Re: Big Guns In Duelmasters

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

Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1991 18:52:21 +0000

[continuing the dialogue between Demon and Donald Trump (some might think
it strangely apropos)]

>>Actually, a lot of people have tried out Doc LeGrand's striker, and it
>>has it's merits.  I would contend, however, that any character with WT/WL
>>17+ is going to be competitive, almost no matter what the other stats
>>are.
>
>Interesting...
>

Of course, it depends somewhat on style, but WT/WL 17 is good enough to
build a character base that can win most of the time.  I just DA'd a 1-7-0
PS in Andor who was 9-10-8-17+-17-13-11 because she couldn't win a fight
to save her life, and couldn't lose a fight that would end it (believe me,
I tried!  terrible luck with her).

However, if you look at the charts, you'll see that WT 17 WL 17 DF 11 gives
you a good enough stat base to build any character on (save, maybe, a PR).
Of course that's already over half your points...  If you don't have the
charts I'm talking about (the Rat Pak Stat/Skill chart), I'll e-mail it
to you.

>>You make your big warriors WS's?  It tried that for a while, but they're
>>much better off as Bashers.  Bashers end up with more offense, and it
>>seems about the same on defense. :(
>
>Fair enough.  I've been learning a lot about design over the last six
>months or so.  In my defense, though, some big guys won't work as BA.

Hmm, you _have_ been learning a lot in the last 6 months.  No SZ 20 slow
as molasses monsters to pick on on your team, huh?  Geez, it took me about
a year to get away from those guys!  These kids are smarter than my gener-
ation, that's for sure!

>While I've had semi-successful ones with as low as a 5 SP, I don't think I'
>d care to go as low as 3.  Also, I recently had a moderately successful SZ
>17 WS who beat a 4-fight Slasher in his first fight (scummed him, too).

Actually, I wouldn't go with SP 3 either, if I had the choice.  There seems
to be some terrible penalty for it that hurts everything, even areas not
normally affected by speed (my otherwise tremendous WS started with a 3 SP`
and it took him 12 skills to get Expert Parry, the worst Parry modifier ever
heard of for a Wall of Steel, and he's only a SZ 11!).

Congrats on your success with big WS's, it sounds like something I may have
to look into in the near future.  Would you care to send me the specifics?

>Thanks for the lessons, though.  All my info is second hand from Garth
>Werner and Steve Duaghney.
>Take 'er easy.

Good 'ol Steve.  So you're part of the Canadian Conspiracy then?  Tell Steve
I said, "Hi!"

Donald Trump

References

Big Guns In Duelmasters
ccs012@mr-ranger.ucdavis.edu (Dennis Cleary)
Tue, 19 Nov 1991 01:10:44 +0000
Re: Big Guns In Duelmasters
900667c@ace.acadiau.ca (GERALD RICHARD CAMERON)
Wed, 20 Nov 1991 23:21:23 +0000