Re: Studying an opponent and Omega Strikes

Regarding my examples of people holding back in a fight, Mary Kuhner
posts, in part:

  But this is quite different from the Hong Kong movie
  convention that against a much *stronger* opponent,
  it's best to use lesser attacks and save the big one
  for later in the fight.

I agree, it's quite different.  Someone wanting that style of game
would not be well advised to use my rules system.

I don't watch those movies much - heck, I haven't watched them at all
if "Hero" doesn't count - but it's my impression that that particular
set of genre conventions is not really compatible with a fully self
consistent rules system.

I will say that there have been examples in my system where people
have modified their tactics in the middle of a relatively balanced
duel to account for new knowledge about the strengths and weaknesses
of their adversary.  I can't think of any cases where people purposely
held back to gain the information, though; rather, they started with
what they thought were the best tactics, and when it became apparent
that those tactics weren't the best against that particular opponent,
modified them.

There are also some interesting cases where a group has use
information from a previous failure - typically by a different group -
to inform their tactics on a subsequent attempt.

Warren J. Dew