Post by mikeEB on Jun 20, 2009 15:31:48 GMT -5
A snapshot of a recent game between me and Krosmarc:
After including gestures known from other spells I've cast (shields and an anti-spell, and the charmed gesture), my spellflow looks like this:
At this point, I have a decent permanency threat (requiring PDWP to defend) no matter what the unknown gesture is. I also have additional options if the unknown gesture is a D, W or S, as will be demonstrated later.
Exercise:As Krosmarc, try to defend.
Next turn, Krosmarc enters the standard permanency defense with P/D, with a chance to use amnesia/charm to break up a time-stopped FoD. I go F/D, making a strong but ambiguous threat:
At this point, Krosmarc has to defend charm/permanency on one hand and two of anti-spell/para/FoD on the other, but he doesn't know which two. If he knew what the ? was, he could have adequately defended either possibility.
Krosmarc does a defense that only works vs. permanency, I continue to threaten FoD, and Krosmarc surrenders three turns later.
With this in mind, I believe LH:S on turn 19 is the correct move rather than LH:W even if I intend to use this exact follow-up. Why? Because my opponent will either (a) defend the FoD well enough that it wouldn't hit anyway, or (b) surrender. Meanwhile, I also have the option to anti-spell. As long as the first S is invisible, PSPFSSS is just as good as PWPFSSS, and PSPFP is far better than PWPFP.
Conversely, if your opponent apparently goes for FoD out of invisibility, you have one extra escape chance if you're willing to risk dying: the possibility that your opponent can't actually follow through.
Krosmarc(1) Health:16
Turn:01234567890123456789
LH:BDPSDPPSFSSPPSDFSCWW
RH:BSFWFFSWDPPSDFPWPCWP
MikeEB(2) Health:15
Turn:012345678901234567890
LH:BSWWWSDPPSDDPPWS???P
RH:BWWPSDFWWSWWWSWS???S
After including gestures known from other spells I've cast (shields and an anti-spell, and the charmed gesture), my spellflow looks like this:
MikeEB(2) Health:15
Turn:012345678901234567890
LH:BSWWWSDPPSDDPPWS-P?P
RH:BWWPSDFWWSWWWSWSPFPS
At this point, I have a decent permanency threat (requiring PDWP to defend) no matter what the unknown gesture is. I also have additional options if the unknown gesture is a D, W or S, as will be demonstrated later.
Exercise:As Krosmarc, try to defend.
Next turn, Krosmarc enters the standard permanency defense with P/D, with a chance to use amnesia/charm to break up a time-stopped FoD. I go F/D, making a strong but ambiguous threat:
Krosmarc(1) Health:16
678901
FSCWWP
WPCWPD
MikeEB(2) Health:15
678901
S-P?PF
SPFPSD
At this point, Krosmarc has to defend charm/permanency on one hand and two of anti-spell/para/FoD on the other, but he doesn't know which two. If he knew what the ? was, he could have adequately defended either possibility.
Krosmarc does a defense that only works vs. permanency, I continue to threaten FoD, and Krosmarc surrenders three turns later.
With this in mind, I believe LH:S on turn 19 is the correct move rather than LH:W even if I intend to use this exact follow-up. Why? Because my opponent will either (a) defend the FoD well enough that it wouldn't hit anyway, or (b) surrender. Meanwhile, I also have the option to anti-spell. As long as the first S is invisible, PSPFSSS is just as good as PWPFSSS, and PSPFP is far better than PWPFP.
Conversely, if your opponent apparently goes for FoD out of invisibility, you have one extra escape chance if you're willing to risk dying: the possibility that your opponent can't actually follow through.
