Re: Olympia combat

From: Bill.Viggers@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Bill Viggers)

Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 05:27:40 +0000

In article <18404@ector.cs.purdue.edu>, sjc@cs.purdue.EDU (Steve Chapin) writes:

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|>
|> Keep talking about this; more sepecifically, instead of what you don't
|> like about the current use of fortifications in combat, what role
|> would you like them to play in combat?  (the "you" there is plural,
|> and not intended to pick on Karl).
|>

The way I see it, units stacked with some terrain (be it a ship, tower,
	castle or whatever), should get two kinds of bonuses.

1: The odds against them should be reduced.  In combat, you are told
	"Falred outnumbers Gorbie 32-1", I assume this gives some kind of
	advantage over and above just doing more damage in a linear fashion.
	When you have a piece of fortification you may want to either:
		i:	count each defender as being world X much more than an
			attacker,
	or	ii:	Limit the maximum number of attackers able to assult the
			place at a single time.

and/or	2: The defenders should also get some sort of armour bonus.  I'm not
		sure how the fortify command works at the moment, but if it
		was a persentage, then that % could be added to your AC, so
		in a castle that offers 100% protection, all armour was
		doubled.  This won't work too well as plate mail would then
		make you imortal.  But something along these lines maybe.
		Or perhaps it should just have an armour factor that is
		added to your regular armour.  (again this could run into
		trouble if you have plate mail (ar 5) and fortification level
		5, as that would give AR 10 and imunity to damage).

As an extra note, I also think that attacking units should not get
		any bonus from their fortifications.  Making them unstack
		might prove problematic for ship combat though...
		Captain:"quick unstack so we can attack that rich mercahnt ship."
		Sailor: "Aye aye Capt.. <glug, glug, girgle, girgle.....>

Lastly I think it important that if the defenders flee, then they
	don't remain stacked with the structure (I don't know how this works
	at the moment, so this may be the case already).  Again though ships
	might pose a problem "Run away, run a <girgle>..."

Bill (Merlinium the grey [537])

References

Re: Olympia combat
cedman@714-725-3177.nts.uci.edu (Carl Edman)
Thu, 09 Apr 1992 04:56:11 +0000
Re: Olympia combat
sjc@cs.purdue.EDU (Steve Chapin)
Fri, 10 Apr 1992 20:38:46 +0000