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 23:08:30 +0000

Greg Lindahl writes
> Carl Edman writes:
> > 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).
>
> Well, you don't have to "sneak into the stack" -- high
> stealth would just let you attack someone without anyone
> coming to their defense. Units with high observation
> skills would be able to come to aid the attacked person,
> and the higher level skills the attacked person has, the
> more chance they have of summoning help.

Of course you could do that, too, and that is as I suspect it is going
to be implemented. But I think that my idea of sneaking into stacks is:

a) more atomic

b) more general - ie you can also use it for other purposes eg. to
track a stack of a different faction, or entering a stack for a
different purpose than killing eg. stealing - another new stealth use

c) more closely related to the idea of Stealth

d) makes assassination skills unnecessary if you have general access to
the target anyway (ie. are stacked with him), which I believe is
realistic. After all the real skill of assassination is not plunging
your sword into somebody, but getting close enough to the (guarded)
target to be able to do it

e) Allows for the representing of several layers of guards using
substacks

f) is _my_ idea, and I'll be damned if I let any Loudmouth criticize
any of my ideas in a public forum. :-)

Carl Edman, BtA

References

Re: OLYMPIA: Stacking Reform Concepts (was Re: Olympia Stacking 'Gotcha')
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Fri, 12 Jun 1992 16:34:16 +0000