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From: nad@tegra.COM (Nancy Durgin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Warlords from SSG
Message-ID: <2145@joker.tegra.COM>
Date: 11 Mar 91 15:23:12 GMT
References: <1991Mar9.060833.13483@macc.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: nad@joker.UUCP (Nancy Durgin)
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In article <1991Mar9.060833.13483@macc.wisc.edu> gilmore@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Neil Gilmore) writes:
>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:
>
>>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?

I have had my hero die when trying to get another artifact, and it always
left a little sack of goodies at the site, that I could come along with
another hero and pick up.  I have *never* seen a sack of goodies left by a
dead computer hero...

	Nancy


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