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Re: When the world was young - thoughts
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Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:32:34 GMT
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Quoting Shaun Sullivan <shaun_sullivan@irco.com>:

> In lugnet.org.us.nelug, Jennifer L. Boger writes:
> > 3) What's the point of a cap?  89?  That's not even close to 50!  2300?
> > That's not even close to 2000.  54 is forgivable, 2050 is too, but • seriously,
> > what's the point of cap if it's going to be ignored, and if it's going to • be
> > ignored, why didn't anyone tell our team? :)
> 
> All right,
> 
> Just in case some of these baseless accusations are levelled at me :P ...
> 
> None of my troops exceeded the 50 CP limit.  The ones that might have seemed
> to
> surpass this only did so because I added in the cost of their horses (they
> were
> cavalry, after all!), which technically would actually by scored as
> separate
> creatures (and are, for the purposes of attacks, "autonomous").  A trooper
> riding a dragon, for example, wouldn't count the dragon's cost in his own.
> Anyway, each of my troops, plus all his/her equipment/armor/skills/etc, was
> under the 50 CP mark.

Perfectly understanable - we didn't do it, but thought about it and decided
against it - I seem to remember some story about a super crazy hero on a super
crazy horse that both got decapitated by some super crazy invisible guy.

> Admittedly, the total of everything that I scored up came to almost 2300
> ...
> but they weren't all supposed to be used, sillies!  Don't even tell me you
> guys
> fielded my 130 CP of peasants and slaves ... they were designed for use in
> a
> game with lines of communication and chains of command.  Grrrrrr - I take my
> CP
> caps very seriously!

Actually uhh... I didn't see any peasants or slaves, or magic users in your army ;)

J



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(...) All right, Just in case some of these baseless accusations are levelled at me :P ... None of my troops exceeded the 50 CP limit. The ones that might have seemed to surpass this only did so because I added in the cost of their horses (they were (...) (23 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)

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