Re: Legends Combat

From: dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1993 20:40:53 +0000

Theodore Wadsworth <tw1t+@andrew.cmu.edu>:
>Is there any benefit for breakthroughs in Legends combat?

No.  Beyond the obvious advantages of breaking a tough slot and
of getting access to the weaker slots that were behind it.

>Does anyone want to comment on the applicability of real world tactics
>to Legends?

No.  Beyond the obvious observation that the correspondence is sketchy.

>Someone once submited a village discription that included some
>netherworld knights.  In contumplating that problem I was wondering if
>it is possible to get a unit like that to break by eliminating all of
>their friends (the rest of the legion was scrap) thus conquering the
>location and gaining controll of the Netherworld Knights.

First the bad news:  You don't gain control of any soldiers when you
conquer a location.  The survivors take off their equipment and turn
into unkilled civilians.  Second, there are two kinds of breaking:  A
slot breaks when it's taken enough damage, and once a slot breaks, the
entire force is checked to see whether it's been sufficiently demoralized.
This suggests two possible tactics when you don't have soldiers to burn
and the force you face has one particularly tough slot:

1. Try to smash the tough slot as quickly as possible.  Once you do,
   the opposition will have lost a large percentage of its total CF,
   and be correspondingly ready to break.

2. Concentrate on the weak slots, so you can destroy a large percentage
   of the opposition's CF as cheaply as possible, so the force as a
   whole will break without your having to deal with the tough slot.
   Optionally, you can put a weak suicide force opposite that slot, to
   soak up the initial damage while you concentrate you main forces
   against the opposition's weakness.

A risk in option '2' is that if you lose, then next time you fight that
force, you'll find yourself up against a force that still has most of
its original strength, but has lost its achilles heel.

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References

Legends Combat
Theodore Wadsworth <tw1t+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Thu, 22 Jul 1993 17:56:54 +0000