Soldiers (was: 1st Turn (Legends, NIC4))

From: dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1993 03:03:16 +0000

tcline@nyx.cs.du.edu (Terry Cline):
>Well I recieved a "Special Action" on my first turn, giveing my
>hero setup a few soldiers.  Now will this screw me up with force encounter
>orders?  The number is <10 if that meens much.  Should I transfer them to
>a uncommanded slot if I want to enter a city, howabout guilds?  Any hints
>on what to do with them?

A force with soldiers can't enter a location.  Period.  If you want to
enter a location, either move to it and transfer your character in on
the following turn or have your character/s and your soldiers in
separate forces.  What you might do is activate as many legions as
you can spare movement orders for and transfer soldiers into them.
A legion with one or more soldiers can explore for you, using military
order 30.  Also, if you don't feed your soldiers they'll drop in
morale (which you don't care much about for scouts) and 10% of them will
desert at production (which is none of them if there are 5 or fewer
in a slot.)

>There is a herd of "greathawks" I'll try to capture, I know I can't get
>them all but what are the odds of capturing herd animals.

Odds don't come into it.  You get something along the lines of one
greathawk for each 15 (???) or so soldiers involved.  In your case,
if you put your entire squad of soldiers to work on it, either they'll
get you one greathawk per turn or they won't, depending on rounding.

>And finaly, what are the odds of starting combat with the
>raid order, and how much money do you normaly get.

If you raid, you'll be in a fight.  I'm not sure what you get,
but no force you can beat yet will have much.

>Now it will be a year before another special
>action comes my way.  Are special actions totaly random, or is it
>based on something?  (like can you get 3 in a row, and nothing for
>the rest of the game?)

Every turn the computer picks a random special event for you.  It
then checks whether that even is applicable to your position.  If
it's not, it tries again.  Three failures means you don't get a
special event that turn.  You'll get a special event most turns --
but most of them will be fairly useless.  (I keep getting an old
miner running in breathlessly to inform me that my home province
has valuable resources growing in it.)

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Dani Zweig
dani@netcom.com

Roses red and violets blew
  and all the sweetest flowres that in the forrest grew -- Edmund Spenser

References

1st Turn (Legends, NIC4)
tcline@nyx.cs.du.edu (Terry Cline)
Tue, 29 Jun 1993 00:00:45 +0000

Referenced By

1st Turn (Legends, NIC4)
tcline@nyx.cs.du.edu (Terry Cline)
Tue, 29 Jun 1993 00:00:45 +0000