Hi there,
I've been debating this with a number of friends for a while now, and as
always we are in disagreement.
If you were given the chance to find any unowned artifact (other than the
one ring) at game start, for "the team", not necessarily for your own
favourite nation, in what order would you rank your top 3.
Looking forward to some interesting reading.....
Michael
Ring of Wind, +40 agent
Ring of Curufin, +30 agent
Tinculin, +40 mage and spirit mastery
Command artifacts and combat artifacts are somewhat useful to build up
high-level challengers and threateners, but since the people you really
want to challenge (the good agents) are usually refusing challenge,
and any decent-sized army has a subcommander to take over if the
leader dies in challenge, the artifacts that give advantage in the
character war are more important.
Note that if you're trying to build up a dragon-slayer, you might
want to accumulate command artifacts (so you have a swordsman-hero
instead of a sorceror-hero), and a +2250 sword is nothing to sneeze
at, but the agent artifacts and Tinculin are the best.
A more interested question would be: what's the relative balance
among low-level agent artifacts, spirit mastery artifacts,
and high-level combat and command artifacts?
Tony Z
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 08:22:45PM -0000, Michael wrote:
If you were given the chance to find any unowned artifact (other than the
one ring) at game start, for "the team", not necessarily for your own
favourite nation, in what order would you rank your top 3.
--
"The King with half the East at heel is marched from lands of morning;
His fighters drink the rivers up, their shafts benight the air,
And he that stays will die for naught, and home there's no returning."
The Spartans on the sea-wet rock sat down and combed their hair.--A.E. Housman
Tony (et. al.):
While I defer in general to your vastly greater experience, I must disagree with
the "details" presented below.
_IF_ certain other things are arranged and agreed to among the team (consistent
with the "not necessarily for your own/a specific nation" premise), I'd say:
DS
1. #015
2. #135
3. #188
FP
1. #015
2. #135
3. #001
Some of you (especially those who've played with me) may know where I'm headed with
that ... but I consider these the best "first three choices" with an expanded set
of "initial castings" to include:
1. #015
2. #135
3. #001 (or #188 if DS)
4. #169
5. #189
6. #188 (or #001 if FP)
$.02
b
Tony Zbaraschuk wrote:
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 08:22:45PM -0000, Michael wrote:
> If you were given the chance to find any unowned artifact (other than the
> one ring) at game start, for "the team", not necessarily for your own
> favourite nation, in what order would you rank your top 3.Ring of Wind, +40 agent
Ring of Curufin, +30 agent
Tinculin, +40 mage and spirit masteryCommand artifacts and combat artifacts are somewhat useful to build up
high-level challengers and threateners, but since the people you really
want to challenge (the good agents) are usually refusing challenge,
and any decent-sized army has a subcommander to take over if the
leader dies in challenge, the artifacts that give advantage in the
character war are more important.Note that if you're trying to build up a dragon-slayer, you might
want to accumulate command artifacts (so you have a swordsman-hero
instead of a sorceror-hero), and a +2250 sword is nothing to sneeze
at, but the agent artifacts and Tinculin are the best.A more interested question would be: what's the relative balance
among low-level agent artifacts, spirit mastery artifacts,
and high-level combat and command artifacts?Tony Z
--
"The King with half the East at heel is marched from lands of morning;
His fighters drink the rivers up, their shafts benight the air,
And he that stays will die for naught, and home there's no returning."
The Spartans on the sea-wet rock sat down and combed their hair.--A.E. HousmanMiddle Earth PBM - hit reply to send to everyone
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just when i thought things were going to be interesting...
i was gonna scream "Gimme the Pectoral! Hang the rest of ya!"
but we ended up with something from out of a cereal box...some of
use don't keep our decoder rings that close, so there goes another
thread down the....
--- In mepbmlist@y..., Benjamin Shushan <bshushan@e...> wrote:
Tony (et. al.):
While I defer in general to your vastly greater experience, I must
disagree with
the "details" presented below.
_IF_ certain other things are arranged and agreed to among the team
(consistent
with the "not necessarily for your own/a specific nation" premise),
I'd say:
DS
1. #015
2. #135
3. #188FP
1. #015
2. #135
3. #001Some of you (especially those who've played with me) may know where
I'm headed with
that ... but I consider these the best "first three choices" with
an expanded set
of "initial castings" to include:
1. #015
2. #135
3. #001 (or #188 if DS)
4. #169
5. #189
6. #188 (or #001 if FP)$.02
b
Tony Zbaraschuk wrote:
> > If you were given the chance to find any unowned artifact (other
than the
> > one ring) at game start, for "the team", not necessarily for
your own
> > favourite nation, in what order would you rank your top 3.
>
> Ring of Wind, +40 agent
> Ring of Curufin, +30 agent
> Tinculin, +40 mage and spirit mastery
>
> Command artifacts and combat artifacts are somewhat useful to
build up
> high-level challengers and threateners, but since the people you
really
> want to challenge (the good agents) are usually refusing
challenge,
> and any decent-sized army has a subcommander to take over if the
> leader dies in challenge, the artifacts that give advantage in the
> character war are more important.
>
> Note that if you're trying to build up a dragon-slayer, you might
> want to accumulate command artifacts (so you have a swordsman-hero
> instead of a sorceror-hero), and a +2250 sword is nothing to
sneeze
> at, but the agent artifacts and Tinculin are the best.
>
> A more interested question would be: what's the relative balance
> among low-level agent artifacts, spirit mastery artifacts,
> and high-level combat and command artifacts?
>
> Tony Z
> --
> "The King with half the East at heel is marched from lands of
morning;
> His fighters drink the rivers up, their shafts benight the air,
> And he that stays will die for naught, and home there's no
returning."
> The Spartans on the sea-wet rock sat down and combed their
hair.--A.E. Housman
>
>
> Middle Earth PBM - hit reply to send to everyone
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> On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 08:22:45PM -0000, Michael wrote:
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