Why should it be against the rules?? It is a tactic to offset some damage from the takeout of a whole nation. It allows nothing particularly special except the buyout of one or two products (within market defined limits). It will cut a couple of turns economic slack at most. People who know they are going to die usually try to organise their house a bit ie: move chars to handy spots to be bribed, tfer stuff out of the vaults and the like, it allows some 'extra' stores to be sent. If i was the opposition, i'd still be happy that a whole nation has been flushed. The example of the IK that MJ uses was ME :)P. We were trying to salvage something from a really nasty state of affairs, me and my nation were still very much beyond dead.
Adrian
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--- lgtilley@morespeed.net wrote:
From: "Laurence G. Tilley" <lgtilley@morespeed.net>
To: mepbmlist@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [mepbmlist] Deliberate Bankruptcy?
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:54:19 +0100
GMs,
I was interested to read this advocated in Mike Johncock's
article. Bree 33 p2:
6) Deliberate bankruptcy
What I call the needs of the many outweighing the needs of the one. A
very rare strategy where if you see a nation is facing imminent
death, then you bankrupt the nation deliberately to put maximum
stores in pops that you then transfer to your allies. For example,
the IK is going to go bankrupt as both his capital and Barad Paras
both have sizeable armies on them that will attack resulting in an
immediate tax raise to over 100%. So why not have a character at a
non-sieged pop buy all of a product available? He'll drive the tax up
to say 500%, but that is just a dead as 100%, so the team will
benefit at no cost.
This is of course a very old one, and to my mind very much "against
the spirit" of the game. I thought that we had a ruling to this
effect, very many years ago. Is there anything to prohibit it in the
house rules? If not, do you agree that there should be?
Laurence G. Tilley http://www.lgtilley.co.uk/
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