Re: Legends questions/advice

From: aiko@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (aiko gieskens)

Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1993 14:46:48 +0000

drhj@astro.cf.ac.uk (Dean Johnson) writes:
: DO Make sure you are im possession of a good Duel and Battle spell right from the start.

Or make sure you can get them from somebody else.

: > - Common mistakes
:
: Trying to Conquer a ruin or Lair with a CONQUER LOCATION military order.  You need to
: SPY on the place, see what PARTY the monsters are in and then use ATTACK PARTY order.
: This is another good reason for having the SPY skill.  Otherwise you have to go in and
: then VIEW it.  This is not always a good idea.

A few things on this. Conquering a lair with the military order Conquer
Location isn't wrong at all. To the contrary, it is the best option to
get the lair. Even when you don't actually kill the monster, but get him
to flee, (before a certain round), the lair is yours, with all the
goodies in it. Also note that monsters in a lair are not in a party like
they are in a ruin, so I doubt you even can use the attack party on
them, but I'm not sure on this.
If you want info on the monster and the lair, there are a couple of ways
to go. SOme are better, some are just different.
The most obvious is mentioned above, using the Spy to get the info. The
advantage is that you can do everything from 5 provinces distance.
Disadvantages are that the info is somewhat limited, and that it takes a
couple of spying actions to get what you want (possesions/military
info/character).
The second way is to use a seer. This way I recommend, because there is
no risk whatsoever fro the character who is obtaining the info. Use the
spell scry force to get the possesions of the lair and the military
info. And contrary to what it says in the books, you pay NO extra spell
points for range. (momentarily I'm I'm scrying major locations all over
the Map for three spell points each. Having a seer that means free.) I'm
not sure if this will be like this in every module, but even when you do
pay for range, this still is a good option. To get specifics on the
monster, use the read character. This gives more specific info on the
monster at the cost of spell points as you need to get above the
monsters magic protection.
The third way is the so called suicide scout option. This mean you send
in one low-trainings level soldier, and get all the info you need on the
monster, including Magic resistance/Special attack resistance and his
special attack. We use Trn-level 0 orc soldiers (that's right level 0,
they costed exactly 0 crowns to make..).
Be careful however not to go walking around with an army of say > 20
soldiers, as a lot of monsters have encounter orders set to attack such
legions. Some might just be too much for your legion, so take care.

: here can pay dividends.  (Some Statuses increase stats as well).
some familiars increase stats as well.
: DEX :-Dead useful for your thief, assassin, spy type characters.  Also useful for magic
Spel might go off in Dex order, but as far as my experiences go, it
doesn't matter a dingo's kidney, in what order the spells go off, as all
effects are applied at the end of the round.

Aiko Gieskens

References

Re: Legends questions/advice
drhj@astro.cf.ac.uk (Dean Johnson)
Tue, 02 Mar 1993 12:29:52 +0000

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Re: Legends questions/advice
drhj@astro.cf.ac.uk (Dean Johnson)
Tue, 02 Mar 1993 12:29:52 +0000