Because he said to make a new thread about it.
So anyway, when I said 'tips' I didn't mean on the Senshi. I was speaking about what I was consciously thinking about when I was writing the fight.
I'll summarize, and you can ask about anything in detail.
1: The fight does not exist in a vacuum. People WILL react to it.
2: The environment is a character, treat it like one.
3: Write assuming the fighters are smart and everyone is trying to win.
4: Keep track of all threads of combat that aren't being seen as if it were a tabletop game. (IE: Everyone is doing something.)
Number four can be a bit daunting when you're applying number three to it and have more than four or five people going. Because even if you don't see it, the people in the background are still trying to win. A lot of fights I've seen in fiction: Movies, Books, whatever... seem to be centered around duels/superduels. Where in the fight you're watching is important, and all the rest of the fight is treated as 'background effects' at best. It does not take into the account that Joe Random can snipe the main character at any time, and in fact, would be attempting to do so at any given oportunity.
As a result, the fight you watch isn't a battle, but a collection of duels with 'battle effects' going on around them. After you've seen it enough times, you come to notice it and just get bored with the same old formula.
Of course, it's understandable because quite frankly. Writing an honest to Washu BATTLE is... Rather hard. For the battle in this latest chapter I released, I only had eight combatants, but spent a month just figuring out who goes where and does what. And that's before adding in reactions to the environment. For that, I actually used google Earth to pull a map, trace distances, and get the location of buildings. And the entire time I was writing, we had a running discussion as to what the local response would be like in Tokyo. And just as a hint... The response is coming, it just hasn't arrived yet.
In contrast, the superduels are exceedingly easy. As people can just keep track of two people (or sets of two people independently) and handwave anything else that goes on offscreen.
Welcome to GP Aerospace Academy. I will be your instructor.
Please read the course silybus... You will need to know the basics of flight,
and orbital mechanics before we can continue.
So anyway, when I said 'tips' I didn't mean on the Senshi. I was speaking about what I was consciously thinking about when I was writing the fight.
I'll summarize, and you can ask about anything in detail.
1: The fight does not exist in a vacuum. People WILL react to it.
2: The environment is a character, treat it like one.
3: Write assuming the fighters are smart and everyone is trying to win.
4: Keep track of all threads of combat that aren't being seen as if it were a tabletop game. (IE: Everyone is doing something.)
Number four can be a bit daunting when you're applying number three to it and have more than four or five people going. Because even if you don't see it, the people in the background are still trying to win. A lot of fights I've seen in fiction: Movies, Books, whatever... seem to be centered around duels/superduels. Where in the fight you're watching is important, and all the rest of the fight is treated as 'background effects' at best. It does not take into the account that Joe Random can snipe the main character at any time, and in fact, would be attempting to do so at any given oportunity.
As a result, the fight you watch isn't a battle, but a collection of duels with 'battle effects' going on around them. After you've seen it enough times, you come to notice it and just get bored with the same old formula.
Of course, it's understandable because quite frankly. Writing an honest to Washu BATTLE is... Rather hard. For the battle in this latest chapter I released, I only had eight combatants, but spent a month just figuring out who goes where and does what. And that's before adding in reactions to the environment. For that, I actually used google Earth to pull a map, trace distances, and get the location of buildings. And the entire time I was writing, we had a running discussion as to what the local response would be like in Tokyo. And just as a hint... The response is coming, it just hasn't arrived yet.
In contrast, the superduels are exceedingly easy. As people can just keep track of two people (or sets of two people independently) and handwave anything else that goes on offscreen.
Welcome to GP Aerospace Academy. I will be your instructor.
Please read the course silybus... You will need to know the basics of flight,
and orbital mechanics before we can continue.