Re: More Arguments. Favourite games.

From: lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)

Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 06:05:57 +0000

In article <20010410101114.20769.00000921@ng-fr1.aol.com>,
PHen376022 <phen376022@aol.com> wrote:

>As I see it, there are two main reasons that Oly II has gone 215 turns without
>anybody coming close to "winning" in a conventional sense.
>Conservation of Noble Points and the difficulty of moving large armies over
>significant distances, especially over water!

Conservation of Noble Points just means you can run away to fight
another day. So yes, it's hard to totally defeat anyone, but most of
the large wars have resulted in territory being captured, trade being
disrupted, etc.

As for moving armies, it's faster to move them over water than land...

>Since noble points can no longer be taken from defeated opponents, no one
>faction, or group of factions, can accumulate the power represented in the
>noble points.

Right. But you can take your enemy's gold, land, kill his troops, and
if you're clever, you can even catch and kill his stealthy mages. Then
he's stuck restarting from scratch.

-- g

References

Re: More Arguments. Favourite games.
"Enno Rehling" <schick.mir.spam@gmx.de>
Tue, 10 Apr 2001 07:47:09 +0000
Re: More Arguments. Favourite games.
phen376022@aol.com (PHen376022)
Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:11:14 +0000