Re: OLYMPIA: Stacking Reform Concepts (was Re: Olympia Stacking 'Gotcha')

From: cedman@714-725-3177.nts.uci.edu (Carl Edman)

Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1992 15:30:57 +0000

John Morrow writes
[different suggestion for treachery in a stack under my proposed rule]

Well, your first scenario wouldn't work. A disloyal apprentice would
not be able to bring in a large army unit into the tower unless it had
been declared cooperative before something which is rather unlikely to
happen. But the other possibility which you suggested is very real - he
might learn combat to a high skill level and start slaughtering his
overly cerebral co-apprentices.

The question is, is this a feature or a bug ? I'm not quite certain,
but feel that at least as strong a case can be made that this is a
feature as that this is a bug. After all how would the tower be
organized ? Somewhere the master would have his rooms outside of which
his bodyguards would be standing and in another part of the tower the
apprentices would have their rooms. Would a single murderous apprentice
not be able to walk in on another and kill him before any of the others
had a chance to come to his defense. I should think so.

BTW, while we are on the subject of assassinations, the way I would
implement them is to create a fairly high-level stealth skill which
would allow a unit to sneak into a stack even if that stack is
uncooperative. The assassination itself would just be a normal attack
afterwards (so assassins still would also need high combat skills).

Carl Edman, BtA

References

Re: OLYMPIA: Stacking Reform Concepts (was Re: Olympia Stacking 'Gotcha')
morrow@foghat.rutgers.edu (John Morrow)
Thu, 11 Jun 1992 20:16:55 +0000

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Re: OLYMPIA: Stacking Reform Concepts (was Re: Olympia Stacking 'Gotcha')
morrow@foghat.rutgers.edu (John Morrow)
Thu, 11 Jun 1992 20:16:55 +0000