Re: HW: Kusan First Turn, Game 543

From: mgauthie@access.awinc.com (Marc L. Gauthier)

Date: Sun, 03 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000

trip@netcom.com (Trip) wrote:

>baidins@stimpy.eecis.udel.edu (Juris Baidins) writes:

>>Since this is my first turn of my first Hyborian War game
>>and a number of people wanted to know how it went, I am brazenly
>>and maybe foolishly posting some information about what I did,
>>why and how it turned out.

>It certainly has the potential to be foolish, but the odds that someone
>unfriendly and near and in the same game are pretty low. (I had to go
>check to be certain, I'm in 544 ;-)

>>Most of the court (the characters) did mundane diplomatic and spy
>>duty.  I peaced Hyrkania and the Eastern Deserts (who are about to
>>get a rude awakening), but failed to peace the Jaga Tribes, which is
>>a little bit annoying (I wonder if my "hero's" adventure had anything
>>to do with it).  The king ruled and did well.

>Since invading breaks a peace treaty and since Non-Unifieds invade only
>fairly rarely, the peacing of EDES was probably a waste.
Agree!

>>Spies uncovered that neither Khitai nor Hyrkania where attacking in
>>directions that would concern me and interestingly enough, both
>>offered alliances ?! (On the assumption that Kusan would be NPC
>>or as a friendly gesture ?).  Address requests indicate that Khitai
>>and Hyrkania are real people.

>Since you can offer alliances to up to 3 kindgoms per peace year (and
>one per war season), and since they each only have a few neighbors, it
>doesn't really hurt to try to make an alliance with you.  You don't
>have, and don't want, anything they have or want *specifically(, so
>there's no reason not to ally with you (and vice versa, but less so
>since you can grow less fact than them and have to worry about reduced
>choices, to some degree).  NPC's very, very rarely accept alliance
>offers.  It doesn't really help in any other way either.  In fact, I'm
>beginning to assume that an alliance attempt makes their Negotiate Peace
>attempts more easy.
Your correct, it is easier to get Peace treaties against Non-player
kingdoms when you have been making alliance attempts.  Kusan can't
afford to go to war with anyone of the player kingdoms.  So, alliances
can give a measure of security, but not 100% security.

>>The chancellor (incompetent) and adjutant general (too old) were sent
>>adventuring, where both died as expected.  The replacements are young
>>and the new chancellor knows the Bless spell, which will help him rule.

>Old alone isn't a very good reason to kill him, but I don't remember his
>stats off hand...  Remember to Spy these and see if they're worth
>keeping (even with the spell).
Agree, but their stats are poor.  Hopefully the new characters will be
better.

>>The real surprise was "my hero" K'chin Pantung (any relation to Conan
>>or perhaps one of Conan's aliases).  Told to spy out the military
>>of the Kusan Steppes, he decides to go adventuring (lesson, do not
>>trust a hero to do something that must be done THIS turn).

>Conan, himself, is a wandering hero who might come visit you and offer
>you his services for some while.  You can generally trust heroes to join
>armies.
depends on the hero.  But your characters are your characters not some
disguise.  Agree that hero's are undependable, they tend to go in the
blue yonder at the least wanted time.  Keep them in heroic type duties
and they will generally stick around.  Don't ever use them for spy
duties, this will increase their chance of going adventuring.

>>..
>>turns to the Jaga Tribes again and seeks out Kiongwe Kikuyu, slips
>>past the villain's guards, fights a duel knocking out Kikuyu and brings
>>him back for the dungeons.  In all, he brought in a quarter of the
>>earnings this peace year.  No ransom is set for Kikuyu and I see no
>>place to set it (customer service problem ?).  Who is Kiongwe Kikuyu ?

>You can't set ransoms for CHA's and ADJ's.  He must be one.
agree, you should be getting a poor gift the next turn and be
releasing the character.  This is a very good time to attempt a peace
treaty on the jaga tribes.

>>The world spies brought in a lot of good stuff and I got two more
>>agents (new) who are quite frankly only worthy of being world spies.
Knowing the events of the world can have an important impact and tool
in negotiation with other players in the game.  I particularly was
extremely pleased to get world spying characters in the my first turn
with kusan.  Kusan starts with all the character types he needs for
the first 10 turns or so, but add world info makes it easier to
establish diplomatic relations with other players.

Marc L. Gauthier
mgauthie@access.awinc.com
Edmonton, AB Canada

References

HW: Kusan First Turn, Game 543
baidins@stimpy.eecis.udel.edu (Juris Baidins)
Sat, 02 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: HW: Kusan First Turn, Game 543
trip@netcom.com (Trip)
Sat, 02 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000

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HW: Kusan First Turn, Game 543
baidins@stimpy.eecis.udel.edu (Juris Baidins)
Sat, 02 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: HW: Kusan First Turn, Game 543
trip@netcom.com (Trip)
Sat, 02 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000