Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!news!rad From: rad@avenger.think.com (Bob Doolittle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Can PowerMonger actually be won? Message-ID: Date: 1 Feb 91 21:28:59 GMT Sender: news@Think.COM Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.games Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge Mass., USA Lines: 31 I have worked my way down the left edge, then along the bottom row to the right. There have been some strange lands which exhibited what may have been bugs, but the lower-right land is totally wedged and gurus constantly! The "bugs" which I saw in some lands may have been features - if you queried an individual soldier, you saw that your guys were carrying something which printed in colors. This is hard to describe, but instead of saying something like "carrying a bow", it would say "carrying a [?" followed by a wierd color pattern! When I fought an enemy, colors would flash around the individual battles, and I kicked major butt, seemingly killing foes with one blow. This only happened in the bottom few rows, and only in a few territories. Now, in the final territory, most of my soldiers start bare-handed, but my general starts with a different random color pattern. The only effect seems to be that he can't pick up a boat (although everyone else can), and even if everyone has a boat and there is a surplus, the general can't sail anywhere, so the army can't either. Once again, this may be a feature - it seems like everybody is leaving their villages and attacking my land anyway, so maybe if I play long enough I can just kill them all off and eventually win that way... HOWEVER, this territory constantly causes gurus, usually when I am trying to save or restore a game! I know this is supposed to be the toughest land to win, but is it supposed to be hard because you always have to start over again when the game gurus??? ;-) I've had very little trouble up until now - some 10-second hangs, and a very occasional guru, but this last territory is a drag. Just when I get to the end, too! Has anybody else gotten this far who has had similar experiences, or is my game buggy, or what??