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From: beckmon@sapphire.idbsu.edu (Jon Beckmon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Powermonger comments
Message-ID: <1991Feb1.182055.6898@sapphire.idbsu.edu>
Date: 1 Feb 91 18:20:55 GMT
References: <1991Jan28.231935.7383@county.oz.au>
Organization: Boise State University, Boise
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First of all killing sheep seems to increase my food supply much
quicker than getting food from stores.  I kill every one to
find cause I hate it when my army takes off for the hills.
Best solution to battle I've found is to find a town you're
pretty sure you can take and use passive for your general
to take it.  As soon as you take it then change your general
to Aggressive and take all the food and men and equipment
thats in the village with you.  I've found that you don't
really need to control villages because if the entire village
is in your army you can kill whomever stands in your way.
Then go to the next village and change to passive before
attacking (to spare those pour souls and make them join your
fighting force) then change back after winning and take all
the goodies again.  This system of plundering can get me thru
much of the map but I tend to have problems on the screens where
you start off with 2 opposing armies attacking you almost
simultaneously and you don't have any way to get to villages
to recruit more men into your army.  Also I too have found
that other generals don't seem to serve much purpose as
I prefer to have an army with 150 in it as compared to 2 armies
of 75 each.  I can easily take back any villages the enemy
armies may take with a massive force.  Also by lootin all
villages totally as you go you leave no men, food, or equipment
in case another army takes it.