You seemed to have problems with impale when counterraiding. We did assume that you had sense to slow yourself down afterwards. I hope that the advice about hit and run tactics helped some.

Did you manage to pull off retrievals against impalers better after that? My hit and run tactic was e;k captain;flee;flee;flee. If you used something like e;punch cap;flee;flee;flee, your survivability reduced signifigantly. I know this as I used to do e;butt cap;flee;flee;flee before not lagging myself so and just killing the captain. This is to hurt the captain and flee back to safety before the defenders can react, healing between the strikes. I've been a Tribunal defending against this, and this tactic was how Aesrira retrieved against three defenders who could harm her(much safer for a porc than a ram). I would have imagined that orangutan could pull it safer than ram too, and with only one defender, it was safe enough for ram(after I gave up butt-tactic).

We did have one proud moment in defense against Fendracorl and Whelan together, when I finally had ABS(I was loaded with ABS, most of which came from Spire and rest were a gift from other outtie). This was against Fendracorl, whom I surprised by dispelling his prep spells. The svirf was pretty well spell-enhanced, and losing his spells turned the fight for us.

And what comes to our little fight, which would have been a draw without ram resist. Fre expected you to flee in that, as he had no intention of doing so unless he was losing. Fre was evil after all. lemur kicking mongoose's ass was a nice notion, with shifter bites being undodgeable and all..

Good luck with your next!

Frearrir