Re: Duelmasters: Various Comments and Questions

From: johnjohn@cco.caltech.edu (John White)

Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 21:28:32 +0000

In article <1992Sep28.220742.20546@jade.tufts.edu> gharris@jade.tufts.edu
(George W. Harris) writes:

>	Okay, okay, here you go.  The TP in question was
>
>	9-17-10-17-13-13-5
>
>	The DF is probably the killer, here, but I didn;t know what to
>do with such a low DF warrior.  Since I was given the 17 CN, I thought I'd
>go the TP route.  I asked here, but the only other suggestion I got was a
>PL or PS, but since I'd played a total of about four turns then, I wasn't
>up for such a non-intuitive (to me anyway) style.

Low Df warriors, in general, suck.  A basher can get away with it, but
that's all I can think of, really.  It's probably why you have no wit
comments too, although I dont' really know what causes wit comments.  I
don't like anything lower than an 11 for anything, unless you're getting
something like a 21 wit and will.

>Anyway, his comments were V Int (that's all), Slightly uncoordinated,
>can take a LOT, cannot carry a lot.  In his first fight I sent him out in
ring
>with a SH and ME, but he didn't have the DF to handle the combo (big
surprise),
>and went down in two minutes to a lunger with a SS, and failed to learn
any-
>thing.  That was when I decided I'd experiment with low-DF TPs in some
other
>century, and DAed him.

Ok, good choice.  Without DF, you don't have a good chance of doing some
parrying, rather than scumming, and you don't have the St and/or will to
scum.

>	Oh, by the way in the DA I sent him out Polish Florentine (two
shields)
>(which he also didn't have the DF to handle) (another big surprise), which
>didn't seem any more effective, but who could tell in the DA.  Anyway, I
was
>wondering if anyone else used that tactic: a shield on each hand, that is.
>Seems like it might work well for scum.

Do it all the time.  It works well.  With a good TP, you want to find the
favorite weapon, though.

>>	9-9-13-4-12-15-8

>	I decided to go with the ST, since I've already gotten a couple of
>lungers, and what to diversify a little.  Oh, by the way, even with the
>ST at 13, the WT is still a little low for WH (or doesn't that matter?).
>Also, in answer to an earlier question of John's I added to WT to allow
>him to use *some* weapon without a WT penalty.

Who cares about the penalty!?  Especially with a Striker, which start out
with crappy attack in the first place.  If you make 15 attacks, and only
five of them hit, then you're still going to win (with a large enough damage
rating, which is why you want the ST).  That one point of Wit isn't going to
raise your attack high enough to make any kind of difference, so why bother
with it?!

That's my opinion, anyway.

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Re: Duelmasters: Various Comments and Questions
gharris@jade.tufts.edu (George W. Harris)
Mon, 28 Sep 1992 22:07:42 +0000