Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-32907125-20160221230100/@comment-24108228-20160223180841

Attack? I'm not very good at attack.

If I can't shoot them with a crossbow, I'll normally give up. I'm rubbish at combat, and if they're not the kind I can shoot with a crossbow, I'm of the opinion that they're probably running out of time to play and will have to leave soon anyway. Fighting them is just incentive for them to stay longer, and is ultimately counterproductive really.

Also fighting someone stronger than you is really frustrating. You get the feeling of all your actions being rather meaningless and without effect. I'm not good enough at combat to fight anyone properly; I once lost a 2 vs 1 where we were both fully mithril equipped and the bentonian had just bento armour and a steel sword, and as a result, I'm not going to be able to kill anyone who isn't crossbow-material, since I can't massively out-class them, and I don't have the skill to win any fights where my advantage is less than that. As a result, fighting anyone who I can't just shoot in the head is typically something I avoid doing.