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Robosaur

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Unarmed fighting race
« on: November 15, 2012, 01:16:19 am »

I'm trying to make a dangerous race of unarmed fighters with the same size of any other race. They've got four clawed arms, and two tails that can be used as club-like slamming weapons, and massively buffed phys attributes. However, a wrestler will always lose to a dwarf swordsman of the same experience level every time. What can I do to buff their survivability? I want them to at the least be even in strength.
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Re: Unarmed fighting race
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2012, 01:22:40 am »

Armor.

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Re: Unarmed fighting race
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2012, 01:23:58 am »

I'm trying to make a dangerous race of unarmed fighters with the same size of any other race. They've got four clawed arms, and two tails that can be used as club-like slamming weapons, and massively buffed phys attributes. However, a wrestler will always lose to a dwarf swordsman of the same experience level every time. What can I do to buff their survivability? I want them to at the least be even in strength.
NO_CONNECTIONS_FOR_MOVEMENT, and NOPAIN will help.
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Re: Unarmed fighting race
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2012, 01:25:40 am »

Oh, also: an interaction that they can occasionally use that will make their opponents explode while giving them just enough time to realize before screaming HIDEBU!

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Re: Unarmed fighting race
« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2012, 01:34:15 am »

I tried armor, but for fairness I gave both the creature and the dwarf mail armor, mail greaves, and an iron helm (as well as grand master armor user)

The dwarf still won in half a second, though was in pain afterwards.

EDIT: Nevermind. After modifying the arena to create 8 seperate 3*3 cells, and having grand master fighter/dodger/wrestler/striker/kicker/armor user Kalthurans them fight grand master fighter/swordsmen/dodger/armor user dwarves (with iron short swords), the fights were over in less than a second each, and the dwarves only won twice.
« Last Edit: November 15, 2012, 01:46:43 am by Robosaur »
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Re: Unarmed fighting race
« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2012, 05:52:07 am »

So what you want is a bogeyman?

Dodging will vastly improve their survivability.
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Re: Unarmed fighting race
« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2012, 06:21:33 am »

Give them high natural skills, make their natural weapons really big, add ATTACK_VELOCITY_MODIFIER to attacks and small contact area for edged attacks, make their claws out of steel or better material, give them high natural strength, agility and speed. Grats, you've made dwarf killers.
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