[Discuss] Powergaming

[Andrew Asche]

> I'm a little confused at what the point of a roleplaying game is. Do you
> think actual wars in the middle ages were fought with 'necessary' forces?
> They were fought with whatever you could get away with and afford.
Right, and he referenced that with the "tough luck" statement.  The
question is, when a number of realms gang up on a smaller realm,
theres only going to be something in it for probably 1 of those
realms, and the question becomes, "What the heck are the other guys
doing here?"


> The sole reason for a lot of the huge wars in BM is that you can turtle in a
> city and it takes a huge army to defeat a fortified garrison. If BM had some
> kind of siege system where a smaller army could accomplish more over time,
> it would eliminate at least one big motivator for wartime alliances.
I think that is the intent.  It isn't *supposed* to be easy to take a
city and destroy a realm.  And I don't think Tom has said anything
against huge wars, and by speaking in favor of large realms, he's
technically supported them.  The problem is huge wars as a result of a
huge, pointless alliance.