Re: Olympia Stacking 'Gotcha'

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

Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1992 05:39:17 +0000

Rich Skrenta writes
> Karl Anderson writes:
> > Stacking does provide some unrealistic defensive
> > ability to the stacked units:  Suppose Bill is stacked
> > with Bob and Susan.  Bill could study combat, Bob could
> > work, and Susan could mine for ore, yet they would
> > suddenly spring to eachothers' sides when one of them was
> > attacked.
> >
>
> What's wrong with that?  That is the whole point of forming
> stacks.
>
> Bill:  "Okay, I'm going to study combat, and you two can do
> whatever 	you want.  But spring to my aid if I'm attacked,
> and I'll 	do the same for you."
>
> Bob and Susan:	"Sounds good to us, Bill.  Safety in
> numbers!"

Yes, that was what I was about to reply too. But what Karl means I
believe is that to work, study combat and mine ore the people actually
would have to go to seperate places. So if an attacker suddenly came
upon one of them, the others wouldn't be there to defend him before it
was too late.

From the realism standpoint I think Karl is right, but I think that
this is one of the rare occasions in which one should say to hell with
realism and preserve playability. And playability would be badly hurt
by rules which take this factor into account.

Carl Edman, BtA

References

Re: Olympia Stacking 'Gotcha'
skrenta@cbnewsg.att.com (Rich Skrenta)
Wed, 10 Jun 1992 04:48:45 +0000

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Re: Olympia Stacking 'Gotcha'
skrenta@cbnewsg.att.com (Rich Skrenta)
Wed, 10 Jun 1992 04:48:45 +0000