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The Art of Enhancing Winning

Your warriors are solid and are putting up a good fight, but just can't seem to win? Perhaps this list of recommended Consortium actions can help?

1. Always challenge and avoid. Use the challenge and if-challenged strategies on your strategy sheet to manipulate fights in your favor.
2. Challenge warriors you have beaten before and styles your warrior has the advantage with. (Example: AB challenge TP, TP challenge LU, ST challenge SL, SL challenge LU, etc.) This is something of a rock/paper/scissors game.
3. Take advantage of blood feuds to enhance challenges. Be brutal! BF all four times if to your advantage, The cretin killed your teammate after all.
4. Avoid teams who seem to regularly beat you and teams with nearby warriors with styles which have an advantage over your warrior. Avoid the team that just beat you last fight.
5. Make your warrior do what his style does best. (E.g. STs get the jump, LUs dodge, TPs parry and scum, SLs attack, etc.)
6. Use high CN to your advantage by soaking hits and then later hitting and finishing a worn down opponent.
7. Pay attention to where an opponent is aiming his attacks and protect that location on subsequent fights.
8. Be bad! "Pick on" warriors with less skill, less experience, or lots of losses.
9. Pay attention to fight history in your arena. Know which are tournament warriors, sandbaggers, etc. with hidden FE. (Fight experience.) These tournament warriors are likely highly experienced and highly skilled compared to your normal arena warrior. Stay clear of them. (Not common in DM93, but common elsewhere.)
10. Use tactics appropriately--Decise to help you get the jump, Dodge to help you avoid being hit, Slash or Bash to hit harder, Parry to focus on parry, Response to counter known decise users.
11. Dress to fit your strategy--naked is faster/quicker, plated is most protected and sponges best, but slower.
12. Do not overdress and excessively encumber your warrior. It greatly hampers ability to carry and endure and even to fight properly
13. Watch fights carefully to find a favored weapon--one which you crit often with or which you get lots of extra value hits. Use that weapon and maybe those similar to it.
14. Know your opposing manager's styles and methods. Try to fight weaker managers and avoid those who just seem to win lots.
15. If your warrior is in a difficult spot in the rankings/arena listing, sit him out. Don't fight if you do not have a good chance to win. (e.g., your 5 FE warrior has jumped way up in the rankings and is surrounded by much more experienced warriors, or your scum TP is surrounded by aimed-blows, etc.)
16. Phone a friend. Write with questions. Ask for help or advice. The right, helpful person is likely to want to help you succeed.
17. Try to manipulate your fight so you match with an NPC. (Non-playing-character; RSI Stand-In.)
18. Send your warrior to tournaments. It gets hidden FE on his record and ups his skill/stat level unbeknownst to those paying little attention.
19. Pay attention to fighting in your arena. Know whom is using strategies set on maintenance and take advantage of it by challenging and adjusting your strategies to beat them.
20. Design warriors to win rather than to look godling-like. Sure, skills are important, but maybe not as important as physicals--especially early on.
21. Take advantage of arena DM93. Read the spotlights, particularly those at the top, as the latter ones can be outdated. Know your C.I.C. package info well or get info from the Terrablood and Assur sites.
22. Cheer on your warriors. Stay excited! Yeah!

-- Agent, Consortium paid and affiliated Member.