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From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Populous Hinta (SPOILER)
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Date: 13 Nov 89 23:19:17 GMT
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Hint 1

I just happened to discover a sneaky technique that lets me really pound
the computer. When my knight walks over to the enemy lands. I put him
on the screen and use raise land till there is a huge mountain. When he
moves a little, I put a mountain there too. With just a little work, I
can turn the whole enemy's land into mountains.

This has the following effects:

Severly curtails enemy manna production.
Kills a lot of people in desert and ice worlds.
Gets a lot of the population moving. May be good or bad.

Hint 2

When I'm in the "mop up" stage of the game, I also follow my knights around
and help them out by drowning as many enemies as possible. You have to lower
4 squares of land into the water to do this. This technique speeds up the
endgame quite a bit.

Hint 3

Drown enemy knights as in technique 2. Sometimes the computer saves them
quickly. Usually if you're persistent you can drown em even with high
reaction time set.

I don't know if these techniques will work in really hard levels (I'm
up to 75). Maybe I won't use them just to make things more even.

Populous is a wonderful game. You can bet they're working on Populous II.

Sean
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