Is that not what real battlle is. Taking advantage and exploiting your enemies weaknesses. If your enemy is slower ..move and stick..move and stick. Why would anyone stand toe to toe and fight some big slow enormously strong foe. There is no such thing as fighting fair..when you are fighting for your life.tanelorn wrote:I have to say, even though I've played tons of these block-style dungeon crawl games, it has always (and still does) felt like cheating to do the move and strike their side thing. Backpedaling and using ranged weapons on a slow enemy is one thing, but the tactics described above really feels like you are taking advantage of a game mechanic rather than playing properly. If you can fight and win against a 4x skeleton team without getting hit once, that rings of exploit more than anything.
Of course, I realize that this is how the games were made and it's part of how you play these games. Still, it feels wrong...
Uh, have you versed Ogres yet? To say the least...tanelorn wrote:I have to say, even though I've played tons of these block-style dungeon crawl games, it has always (and still does) felt like cheating to do the move and strike their side thing. Backpedaling and using ranged weapons on a slow enemy is one thing, but the tactics described above really feels like you are taking advantage of a game mechanic rather than playing properly. If you can fight and win against a 4x skeleton team without getting hit once, that rings of exploit more than anything.
Of course, I realize that this is how the games were made and it's part of how you play these games. Still, it feels wrong...
This works every time with every enemy I've encountered (spiders are tough because they're quick), but to me this just seems like a silly tactic.Empyrean wrote:Other than playing with doors, the most important thing is to keep moving. If you have a 2x2 room with a squad of four skeleton legionnaires in it, you should be able to kill all of them without taking a single hit. Position yourself diagonally from them, attack the square as they start to move into it, then quickly move so you're diagonal from them again. If you do it right, they'll never even get a chance to swing at you. Repeat the process until they're dead.
Fighters with decent Dex, the Evasive Trait and decent Armor skill (up to Light or Heavy depending on what you have available in your inventory) can take absolutely massive assault. if you're building your Fighters to be glass cannons with pure Strength and Willpower and no Armor or Dodge, of course you're gonna be eaten.rakenan wrote:When they make it possible to spec a character as a "tank" and have him actually take the beatings, I'll care whether my tactics are cheap. Since they instead made it so the only way to win combat is to not let enemies actually attack you, I play the game by the rules they give me. Dancing around your foes to avoid getting attacked is the way the game is meant to be played. It's like complaining that it feels wrong in chess to capture a pawn from all the way across the board with your rook, when the pawn only gets to move one square straight ahead.
