I love Bogus - Page 2

Evil Dave · #1 November 10th, 2006, 07:29 PM

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Gandalf Parker said:
A story like this is why I sometimes mention that random things like events should be controlled by a switch setting.

There is one, both from the GUI and the commandline.

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Many multiplayer games would turn them down or completely off since they like to KNOW that strategy won the game rather than a stroke of luck (for bragging rights).

I can't understand this desire for Dominions, since order/turmoil and luck/misfortune dominions are core game concepts and major strategic choices.

Wick · #2 November 10th, 2006, 10:21 PM

AFAIK, independents don't ever eat so the single-scout siege can never take the castle.

LeSquide · #3 November 10th, 2006, 10:34 PM

Honestly, in single player I kinda like leaving weird provinces like that around. Gives the game more personality once it begins to wind down.

PhilD · #4 November 11th, 2006, 07:22 AM

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Wick said:
AFAIK, independents don't ever eat so the single-scout siege can never take the castle.

Really? I didn't know that...

Still, you get several benefits of the province (gold and free passage) just by camping your cheapest commander there. And if you know there's a fat Bogus group in there, you can even keep him warm until you're ready to tackle them and get the loot.

Gandalf Parker · #5 November 11th, 2006, 11:56 PM

Id like to scatter castles on large maps as part of my chaos games (where I also randomly scatter sites, armies, equipment) but a castle in the game that way falls to the single-scout thing because everyone automatically defends. Ive asked for a map command of #patrol to fix that.

Epaminondas · #6 November 10th, 2006, 05:44 PM

What's the big deal with the Greenstone armor? Its stats don't look that great. In fact, I usually throw it away if all my melee commanders have body armor on.

LeSquide · #7 November 10th, 2006, 06:18 PM

I should have sceencapped this, but...

I'm playing Early Arco (I love that Golden Age!)

I see an army of amazon, usual flying horses and that sorta nonsense, so I go to invade.

Turns out the flying horses include a Dark Knight, because my scouts failed to report that Bogus and Crew were there.

Greeeat.

So, I decide to give the place a pass, and go after easier enemeies. I plan to go back...and then notice that some Troglydytes have shown up.

Wonderful.

Ok, going to attack it later still-

And then the Fort-motte-and-bailey goes up.

I suspect that had I looked more closely, there probably would have been Barbarbians and Knights as well.

PhilD · #8 November 10th, 2006, 06:38 PM

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LeSquide said:
And then the Fort-motte-and-bailey goes up.

Fine, then just send a lone commander (Scout, Priest, whatever) to capture the province and siege them out. If there are so many troops in there, they'll just starve if you give them enough time for it (Bogus and friends won't starve, but they're not that nasty all by themselves).

Plus, while you're waiting, YOU are getting the revenue from the province.

Cainehill · #9 November 11th, 2006, 01:29 AM

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Nerfix said:
And Greenstone Armor, definitively the phattest lewt.

Eh, I've gotten Greenstone armor before and thought it sucked - decent protection, but very high fatigue. There something the stats and description didn't say about it?

Epaminondas · #10 November 11th, 2006, 03:06 AM

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Cainehill said:

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Nerfix said:
And Greenstone Armor, definitively the phattest lewt.

Eh, I've gotten Greenstone armor before and thought it sucked - decent protection, but very high fatigue. There something the stats and description didn't say about it?

I am wondering the same thing. The stats look mediocre, unless there is something that's not in the stat description.