This partially "pre-aligned" game has been suggested to me
before with this
scenario.
I always prefer the same number of free and dark in game (I once played a FA
game where the DS outnumbered the free and even us non-free questioned what
was going on). While a pre-aligned khand is good news for the DS, I don't
like forcing them to do it. I more prefer the good old 'if you go free we
WILL turn around and kill you first' approach.
Opinions? Basically I want to wait for Bree to bring in the
last 4 players
and then some sort of decision can be made on if there are to
be changes.
One idea was a high Army base with gold to back them up to start with -
leaving the PCs as Richard suggests.
I'm ok with that. The DS armies can be used for offense, and the gold allows
the DS to keep the armies in the field (but not forever). I was against the
initial money but nothing else approach, but money AND armies is nice.
I would rather have that option than the khand as DS on t1. With good armies
in the back door they can threaten the Khand into going dark.
but can I still have murazor as a good commander ?
m
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From: "Michael Peters" <MPeters@nskomatsu.com.au>
To: <mepbmlist@egroups.com>
Sent: 17 May 2000 00:22
Subject: RE: [mepbmlist] WoTR>Richard thinks that higher gold reserves for the DS might help
>- any ideas
>of what players think might be a suitable level to make it so
>that if you
>don't get a FP you would be mightily disappointed?Some supermen emissaries ? In the book, the DS were very
good in leaking
info about how the riders were supplying horses to Sauron.
They were also
good in getting the humans to think that the non-humans
(elves mainly)
wereanother evil nation. That implies they were good emissaries
(that or great
politicans in the art of lying)
I would also make murazor a much better commander. I
remember in one game
weordered him to raise the tax to 60%. The people declined his
request. Now
the murazor in the book wasn't the sort of person that you
would say no
to.He also led entire DS armies in battle. I wouldn't be doing
that with a
crappy 40 point commander. If you don't decrease his mage,
he will someone
who REALLY brings fear in the heart of the enemy whereever
he pops up.
Maybe more pop centres in the south or out the back ? I seem
to remember
reading that the Sauron had massive farms and pop centres
out this way
whichwere funnelling in troops and food to the war.
while its slack to say, if some neutrals were DS at game
start, then I
wouldn't mind the free having the advantage in new pop
centres. I wouldn't
fix the WW to DS (since the book regularly talks about
Saruman having the
choice of joining either side). And I wouldn't fix the duns
(as its was
onlystupidity on the riders part to ignore the duns complaints
that allowed
themto go DS). I don't remember the rhun in the book, so I can't
comment on
them. The corsairs are a nice nation to go either way (so I
would leave
themneutral), so i'm thinking the khand might be a nice one to
be DS at the
start (especially if they get more extra pop centres that
were mentioned
inthe book). Of course this defeats the purpose of a 10/10/5 split, but
.....
thanks
m>
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