Re: DM: 1st turn (HELP)

From: ben@abby.chem.ucla.edu

Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1992 17:47:55 +0000

In article <1992Jun19.155741.22899@adobe.com>, jgould@adobe.com (Jim Gould) writes:
>
>HELP:
	Welcome to duelmasters!  First the armor charts:

Headgear:        Wt            Armor               Wt.
____________________________________________________________________________
        None             0             None                 0
	Leather cap (L)  1             Leather (ALE)        2
        Steel Pot   (S)  2             Padded Leather (APL) 4
	Helm        (H)  3             Ringmail (ARM)       6
	Full Helm   (F)  4             Scalemail (ASM)      8
				       Chainmail (ACM)     10
                                       Platemail (APM)     12
                                       Plate Armor (APA)   14

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The amount of weight you can carry without penalty is based on your carring
capacity.  This is a comment on each warriors' sheet that you will get back
from RSI.  The comments, and their corresponding capacities are:

CAN ONLY CARRY VERY LITLE...               9
	CANNOT CARRY ALOT...                      18
        (no comment) 'carry NORMAL'               27
	CAN CARRY ALOT...                         36
	CAN CARRY A TREMENDOUS ...                45
	CAN CARRY A SEEMINGLY LIMITLESS AMOUNT... 54

Got all that?
>                      Pri Weapon     Off-Hand
>vs.Light ( 0, ) armour_________ and____________
>vs.Medium
>vs.Heavy
>    Backup Weapons
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	Now RSI lets you choose three different weapons (one or two) for
different RANGES of armor weight.  Example you might, for say a parry lunge,
enter:
                      Pri Weapon     Off-Hand
vs.Light ( 0,6 ) armour EP (Epee)      SM (Small Shield)
vs.Medium (7,11)        LO (Longsword) DA (Dagger)
vs.Heavy  (12,+)        SC (Scimitar)
    Backup Weapons
                        LO

Note: Your backups are the same vs. every armor, and you may not carry a
two-handed backup.
	One further word on carring capacity.  You don't necessarily want to
use all your warriors' capacity.  Using less alows for much slower endurance
burn.  Additionally, the more you carry, the slower you will be.  Fast,
Offensive styles should never be in heavy armor.  Also, different armor is more
effective vs. different weapons, and vice-versa.  In particualar, ARM and ACM
are vulnerable to lunging weapons, while Bashing weapons are good against APM
and APA.
	I'll cover the strategy in the next post.

Ben Hitz; Arenas 53,18,63

References

DM: 1st turn (HELP)
jgould@adobe.com (Jim Gould)
Fri, 19 Jun 1992 15:57:41 +0000