Re: DM: Tournament Strategy

From: mauricia@bu.edu (Anthony Mauricia)

Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1993 18:30:12 +0000

Chris J. Wein (cjwein@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
: In article <1993Apr2.195536.10468@rdii.com> jas@rdii.com (Jim Smith) writes:
: >In article <1993Apr1.180023.18059@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> ewalents@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Erich Walentschak) writes:
: >> OOh  Ooh!  Please go 2-2-7 in the first minute vs my TPs and Wastes. I LOVE to
: >> make mincemeat of lungers trying that strategy!!  Plus what do you consider
: >> defensives?  I run 2 PS and both of them go 10-10-10 D. Your lungers could be
: >> 20 times better than them, but a matchup with those strategies would have my
: >> sub-par PSs winning 90% of the time.  Seriously, I always felt a better way to
: >> split a lungers strategy is those he can get the jump on and those he cant.
: >> Lungers, especially adepts and higher, seem to be slower than all other
: >> offensives, but have the defense and riposte to steal the initiative and take
: >> over.  Id go more like 10-8-10 L in the 1st vs TP, LU, PL, WS, PR, AB, BA and
: >> 7-7-7 vs ST, SL, PS. Of course these are just opinions and are probably wrong.
: >>
: >> Erich
: >> The Wizard
: >> 11,17,28,36,65,73,103
: >
: >Wouldn't the 10 KD tend to make you very susceptable to anyone that was faster
: >than you?  That might be OK for TP/WS but I'd be a bit nervous about neglecting
: >my own defense by using a 10 KD against an AB or another LU.
:
: Erich's suggestion of dividing among those-who-jump and those-who-don't
: is a very good idea too.  Since your warriors seem to have good
: base attack ratings you probably won't have too much problem with
: defensive waste's and TP's going all out.  7-7-7 is decent although dropping
: the offensive effort would improve the defense (to 5 or so?).  I had a lunger
: (champ) TV by going 3-9-3 Dodge in the 1st minute against offensives.
:
 Though I only run two lungers and they are both champions level for this tourney, I have to disagree with a previous comment on adept and above lungers being slow. But I'm not here to talk about that.  My lungers went 10-0 and 6-3 at the FTF. But for the october mail-in I ran them both 10-10-6 unmodified the same way I've run them from day one. I just don't like modifying lungers, that get such great base ratings, why screw up their defense by using the lunge tactic. as for Desp I go 5-9-4 D, the 5 helps

riposte, but that's questionable, but I've done it so long it just kinda stays there.  As for alternate strats, I only use on versus TP's, in the lower tourneys you can pretty much bet on the tp you are fighting is going to be scum, in Champs and in some degree adepts, you get your occasional offensive.  If I was fighting lungers in the lower tourneys I would go 6-3-3 unmodified for the first couple of mins and then lower the offensive effort. You can trash most tp's doing that. But these are only my opin

ons.

Horrible foundign member of the S.*.I.T alliance
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Re: DM: Tournament Strategy
cjwein@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca (Chris J. Wein)
Sat, 03 Apr 1993 18:22:06 +0000

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Re: DM: Tournament Strategy
cjwein@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca (Chris J. Wein)
Sat, 03 Apr 1993 18:22:06 +0000