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Deceptive Attack – Final Thoughts (this time around)

So, I made a small error in my original sheet yesterday, but I’ve replaced it with the right math. I also upgraded the sheet to show the relative delta in absolute percentages from any given choice to the best choice for that defender.  That’s what led me to conclude, basically, that there really is an…

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Deceptive Yak Shaving – Deceptive Attack Redux

A thread on the forums made me break out Excel again so I can look at the “optimum” one-one-one level of deceptive attack for all combinations of DA and defense level. The answer is darn complicated, turns out. Here’s an example of what I mean: This is the example Cadmus faces when he’s got his…

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Technical Longsword: GURPS gets it right

I seem to be riffing off of +Peter V. Dell’Orto a lot, but in this case we both got forwarded the same neat clip at the same time. Peter made a lot of good points in his post. What I’m going to do is break down the iconic exchange in this video in roughly one-second intervals. And…