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From: 2flntopaz@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: PowerMonger tactics
Message-ID: <27612.27747c00@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 23 Dec 90 15:42:24 GMT
References: <15813@reed.UUCP> <27594.2771f87a@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <15822@reed.UUCP>
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In article <15822@reed.UUCP>, ameiba@reed.UUCP (Keith Steiger) writes:
> 
> Okay, how do you set a town making bows?  More precisely--
> 1. How do you set a town inventing without your army sticking around?

All I've really done is start the town inventing using the army and let
them invent for a minute or two, then leave.  Most of the time the townspeople
will get their own initiative to continue doing whatever you were.  To
guarantee bows I usually pick a city nested near the woods somewhere inland
away from the water.  Most of the time they make bows but like you said,
they sometimes make things I don't want (like boots!).

> 2. How do you guarantee that they won't waste time on big projects, like
>     catapult or cannon or sword?  Once, I had a town START DIGGING A MINE
>     on me.  That WASN'T what I had in mind.
> 
> Also, how much more useful are pikes over hand-to-hand combatants?
>

Aren't pikes hand to hand combat weapons? 

> Furthermore, let me set up a hypothetical (but common) situation.
> 
> You start on an island.  Yellow is almost everywhere, you start at one tip,
>  and Blue starts at the opposite end with juicier villages and a bigger
>  starting army.  What (if anything) should one do?  Try to head directly for
>  him, or play "ring-around-the-rosie" with rampaging tactics?
> 

I usually head for the yellow guys first.  Hit a couple of towns using
passive posture then use aggressive posture to collect men from the town. 
Then find out where the blue army is and attack with aggressive posture
to totally obliterate him from the map.  After this you shouldn't have
too much problem conquering the rest of the island since you've removed
the biggest threat.

> Has anyone use alliances or trade to any advantage?

Not so far, but I've only conquered 16 worlds.  Maybe later in the game.

> 
> Still waiting for you people to tell me why I'm hitting brick walls....

Very hazardous to your health...:-)

> 

> --
> 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. 

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