DUEL 2 NEWSLETTER
Date : 01/10/2022 Duedate: 02/05/2022
CHIMLEVTAL ARENA
DM-31 TURN-468
This Weeks Top Honors
THE DUELMASTER IS
RICHARD
CARTOON NETWORK (667)
(31-6950) [11-11-1,115]
Chartered Recognition Leader Unchartered Recognition Leader
RICHARD BRECKENRIDGE
CARTOON NETWORK (667) 2115 BOURBON ST (675)
(31-6950) [11-11-1,115] (31-7130) [2-0-0,30]
Popularity Leader This Weeks Favorite
TANKEN EL CHUPACABRAS
AVENGERS (146) AFTER MIDNIGHT (662)
(31-6987) [15-21-3,90] (31-7111) [5-1-0,35]
THE CURRENT TOP TEAM
USEFUL WEAPONS (636)
TEAMS ON THE MOVE TOP CAREER HONORS
Team Name Point Gain Chartered Team
1. BASH BROS OCEAN (627) 37
2. 2115 BOURBON ST (675) 36 USEFUL WEAPONS (636)
3. JUST DESSERTS (569) 35 Unchartered Team
4. CARTOON NETWORK (667) 23
5. SOLIS MILITES (511) 20 2115 BOURBON ST (675)
The Top Teams
Career Win-Loss Record W L K % Win-Loss Record Last 3 Turns W L K
1/ 2 USEFUL WEAPONS (636) 253 166 9 60.4 1/ 2 USEFUL WEAPONS (636) 7 3 0
2/ 1 SOLIS MILITES (511) 32 21 2 60.4 2/ 3 CARTOON NETWORK (667) 7 7 1
3/ 3 AFTER MIDNIGHT (662) 123 98 6 55.7 3/ 1 AVENGERS (146) 6 9 1
4/ 4 JUST DESSERTS (569) 145 137 6 51.4 4/ 6 AFTER MIDNIGHT (662) 4 1 1
5/ 5 BASH BROS OCEAN (627) 207 203 10 50.5 5/ 9 JUST DESSERTS (569) 4 5 0
6- 6 ASSASSIN NATION (515) 426 449 60 48.7 6/ 8 SOLIS MILITES (511) 4 6 0
7/ 7 AVENGERS (146) 522 572 41 47.7 7/ 4 BASH BROS OCEAN (627) 4 7 1
8/ 8 CARTOON NETWORK (667) 48 56 3 46.2 8/ 7 BIRDS (647) 3 5 0
9- 9 THE OTHER ONES (404) 84 106 7 44.2 9/11*2115 BOURBON ST (675) 3 6 0
10/10 BIRDS (647) 17 26 0 39.5 10- 5 THE OTHER ONES (404) 1 0 0
11/11*2115 BOURBON ST (675) 3 6 0 33.3 11-10 ASSASSIN NATION (515) 1 4 0
'*' Unchartered team '-' Team did not fight this turn
(###) Avoid teams by their Team Id ##/## This turn's/Last turn's rank
DUELMASTER'S COLUMN
Notes from the arena champ.
A harpoon is a long spear-like instrument and tool used in fishing, whaling,
sealing, and other marine hunting to catch large fish or marine mammals such as
whales. It accomplishes this task by impaling the target animal and securing it with
barb or toggling claws, allowing the fishermen to use a rope or chain attached to the
projectile to catch the animal. A harpoon can also be used as a WEAPON. Certain
harpoons are made with different builds to perform better with the type of target
being aimed at: the Inuit for example have short, fixed foreshaft harpoons for hunting
at breathing holes while loose shafted ones are made for attaching to the game thrown
at.
And, I am HARPOON, Duelmaster of Chimlevtal. So I beg you to beware. I have not
killed anyone yet. Yet, I say.
-- Harpoon, DMI
SPY REPORT
That'll teach me to take a vacation break! Last turn we saw a dinosaur kill
(maybe my second favorite type of kill - the first, of course, being a vicious DC
kill) a young promising warrior. Well down, TANKEN! I truly did believe in you,
FLOYD'S BOOKIE! Clearly it wasn't to be. THE JEFF gave FLOYD'S BOOKIE his first loss
here in Chimlevtal last turn as well. Destitute Noble and FLOYD'S BOOKIE deserve
credit, though, as they avenged the loss this turn! Was it one of those fluke random
losses or should we be asking for the rubber match?!?
Channel Master, however, laughed that loss off when RICHARD pulled off a most
improbable win. HARPOON has been nothing but fantastic. But this turn!?! Challenging
in one of the more lopsided matchups, ST vs BA, SMITHY almost certainly thought an
easy win was coming. Even more so when that BA is below .500 while the ST looks
tournament worthy! RICHARD won an amazing upset and took the throne and top
recognition spot while HARPOON was dropped all the way into the Champion class. I
have to wonder if Lady Smith was involved in this fiasco...
Even though I missed the excitement from last turn, this turn had some more
personal enjoyment. WAND sent a vicious Tournament Victor downchallenge to SUNKIST.
These are the kind of challenges that make me smile ear to ear! And the thought that
it could happen again next turn?!?! HAHAHAHAHA! Even better, that dropped SOLIS
MILITES into the second career win/loss position. Welcome back to the top, USEFUL
WEAPONS and Smithy! WAND also has the current best undefeated streak at 3.
Not wanting to be outdone, Weirdo issued a similarly nasty challenge. From the
very top of the Challenger Initiates to the very bottom of the Initiates, EL
CHUPACABRAS challenged MORTIMER. Welcome to 0-2, MORTIMER! That was completely it for
the challenges. 4 of them! That is a bit below average for 14 fights, but that is
what we saw!
The awards were spread pretty well. The wins were mostly spread out well, too.
Except there are 5 managers who didn't share well! There was clearly some
miscommunication as the people who were supposed to give Huckle Cat's AVENGERS wins
didn't do it! You know who you are, Omnimancer (SOLIS MILITES), Assur (BASH BROS
OCEAN), Channel Master (CARTOON NETWORK), the manager of BIRDS, and Riff-Raff (2115
BOURBON ST).
To close this one out, 2 teams shared the most avoided team, with 5 avoids each.
SOLIS MILITES and AFTER MIDNIGHT each received 5 avoids. USEFUL WEAPONS avoided the
most, sending 4 of the 10 avoids.
-- Belinda, looking forward to enjoying Chimlevtal's tourney dominance
(hey, a girl can dream)
DUELMASTER W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
RICHARD 6950 11 11 1 115 CARTOON NETWORK (667)
CHALLENGER CHAMPIONS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
-BAD BURRITO 7032 9 8 1 117 AFTER MIDNIGHT (662)
CHALLENGER CHAMPIONS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
FLOYD'S BROOKIE 7036 9 1 0 108 JUST DESSERTS (569)
COLD WIND 7043 8 5 0 100 BASH BROS OCEAN (627)
-SNARKEY LIME PIE 6726 14 9 0 93 JUST DESSERTS (569)
CHAMPIONS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
TANKEN 6987 15 21 3 90 AVENGERS (146)
HARPOON 7014 16 4 0 86 USEFUL WEAPONS (636)
THE JEFF 7056 11 5 1 85 CARTOON NETWORK (667)
-WITCHING HOUR 6933 20 9 0 84 AFTER MIDNIGHT (662)
-TANTRUM 5083 9 6 2 70 THE OTHER ONES (404)
-RESENTMENT 7038 11 6 0 68 ASSASSIN NATION (515)
CHALLENGER ADEPTS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
RAVEN 7115 5 2 0 64 CARTOON NETWORK (667)
-COCKFIGHT 6967 7 14 0 60 AFTER MIDNIGHT (662)
LAVA CAKE GOLEM 7039 9 2 0 59 JUST DESSERTS (569)
ADEPTS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
ROCKY 7053 7 6 0 51 BASH BROS OCEAN (627)
DODGE'EM DUDE 7019 13 10 1 50 AVENGERS (146)
BRASS KNUCKLES 7058 8 4 0 49 USEFUL WEAPONS (636)
SOL DAEMON 4706 7 4 1 42 SOLIS MILITES (511)
EL CHUPACABRAS 7111 5 1 0 35 AFTER MIDNIGHT (662)
CHALLENGER INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
TOUCAN 6638 6 4 0 33 BIRDS (647)
SOLAMANCER 4709 7 4 1 31 SOLIS MILITES (511)
BISHAMON 7069 7 5 0 31 AVENGERS (146)
WAND 7113 3 0 0 30 USEFUL WEAPONS (636)
BRECKENRIDGE 7130 2 0 0 30 2115 BOURBON ST (675)
-HATRED 7068 3 5 0 28 ASSASSIN NATION (515)
DUMBBELL 7112 3 2 0 27 USEFUL WEAPONS (636)
SOL SCORCH 4710 7 4 0 25 SOLIS MILITES (511)
-GOLDFINCH 6636 3 5 0 25 BIRDS (647)
-CHAFFY TAFFY 7048 7 3 0 24 JUST DESSERTS (569)
INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
-CROW BAR 7057 2 6 1 19 USEFUL WEAPONS (636)
BASARA KUBIKIRI 7104 4 4 0 17 AVENGERS (146)
SEAGULL 6637 3 6 0 17 BIRDS (647)
-INDIGNATION 7118 1 1 1 17 THE OTHER ONES (404)
-DISOBEDIENT 7060 2 3 0 16 THE OTHER ONES (404)
-WICKEDNESS 7096 1 2 1 16 ASSASSIN NATION (515)
-CHARYBDIS 7119 3 0 1 15 THE OTHER ONES (404)
-BLUEBIRD 6635 3 5 0 14 BIRDS (647)
-BODILY HARM 7117 1 0 0 13 THE OTHER ONES (404)
-WREN 6639 2 6 0 12 BIRDS (647)
CONTRADICTION 7147 1 0 0 12 2115 BOURBON ST (675)
SUN BELT 7150 1 0 0 10 SOLIS MILITES (511)
-VILENESS 7110 0 1 0 7 ASSASSIN NATION (515)
MORTIMER 7141 0 2 0 6 CARTOON NETWORK (667)
SUNKIST 7037 1 1 0 4 SOLIS MILITES (511)
HAOMARU 7142 0 2 0 2 AVENGERS (146)
BEER BARREL 7146 0 1 0 1 2115 BOURBON ST (675)
'-' denotes a warrior who did not fight this turn.
THE DEAD W L K TEAM NAME SLAIN BY TURN Revenge?
HOOCH 1 7149 0 1 0 2115 BOURBON ST 675 THE RAGE MAN 468 NONE
DISDAIN 7083 7 3 0 ASSASSIN NATION 515 TANKEN 6987 467
RIPTIDE 7145 0 1 0 BASH BROS OCEAN 627 SHEWISH GIANT 468 NONE
SWIMMING 7144 0 1 0 BASH BROS OCEAN 627 PREACHER 468 NONE
ANAIS 6948 9 8 0 CARTOON NETWORK 667 BAD BURRITO 7032 466
THE DEAD W L K TEAM NAME SLAIN BY TURN Revenge?
WET N SLOPPY 7151 0 1 0 JUST DESSERTS 569 THE RAGE MAN 468 NONE
PERSONAL ADS
Where, oh where, is Belinda? -- Smithy, Useless Weapons
Fighting Chance, I am sorry, but I do not make war flails. One must purchase new ones
from some cheap shop such as Assur's Whiffle Works or Weirdo's Worthless Used
Antiques. Good luck to you. -- Smithy, Useless Weapons
Harpoon?! My Harpoon is Duelmaster?! What a wonderful world. -- Smithy, Useful Weapons
Sol Scorch, I can throw up a few scorches myself. Beware the knucks! -- Brass
knuckles, Useful Weapons
Oski Noble, how kind of you to stand in for my magic practice. I hope I didn't hurt
you too badly. -- Wand, Useful Weapon
Richard, I enjoy cartoons and fighting cartoon Richards. -- Harpoon, Useful Weapons
Happy New Year to all. -- Smithy, Useful Weapons
Bah, Humbug! -- Lady Smith
Assur -- Is that so? Ooooh! I'm shaking in my fuzzy slippers! -- Weirdo
Richard -- Nah, I'm just too comfortable where I am. You see, my manager put me in
this new Rotisserie Air-Fryer Carousel Thingy as a reward for brutally eviscerating
Anais in really really nasty ways. It's so warm and toasty here. I can frolic in my
own filth and pick my feet until the cows come home. -- Bad Burrito
P.S. By the way, I have a sister that resides on Niytyole Island if your manager
would like to give it a go?
LAST WEEK'S FIGHTS
SWIMMING was barely slain by PREACHER in a 2 minute bloody Dark Arena fight.
HOOCH 1 was viciously butchered by THE RAGE MAN in a 2 minute Dark Arena battle.
WET N SLOPPY was murdered by THE RAGE MAN in a 1 minute Dark Arena fight.
RIPTIDE was viciously butchered by SHEWISH GIANT in a 2 minute Dark Arena brawl.
WAND overpowered SUNKIST in a 1 minute one-sided Challenge fight.
HARPOON was devastated by RICHARD in a 1 minute uneven Challenge Title brawl.
FLOYD'S BROOKIE overpowered THE JEFF in a 1 minute one-sided Challenge struggle.
EL CHUPACABRAS overcame MORTIMER in a 2 minute expert vs. beginner Challenge fight.
TANKEN lost to COLD WIND in a popular 1 minute expert's duel.
DODGE'EM DUDE was vanquished by RAVEN in a popular 1 minute brutal one-sided duel.
BISHAMON was overcome by SOL DAEMON in a 2 minute bout.
SOLAMANCER was overpowered by LAVA CAKE GOLEM in a 1 minute one-sided match.
BRASS KNUCKLES devastated SOL SCORCH in a 1 minute mismatched conflict.
DUMBBELL was demolished by ROCKY in a 1 minute mismatched match.
BASARA KUBIKIRI was overpowered by TOUCAN in a 1 minute mismatched conflict.
BRECKENRIDGE overpowered SEAGULL in a 1 minute one-sided duel.
HAOMARU was devastated by CONTRADICTION in a 1 minute uneven duel.
SUN BELT overpowered BEER BARREL in a 1 minute mismatched brawl.
BATTLE REPORT
MOST POPULAR RECORD DURING THE LAST 10 TURNS
|FIGHTING STYLE FIGHTS FIGHTING STYLE W - L - K PERCENT|
|AIMED BLOW 7 PARRY-LUNGE 6 - 1 - 0 86 |
|LUNGING ATTACK 5 SLASHING ATTACK 33 - 21 - 3 61 |
|STRIKING ATTACK 5 PARRY-RIPOSTE 4 - 4 - 0 50 |
|BASHING ATTACK 4 LUNGING ATTACK 23 - 23 - 1 50 |
|SLASHING ATTACK 3 STRIKING ATTACK 25 - 26 - 1 49 |
|TOTAL PARRY 3 WALL OF STEEL 21 - 22 - 3 49 |
|PARRY-STRIKE 2 TOTAL PARRY 29 - 31 - 2 48 |
|WALL OF STEEL 2 AIMED BLOW 26 - 31 - 1 46 |
|PARRY-LUNGE 1 PARRY-STRIKE 7 - 10 - 0 41 |
|PARRY-RIPOSTE 0 BASHING ATTACK 18 - 28 - 1 39 |
Turn 468 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-LUNGE 1 - 0 LUNGING ATTACK 2 - 3 2 LUNGING ATTACK
PARRY-STRIKE 2 - 0 SLASHING ATTACK 1 - 2 2 AIMED BLOW
AIMED BLOW 4 - 3 TOTAL PARRY 1 - 2 1 BASHING ATTACK
WALL OF STEEL 1 - 1 BASHING ATTACK 1 - 3 1 SLASHING ATTACK
STRIKING ATTACK 1 - 4 1 PARRY-LUNGE
PARRY-RIPOSTE 0 - 0 1 PARRY-RIPOSTE
1 STRIKING ATTACK
1 TOTAL PARRY
1 WALL OF STEEL
TOP WARRIOR OF EACH STYLE
FIGHTING STYLE WARRIOR W L K PNTS TEAM NAME
PARRY-LUNGE FLOYD'S BROOKIE 7036 9 1 0 108 JUST DESSERTS (569)
LUNGING ATTACK COLD WIND 7043 8 5 0 100 BASH BROS OCEAN (627)
STRIKING ATTACK HARPOON 7014 16 4 0 86 USEFUL WEAPONS (636)
AIMED BLOW THE JEFF 7056 11 5 1 85 CARTOON NETWORK (667)
SLASHING ATTACK RAVEN 7115 5 2 0 64 CARTOON NETWORK (667)
TOTAL PARRY LAVA CAKE GOLEM 7039 9 2 0 59 JUST DESSERTS (569)
PARRY-STRIKE ROCKY 7053 7 6 0 51 BASH BROS OCEAN (627)
WALL OF STEEL SOL DAEMON 4706 7 4 1 42 SOLIS MILITES (511)
Note: Warriors have a winning record and are an Adept or Above.
The overall popularity leader is TANKEN 6987. The most popular warrior this turn was
RIPTIDE 7145. The ten other most popular fighters were EL CHUPACABRAS 7111, RAVEN
7115, BISHAMON 7069, SOL DAEMON 4706, SWIMMING 7144, RICHARD 6950, FLOYD'S BROOKIE
7036, MORTIMER 7141, COLD WIND 7043, and BRASS KNUCKLES 7058.
The least popular fighter this week was BEER BARREL 7146. The other ten least
popular fighters were HAOMARU 7142, SEAGULL 6637, BASARA KUBIKIRI 7104, DUMBBELL
7112, SOL SCORCH 4710, HARPOON 7014, SUNKIST 7037, TOUCAN 6638, SOLAMANCER 4709, and
DODGE'EM DUDE 7019.
MY TAKE ON THE PARRY SLASH
I'm sure I'm not covering any new ground with my insights on the Wall of Steel. It is
my best fighting style and a favorite. I have currently 3 in ADM, and about a half
dozen active in the arenas with one currently undefeated and Duelmaster in DM 41.
So a bit about my observations. Like most defensive styles it seems to work best to
run these guys offensively while they are young so I outfit them and run them like a
slasher. They favor the initiative, parry and attack skills which sucks a bit in ADM
because they lack in defense skill and since defense is king in the late game, Walls
of Steel fall back into the pack quite a bit. It stinks but done right they can hold
their own vs anyone except end game lungers and aimed blows who seem to be way OP at
that level.
Anyway, stats are important of course. Strength should at least be 9+ to get slashing
weapons. Con can be lower; I have gotten away with a con of 7 because I run them fast
and furious anyway so if they get out jumped or crit dodged and ripped then they go
down easy. Most fights are over in minute 1 anyway. Size is a thing; smaller sizes
would be nice but you have issues with damage if you go low size and strength less
than 11. I have an upper limit of around 14 size and a lower one of 5 in my current
crew. Wit is a no brainer: 15+ is almost mandatory but I am running one with a 13 that
is doing ok but learning slows down to a crawl if you have less than 15. Will is super
necessary so I try not to go below 15 here with a build. Speed isn't really a
priority, so I often go as low as 3 here and they still do very well. More speed would
be nice, but speed is a luxury and not a necessity. Deftness is nice, I won't run a
WOS with less than a 13 here; my highest is 21 with a current ADM build.
Now how to run them. Well, minute one is offensive so I typically run 10-10-6 and then
taper off to a high offensive effort and a low or moderate activity level. It seems
that the majority of my ADM builds prefer a high-low pace.
So a couple of current warrior builds to show off the style.
Midnight, currently in ADM -- 9-11(2)-10-17-15-3-21, about to start stat raises
but currently has ad masters in attack and initiative.
Ishmail currently in Home Guard -- 12-9-6-15-17-9-15, currently at 93 skills and
wont be stat raising for a minute.
Average Joe in Mordant -- 11-11-14-13-13-9-13, painfully bad at learning and
definitely not recommended for the faint of heart.
Beowulf in Seam -- 11-12-9-15-17-3-17, currently at 54 skills and near the top of
the arena. Has fallen on hard times of late because of diminishing returns on
skill learns.
Broken in Shadowspire -- 9-14-9-17-17-5-13, very new and probably going to be a
.500 warrior when it's all said and done because of the low speed and deftness
combo.
Bender in DM 41 -- 9-7-14-17-17-3-17, currently undefeated and duelmaster, won't
last long but he started out as a tourney warrior and has gone at best 6-3 and
went 4-3 in this past mail-in as an adept.
So for anyone who doesn't know, a speed and deftness of 21 total is needed to get
normal coordination and a combo of 28 is needed to get the "fights well with either
hand" tag on your roll up. So not really relevant to the topic but just thought I'd
throw that out there. I like to keep this total at the very least 18 to get slightly
uncoordinated on all my builds because coordination is vital to defense and attack.
Okay, that's my take on this fun style. If I have enlightened anyone then you are
welcome, I hope I at least entertained everyone. Take it easy.
-- Eli