Lizards! PBM Tactics

From: jonob@kcbbs.gen.nz (Jono Bean)

Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 00:00:00 +0000

Some notes on tactics for use in Lizards.

After the first few truns some tactics comes into play in Lizards!. After
about turn 8 or so, most of the free dens have gone, and players are looking
at each others dens... and wars happen this way...

Anyway ... After turn 8 - 12 most player will have 300+ Black Lizards, and
Black Lizards and Yellow Lizards are where the real power and ability is.
Because Black and Yellow Lizards are the first to "move" with in the turn
sequence, they are very important. Chants are very usefull.

The movement in Lizardsis quite slow (2 hexs per turn). But not if you use
Temples, and Shunts.

Other things to do are moving your bands around in numbers that look like
Black Lizards ie. a band of 180 should be (or could be) a "Dark stack" and
this carries more effective than just any band. Keeping your Black Lizards
in lots of 50, is also good for shunts.

If an enermy can see you move up (most of the time they can) with 2 bands of
180 then (180 is a Dark Stack), they will be thinking that they may be able
to get one of your bands but not both - so will probably try to flee - using
a "Shunt" or "Gate" chant, (that happens in the Artillery Phase also along
with the "Dark chant".

Do other have any good ideas?
Jono Bean