Re: NIC4 - More Questions!!

From: griffith@fx.com (Jim Griffith)

Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1993 18:43:16 +0000

drhj@v1.astro.cf.ac.uk (Dean Johnson) writes:

>In article 93Jul7080151@vongole.mit.edu, dresnick@athena.mit.edu (David I Resnick) writes:
>> This isn't just characters.  All halfling pop is INV1.  On the other
>> hand, lots of status give it even if not listed in the manual.  E.g.
>> blessed of Shanah is INV1 DAM1, not bad as you can train these troops
>> for free with holy symbols.  Seems to me that folks who didn't choose
>> religions 4, 9, or 10 will regret it, given that character affliction
>> of troops is non-existant in NIC.

>I agree with you totally about the soldiers, hence I'm a Priest of the
>Temple of the Dead.

Beg to differ.  First off, character affliction of troops is *not* non-
existent in NIC.  I quote "The ability to 'Afflict' a status has been removed
from nearly all the statuses so that there is no 'free' way to inflict mass
numbers of troops".  The key word for me is the "nearly", and I would
speculate that some higher statuses may very well give you affliction.  The
module is too new for us to know.

Second off, I consider the troop affliction from holy symbols for religions
4 and 9 to be meaningless.  20 troops per action is nothing.  Given a 2
action priest with a tactics of 15, a PC of 30 and 2 holy symbols, would you
rather train 40 15th level blessed of shanah troops or 90 15th level normal
troops?  I'll take the normal troops any day.  The holy symbols are going to
be nice for the first six months of the game, and that's it.  The Temple of
the Dead symbols are a little more meaningful, because they support a tactics
of 13, as compared to the others which support a tactics of 6.  But if I'm
training 200 troops per turn (as I expect to be doing in 2 months at least),
I'm really going to only mildly be interested in 40 blessed troops and
moderately interested in 80 netherworld troops, but that'll fade really quick
as my empire grows.

Finally, with the recent changes to fortifications, Temple of the Dead has
become unfairly powerful, and I would expect MG to whack down the ToD holy
symbols in future games.  The module says that the stats given are guidelines
only and may vary from game to game.

Jim

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References

Re: NIC4 - More Questions!!
dresnick@athena.mit.edu (David I Resnick)
Wed, 07 Jul 1993 12:01:51 +0000
Re: NIC4 - More Questions!!
drhj@v1.astro.cf.ac.uk (Dean Johnson)
Thu, 08 Jul 1993 13:02:50 +0000

Referenced By

Re: NIC4 - More Questions!!
dresnick@athena.mit.edu (David I Resnick)
Wed, 07 Jul 1993 12:01:51 +0000
Re: NIC4 - More Questions!!
drhj@v1.astro.cf.ac.uk (Dean Johnson)
Thu, 08 Jul 1993 13:02:50 +0000