DUEL 2 NEWSLETTER
Date : 01/27/2023 Duedate: 02/09/2023
NOBLISH ISLAND ARENA
DM 93 TURN 627
This Week's Top Honors
THE DUELMASTER IS
PARTY
BB BACHELOR (1860)
(93-10899) [4-2-0,49]
Chartered Recognition Leader Unchartered Recognition Leader
POSITION IS EMPTY PARTY
BB BACHELOR (1860)
(93-10899) [4-2-0,49]
Popularity Leader This Week's Favorite
PLAYER SILENT MAJORITY
BB BACHELOR (1860) SILENT GENERATION (1861)
(93-10896) [5-1-0,48] (93-10905) [2-2-0,9]
THE CURRENT TOP TEAM
SILENT GENERATION (1861)
TEAMS ON THE MOVE TOP CAREER HONORS
Team Name Point Gain Chartered Team
1. BB BACHELOR (1860) 70
2. KOGA (613) 18 DYSERAY (312)
3. SILENT GENERATION (1861) -52 Unchartered Team
KOGA (613)
The Top Teams
Career Win-Loss Record W L K % Win-Loss Record Last 3 Turns W L K
1/ 0*KOGA (613) 1 0 0 100. 1/ 1*SILENT GENERATION (1861) 8 7 0
2/ 2*BB BACHELOR (1860) 19 11 1 63.3 2/ 2*BB BACHELOR (1860) 7 8 0
3/ 1*SILENT GENERATION (1861) 12 8 0 60.0 3/ 0*KOGA (613) 1 0 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 (STRATEGIC 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?
1. Always challenge and avoid. Use the challenge and if-challenged
strategies on your strategy sheet to manipulate fight opponents in your
favor.
2. 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.
3. Take advantage of bloodfeuds 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 bloodfeud.)
4. 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.
5. Make your warrior do what his style does best. (E.g., STs get the jump,
LUs dodge, TPs parry and scum, SLs attack, etc.)
6. Use high CN to your advantage by soaking hits and then later hitting and
finishing a worn down opponent.
7. Pay attention to where an opponent is aiming his attacks and protect that
location on subsequent fights.
8. Be bad! "Pick on" warriors with less skill, less experience, or lots of
losses.
9. 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 common in all other arenas except no-tournament
arenas.)
10. 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.
11. Dress to fit your strategy: Naked is faster/quicker; plated is most
protected and sponges best, but slower.
12. Do not overdress and excessively encumber your warrior. It greatly
hampers ability to carry and endure and even to fight properly.
13. 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.
14. Know your opposing manager's styles and methods. Try to fight weaker
managers and avoid those who just seem to win lots.
15. 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.).
16. 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.
17. Try to manipulate your fight so you match with an NPC (Non-playing-
character; RSI Stand-In).
18. Send your warrior to tournaments. It gets hidden FE on his record and ups
his skill/stat level unbeknownst to those paying little attention.
19. 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.
20. Design warriors to win rather than to look godling-like. Sure, skills are
important, but maybe not as important as physicals -- specially early on.
21. Take advantage of arena DM93. Read the spotlights. Know your C.I.C.
package info or get info from the Terrablood and Assur sites.
22. Cheer on your warriors. Stay excited! Yeah!
-- F.D.R., a Consortium paid
and affiliated member
(version 1-26-23)
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. Gee, I'm impressed, a 4-1-0
is nice, but don't get cocky, BB BACHELOR, the Fates teach humility, and the Fates
are proud. Of course, we're all terribly impressed to see PLAYER win a fight and
gain 24 points, terribly. Tsk, tsk, PLAYER beat SPAM and SPAM lost 20 points.
You're breakin' my heart. Our Duelmaster has lost, folks, lost to M. CHARDINEE, BUT
PARTY 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?
Well, let's take a look at some more misdeeds of you miserable sword-boys.
NOBLISH ISLAND, I am losing what little hope I had in you. SILENT GENERATION the
most avoided team? What insult will suffice, I cannot say. And who led the way in
this mass act of cowardice? Let's see, well, whatcha know? It was BB BACHELOR. Ha
ha ha ha! WW II was challenged more times this turn than the Duelmaster. Now was
the DM insulted or feared? Heh, heh. And we have UNCLEAN in a challenge, going down
9 points for the fight. Guess what? I thought UNCLEAN showed great skill and
promise when he overcame WW II. All right, so I slept through it! Big deal!
Some people like volunteer work in the hospitals. I volunteer for NOBLISH
ISLAND's morgue. More variety. Honor is like a chainmail shirt, it only shines
through use. Certain nameless cowards will doubtless rebuke me on this one.
I was about to buy a new quill pen the other day, but some fighter took it for
an epee. Forgive me for writing with a dagger. Phlllt! Just had to do that before
I leave the fine city of NOBLISH ISLAND. I feel much better now. Glad to see the
back of this place-- Snide Clemens
DUELMASTER W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
PARTY 10899 4 2 0 49 BB BACHELOR (1860)
ADEPTS W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
PLAYER 10896 5 1 0 48 BB BACHELOR (1860)
CHALLENGER INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
NO CARES 10897 3 3 1 30 BB BACHELOR (1860)
UNCLEAN 10898 4 2 0 26 BB BACHELOR (1860)
SPAM 10903 3 1 0 25 SILENT GENERATION (1861)
ONE NIGHT STAND 10895 3 3 0 25 BB BACHELOR (1860)
INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
WW II 10906 2 2 0 20 SILENT GENERATION (1861)
MATCIOUS 3568 1 0 0 18 KOGA (613)
INITIATES W L K POINTS TEAM NAME
MCCARTHY 10902 2 2 0 16 SILENT GENERATION (1861)
GREAT DEPRESSION 10904 3 1 0 10 SILENT GENERATION (1861)
SILENT MAJORITY 10905 2 2 0 9 SILENT GENERATION (1861)
'-' denotes a warrior who did not fight this turn.
THE DEAD W L K TEAM NAME SLAIN BY TURN Revenge?
PERSONAL ADS
LAST WEEK'S FIGHTS
UNCLEAN bested WW II in a crowd pleasing 4 minute gruesome Challenge fight.
PARTY was subdued by M. CHARDINEE in a 2 minute Title melee.
SPAM was demolished by PLAYER in a crowd pleasing 1 minute uneven fight.
GREAT DEPRESSION was devastated by NO CARES in a 1 minute one-sided fight.
MCCARTHY was subdued by ONE NIGHT STAND in a crowd pleasing 4 minute competition.
SILENT MAJORITY was unbelievably bested by MATCIOUS in a 4 minute amateur's fight.
BATTLE REPORT
MOST POPULAR RECORD DURING THE LAST 10 TURNS
|FIGHTING STYLE FIGHTS FIGHTING STYLE W - L - K PERCENT|
|AIMED BLOW 2 LUNGING ATTACK 5 - 0 - 0 100 |
|PARRY-STRIKE 2 AIMED BLOW 13 - 7 - 0 65 |
|TOTAL PARRY 2 TOTAL PARRY 22 - 15 - 1 59 |
|STRIKING ATTACK 2 PARRY-STRIKE 7 - 5 - 0 58 |
|PARRY-LUNGE 1 BASHING ATTACK 15 - 11 - 1 58 |
|SLASHING ATTACK 1 STRIKING ATTACK 13 - 12 - 0 52 |
|BASHING ATTACK 1 PARRY-LUNGE 6 - 6 - 0 50 |
|PARRY-RIPOSTE 0 PARRY-RIPOSTE 4 - 5 - 0 44 |
|LUNGING ATTACK 0 SLASHING ATTACK 4 - 5 - 1 44 |
|WALL OF STEEL 0 WALL OF STEEL 0 - 1 - 0 0 |
Turn 627 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 PARRY-RIPOSTE 0 - 0 2 PARRY-STRIKE
SLASHING ATTACK 1 - 0 LUNGING ATTACK 0 - 0 2 AIMED BLOW
AIMED BLOW 1 - 1 STRIKING ATTACK 0 - 2 2 TOTAL PARRY
PARRY-STRIKE 1 - 1 BASHING ATTACK 0 - 1 1 PARRY-LUNGE
TOTAL PARRY 1 - 1 WALL OF STEEL 0 - 0 1 SLASHING ATTACK
1 STRIKING ATTACK
1 WALL OF STEEL
1 BASHING ATTACK
TOP WARRIOR OF EACH STYLE
FIGHTING STYLE WARRIOR W L K PNTS TEAM NAME
PARRY-STRIKE PARTY 10899 4 2 0 49 BB BACHELOR (1860)
PARRY-LUNGE PLAYER 10896 5 1 0 48 BB BACHELOR (1860)
Note: Warriors have a winning record and are an Adept or Above.
The overall popularity leader is PLAYER 10896. The most popular warrior this turn
was SILENT MAJORITY 10905. The ten other most popular fighters were UNCLEAN 10898,
MCCARTHY 10902, PLAYER 10896, PARTY 10899, NO CARES 10897, MATCIOUS 3568, SPAM 10903,
ONE NIGHT STAND 10895, GREAT DEPRESSION 10904, and WW II 10906.
The least popular fighter this week was WW II 10906. The other ten least popular
fighters were GREAT DEPRESSION 10904, ONE NIGHT STAND 10895, SPAM 10903, MATCIOUS
3568, NO CARES 10897, PARTY 10899, PLAYER 10896, MCCARTHY 10902, UNCLEAN 10898, and
SILENT MAJORITY 10905.