
>In article <2f7jflINN2eg@uwm.edu> dray@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Daniel Ray Giese) writes:
>>     Another turn, another roll-up.  10-4-13-10-10-10-13.
>>     Any suggestions?
>

Blech.  This roll-up is good, but not great.  I personally hate 10's
in WT and WL, and this guy is cursed with two of them.  I'd go
10-4-13-15-15-10-17 LU or 11-4-13-15-11-13-17 SL.  The LU roll-up
would probably also be a good AB. What you make depends on what
styles you like to run and the style breakdown of the arena (lots of
TPs and finesse warriors = AB).

>>     Also, this may be a DM faq, but how do you determine a warrior's
>>     favorite weapon or how long should it take?  I've had notoriously
>>     bad luck (all my originals died but still going .54) so my
>>     'eldest' warrior is 5-6 turns old, and has used a different
>>     weapon often, but with little insight.  Is there a method to help
>
>	To learn your fighters fav weapon, get to ADM.  Then they tell
>you.  Other than that, it's just experimenting and seeing how well he
>does in attack.  Of course, lots of other factors could enter into it,
>so ideally you'd want to try different weapons against the same opponent.
>Of course, he may be changing weapons (or tactics) looking for a winning
>combination, and you'll both (one hopes) be learning, so there's no sure
>way.  Just find a weapon or two that work okay, and use them.  Don't burn
>your brain over it.

I disagree.  My number one priority with new warriors is to learn their
favorite weapon.  Here's the strategy I use:

I've noticed that it doesn't seem to matter what *strategy* I use, when
I'm using my favorite weapon my warrior crits. Of course, if the strategy
is off he does a lot of non-productive things in between crits, like
wasting energy, swinging and missing, and getting hit.  But when he does
swing, he does an abnormally large number of crits, sometimes as much as
50% of his attacks even when his attack level and stats don't warrant
it.  The other thing he does is more damage.  It's hard to figure out
when you 21 ST 21 SZ Basher already does awesome damage, but for little
guys it's a noteable effet and for most warriors, too.  If your good to
normal damage character is doing extra-damage attacks every third hit
or so, you've probably got his favorite weapon.

Of course, all this dpepends on comparison. "How does my warrior do
with the scimitar in comparison to the all the other weapons he's tried?"
When you find a weapon your warrior becomes a world beater with, you've
got his fav.

Trump
ez007195@dale.ucdavis.edu

Coming soon to an arena near you

References

DM: Roll-up and question
dray@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Daniel Ray Giese)
Tue, 21 Dec 1993 19:40:37 +0000
Re: DM: Roll-up and question
gharris@jade.tufts.edu (George W. Harris)
Thu, 23 Dec 1993 19:01:03 +0000