Stand Protection?

[Loki]

On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 barrysheppard at eircom.net wrote:

> > Just a comment from a point made about this thread. I noticed 
> >that someone here was saying some decks, most notably Zel's 
> *snip*
> >fail to account for it.  Just curious, and hoping to continue our 
> >ongoing tactical discussions,
> 
> To my mind theres seem to be two ways to go.
> Miltary:
> Play followers and stand, stand is great and if you can play it it cant be played against you.
> Play follower destruction, the best form is that of Daisuke. The problem with this is if you always want to get the first action, in an attacking deck this means youll be playing sneak, however in defense youll be lacking especially when your opponent plays sneak stand.
> Honour:
> Play a few followers, you dont have to play that many just make sure your one or two personalities with followers will survive a stand.
> Play follower destruction, again in the form of Daisuke (3ph good) and fall on your kness (if you can get it) to cancel any sneak.
> 
> As a side note: range attack follower equate as both strategies, a range attack to take out a follower and the added bonus that if everything does go wrong and your opponent can stand at least this personality will survive.

One thing I've been noticing lately: Stand and Yogo Towers OWN most
defensive honor decks.  To this end, I've been considering experimenting
with Farmlands and Ashigaru Archers/Spearmen.  Use PKill to take out the
largest units, and Ashigaru to protect your own largest units so you can
soak up a Stand...I'll let everyone know should it prove effective.

Mirumoto Hakanin * Dragon Clan Schemer
Student to All