|
|
|
 |
|

November 14th, 2003, 01:24 AM
|
Second Lieutenant
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 419
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
|
Supply lines
I have a few questions. Easiest is regarding supply lines. How do you keep your troops from starving? Someone mentioned that fortresses were involved in supply lines. Meaning you can go there and eat? How do you cut off your enemy's supply lines?
Second, where can I buy this game? I don't like to purchase things Online. (I just generally don't trust that process. I'd be happy to make a phone call but won't send credit card info over the web.) I love the demo. I'm only getting started, but I totally love it!!
The depth of the game is amazing.
|

November 14th, 2003, 01:52 AM
|
 |
Major General
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Crystal Tokyo
Posts: 2,453
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
|
Re: Supply lines
Each province has a "Supply" rating, and supply usage. Generally, 1 human-sized unit uses 1 supply, and if the supply usage is greater than the province supply there is starvation. In the F1 screen you can see the supply usage for each province (SU).
To avoid starvation: Don't move a big army into a province with low supply. The scales (heat and life) affect supply in provinces, and proximity to a fort increases supply. Forts themselves generally have lots of supply. As a Last resort, you can pillage a province to temporarily increase supply (and kill population).
To supply your army: Choose a growth scale, or keep nature mages with the army (they generate 5 supply per nature level) or forge supply items (in the nature path: Bag of Wine, Cauldron of Broth, and Summer Sword).
Cutting off supply lines: Difficult. To do that, you have to control the province of an enemy fortress, choose a death or heat/cold scale and push your dominion into their provinces, kill their nature mages or other supply-providing units (like Vanheim's sacred boars), or isolate their army in a surrounded province, cut off from any castles.
So far, the game is only available Online at Shrapnel, and probably will always be. I bought Space Empires IV and SEIV: Gold from Shrapnel and never had a problem... and I've bought lots of stuff from Amazon... so I'd say you'll have to overcome your aVersion, or forego Dominions II
-Cherry
|

November 14th, 2003, 01:53 AM
|
 |
Major General
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Crystal Tokyo
Posts: 2,453
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
|
Re: Supply lines
...and you might want to read this: http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...;f=74;t=000172
and download the Dominions I manual (link is embedded in the above guide).
|

November 14th, 2003, 02:53 AM
|
Second Lieutenant
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 419
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
|
Re: Supply lines
Thank you, Saber Cherry. I'm going to hold out a week or so for a phone number then maybe buy it Online. It's too good to forego. 
|

November 14th, 2003, 05:00 AM
|
 |
Major General
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Mountain View, CA
Posts: 2,162
Thanks: 2
Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts
|
|
Re: Supply lines
A note on the castles:
Pay attention to the Admin rating; that affects how much it supplies nearby provinces. The more obvious Supply rating governs how much supplies it stockpiles in case the castle itself is sieged.
There are also magical sites which affect supply; mostly, if not entirely, nature. Nature's a great "support" path if you have living troops because of the supply items, regeneration, elemental resistances et al that it offers.
Starvation can take place pretty rapidly. If you just cut off an enemy force from its main supply source and you attack the very next turn, the enemy may already be facing starvation (-4 morale penalty). And keep in mind that mere ownership of a province cuts off supply lines; if a few Call of the Winds sufficed took the province, the line's cut even if the CotW force could be destroyed trivially the next turn.
__________________
Are we insane yet? Are we insane yet? Aiiieeeeee...
|

November 14th, 2003, 06:38 AM
|
|
Re: Supply lines
Survivalist,
You may want to look here:
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/service.htm
I wasn't able to find a phone number but you may be able to weasel one out of Annette if you ask them about other processes of payment. I know they do accept money order and check as well as Online orders.
|

November 14th, 2003, 06:09 PM
|
Colonel
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Near Paris, France
Posts: 1,566
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
|
Re: Supply lines
To get more supply the easiest options are :
- Take Nature magic and Growth scales, it gives additional supplies
- Choose a good Castle/Fortress, that has a high Supply value (Fort.Cities are best, but very expensive..)
- Build supply-creating items - most are Nature-based - and give them to your commanders
- Use rather a few good troops that many crap ones, they eat less  (playing Ulm for example I rarely have supply problems, but much more with Machaka ..)
|

November 14th, 2003, 06:47 PM
|
 |
Major General
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Mountain View, CA
Posts: 2,162
Thanks: 2
Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts
|
|
Re: Supply lines
Another option: a few units produce rather than consume supply. There aren't many, 'tho; the Vanheim Fay Boar comes to mind, and those, if memory serves, are Vanheim-only in addition to being costly.
__________________
Are we insane yet? Are we insane yet? Aiiieeeeee...
|

November 14th, 2003, 06:56 PM
|
 |
Sergeant
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2003
Posts: 296
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
|
Re: Supply lines
Don't forget items. Quite a number of magic items provide additional supply for your army. In additional to Fay Boar, some of the new pretenders also feed your troops.
|

November 14th, 2003, 11:59 PM
|
Second Lieutenant
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 419
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
|
Re: Supply lines
Thanks again to everyone for the help.
I've sent a request to the support center. But no one has responded yet. Maybe they don't get too many requests of this nature. Who knows?
This game isn't going to ever be in stores? Really?
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is On
|
|
|
|
|