Re: Duelmasters: a Roll-up and good news for French players

From: ccs012@yogi.ucdavis.edu (Riff-Raff)

Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1992 00:02:38 +0000

In article <1992Feb16.104724.24392@ens.fr>, duchon@clipper.ens.fr (Philippe Duchon) writes:
|> First, some good news for any French players of Duelmasters : (well,
|> maybe I'm the only one here...): RSI have decided to run DM in France
|> themselves until the european branch is active.

Interesting.  I wonder how that will affect the turn costs over there.  Will
it be the same $10.75 rate, plus they'll make the French players pay for the
foreign postal service (air mail?) rate?  Still, it's better than nothing,
right?

Did any of the French players ever consider joining one of the US's slow
arenas?  There are Canadian players who successfully play in fast arenas,
despite the 7-10 day mail lag, simply by sending their turns in "blind"
(without having seen the results of the previous turn.  I understand it
makes challenging a lot of fun).  Is the mail lag so long that even playing
in the 28 day turnaround arenas isn't really an option?  I currently have
a team in Stormcrowe(45), and I've had teams in other slow arenas.  There
seem to be a lot of international players there.

I'm just curious, because if the lag isn't too long, I might look into playing
some of those European pbm's I keep hearing about... ;)

|> Next, as I had to stop playing for 8 months, I need some advice about
|> this roll-up I got:
|>
|> st 16
|> cn  9
|> sz  9
|> in 10
|> wl  9
|> sp  5
|> df 12
|>
|> Well, could get 15's in in/wl/df, but would that be enough for an AB ?
|> And is there a way of not wasting this 16 strength ?

I may be the only player in DM who thinks that strength _is_ important for
at least 2 styles: Aimed Blows and Bashers (and maybe even Total Parries, but
only because it helps encumbrance).  I don't think that the 16 ST is going
to be a handicap at all.  I had (yes, 'had' as in 'now dead') AB who started out
21-3-10-15-5-9-21, and achieved Advanced Expert Attack on the roll-up, as well
as receiving the largest Attack bonus ever recorded by an AB by anyone I know
(and I know people who routinely run 3-4 AB's on a team, spread out over 3-4
teams).  So, by making this guy an AB, you definitely _won't_ be wasting
that Strength.

This is what I would do with him:

ST 16 + 1 = 17 The high ST/DF seems to give a tremendous attack bonus to the AB,
CN  9 + 0 =  9 which may have something to do with the "magic number" debate that
SZ  9 + 0 =  9 raged a couple years ago.  It's been proven that, at least, in cer-
WT 10 + 5 = 15 tain cases, the bonuses given by stats are a function of style.
WL  9 + 3 = 12 ST/DF (with a hearty helping of WT) really seems to benefit the
SP  5 + 0 =  5 AB in amazing ways.  I like this design.  Attack defensives, and
DF 12 + 5 = 17 avoid lungers (an AB's natural enemy).  Enjoy!

|> Thanks for any help...

No problem.  I just hope that someone else jumps in, and tells you what he
thinks of this character.  AB's are not my forte, and there are certainly some
other opinions that can be backed up by more than one warrior.

Trump

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! Donald Trump, CEO Trump Gladiatorial Enterprises ! dfcleary@ucdavis.edu    !
!	Too Much Posse - Murska (35)               ! Fezzik's Rule: Bashers  !
!    	Max's Miracle - Stormcrowe (45)	           !  should never use their !
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References

Duelmasters: a Roll-up and good news for French players
duchon@clipper.ens.fr (Philippe Duchon)
Sun, 16 Feb 1992 10:47:24 +0000