[Discuss] Battlemaster is a tyranny

[Tom Vogt]

w drix schrieb:
> Micromanagement is not what this game was (In my understanding) made 
> to accomodate (unlike the many other web games out there).  That is 
> what makes Battlemaster so great, It has allowed for so many known and 
> hidden varibles that it mimics the chaos of life.
>
> What wins a battle is sound tactics using what resources are at hand 
> and using it with broad strokes instead of trying to determin the 
> extream fine detail of every little gold or CS so you can gain an 
> advantage.
>
> Doesent work that way.  So why is it a big deal for a newbe (whos unit 
> is small already due to low honor) to be on the wrong settings?  and 
> for that matter, if it was such an importaint battle....why did the 
> marshall not have his/her settings in place?  Fine the marshall.  
> Leave the newbs alone.

Excellent points. Maybe I should add a little randomness to battle 
settings. A small chance (depending on unit morale and training) that 
your men get the settings wrong by +/- one combat line, or in the wrong 
formation, all by themselves.

Why? Not to mess with people, but to give people plausable deniability.

I don't like adding these things, because I want people to have some 
reliability at least for themselves, but hey, if it's the only way?



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