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From: ameiba@reed.UUCP (Keith Steiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: PowerMonger tactics
Message-ID: <15822@reed.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 90 23:05:08 GMT
References: <15813@reed.UUCP> <27594.2771f87a@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Reply-To: ameiba@reed.UUCP (Keith Steiger)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR (but they don't own me)
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In article <27594.2771f87a@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>,
	2flntopaz@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>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

Okay, how do you set a town making bows?  More precisely--
1. How do you set a town inventing without your army sticking around?
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?

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?

Has anyone use alliances or trade to any advantage?

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

--
Keith Steiger--ameiba@reed.BITNET, ameiba@reed.UUCP, tektronix!reed!ameiba
          "I am what you see.  Myself....  I cannot be otherwise."
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