Re: ME-PBM Dragons and Artifacts?

From: eschnurr@netcom.com (Eric Schnurr)

Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 16:59:50 +0000

In article <2uab6h$81d@news.doit.wisc.edu>,
Samuel Freeman <freeman@cae.wisc.edu> wrote:
>I can't confirm this personally, but the latest edition of the rulebook does
>say (under Transfer Artifact order description) that the recipient cannot be a
>hostage or NPC.  Dragons are definitely NPC's, so the rulebook seems to imply
>that you can't give a dragon an artifact.

Unfortunately the rulebook is not very good about fine details.
The version I have says the same thing, but until a few weeks
ago, there was not a problem transferring artifacts to dragons.
You'll also find that, by the rules, you should be able to IssPers
to a hostage (can't assassinate a hostage...).  We tried this and
it failed, stating that the given name was not a valid target.
You can also look at the transfer food: pop center -> army and
army -> pop center.  Read the description text and the prerequisites
very carefully and you'll discrepancies as to who has to be friendly
to who.  There's also the well known discrepancy about how army movement
without food is calculated.  Do you believe the 4/3 rule as stated in
the movement section, or do you believe the 7 or 9 point max as
listed in the 850/860 order description.

I enjoy playing ME, but I have had to learn the fine details of the
game through playing experience because the rules do not neccessarily
reflect how the program was written.  Unfortunately, whenever I have
called and asked about why something didn't work the way the rules
states it should, they have argued that I was misinterpreting the
rules...once, after further debate they actually admitted that the
rules were misleading and said that they would change the wording
for the next printing of the rulebook.

>
>Sam

Eric
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References

Re: ME-PBM Dragons and Artifacts?
freeman@cae.wisc.edu (Samuel Freeman)
Wed, 22 Jun 1994 21:41:37 +0000
ME-PBM Dragons and Artifacts?
v011l6fc@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu (DAVE ROSSELL)
Wed, 22 Jun 1994 17:12:00 +0000