Re: Duelmasters: a short discussion!

From: 900667C@admin.acadiau.ca

Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1991 21:06:24 +0000

In article <1991Nov16.000728.14452@cco.caltech.edu> johnjohn@krusty writes:

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>On this discussion about styles, my undersatnding is that the styles which
>dominate upper Primus are Lunging, PLunging, and Parry Rip.  Bashers and
>slashers don't do that well.  I also understand that a good Aimed Blow (like,
>ohhh, NECRON 99) can do well.  But then, AB's are arguably the most luck based
>style in the game...

Basically I've heard the same things, except that WS do well also (see
Teetotaler, Wallbanger, etc.) and I don't think slashers do that poorly,
especially after witnessing Elisa's performance at the Face-to-Face.  Also,
St do rather poorly.  I'll explain what I've heard about all this in
another post in a couple of days.

>About PR's...
>I used to follow the guideline for getting expert Riposte
>on the rollup -15-13-13 Wit/Speed/Deftness (this guide has been known
>for years, despite what you may have read in recent articles and ads-for-
>all-arenas).  However, I feel that speed may have more of an adverse
>effect in the long term than what one might think.  Right now, I try to
>design PR's with low speed (7-9) and pump up Wt/Wl/Df to 17/17/17.  I
>don't get starting Ex riposte, but I do get it within two trains on the
>outside, which means you can still make Advanced Master on skills alone,
>and have the wit to get there reasonably quickly (15 fights
>for the really lucky).  I have to admit that you lose initiative skills at
>the beginning, but you can train your speed _after_ you max out on stats.
>On strategy, I've seen 2-3-3-P and the like work, but I think that this
>type of strategy should be limited to early in a fighters carreer in order
>to avoid early death.  A good strategy that I've seen is 4-5-4-NT (no
>tactic).  I have an example of an exciting slasher-pr fight going
>entirely at 4-5-4 with critical attacks and dodges.  This was with a 6
>fight warrior.  Maybe I'll just stop there and ask for people's
>responses ...

A lot of this is similar to what I've heard from some of my big name allies
on the subject recently.  One little point though:  While it is helpful to
get as much WL as possible, PRs can get away with very low (9-up).  While
their attack, parry and defense suffers a bit, it is better to have those
points on WT or DF.

>Information that I need:
>I'm need some confirmation on some rumors that I've heard.  For those of
>you who've played the game for a while, you know that every once in a
>while, you see and ariticle by Deke Young (Doc Le'Grande) about some huge
>striker.  Has anyone tried out this design?  I understand that Phido had
>the top Primus warrior for a while: a size 16 striker.  Is this true?

NO I haven't, and I doubt that I will, since my high size warriors become
WS, BA or DAs.  Usually I find anything over SZ 16 unworkable, although I
currently have some exceptions (like a brand new SZ 19 {!} PS experiment)

>Items that perhaps we should discuss:
>Training stats can hurt long term skill learning
>The importance of stats in relation to skill areas

Again, I'll deal with these in upcoming posts.

>Lastly, I've seen about four or five people ask people to email responses,
>however, unless the response is something trivial, I would ask people to have
>conversations on the general net. In this way, perhaps all of us can share in
>the knowlege that is had by the few.  After all, isn't that what the Net is
>for?

That's what I've been saying all along!
Take 'er Easy.

Demon.

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Re: Duelmasters
hlavaty@crvax.sri.com ("James Hlavaty")
Fri, 08 Nov 1991 17:26:00 +0000