Re: HW: first turn help for a first time player

From: trip@netcom.com (Trip)

Date: Sat, 04 Nov 1995 00:00:00 +0000

dao@deadhead.mitre.org (David A. Ondzes) writes:
>I will be starting my first game of Hyborian War and the ruler of Punt. I have
>received my setup but not the rules so I can really ask alot of intelligent
>questions. What are some good opening strategies ?

I don't remember Punt's victory conditions, but in general, the more
provinces the better.  Since the difficulty goes something like:
unallied (that's not the word...), Unplayed player positions, Non Player
Kingdoms, PLayed Player kingdoms: what to attack shoudl become more
obvious.

>How do I know if my characters are good ? I seem to remember people saying
>that you can send the adventuring and when they get killed you will get new
>one. Is this a good way to improve your characters ?

Any Superior (except Personal Combat) is good.  A character with nothing
better than Adequate sucks (except that some spells are always good).
THe only characters you get replaced when they die are your Adjutant and
Chancellor.  Since you don't know how good these are yet, spy your own
Court (Spy Court PUNT) with your worst character (or your Adjutant if
all the others seem to have something useful to do on the first turn),
and if they don't have some fairly redeeming stat (excellent or above)
and/or you have some urgent need for them, send either/both adventuring.
ADventuring is (theoretically) a way to improve your characters.  More
likely to get them killed than to improve them in a useful way.
Characters with only Heroism and (especially) Personal Combat can/should
adventure to see if they can get some more useful ability.
Anyone can World Spy and get some, usually worthless, information.

>I have a wizard that is poor in magic, how can this be ?

Magic rating is directly related to the # of spells you know 0=none,
1=poor, 2=adequate, 3=good, 4=excellent, 5+=superior (actually 6+ =
incredible, but you only find that out with Prophecy and occasionally
Spy info, the rest of the time it just says superior).

>Does the game actually keep a number representation of things like how much
>gold I have and just report it in general term ?

Yes.

Hope this hasn't already been answered seven times by other people.

Sorry about not email, but you can save/email it yourself.

John

References

HW: first turn help for a first time player
dao@deadhead.mitre.org (David A. Ondzes)
Fri, 03 Nov 1995 00:00:00 +0000