Re: Olympia: faction trees

From: hauck@cs.washington.edu (Scott Hauck)

Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1992 03:23:10 +0000

On faction trees, I agree with many of the posters that this would complicate
the system without improving it.  However, I do think there are portions of it
that have merit.

First, I think in combat Military leadership shouldn't just be useful for the
stack leader, but for others as well.  What should happen is that the unit
with the highest military leadership is the "general".  His Military leadership
helps all of his forces, but only if he can control that many.  With low
leadership, a leader could only control a small number of men and units.  With
higher leadership, more can be controlled.  Also, as more and more men and
units are put under a leader, he gets less and less control, until the force is
so large that it's as though it's not led at all.  If there are subleaders in
the force, they control a subforce, based on their level.  The general's
military leadership is still used as a bonus, but the subleader essentially
cuts down the apparent number of men controlled, allowing the leader to control
more men.  BTW, I also think there should be some bonus for less number of
units, where two units of one man each are harder to control than one unit of
two men, since these men have trained as a unit.

BTW, if you do decide on leader trees, the way to keep the leaders out of the
hinterlands is to have a leader have a sphere of control, expanding at higher
levels, and units may only be controlled by a leader if they are within the
leader's sphere of control.  So, a level 1 leader would have a 0 sphere of
control, so units would have to be stacked with him.  At level #2, they could
be one province away.

Finally, a word about the death of a PC.  I feel that whena PC dies, instead of
disbanding his faction, an heir should take over.  The way this works is that
after a PC dies, all units suffer a fall in loyalty, with many leaving.  Of
those that stay, the player chooses one to regain the mantle of control in the
next turn, and that unit is now the PC.  In this way, killing a PC is
traumatic, but a strong faction can carry on.  BTW, the player could chose
to abandone his faction and start a new one if things are just too grim.

Scott Hauck
hauck@cs.washington.edu

References

Re: Olympia: faction trees
sjc@cs.purdue.EDU (Steve Chapin)
Thu, 23 Apr 1992 00:23:24 +0000
Re: Olympia: faction trees
skrenta@cbnewsg.att.com (Rich Skrenta)
Thu, 23 Apr 1992 01:03:39 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Olympia: faction trees
sjc@cs.purdue.EDU (Steve Chapin)
Thu, 23 Apr 1992 00:23:24 +0000
Re: Olympia: faction trees
skrenta@cbnewsg.att.com (Rich Skrenta)
Thu, 23 Apr 1992 01:03:39 +0000