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From: gilmore@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Neil Gilmore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Warlords from SSG
Message-ID: <1991Mar9.060833.13483@macc.wisc.edu>
Date: 9 Mar 91 06:05:11 GMT
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In article <2130@joker.tegra.COM>, nad@tegra.COM (Nancy Durgin) writes...

>In article <1991Mar2.075356.10035@macc.wisc.edu> gilmore@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Neil Gilmore) writes:
>>In article <2807@beguine.UUCP>, rhunt@uncmed.med.unc.edu writes...

>Hmm..  I played a *lot* and didn't notice any of these problems.  One
>session, it had some kind of glitch that caused recurring instances where
>it would make me fight battles against phantom opponents (squares where
>something had been located, but had died in an attack against me, for 
>instance...).  It was just the one game though, and I've never seen it
>again.  I haven't seen *any* bugs or glitches other than that one time.
>(Running on an A3000 under 2.0X).
Well, let me explai further. I have experienced no problems which in any 
way prevented me from playing the game. The problems I have run into 
were all trivial.

>I agree on this.  It said that playing the Sirians against the Warlords
>would be the toughest game, so after my introductory game (where I played
>the Elves), I tried that.  Won it on the first try.  Kind of disappointing.
>And it seems that although the computer collects the artifacts, you can
>never get them from his dead heroes.  I've been meaning to check if
>it is different when the opponent is human.  I assume it must be, otherwise
>the manual is in error, or there is a bug in the program.
Generally, what happens is that the hero eventually dies trying to get 
another artifact. Then the ones he had disappear. Since the heroes with 
artifacts seem to die off, isn't this a bad strategy for the computer to 
use?


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