Re: Game unit design: a shield

[Lincoln Peters <peters2000 at mindspring dot com>]

The only problem I'd see with using combat model 1 is that it would not
be possible for characters to retreat from battle or effectively gang up
on other characters.  Using combat model 0, you could attack a stronger
unit with several weaker units, have each weaker unit retreat as it
became damaged, and still destroy the stronger unit.  This would not
work in combat model 1; you would only be able to send in attacking
units one at a time, and you'd probably lose a lot more of them.

Maybe there

On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 02:29, Hans Ronne wrote:
> Check out the Lord of the Rings game, or rather its base module 3rd-age.g.
> The Ring in that game works pretty much the way you want, except for the
> fact that it confers a higher attack value on the bearer.  This is achieved
> through the table  occupant-affects-attack which could be changed to
> occupant-affects-defense in your case. To use these tables, you need to use
> combat model 1, though (the Civ-type combat model). I would recommend it
> anyway if you are writing a new game since it is easier to use in the sense
> that units have absolute attack and defense values instead of the relative
> values (the hit-chance table) that you find in combat model 0.
> 
> Hans
> 
> Hans Ronne
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> hronne@pp.sbbs.se
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