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Assurnasirbanipal is a professional software engineer who has been playing the game Duelmasters (now called Duel 2) since the mid 1980's. This website captures his efforts to improve his own enjoyment of the game as well as give back to the Duel 2 community.

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Assur's Goals

Assur's Accomplishments and History

Assur's home arena is DM 18, Talcama. He started on turn 18 and until his return in early 2010, was active there for the entirety of his career. His original team Frog Princes had a 284-251 record, graduating 10 warriors. He had a temporary retirement and due to a unique set of circumstances, could not continue with his original team. He launched Shepherds. Later, he transferred a team (Next Generation) from a closing arena to run as a tourney team. At this point, with the exception of the goals listed above, both teams are now designated as tourney only teams. Grads from DM 18: 10 Frog Princes, 25 Shepherds, and 8 Next Generation warriors.

While not a huge tourney player, Assur has and still does dabble in the tourney game. He has two Runner Ups by Goldilocks (18-470) in Gateway. Further, he has two Tournament Champions to his credit, both by Numbered Won (18-7434) in Rookies and Freshmen. Numbered Won's team is Next Generation and warriors are named jokingly after Star Trek Next Generation characters. He recognized Numbered Won as a good Rookie (17-5-3-5-21-12-21 AB) and his personal intention was to run N.W. as a Rookie and DA him the turn following the tournament (Numbered Won's days were quite Numbered and he was supposed to win Rookies). He decided to hold off on the DA, because if for some reason strategy sheets were lost, he didn't want to DA N.W. without fighting as a Rookie. When N.W. TC'd, there was no way he was getting DA'd. He then TC'd Freshmen. He is currently prepping for a future bust out ADM tourney.

Ran Job (18-6129) to 0-72. In trying to create a winning warrior in Talcama, Assur realized just how bad Job was. As a joke, Assur created the worst warrior possible from the rollup, 14-19-19-10-14-6-3 AB. Obviously, since he did so much damage, he needed to run offensively. The goal was maybe to break the previous losing streak in Talcama. After a few turns of experimentation, Assur settled on 10-10 SH, no armor, Leather Helm. There were some close fights, but Job (then called Mode -13) lost everything until Suave's TP took a couple of hits to the same location and missed a will roll. 1-72. Then Job decided to wear armor and challenge to win. Job graduated 14-87-0.

Assur loves Bashers. About 50% of his graduates are bashers and he has taken over some special ones from other managers. They may not be great, but Assur has fun running them. He has TV'd Rookies through Adepts and Freshmen. At one point, Assur set a goal to TV every class except Primus with a basher.

Assur has graduated bashers starting with 3 in every stat and 21 in every stat. A crazy, yet very fun goal to work towards. The 3 Will graduate died three times along the way (was given an immortality potion) and is definitely not recommended. The 3 Strength graduate had an incredible damage roll and wasn't as hard as one would think. The biggest challenge with both is staying alive. Not wearing any armor does not help either one and both are going to lose fights. Some other fun warriors along the way. And Assur is using this as a jumping off place for future oddities (Two 3's on the initial overview or two 21's on the initial overview). No goals on this one, just something that Assur will try as opportunities present themselves.

Assur loves to run warriors to immortality. As of this writing, Assur has graduated 92 warriors with the following style distribution: (4 AB, 53 B, 6 L, 3 PL, 3 PR, 2 PS, 4 SL, 5 STK, 7 TP, 5 WOS)

Assur's Current Teams and Warriors

DM 5 - On the Farm
DM 14 - B.B. Fast Food
DM 18 - Shepherds, Next Generation
DM 19 - Bash Bro Housemate
DM 25 - Bash Bros Cars
DM 46 - Bash Bros. Waitress
DM 65 - Bash Bros Evangelist
DM 73 - Palindromes, Found in the Sand
ADM 100 - Allah // Cyclops // 5 Golden Warriors // Gift Certificate // Joy // Apple // Paul // Bozo // Job // The Crusher // Count in the Cellar
ADM 102 - Tom Thumb
ADM 107 - Shiny Penny // Gad // Josh // Virginia, No Santa
Tourney Teams - most named with Bash Bros prefix.