Ehis is fantasy combat and has little resemblance to Alexander the Great or Richard the Lionhearted.
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From: "Laurence G. Tilley" <laurence@lgtilley.freeserve.co.uk>
Reply-To: mepbmlist@yahoogroups.com
To: mepbmlist@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [mepbmlist] Follow-up: combat artifacts and spells
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 08:52:04 +0100At 07:06 PM 19-04-02, you wrote:
>I think there is no sense in this, but the programming of MePbm...
>
>I agree on the spells (at least the offensive ones).
>
>With the dragons the ruling is not senseial but dragons would be to powerful
>if they would fight more turns....But that's not a good argument for a stupid system. Why should a dragon
who can do significant damage to a city, suddenly do no damage when that
city is defended by 100 men at arms? If you think dragons are too powerful
then you should be arguing for their firepower to be reduced per
se. Actually, I think the dragons are about right (I like 'em big and
fierce). The imbalance comes from the fact that they are too easy to
recruit due to the fixed and now published encounter responses. A second
edition could very easily put that right. As for your original thought,
the problem comes from the idea of an army fighting a separate preliminary
battle outside a pop centre first - see 2nd edition suggestions on my web
pages for thoughts on single battle algorithm - where would you stand your
soldiers if you were defending a citadel? Inside it or outside?Laurence G. Tilley
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