From: ccs012@george.ucdavis.edu (Riff-Raff)
Newsgroups: rec.games.pbm
Subject: Re: DM - Tourney Strategy
Date: 15 Apr 92 23:36:57 GMT
Organization: Trump Gladiatorial Enterprises

In article <1992Apr15.181033.13005@cco.caltech.edu> johnjohn@cco.caltech.edu (John White) writes:
>On the "eve" of the "Death and Taxes" Grand Tournament, I thought I'd post  
>some things that I've noticed about and wondered over the tournaments that  
>I've run warriors in.  

When exactly are they going to run this tourney?  I know that the dead-
line is/was the 15th, but what days are they planning on actually running
the tournament? 

It used to take about a week and a half before I got my results (and even
that was too long), then they had the fiasco where the printers broke down
and it was three and a half weeks.  This time, there's no telling what
will happen!  I've even heard rumors that they have occasionally had to
re-run an entire tournament because of software failure, or something
like that.

For my $7/warrior, I'd think I could expect better service this time
around!

>My lungers do well against other offensives.

Seems true universally in the arena as well.  The only trouble I've ever
had has been the real little bashers, who seem to have some sixth sense
that allows them to know exactly when to riposte and bust my lunger's
heads wide open.

>My Wastes tend to do well universally.

Universally?  Or against the 5 TPs of the 8 warriors they fight?  If
someone was to do a statistical study on tourney warriors broken down
by style, they might be led to believe that TPs comprise about half of
all active warriors! :)

>Shouldn't a good AB do well in the Rookies division?

Against TPs, sure, but what about all those newbie lungers who also get
sent in?  I know I've licked my chops a time or two when I saw the
0-0-0 AB my lunger had matched up against.  Hum baby!

>And a serious question:  How do you group your strategies?  I tend to do  
>this the same for all of my warriors:  Everyone except TP's, PR's, and  
>Waste's on a "quick" tactic.  The three on a "slow" one.  How do you all do  
>yours?

It depends on the style, and the arena ranking.  Young pikers and plungers
seem to go offensive a lot more than they go defensive, and thus I tend
to group them with "fast warriors" in the early tourneys, and the "slow
warriors" in later tourneys.  It also depends on who I'm fighting.  Bashers
got Decis against the styles who can riposte, and bash against the others.
Bashing against a ripper is playing right into his hands!

I find that, for the most part, I have one strategy vs. TPs, and another
strategy vs. everyone else.  I believe in playing up a character's strengths
rather than taking advantage of his foe's weaknesses, and I try to take
this philosophy into tourneys.  Of course, it hasn't gotten me a lot of
TV's (only 1, and 2 close calls, if you can believe that.  I hate tourneys!)
but it has given me an overall positive record in tourneys.

Trump

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