Re: Combat question for Legends System

From: phy6drhj@ast.leeds.ac.uk (Dean Johnson)

Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 16:10:54 +0000

In article 1e8@news.uni-paderborn.de, mdelr1@uni-paderborn.de (Olaf Decressin) writes:
>Dean Johnson (phy6drhj@ast.leeds.ac.uk) wrote:
>: In article ngr@news.uni-paderborn.de, mdelr1@uni-paderborn.de (Olaf Decressin) writes:
>: >Ryan Workman (rworkman@sage.cc.purdue.edu) wrote:
>: >: Simple question,
>: >
>: >: Can a legion attack a party and a location on the same turn by setting
>: >: the encounter order on the party and a conquer order on the location?
>: >

>>There are some more things to consider !
>
>1. With an direktion order of zero it is possible to attack the legions and
>partys which stands on the same field, (i don't know whether it is possible
>to give a "zero" direktion in USA or in England).
>
This is possible in the UK I have done it in ROI.  If you are clever, you move
in the stealth mode (2).  Then, if your opponent doesn't see you, you get
quite large suprise bonuses in the ensuing combat.

>2. Consider there are three, four ore more partys/legions on the field. It's
>possible that you attack only two ore three partys/legions. If there are more
>than one force the programm ignores some units and some not and this is not
>depending on the sight-value of the forces.
>
>In CoA2 (Austria), we had the situation, that the cloudcastle (right name ?)
>has conquered a town and afterwards moved in a square with four of our forces.
>One force with 4000 Soldiers, one with 6000 soldiers and one with 10000
>soldiers. The last force was a party with 4 characters. The cloudcastle had
>attacked only the forces with 4000 and 6000 soldiers, but not the force with
>10000 soldiers. The cloudcastle had the encounter to attack all forces with
>less then 20000 soldiers.
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No idea what is going on here.  You should attack them all if you see them.

Dean