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From: ameiba@reed.UUCP (Keith Steiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: PowerMonger tactics
Keywords: PowerMonger tactics
Message-ID: <15813@reed.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 90 05:59:02 GMT
Reply-To: ameiba@reed.UUCP (Keith Steiger)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR (where strangeness is normal)
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	Well, here goes.  I've only conquered five worlds of PowerMonger, but
the best way to start a discussion of PowerMonger tactics is to tell others
what tidbits I have learned.  Warning: these statements are only the opinions
of one PowerMonger.  Your mileage may vary.  So, here goes:

	Attack villages in Passive posture.  This decreases fatalities on a 
group of people you'd rather recruit anyway.  Research clearly shows that this
increases the number of recruits you get when you get men.

	If feasible, go into the village (I use "get invention" to do this)
and drop food in passive mode.  This will drop 25% of your food, but it will
increase the loyalty of the residents of the village greatly, and you will get
still more recruits.  And on worlds where sheep are plentiful, food is not much
of a problem.

	Recruit in aggresive posture if you aren't intending to come back for
supplies, or in normal posture if you are.

	When attacked, fight in aggresive posture.  If you merely drive them
off, they'll come back--and you'd much rather they didn't come back.

	The blue opponent tends to play aggressively, red tends to play in
normal posture, and yellow tends to play passively.  Thus, you may want to go
after the more aggresive opponents first.  Sometimes geography (or troop 
strength) does not make this feasible; life is like that.

	Try to remove all of an opponent's settlements before moving on to
another settlement.  Yellow in particular doesn't go after you until you attack
him; thus, try to have only one beehive buzzing at a time.

	I have had some success with "ring-around-the-rosie" tactics when I
was outnumbered: attack a village, take all of its people and food, and run to
the next village.  After a while, I had practically all of the food and most of
the civilian population wandering around with me, and my opposition was getting
wet and hungry.  Further research should be done on the subject.

	Note the cute little graphic to the left of the status bars.  Note how
it changes when you give that captain various orders.  Although it's fairly
obvious, I don't believe it's mentioned in the manual.


	So, that's all that comes to my mind right at the moment.  Please feel
free to tell my that my tactics are dead-wrong, as I haven't tested them much
yet; however, you are required to give me better ones.

--
  Keith Steiger--ameiba@reed.BITNET, ameiba@reed.UUCP, tektronix!reed!ameiba
          "I am what you see.  Myself....  I cannot be otherwise."
  Disclaimer: Reed College tries very hard to ignore its students' opinions.