Re: Duelmasters - Tourney skill inflation

From: ccs012@barney.ucdavis.edu (Dennis Cleary)

Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1992 00:02:22 +0000

In article <1992Jan14.224843.6212@cco.caltech.edu>  writes:
>Has anyone noticed that their warriors perform a little bit better at tourneys
>than in regular arena play?

Well, they better!  I never intend to spend $7 for a fighter to get blanked
in a tourney.

>A couple of my warriors seemed to perform with skills that they didn't have.

Really?  Could be, but then again, the other must be thinking that his
warrior is performing without the skills that he normally has.

>Example, my crappy PL destroying two lungers in the first two rounds of the
>last mail in going 4-9-4 dodge in the first minute without expert defense.

Could be, maybe not.  Lungers generally do well in tourneys, so people might
send their less than optimum designs in, hoping they'll do well.  Maybe the
lungers went all out with the lunge tactic against defensive styles like plun-
ging and were undone by your tactic.

2 fights isn't enough info.  Besides, the quality of the lungers is an
important factor too.  I've had very good plungers go into tourneys and wash
out, matching against 2 lungers.

>Example, my waste hits Black Diamond, a slasher who throws about 5 crits in a
>row which my waste parrys.  Not critically.  Just parries.  Without expert
>Parry.

A slasher (and a striker too) get most of their criticals from their Decis, not
from the attack (Wizard of Oz, correct me if I'm wrong).  These are categori-
cally easier to parry than normal crits.  It's been well documented that being
superfast is a liability when going against a waste, since it tends to wear
you out sooner.

Besides, when was the last time you saw a waste trying to get the jump?

>Example, my waste takes two critical attacks to the head, falls dows, gets up,
>hit the opponent once, and HE loses.

Happens all the time.  Why did you give him all that con for, if it wasn't
for him to do this?

What you've been describing is your good luck.  Turn it around and it's the
other guy complaining about how much luck affects tourney results, and how
often inferior warriors make it into the later rounds.

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References

Duelmasters - Tourney skill inflation
kanga.caltech.edu!johnjohn (John White)
Tue, 14 Jan 1992 22:48:43 +0000