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Beginner's Help and Guides / Re: Best build for heavy basterd sword

« on: April 23, 2012, 12:42:03 am »

I'm using 21/21 with 0 WM right now and it's been pretty fun. You'll be faster than the average guy but can still make a mistake or two.

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Beginner's Help and Guides / Re: Shield with Long sword question

« on: March 25, 2012, 07:48:46 am »

When you're using a shield with longsword, you use 1h wpf, however you have something like a ~30% penalty to speed and damage. The only time I ever use a shield + longsword combination is if I'm chasing down an archer with his bow equipped. Otherwise, you swing really, really slow - I guess you could try to use it like a changeup but I doubt it would be very effective after they adapt to your first ultra slow-mo swing.

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General Discussion / Re: Sell me on your clan.

« on: March 23, 2012, 05:13:00 pm »

Top 10 reasons to join the FCC

10. You get to wear bright, bright yellow to helpfully announce yourself to enemy lances, arrows and bolts.

9. Best NA cav clan (i.e. dickless and gay).

8. Ability to unleash Kesh onto the forums and watch your enemies' heads explode in mindless, mouth frothing rage.

7. Friendly and accessible to new players like Huey Noobten.

6. BIRD clan.

5. Might not all be that skillfull but are definitely a bunch of good guys on TS.

4. 3. 2. and 1. Cyranule's mustache.

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Beginner's Help and Guides / Favorite feint / footwork attacks?

« on: March 19, 2012, 09:54:28 pm »

1h: Left swing when you're to the left of your opponent while moving to your right. Left swing again if you manage to move across them to the right unless it's a 1 hander attacking back with their own left swing.

2h: Left swing when you're to the left of your opponent while moving to your right and maintaining a moderate distance, vice versa if you start from your opponent's right side. Thrust while moving backwards unless they manage to face hug you when you step back since you'll probably glance or get hit first then.

What kind of feints or footwork attacks do you guys recommend/find effective?

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Beginner's Help and Guides / Re: Help with Masterwork 1 hander build

« on: March 11, 2012, 12:26:21 am »

Just want to reiterate what others have said - you'll be playing with a handicap with only 5 ps as a 1 hander. EU might be different, but playing on NA1 will be frustrating with all of the heavy armor and high strength builds. ex. Midnighter (Kalam) uses a 15/27 build and is a force on duel where it'll always be 1 vs 1 and he can use left/up swings to the head to deal damage but on battle it's too easy to get one shot from situations you can't control (teamwounding, you can't guarantee that 1 vs 1, piked in the back, etc). Plus, he's mentioned on TS how that 9 athletics hasn't really made that much of a difference in (relative) speed.

If you're dead set on going 15 str, I'd recommend using a different 1 hander like the steel pick.

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Suggestions Corner / Re: Change how attacks are interrupted

« on: February 22, 2012, 02:42:46 am »

I've actually had this happen to me before as a 2hander against another 2hander. I doubt I'll ever see it happen again but it was hilarious! I wish I remembered who the other guy was.

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Faction Halls / Re: [Fallen]The Fallen Brigade (Recruiting EU/NA)

« on: January 09, 2012, 07:12:24 am »

If anyone would like to join Fallen to run an archer squad with me, please PM...

I'm getting lonely...

So lonely...

Hold me =(

NOOOooo don't fall back to the dark side Fallen!

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Strategus General Discussion / Re: strat 3.0

« on: December 21, 2011, 11:40:16 pm »

Yeah cause running away is a valid tactic in wars? At some point armies have to engage.

Actually...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_strategy
:p

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Strategus General Discussion / Re: strat 3.0

« on: December 21, 2011, 08:58:07 pm »

What a bunch of bullshit. You only realized it was not fun when YOU started getting attacked at impossible hours. You were calling Mercs a bunch of whiny noobs previous to that for daring to suggest that it was a dick move.
One of the reasons you signed the peace treaty was because you felt bad about attacking Mercs at off hours? Do you even listen to yourselves anymore? Does having Kesh in a clan make ridiculous face-saving propaganda 100% more effective or something?

It wasn't fun back then for the Mercs or us when we also were attacked at bad time slots.. hence peace treaty. Why don't you take a step back and see who's playing the part of the fool here. I'm pretty sure everyone has a lot more fun when both sides can actually show up and fight, yet all of sudden it's not true because we're the ones saying it?

edit: Here are some quotes from the truce and the actual peace treaty thread:

Great news, less lag and less 5 AM fights. Good job all for coming to an agreement. Thanks!

Im sorry I saw this and I just couldnt resist...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_hGvKmbLec
The fellas at the friggin FCC!!!!!!!

Thanks for the end to 5am battles.

@gotetooth dont worry we stil luv ya enough to let ya fight for us anytime 

"FINALLY I CAN GET SOME ****ING SLEEP" pact =).

Frankly, I love this pact.
But it should be called "weekend pact" or "I-need-to-work pact", or just "real life pact" %)

confirmed, toilet pact renewed,  thank god for sleep

Sleep > Strat

I'm sorry I don't have audio recordings from our Vent or steam/irc logs as well to sate your quest for truth but is it really that hard to believe that fighting at terrible times was not very fun for everyone involved?

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Strategus General Discussion / Re: strat 3.0

« on: December 21, 2011, 06:29:26 pm »

Yes we did, but we realized it takes the fun out of the game.
One of the reasons we came to an agreement to end the war.

 

^This. Also, as Gristle already mentioned, attacking at off hours is a legitimate tactic but it certainly doesn't foster fun gameplay.

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Strategus General Discussion / Re: strat 3.0

« on: December 21, 2011, 07:53:39 am »

Leiknirr - you talk as if that is fun for everybody.  What you did was attack at 5 am so know one could show up and then when we actually had a decent time to fight you the server disconnected every single person on our team every 10 seconds, while not a single person on your side was affected (not surprisingly cmp had just made changes to the server and was mercing for you along with several other developers who share your developer tag) so you were able to cap the flags in a  few seconds each time.  There was no battle - how exacttly is that fun for people that actually enjoy fighting.

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Just because Kesh said it, doesn't make it any less true.

1) I don't think there was anything malicious/intentional behind the one-sided d/c bug that affected our counterattack but it definitely wasn't "fun".
2) I've already given my kudos to Leikner for his successful suicide attack on our fiefs but again, attacking us at 5 am in the morning was not "fun" for our side either.

I have no problems with losing. Heck, some of my most fun moments in strat have been in losing battles (Remember Tebandra!). The problem is that everything Leikner just outlined as him having "fun" came from our side not even having a chance to fight b/c of the time slot and d/c error.

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Strategus Issues / Re: Defenders all getting DC from strat fight

« on: December 20, 2011, 12:25:19 am »

Definitely needs to be fixed asap. We would be able to spawn, but after about 10 seconds only our side would be mass disconnected and forced to rejoin repeatedly.

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Diplomacy / Re: The free Nordmen of Fenada, free once more

« on: December 18, 2011, 08:17:07 pm »

we have a few people active enough to move around, but if you compare our interest in this strat compared to the last... well when we fought the mercs and DRZ it didnt matter what time or what day, we always had a decent FCC turnout and could always fill a roster with at least 90% NA if it was NA ping. this strat even if its not a horrible time we are only getting a few FCC and a handful of NA. Very few people are willing to skip sleep for strat at this point, I think that really shows the difference in interest and fun for 3.0 compared to 2.0.  but at any rate, I do agree with whoever said "Leiknir wins strat 3.0" you went on a suicide mission and have had more success than should have been possible, so congrats on that.

Agreed, well done Leikner.

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Diplomacy / Re: The mighty Leiknir hands over his army in Dhirim to someone worthy(=rich) enough

« on: December 14, 2011, 11:42:19 pm »

 

Too bad it's scheduled for 5 am in the morning.

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Sell/Trade / +3 Great Long Axe

« on: December 07, 2011, 10:30:18 pm »

WTS +3 Great Long Axe.

Looking for +3 Longsword/Heavy Bastard Sword or cash.