Ancient Times #1/95b

From: keith.langley@mdcs.com (Keith Langley)

Date: Fri, 06 Jan 1995 18:55:15 +0000

Ancient Times electronic version - message 2 of 2.  This message
contains news of ONE TRUE FAITH; the preceding one carries news of
ANCIENT EMPIRES.

Epistles from Erth
(Game #2 of ONE TRUE FAITH)

New Province order: PRAYER - Your worshippers in a province may be
ordered to fast, pray, sacrifice, meditate or otherwise channel extra
energy to You instead of working.  You need not control a province to
issue this order, but if You have fewer than 150 worshippers in the
province the Prayer will have no effect.  150 to 299 (size points of)
worshippers will produce 1 bonus Divine Point; 300 to 449 will produce
2, and 450 or more will produce 3.  Each Praying province is figured
independently; fractions are lost.

Province Population Limit: It is impossible to support more than 1000
size points of population in a province; any excess will starve.

New Unit: MONASTERIES - A monastery is a holy place dedicated to the
education and improvement of Priests.  Each size point of monastery
costs $10 and 10 Divine Points.  Only the controller of a province may
build monasteries, and if the province is lost the monasteries go to the
new owner.    A monastery has four effects:
    1)  Each turn it contributes 1 DP per size point to the creation or
upgrading of a priest in the province.
    2)  Each turn, as needed, it provides 1 DP per size point of Divine
Protection to the province and anything in it.  Any points not used for
protection or priests are lost; they cannot be stored.
    3)  You may deposit or withdraw DP from a Holy Site in the province
without the normal 1 DP cost per transaction, if You have a monastery of
any size there.
    4)  Monasteries are stoutly built, though not in the same class as
forts.  Your units add 10% to their defense factors in battle per size
point of monastery present.
    Monasteries are vulnerable to earthquakes like any other structure
(1 size point destroyed per DP of quake), and may be a target of a
"desecrate" mission just as a Temple may be.

ERRATA:  Hobbit units have the wrong cargo values.  Because of the extra
food they pack along, the correct values are 30 for a sling unit, 20 for
swords.
    The unit description lists hobgoblin dokyus; these were replaced by
bows.  Ignore the unit description; the tables are correct.
    A few provinces may have "impossible" artillery, particularly orc
catapults or goblin ballistae.  I tried to catch them all, but missed
some.  If they appear on a printout, they obviously exist; perhaps they
are experimental weapons.  You cannot build more, or replace them; they
have appropriate combat factors for their type.
    Several additional errors have been intentionally left in, to
satisfy people who enjoy finding them.

Thanks to Larry Langley for many suggestions, some of which are
incorporated in the new rules above.

Rumours of Welkin unsubstantiated - Worshippers of Welkin, God of
Knowledge, were despondent as signs of His power or presence failed to
materialize.  After two months of waiting they have decided to give up
and become agnostic.

Storch's "floating beer party" moves to Burgundy - A large force of
Western humans, including artillery and six heavy cavalry units, stormed
into Burgundy from Paris, easily overwhelming the agnostic defenders and
seizing several strategic vineyards.

Magian finds defeat in Mecklenburg - The God of Disease felt a bit ill
following His attack on Mecklenburg.  Dwarven artillery shredded His
ratmen and hobgoblins, sending the survivors scurrying back to
Brandenburg.  Two heroes were among the fallen.

OTF GAME #3 STARTING - SIGN UP NOW!
Players so far:
Bill Jarrell (Kashelo, God of the Sea - good)
Julie Varga (Drehme, Goddess of Dreams - good)
Robert Quick (Roebuck, God of Seeing - evil)
Larry Langley (as yet unnamed God of Courage - good)
Joyce Langley (unknown - neutral)

Six players are needed to start a game, so we need YOU!

Keith Langley, 1614 Donovan Pl, Longmont CO 80501
303-776-7987 noon- midnight MST
keith.langley@mdcs.com
These are PBMs not PBEMs.  Rulebooks free on request; return requested
if you don't play.  OTF was reviewed in SHADIS #14.