Re: ME-PBM Late Joiners

From: dubberly@bach (John Dubberly)

Date: Sun, 09 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000

Kevin McGee (kdmcgee@aol.com) wrote:

: As it turns out, all the neutrals either joined our team (1), or perished
: (3).  Except the Corsairs.  Now it is down to my team against one
: opposing player and guess what?  The Corsairs are suddenly on our side
: and in first place.

As a fellow player in this game, I would like to add my comments.
1) if you want to play a neutral take the Corsairs.
They are only open to realistic land attacks from the QA. They can
quickly hide most pop centers from sea attack by removing ports.
Since most of the sea front down there is hills and rough it is
impossible to land anywhere but way south. So unlike any of the
other neutrals he can't be gang tackled.

We were turning toward him after we had crushed the other 3 neutrals
that had either gone dark or had refused to join either side. He was
next in line and got lucky that the majority of Dark Servants dropped
just as I (NG) and SG were getting ready to invade him by the sea. We
only got off one turns attacks before he managed to join us. BTW I
think it sucks that he managed to join our side on the first try.
Nearly all ten of us were at hated relations with him and two of us
were atively attacking. Something has got to be done about this hole
in the rules. A side should atleast have some sort of very limited
veto over letting a neutral join their team. Say atleast five of them
must atively state the next turn that they do not want the neutral
on their side.

I've seen this enough that I have grown tired of MEPBM. I don't want
to be forced into alliance against my will. I'm going to use up the
rest of my winners certificates with GSI and give them a not so fond
farewell.

-john dubberley

References

ME-PBM Late Joiners
Kevin McGee <kdmcgee@aol.com>
Fri, 23 Jun 1995 00:00:00 +0000