Re: Slashers!

From: dao@scribe.mitre.org (David A. Ondzes)

Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 18:12:46 +0000

> My first slasher just got his invite at 19-9.  True to the Wizard of Oz's
> predictions, his favorites were high-very low.  He also got the bonus of a
> favorite tactic, slash.  In those 28 fights, plus 20odd tourney fights, I
> don't htink I used that strategy once.  I think I entered it, for 4th
> minutes on, but I doubt I _ever_ reached the 4th.

Give his favorites a try. I have found that with my Primus slasher (Underdog &
Minion of Set) that they both dodge better when they are using their favorite
activity level. To what degree does he like the slash tactic ? I would use it,
it might slow you down just a tiny bit but overall it will win you more fights
then it will lose for you. Why you ask ? Well because when your using slash
you have a bonus to attack and to damage which means that you will hit your
opponent more often, thus less chance for riposte attack and you will do more
damage thus requiring smaller number of attacks to win again reducing the
chance an opponent can riposte one of your attacks

>
> The low-down:
> 10-11-8-15-15-14-11; hardly god material.  61 skills.
> Ratings:
> 170 Init (20 skills)
> 120 Attack (15)
> 105 Riposte (12)
> 90  Decis   (4)
> 9 parry skills, and 1 lousy defense.  Because his base decis was so high, he
> coulb beat most lungers; I often ran decis, usually 10-10-6 or 10-6-6.
>

Good solid numbers, won't be a Primus god might not even make it to Primus but
should be alot of fun.

If you get to 20 attack skills forget about the parry skills and trains STR 3
or 4 times.

The defensive skills are hard to come by. My BloodGames winner, Picasso, has
about 90 skills and only 3 defensive actions !

> To any managers (i.e., you David) who have experince with slashers in AD, I
> was wondering what to do with him.  I figure on running him at his
> favorites, but because he's kinda slow, and has absolutly no defenses, I
> think he'll have a lot of trouble with everyone except WS and TPs.   Even
> those could give him  plenty of trouble. Should I try, like ASM?
> What is this guy's long-long term potential?

Getting some more decis skills should help. Go after some lungers, they will
probably not have a much better decis. Definitely give his favs a try, use the
scimitar and the slash tactic and you should be able to take out the defensive
styles.

If you are going to arena 100, challenge Skeleton Warrior, he a low rank
slasher of mine with about the same numebr of skills. I think his stats are
9-6-9-17-17-17-11 or something like that, I will upload his overview and post
it if anyone is interested.

Wizard of Oz

References

Slashers!
ben@abby.chem.ucla.edu
Tue, 08 Jun 1993 22:44:10 +0000