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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: whom to kill
Message-ID: <113@gloria.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-May-84 13:00:05 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  1 13:00:05 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 9-May-84 01:17:14 EDT
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[do xorns eat rust monsters?]

Two obvious rules for deciding which attacker to kill first:

	1. Kill the one that does more damage.
	2. Kill the one that will die sooner.

Occasionally the rules don't conflict:

	Kill the hobgoblin rather than the gnome.  They
	are equally tough to kill, but the hobgoblin does
	more damage.

	Kill the yeti rather than the centaur.  They do
	equal damage [not quite true in V5], but the yeti
	is easier to kill.

But usually they do.  In that case, just try to minimize the
damage you will suffer.  For instance:

	Kill the orc rather than the centaur.  The orc
	does about 2/3 as much damage as the centaur, and
	is much easier to kill.

	Kill the troll rather than the mimic.  The mimic
	is a little easier to kill, but the troll does
	twice as much damage.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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