Re: Osyssey Questions

From: Mark Lyon <mlyon@interramp.com>

Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Sjoerd Schreuder wrote:
>
> dman@p-o.widomaker.com (dman) writes:
>
> >Two questions:
>
> >1.  What is the general consensus on choosing mounts?  Is it better to get
> >the 28 movement of a Great Hawk or sacrifice two movement points and get
> >the Wolf Ronin or Shag Wolf to help more (even though it's not much more)
> >in combat?
>
> I don't know if there is consensus, but I prefer to have move 28,
> because I'm moving around in the Wilds.
>
> Don't forget that it's possible to have on of each, and switch to move 28
> when needed.

Sjoerd is right, unless you start out somewhere in the fold or north,
where you'll mostly be seeing plains.  You can cover a lot of territory
even with a Ronin or Shag at that point.  However, if you start in the
Fringe, Wilds, Wastes or Coasts, I would suggest the Hawk.

>
> >2.  If you only have one priest and you are in the Wilds, should all of
> >your characters be the same religion of the priest?  I know that if I make
> >my fighters earth worshippers and have a water priest, and one of my
> >fighters dies I have to haul his butt all the way to New Haven to grovel
> >for his resurrection.
>
> That's not much of a problem: stay on the safe side of attacks, and hire
> scouts to scout the dens first. I've earth fighters and _no_ priests
> (planning to get some water priest skills later), and I'm doing fine.
>
> Of course, when you get killed, it will take 3 turns to get to New Haven,
> so better don't get killed. I've killed 20 dens or so now (in several games),
> and I've lost one fighter to an unscouted den. Sometimes, one fighter
> flees (at 70% wounds), but that's only when I've 3-4 fighters against
> 1-2 strong monster(s): the other fighters will finish the monster anyway.

Again, I would agree with Sjoerd.  Don't worry about having all the same
religions, give your troll fighters earth worship...deceivers air, etc.
In the two games I've played, I've only had one fighter killed in
combatting a den (not sure how many I've attacked, but it's a lot).  This
fighter fled (at 90%) and was captured...unfortunately for me, the
cyclops ate him on the same turn...not much you can do about that one.
I had no trouble groveling for healing and, thankfully, I was only one
turn out of Jadmain (earth worshipper).

Although it's nice to be able to instantly raise dead characters, the
benefits of having a religion that matches your skill(s) (and being able
to use crystals to add to the attributes and titles of your characters)
outweighs the convenience, to my mind.

References

Osyssey Questions
dman@p-o.widomaker.com (dman)
Tue, 05 Mar 1996 00:00:00 +0000