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From: 2flntopaz@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: PowerMonger tactics
Message-ID: <27594.2771f87a@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 21 Dec 90 17:56:42 GMT
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In article <15813@reed.UUCP>, ameiba@reed.UUCP (Keith Steiger) writes:
> 	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. 

Well, I've conquered 8 worlds and your strategies are almost mirror images
of mine.  Though one thing I do different (if I'm badly outnumbered) is
to start a couple of towns making bows & arrows for me.  I noticed on one
world your army started off with a lot of bows and they really kicked
butt with them.

David Poland
2flntopaz@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu