Re: DM: Tournament Strategy

From: ewalents@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Erich Walentschak)

Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1993 17:50:18 +0000

Ok, Im going to give my opinion on this finally.  Ive given this alot of
thought is this is kind of what I feel about strategies.  I dont think theres
such a thing as a warrior that 'doesnt like' such and such strategy.  It seems
to me that all that is is people losing to a better warrior and trying to find
an excuse.  That, or maybe their favorites are different.  For example, If your
slashers favorite AL is 6, then a 10 is just going to be normal, no penalties,
just normal.  Granted it may look like penalties since its not his favorite and
youve been using his favorite, but I have a real hard time believing that the
program is that complicated.  Forgive me, but I just dont put that much faith
into the programming 'geniuses' at RSI  :).

So, looking at it from this way, I feel you have to max out what you feel is
important in a fight.  If you feel that decise is the most important, go
10-10-7 D with just about any style.  If you are confident youll get the jump
but want to have better attack, drop the AL and maybe even the OE.  And so
on.  Its all dependent on planning your fights right.

Now, I heard an interesting rumor recently that begs to be at least mentioned.
Supposedly, the favorite OE and AL correspond to a specific number.  But there
are 5 different descriptions for favorites and 10 numbers.  The theory is that
these are split between offensives and defensives.  Thus, very high AL for an
offensive is 10 and for a defensive is 9 and so on, with offensives holding the
even numbers and defensives holding the odd.  This brings an interesting
strategy question.  If this is true, then we should never have odd numbers on
our offensives or evens on our defensives.  Kind of a pain since my usual
opening strategy for defensives is 2-6-2  :).

Well, in any case, lets hear some input on this.

Erich
The Wizard

References

Re: DM: Tournament Strategy
cjwein@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca (Chris J. Wein)
Sat, 03 Apr 1993 18:22:06 +0000
Re: DM: Tournament Strategy
jas@rdii.com (Jim Smith)
Tue, 06 Apr 1993 02:53:41 +0000