ME-PBM Re: Create Army=5000gold

From: "D. Hall-Harris" <bakor@u.washington.edu>

Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 00:00:00 +0000

On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Stanley, the Daredevil Crow! wrote:

> Why on earth would anyone DO this?
> Split army doesn't cost you anything!

If you have an army to split. Sometimes you've lost yours, or its too far
away from where the action is. It can also surprise the hell out of an
opponent who *thought* he had accounted for all forces. I have used Create
Army (& Split Army) to slow the advance of a much larger army for long
enough to a) build enough of an army to successfully defend & b) have the
maintenance costs drive his economy into the ground.

> By that logic the "No hire cost" SNA in ME1000 is not even worth 4k, let
> alone 7k, and would severly curtail the worth of it in 1650 & 2950.

Ah, but there are reasons you might want this in FA. Maybe you're one of
the TKs, so spread out that it would take an army 4 turns to get to your
other edge. Maybe you decide to start w/no army at all (in some capital
sites it is useless to have an army since no one can move in or out). I
would think it would be a waste to take hire at no cost unless you also
took new armies start at morale 40. (If you also have troops training
starts at 20/25, then you have the "instant army" package and are
planning way too militant a game for my tastes.
Fred Harris

References

Create Army=5000gold
"Stanley, the Daredevil Crow!" <samcraig@io.com>
Tue, 27 Jan 1998 00:00:00 +0000