Duelmasters - Weapon vs. Armor Strategy

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

Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1992 23:21:15 +0000

Hello all,

Just yesterday I got my turns from Murska (35) and had the most alarming
experience: I was outmanaged.

My basher, Peel The Cap, 7-0-3, was bloodfeuded by a 9-15-0 lunger wearing
APL/F.  Now, I was using Quarterstaff up through armor weight 7, thinking
that I didn't really want to use it against ARM/S, an armor combo much more
common than APL/F.  However, this manager outguessed me, getting my basher
to bring in the much heavier Morning Star, and toasted Peel without ever
allowing him to swing.  Luckily, he didn't die, but that's almost besides the
point.

What strategies do your warriors normally use?  My former strategy was:

Light ( 0, 7) Quick weapon, without much consideration for how much damage it
		did.  Likely candidates were Scimitar, Epee, Quarterstaff,
		War Hammer, etc.
Medium (8,14) Heavy weapons, with middle range speed.  Slashing weapons are
		generally discouraged, since characters often wear ASM, and
		slashing weapons just bounce off it.  I've found that bashing
		weapons worked well, especially if attacking the arms and
		head, because very few people wear chain, scale can be crushed
		rather easily, and ring mail ain't what the manual cracks it
		up to be.  Examples include the Mace, Morning Star, Longspear,
		and other medium-damage, medium-speed weapons.
Heavy (15,+) Heavy, damaging weapons without regards to speed.  Perfect ex-
		amples of this are the Halbard, Maul, Great Sword, etc.  The
		guy's going to be easy to hit, and he's going to be able to
		take a lot of damage.  In the event that I fight a scum in a
		turtle shell, I want to be able to break shields.  These
		weapons can do it.

Some weapons fit into more than one of these categories.  The Longsword, for
instance, can be any of the light, medium, or heavy weapons, whereas the
Shortsword can be a light or medium (because of it's lunging/slashing attack).

With certain styles, I will occasionally change the numbers around.  Slashers,
for instance, go (0,10) to include everything up through ARM/F because it's so
easy to slash through, and who ever wears ASM/S anyway?  Just to be sure, I make
it (0,9) against challenges.  I then go (11,12) to use, say, the longsword
against scale, and then (13,+) for heavy armor.  This is almost always either
the Battle Axe or Great Axe.

How does this strategy stack up against others?  I'm curious, because getting
outmanaged sucks, especially when it happens in regular AD.

A chagrined Trump

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References

Duelmasters - Face-to-Face
kanga.caltech.edu!johnjohn (John White)
Mon, 03 Feb 1992 04:07:17 +0000
Re: Duelmasters - Face-to-Face
ender2@husc10.harvard.edu (Matt Ender)
Mon, 03 Feb 1992 15:59:19 +0000