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

From: tcline@nyx.cs.du.edu (Terry Cline)

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1993 15:15:32 +0000

In article <daniC9D4HG.37y@netcom.com> dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig) writes:
>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.)

Looks like I have some thinking to do.  Send out a few scouts
to explore, and possibly keep the others as guards.  I'm in a major
player killing city from what I've heard.  (Nice to hear after you've
sent in your setup, NOT.)

>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.)

Good to know, my first game was COA2 and I don't recall
ever getting a special action.  Looks like they are trying to
keep things a bit more interesting.  Thanks for the info/ideas.

-Terry

References

1st Turn (Legends, NIC4)
tcline@nyx.cs.du.edu (Terry Cline)
Tue, 29 Jun 1993 00:00:45 +0000
Soldiers (was: 1st Turn (Legends, NIC4))
dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)
Tue, 29 Jun 1993 03:03:16 +0000