Re: Duelmasters questions

From: ccmdenis@george.ucdavis.edu (Donald Trump)

Date: Fri, 29 May 1992 21:55:29 +0000

In article <1992May29.165622.28820@ccu.umanitoba.ca> umsister@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Sisterson) writes:
>Greetings Once again Duelmasters...
>
>I have a couple of questions to ask.
>
>1)  What kinds of fighting styles are best against others.  I know that
>    bashers are good against TP's, but how about the other styles.

This is purely subjective, but:

Bashers: Do well early against the parry-styles, and generally poor
	against all other offensives.  The finesse styles tend to do
	very well against bashers (notably rippers and aimed blows).
	Avoid lungers!!!
Strikers: Their decis gives them jump against most other offensives.
	although their poor attack makes them easily ripostable.  Challenge
	bashers, wall of steels, and total parries.  Avoid Aimed Blows,
	who seem to do very well against this style.  Note that the
	Striking Attack has the best endurance conservation of any style
	save Aimed Blows, and so can outlast most defensives.
Slashers: Slashers do very well against every other offensive style, as
	well as pikers and plungers.  Their attacks are much easier to parry
	than dodge, so avoid styles that parry well: total parry, parry-
	riposte, and wall of steel.  Conversely, challenge lungers because
	their dodge is completely undone by the slashing style.
Parry-Strike: A finesse style, you should challenge other finesse warriors
	until you have 5-10 fights under your belt.  After experts in
	Parry and Decis, you can take out most of the pure offensives
	and total parries.  By the champion class, you have a chance of
	beating anyone.
Lunging Attack: Lungers do very well against styles that tend to parry
	rather than dodge, as well as every offensive style.  I've had
	excellent success against pikers, wall of steels, bashers, and
	aimed blows, and challenge them first if they're available.
Parry-Lunge: Like pikers, plungers are a finesse style and should challenge
	other finesse warriors until the 5-10 fight rank, and experts in
	dodge and attack (init also helps).  Then you can pretty much
	challenge anyone with impunity.  Favored targets include pikers,
	wastes, and aimed blows.
Total Parry: TPs do very well against all offensives who 1) can't last
	more than 6 minutes, or 2) can't do more than good damage.  They
	also beat up on finesse warriors fairly well until about the 10
	fight mark, when they begin to lose about half the time.  Chall-
	enge lungers and slashers, and possibly bashers, avoiding strikers
	and wastes.  Oh yeah, AVOID AIMED BLOWS!!!!!
Wall of Steel: Wastes seem to do very well against every style except
	Aimed Blows, Parry-Ripostes, and Lungers.  I like wastes because
	they are competitive right from the beginning (which is fairly
	rare for a finesse style), and have a wide range of tactics and
	weapons to choose from.  I prefer challenging slashers and bashers,
	and avoid lungers with a passion.
Parry-Riposte: Rippers do very well against  styles with poor attack ratings
	such as strikers and slashers, or against styles whom the dodge
	tactic is very effective against, such as lungers and plungers.
	The main problem with rippers is the fact that they're generally
	not designed to be durable, so challenging these styles that  do
	a lot of damage will generally lose you as many fights as it wins.
	I prefer to challenge TPs and Wastes, and avoid lungers.
Aimed Blow: In every arena I've ever been in, Aimed Blows get into fist
	fights over who gets to challenge what TP.  :)  Fighting TPs is
	the ABs bread and butter, but secondary challenges can go to any
	style save Lungers or Plungers.  Aimed Blows do well against
	styles that are very decisive, or that run out of endurance fast.
	Their initial attack rating and endurance are good enough to
	get through nearly any defense, and their learn rate is pretty
	good so they tend to improve quickly.

>2)  What kind of weapons are good against types of armor.  Granted the heavy
>    weapons are good against all armor (Greatsword, can't beat the
>    feeling!)  And I noticed that shortspears are very bad against
>    scalemail, but would a shortspear be good against chainmail?  I would
>    assume that it is, but I am not sure.  But how about the other weapons,
>    the morning star (is that a WOS weapon?) or the dagger, etc...

ALE and APL are best punctured, ARM and ACM slashes, and ASM, APM, and
APA smashed.

Trump

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umsister@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Sisterson)
Fri, 29 May 1992 16:56:22 +0000