Re: HW: Border Kingdom

From: pseudojk@concentric.net (Trent Jacobson)

Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 00:00:00 +0000

baidins@copland.udel.edu (Juris Baidins) wrote:

>Should this place really be player kingdom?

>In both games I am in, the Border Kingdom was quickly swallowed by
>its neighbors after basically having little or no effect on the game.
>In the Kusan game, I saw take it the northernmost province of Brythunia,
>but then conquered by Cimmeria, while in my Aquilonia game it provided me
>a pleasant respite from fighting Cimmerians and Nemedians and was then
>swallowed by Cimmeria (and is now being fought over by both).

>Its army cannot possibly stand up to its neighbors, its characters have
>insufficient diplomacy talent to guarantee peace with its neighbors, no
>Black Death magic to decimate invaders.  Its only chance it seems is to
>ally with Nemedia and hope the Nemedian has army to spare to defend you.

>Plus it is also somewhat unfair to Nemedia, since occupation by any other
>power of the Border Kingdom, will cripple victory point gains for Nemedia.
>At start, Nemedia is merely bound in peace with Border, cannot put in
>its own armies to defend it and may have to watch as someone else rolls
>into the Border Kingdom.

>So what would be lost by making the Border Kingdom an NPK starting out
>allied and peaced with Nemedia?
>--
>Juris Baidins
>baidins@udel.edu

I'm sure BK sucks massively.  I have pictland right now and it really
sucks to have a treasury of NONE all the time and characters with the
diplomatic skill of a 50 cal. in a rice paddy.

References

HW: Border Kingdom
baidins@copland.udel.edu (Juris Baidins)
Wed, 21 Aug 1996 00:00:00 +0000