Re: Duelmasters: Various Comments and Questions

From: itlm013@elroy.ucdavis.edu

Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 20:52:33 +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

A 5 DF TP?  Ick!

|> 	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.

I wonder where I was at when this discussion was going on.  Low DF characters
make wonderful BA's, ST's, and LU's.  TP's?  Well, no...

In Lapur, I have a TP who's currently 4-0 with 8 parry skills and no expert
rating.  His stats?

11-15-10-17-17-7-7.  Now there's a low DF Total Parry who's _got_ to go! :)

|> 	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.

Looks like a good decision.  The only time's I've ever had success with low
WL TP's was when they had high DF, like 13-17.  With that exact design, a PS
running like a ST probably would have done better.

|> 	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.

2 Shields for a TP?  Practically SOP (Standard Operating Procedure).  I'm
surprised you haven't run into that since you started playing.

|> >	9-9-13-4-12-15-8
|> >>>
|> >>>	I was thinking 10-9-13-5-17-17-13, make him an offensive type like
|> >>>a striker, and train his ST up first fight.  Whaddaya think?
|> >>
|> >>I like him, although  I think that I would go with 12-9-13-5-17-17-11 ST
|> >>and train ST to 13 the first fight so he can use the WH.  There isn't
|> >>really much difference between DF 11 and DF 13, and the added weapon
|> >>selection is more important than a couple extra skills.
|> >
|>
|> 	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

Low WT doesn't hurt you nearly as much as a low DF or ST (I think...that's
been my experience anyway), especially considering you only something like
a 7 WT to use it anyway.

Trump
dfcleary@ucdavis.edu

References

Re: Duelmasters: Various Comments and Questions
itlm013@fella.ucdavis.edu
Sun, 27 Sep 1992 07:40:34 +0000
Re: Duelmasters: Various Comments and Questions
johnjohn@cco.caltech.edu (John White)
Mon, 28 Sep 1992 20:13:57 +0000
Re: Duelmasters: Various Comments and Questions
gharris@jade.tufts.edu (George W. Harris)
Mon, 28 Sep 1992 22:07:42 +0000