Old Stratics Combat Simulator

[Kraarug]

I'm trying to find a copy of the old Stratics Combat Simulator, T2A era correct.

I'm having a tough time ever believing that a katana was the fastest melee weapon given that Fencing’s only advantage was its status as being the fastest warrior skill. Reading the essays of the time, you can see that its design was to deliver poison rapidly and interrupt swings and spells.

It just doesn’t seem logical and certainly not balanced to give Swords the fastest weapon AND heaviest hitting pole arm (Hally). I mean, I just can’t see DesignerDragon signing off on that plan.

http://www.raphkoster.com/gaming/vaultnetwork.shtml

I certainly can see that goof Sunsword, photos of him with a Katana and all, doing it, but this is T2A not UO:R.



http://www.sunsword.com/mt_archives/cat ... nline.html

It seems to me that it is more likely that the one field for the Katana on the stratics page wasn’t updated properly with the new speeds from early ’99 to later ’99 and that’s why I’m looking for the combat simulators.

Do you know where I can find them? What do you recall as a player?

[Kraarug]

Here's an essay about fencing from the time. . .

http://web.archive.org/web/200003011823 ... atics.com/

"Fencing is the fastest combat skill. A fencer should be one of the fastest characters around. Put a grandmaster fencer on horseback and only a very few creatures or characters should be able to outrun her. Then her job becomes one of interrupting whatever offense or escape the victim is trying to mount!"

--The Fencer, by Lee Allison; Edited by Xena Dragon

[ClowN]

iv said this ever since i arrived on this server. fencing is horribly underpowered. kryss should definatly be faster then a katana. Right now there is no reason to even use fencing on this server. macing and swords are the only real options. please fix this!!

[Slimeball Jasper]

yeah fencing sucks and it used to be better than all 3 when t2a first came out for pure dexxers.

[Bean]

I also distinctly remember fencing being faster than swords

[caveman]

During t2a I remember people constantly arguing on forums about which is faster between katana/kryss.

[XaN]

Kryss was always faster from what I remember. This is the first server that i've played that has thought otherwise.

[biff]

Katana was slightly faster, kryss slightly stronger. I dont ever recall this not being the case.

[Serpent]

I remember they were real close in speed. I'm positive that the dagger was quite a bit faster than either kat or kryss though.

[Clyde-]

Short spear ftw