Re: ME-PBM Late Joiners

From: Ian Pearson <ian.pearson@bbsrc.ac.uk>

Date: Mon, 03 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000

This is one of the problems with the game. It is perfectly possible to sit back for the whole
game building up your points and letting all the others do the hard work, i.e. lose characters,
armies, artifacts pop centres etc.

Then towards the end of the game, suddenly 'the player no one has heard from for 20 turns' is
in the top three. The real sticking point is that this IS THE BEST tactic, if VERY unexciting.
It especially works when other players drop out through boredom. UK game 11 for example.

Still going after two years. There are two players left, one good one evil. I'm the Northmen in
first place, but I got stuffed quite a few turns ago taking out the Long Rider. There is NO WAY
I should realistically have been able to make first place.

As it is the game will probaly go on the ages yet as I'm not one for giving up (Sorry C.L.).
I'm not even sure I want another game. I've played in several now (knocked out in all the
others) but in every game was the player who said 'I'm not risking anything, you go and do it'.
It gets very tedious afet a while.

Ian Pearson
(ian.pearson@bbsrc.ac.uk)

References

Re: ME-PBM Late Joiners
dcd@nasa.kodak.com (Dennis DeYoung)
Thu, 29 Jun 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: ME-PBM Late Joiners
tomtg@aol.com (TomTG)
Thu, 29 Jun 1995 00:00:00 +0000