DUEL 2 NEWSLETTER Date : 10/03/2025 Duedate: 10/16/2025 NOBLISH ISLAND ARENA DM 93 TURN 697 This Week's Top Honors THE DUELMASTER IS OVERDO BASH BROS PROJECT (1960) (93-11483) [6-4-0,60] Chartered Recognition Leader Unchartered Recognition Leader OVERDO MOUNTAIN BASH BROS PROJECT (1960) SKYLINE (1962) (93-11483) [6-4-0,60] (93-11502) [4-0-0,47] Popularity Leader This Week's Favorite OVERDO HARD WORK BASH BROS PROJECT (1960) BASH BROS PROJECT (1960) (93-11483) [6-4-0,60] (93-11484) [7-3-0,38] THE CURRENT TOP TEAM SKYLINE (1962) TEAMS ON THE MOVE TOP CAREER HONORS Team Name Point Gain Chartered Team 1. COMEDY KNIGHT (1943) 46 2. SKYLINE (1962) 15 BASH BROS PROJECT (1960) 3. BASH BROS PROJECT (1960) 4 Unchartered Team COMEDY KNIGHT (1943) The Top Teams Career Win-Loss Record W L K % Win-Loss Record Last 3 Turns W L K 1/ 0*COMEDY KNIGHT (1943) 9 1 2 90.0 1/ 1*SKYLINE (1962) 11 4 1 2/ 1*SKYLINE (1962) 16 4 1 80.0 2/ 3 BASH BROS PROJECT (1960) 7 7 0 3/ 2 BASH BROS PROJECT (1960) 28 18 0 60.9 3/ 0*COMEDY KNIGHT (1943) 4 1 1 4- 3*JJKIER (1935) 8 16 0 33.3 4- 4*JJKIER (1935) 2 1 0 '*' Unchartered team '-' Team did not fight this turn (###) Avoid teams by their Team Id ##/## This turn's/Last turn's rank TEAM SPOTLIGHT THE FINE ARTS OF WINNING (or WIN OPTIMIZATION) Your warriors are seemingly solid and are putting up a good fight, but just can't seem to win? Perhaps you should consider this list of recommended Consortium actions? * Always challenge and avoid. Use the challenge and if-challenged strategies on your strategy sheet to manipulate fight opponents in your favor. * Challenge warriors you have beaten before and styles your warrior has the advantage with (e.g. AB challenge TP, TP challenge LU, ST challenge SL, SL challenge LU, etc.). This is something of a rock/paper/scissors game. * Take advantage of blood feuds to enhance challenges. Be brutal! BF all four times if to your advantage, The cretin killed your teammate after all. (Note: Consortium teams on Noblish Isle do not blood feud.) * Avoid teams who seem to regularly beat you and teams with nearby warriors with styles which have an advantage over your warrior. Avoid the team that just beat you last fight. * Make your warrior do what his style does best (e.g. STs get the jump, LUs dodge, TPs parry and scum, SLs attack, etc.) * Use high CN to your advantage by soaking hits and then later hitting and finishing a worn down opponent. * Pay attention to where an opponent is aiming his attacks and protect that location on subsequent fights. * Be bad! "Pick on" warriors with less skill, less experience, or lots of losses. * Pay attention to fight history in your arena. Know which are tournament warriors, sandbaggers, etc. with hidden FE. (Fight experience.) These tournament warriors are likely highly experienced and highly skilled compared to your normal arena warrior. Stay clear of them. (Not at all common in DM93, but more common in all other arenas except no-tournament arenas..) * Use tactics appropriately -- Decise to help you get the jump, Dodge to help you avoid being hit, Slash or Bash to hit harder, Parry to focus on parry, Response to counter known decise users. * Dress to fit your strategy -- naked is faster/quicker, plated is most protected and sponges best, but slower. Do not overdress and excessively encumber your warrior. It greatly hampers ability to carry and endure and even to fight properly * Watch fights carefully to find a favored weapon -- one which you crit often with or which you get lots of extra value hits. Use that weapon and maybe those similar to it. * Know your opposing manager's styles and methods. Try to fight weaker managers and avoid those who just seem to win lots. * If your warrior is in a difficult spot in the rankings/arena listing, sit him out. Don't fight if you do not have a good chance to win (e.g., your 5 FE warrior has jumped way up in the rankings and is surrounded by much more experienced warriors, or your scum TP is surrounded by aimed-blows, etc.) * Phone a friend. Write with questions. Ask for help or advice. The right, helpful person is likely to want to help you succeed. Use the personal ads or Chatzy or the RSI site to discuss thoughts, ideas, or strategies. * Try to manipulate your fight so you match with an NPC. (Non-playing-character; RSI Stand-In.) * Send your warrior to tournaments. It gets hidden FE on his record and ups his skill/stat level unbeknownst to those paying little attention. * Pay attention to fighting in your arena. Know whom is using strategies set on maintenance and take advantage of it by challenging and adjusting your strategies to beat them. * Design warriors to win rather than to look godling-like. Sure, skills are important, but maybe not as important as physicals -- especially early on. * Take advantage of arena DM93. Read the spotlights. Know your C.I.C. package info or get info from the Terrablood and Assur sites. Cheer on your warriors. Stay excited! Yeah! Explorer, a Consortium paid and affiliated member (version 9-21-25) SPY REPORT If you were disturbed from your beauty rest only to have to watch a bunch of NOBLISH ISLAND brutes like you, you'd be grouchy, too. Of course, we're all terribly impressed to see DAME MAIM win a fight and gain 15 points, terribly. Tsk, tsk, SIR RENITEE beat ARCH and ARCH lost 8 points. You're breakin' my heart. Our Duelmaster has lost, folks, lost to VETERAN MERCENARY, BUT OVERDO is still the Duelmaster because he has the most recognition points! I'm not in a very good mood today, but why am I telling you this? You want to know what's new, don't you, NOBLISH ISLAND? He who fights and runs away will live to fight another day, the coward. JJKIER, I suppose you'll be glad to know you were this turn's most avoided team. Care to know who is the most afraid of you? And who led the way in this mass act of cowardice? Let's see, well, whatcha know? It was SKYLINE. Ha ha ha ha! Ooh, I'm frightfully impressed, HARD WORK was this turn's most challenged warrior. Watch that ego swell, sports fans. And we have TREE in a challenge, going down 13 points for the fight. Guess what? I thought TREE showed great skill and promise when it overcame UNFINISHED. All right, so I slept through it! Big deal! Ah, now we come to my favorite part, where we see all the guys who are dead and gone, and get to see if their team cared. Honor is like a chainmail shirt, it only shines through use. Certain nameless cowards will doubtless rebuke me on this one. There's got to be a better place in NOBLISH ISLAND to get a drink than The Welcome Wench! Any suggestions? Phlllt! Just had to do that before I leave the fine city of NOBLISH ISLAND. I feel much better now. I see the crowds are getting restless, I must leave now-- Snide Clemens DUELMASTER W L K POINTS TEAM NAME OVERDO 11483 6 4 0 60 BASH BROS PROJECT (1960) ADEPTS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME MOUNTAIN 11502 4 0 0 47 SKYLINE (1962) CUMULO NIMBUS 11506 4 0 1 43 SKYLINE (1962) HARD WORK 11484 7 3 0 38 BASH BROS PROJECT (1960) CHALLENGER INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME -SHIELDER 11336 4 3 0 32 JJKIER (1935) SCOPE CREEP 11487 8 2 0 29 BASH BROS PROJECT (1960) DAME MAIM 11381 2 0 1 28 COMEDY KNIGHT (1943) SIR RENITEE 11378 2 0 1 25 COMEDY KNIGHT (1943) SKYSCRAPER 11505 2 2 0 24 SKYLINE (1962) INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME SIR JERRY 11379 2 0 0 22 COMEDY KNIGHT (1943) SIR CULL 11380 2 0 0 20 COMEDY KNIGHT (1943) TREE 11504 4 0 0 17 SKYLINE (1962) SIR PRYSIN 11382 1 1 0 15 COMEDY KNIGHT (1943) -BLOWER 11334 2 5 0 11 JJKIER (1935) -RIPOSTER 11335 1 1 0 9 JJKIER (1935) ARCH 11503 2 2 0 8 SKYLINE (1962) INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME UNFINISHED 11508 0 3 0 3 BASH BROS PROJECT (1960) '-' denotes a warrior who did not fight this turn. THE DEAD W L K TEAM NAME SLAIN BY TURN Revenge? EMBEZZLING SCRIB 0 0 0 DAME MAIM 11381 697 NONE PERSONAL ADS Good luck, Troublemakers, wherever you go. -- Explorer I was wrong! I predicted a 2-3-0 for Skyline this round and they showed me up at 4-1- 1! -- Explorer Atavista, you were the only Skyline loss, and I salute you. -- Explorer Unfinished, are you guys all that easy? -- Tree Where, oh where, has the competition gone? I blame Assur. -- Explorer (The Consortium made me say that!) LAST WEEK'S FIGHTS SKYSCRAPER was bested by HARD WORK in a 3 minute Challenge fight. TREE bested UNFINISHED in a 2 minute novice's Challenge duel. OVERDO was handily defeated by VETERAN MERCENARY in a 1 minute one-sided Title match. MOUNTAIN vanquished FRATSFA SLAVE in a 1 minute mismatched brawl. SCOPE CREEP defeated SIR PRYSIN in a 2 minute fight. CUMULO NIMBUS demolished FRATSFA SLAVE in a 1 minute mismatched competition. DAME MAIM slaughtered EMBEZZLING SCRIBE in a 1 minute mismatched fight. SIR CULL overpowered MORDANT DESERTER in a popular 1 minute mismatched brawl. SIR JERRY handily defeated CONVICTED THIEF in a 1 minute uneven melee. SIR RENITEE vanquished ARCH in a 1 minute gruesome one-sided duel. BATTLE REPORT MOST POPULAR RECORD DURING THE LAST 10 TURNS |FIGHTING STYLE FIGHTS FIGHTING STYLE W - L - K PERCENT| |LUNGING ATTACK 4 TOTAL PARRY 17 - 4 - 0 81 | |STRIKING ATTACK 2 WALL OF STEEL 9 - 3 - 1 75 | |WALL OF STEEL 2 STRIKING ATTACK 19 - 10 - 2 66 | |SLASHING ATTACK 2 SLASHING ATTACK 11 - 7 - 1 61 | |BASHING ATTACK 2 LUNGING ATTACK 15 - 12 - 1 56 | |PARRY-RIPOSTE 1 PARRY-RIPOSTE 7 - 7 - 0 50 | |TOTAL PARRY 1 BASHING ATTACK 13 - 15 - 0 46 | |AIMED BLOW 0 PARRY-LUNGE 3 - 5 - 0 38 | |PARRY-LUNGE 0 PARRY-STRIKE 4 - 7 - 0 36 | |PARRY-STRIKE 0 AIMED BLOW 2 - 7 - 0 22 | Turn 697 was great if you Not so great if you used The fighting styles of the used the fighting styles: the fighting styles: top eleven warriors are: PARRY-RIPOSTE 1 - 0 LUNGING ATTACK 1 - 3 3 LUNGING ATTACK STRIKING ATTACK 2 - 0 AIMED BLOW 0 - 0 2 SLASHING ATTACK TOTAL PARRY 1 - 0 PARRY-LUNGE 0 - 0 2 STRIKING ATTACK WALL OF STEEL 2 - 0 PARRY-STRIKE 0 - 0 1 AIMED BLOW SLASHING ATTACK 1 - 1 1 BASHING ATTACK BASHING ATTACK 1 - 1 1 PARRY-LUNGE 1 TOTAL PARRY TOP WARRIOR OF EACH STYLE FIGHTING STYLE WARRIOR W L K PNTS TEAM NAME LUNGING ATTACK OVERDO 11483 6 4 0 60 BASH BROS PROJECT (1960) BASHING ATTACK MOUNTAIN 11502 4 0 0 47 SKYLINE (1962) STRIKING ATTACK CUMULO NIMBUS 11506 4 0 1 43 SKYLINE (1962) PARRY-RIPOSTE HARD WORK 11484 7 3 0 38 BASH BROS PROJECT (1960) Note: Warriors have a winning record and are an Adept or Above. The overall popularity leader is OVERDO 11483. The most popular warrior this turn was HARD WORK 11484. The ten other most popular fighters were UNFINISHED 11508, MOUNTAIN 11502, SIR PRYSIN 11382, SIR CULL 11380, SKYSCRAPER 11505, CUMULO NIMBUS 11506, SIR RENITEE 11378, TREE 11504, SCOPE CREEP 11487, and DAME MAIM 11381. The least popular fighter this week was ARCH 11503. The other ten least popular fighters were OVERDO 11483, SIR JERRY 11379, DAME MAIM 11381, SCOPE CREEP 11487, TREE 11504, SIR RENITEE 11378, CUMULO NIMBUS 11506, SKYSCRAPER 11505, SIR CULL 11380, and SIR PRYSIN 11382.