From: johnjohn@cco.caltech.edu (John White)
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Subject: Re: Duelmasters: Various Comments and Questions
Date: 30 Sep 1992 21:28:32 GMT
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In article <1992Sep28.220742.20546@jade.tufts.edu> gharris@jade.tufts.edu  
(George W. Harris) writes:

>	Okay, okay, here you go.  The TP in question was 
>
>	9-17-10-17-13-13-5
>
>	The DF is probably the killer, here, but I didn;t know what to 
>do with such a low DF warrior.  Since I was given the 17 CN, I thought I'd
>go the TP route.  I asked here, but the only other suggestion I got was a 
>PL or PS, but since I'd played a total of about four turns then, I wasn't
>up for such a non-intuitive (to me anyway) style.

Low Df warriors, in general, suck.  A basher can get away with it, but  
that's all I can think of, really.  It's probably why you have no wit  
comments too, although I dont' really know what causes wit comments.  I  
don't like anything lower than an 11 for anything, unless you're getting  
something like a 21 wit and will.

>Anyway, his comments were V Int (that's all), Slightly uncoordinated,
>can take a LOT, cannot carry a lot.  In his first fight I sent him out in  
ring
>with a SH and ME, but he didn't have the DF to handle the combo (big  
surprise),
>and went down in two minutes to a lunger with a SS, and failed to learn  
any-
>thing.  That was when I decided I'd experiment with low-DF TPs in some  
other
>century, and DAed him.

Ok, good choice.  Without DF, you don't have a good chance of doing some  
parrying, rather than scumming, and you don't have the St and/or will to  
scum.

>	Oh, by the way in the DA I sent him out Polish Florentine (two  
shields)
>(which he also didn't have the DF to handle) (another big surprise), which 
>didn't seem any more effective, but who could tell in the DA.  Anyway, I  
was
>wondering if anyone else used that tactic: a shield on each hand, that is.
>Seems like it might work well for scum.

Do it all the time.  It works well.  With a good TP, you want to find the  
favorite weapon, though.

>>	9-9-13-4-12-15-8

>	I decided to go with the ST, since I've already gotten a couple of
>lungers, and what to diversify a little.  Oh, by the way, even with the
>ST at 13, the WT is still a little low for WH (or doesn't that matter?).
>Also, in answer to an earlier question of John's I added to WT to allow
>him to use *some* weapon without a WT penalty.

Who cares about the penalty!?  Especially with a Striker, which start out  
with crappy attack in the first place.  If you make 15 attacks, and only  
five of them hit, then you're still going to win (with a large enough damage  
rating, which is why you want the ST).  That one point of Wit isn't going to  
raise your attack high enough to make any kind of difference, so why bother  
with it?!

That's my opinion, anyway.

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