MelonHead

Arena Chat Thread

There's no issue with fun fights though, when you're talking about rankings where your time is limited and you want to have the best chance possible of winning you're not going to fight the guy who you've heard is badass when you also realise his characters are very powerful with -a lot- of options. I've fought Freedom twice now and I still can't think of a single strategy to defeat the guy without creating a vastly more powerful character. Skallagrim rekt Fury so hard it was barely even worth the effort.

This is just my opinion of course, but I am one of the people that could be potentially fighting you, so it's worth finding out why one guy at least honestly would prefer not to battle -most- of your characters.

Like I said, I'd still like to fight the Lycan with Adrian or Jok against the Soldier dude, when I'm free-er.

Arena Chat Thread

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No Melon, its not insanity and what not. You said it yourself my real life skill/knowledge makes it difficult to fight me. If I use a basic human I still get no takers, so is it really insanity? That's a crap answer and you know it.

@Skallagrim

No, doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is insanity. You have to change -something- and obviously you're not going to forget all your skills, so you have to change your characters to make them more appetizing to fight. I can honestly say the power level of your characters is far more of a deterrent than your skill, at least to me.

I can learn from fighting a better opponent, I can learn from fighting a more powerful character, I'm just going to die fighting someone with greater skill and a more powerful character and have very little fun.

The Mech that went to an Active Volcano (Ranked Battle)

The funny thing is I was always planning on spinning your character upside down, it just happens to also fuck over your defence.

The Mech that went to an Active Volcano (Ranked Battle)

The Mech seized hold of the armoured man and with its incredible grip asserted Higan ripped the man from the Mech’s leg as if he was a small limpet. Under the Mech’s control now, and at his mercy, he quickly tipped the man upside down by having the Mech’s right hand twist around anti clockwise, most likely preventing him from effectively attacking at the same time. He held him at arm’s length upside down and completely vulnerable, swung his rifle around and began to fire straight into the weakened area of the armour at his back from barely a foot away. It was a terrible thing to behold, almost as if the Mech was conducting some sort of experiment on the armoured man, throwing him around like a toy.

The man was trying to react, but frankly it was unlikely he’d be able to understand what was happening to him as he was suddenly flipped upside down, certainly not in time to react to the rifle round slamming into his weakened back.

Arena Chat Thread

Thanks for the advice but I think I will continue to make characters as I wish. Besides I can be a normal human and people will still avoid me so your advice is really moot.

@Skallagrim

That's cool, definition of insanity and whatnot.

Arena Chat Thread

I think I need to make a weak character to ensure ranked fights. So any reasonable character idea you guys have and I will turn it into a character.

@Skallagrim

Well, the next time you make a supernatural character have a peruse through your potential opponents and scale your attributes appropriately, it's usually OK to be superior in one specific stat, but when you're faster and stronger with a wide range of flexible powers as well the match up probably won't be fair. That would be my advice for finding fights.

To the Screams of the Roman Mob

Brennus obviously not met many north women.

Btw, my left side was facing you, hence why she was leading with her left foot. So you actually had to pass her shield to reach her right side. Hence why it was easy to deflect the spear thrust.

@GreivousKhan

Mmhmm, but the strike was still to her extreme right and you're not using a very large shield, there's still a lot more movement there and certainly a more lengthy movement than the point of a spear, which in essence answers your characters question as to why he would carry such a large shield, it saves time.

It's a bit of a historical misnomer that people from the north were tall, but ultimately, no, Brennus has lived in Briton all his life and then been moved south, where people are even smaller. The only conceivably large women he might have seen in his time would be Germanic, and even then a 5ft 9" woman would be -huge- as six foot was rarely if ever reached by even men. Strange thought now, as a six foot three dude, but hey ho.

Also it's a bit strange that your character is confused by my character's shield, I was under the impression it was very common for African tribes-people to use large shields with a centre grip, your characters own shield is the strange one in this scenario, with its medieval knight design (or possibly Hellenic, I suppose)

[Ranked] Four Way: Convergence of Power

I'm guessing a large part of Kevlars effectiveness relies on the relatively low weight of the bullet as well, once its momentum is cancelled out (by dispersing it) it can't really penetrate anything.

[Ranked] Four Way: Convergence of Power

The armor isn't that strong. It spreads the kinetic force out. But it does not stop a concentrated attack. Since he likens it to kevlar a directed, focused attack will pretty much negate the armor.

@Skallagrim

I was under the impression that's -how- it stops a concentrated attack though, by dispersing that force across a larger surface area, unless you mean a sustained attack, like someone forcing a knife through it. In which case the armour would only be good at reducing kinetic impacts of projectiles, like Rilla said.

Does anyone know if an arrow would pierce a Kevlar Vest? Apparently an arrow can punch through bullet proof glass so I was wondering if the same logic applies to a vest.

[Ranked] Four Way: Convergence of Power

I need to go to bed anyway so everyone will have to work stuff out without my guiding presence, though I guess it's almost balanced with the adjustment.