Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site genrad.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!oliveb!ios!qubix!sun!decwrl!decvax!genrad!carlton From: carlton@genrad.UUCP (Carl Hommel) Newsgroups: net.games.emp Subject: VMS empire Message-ID: <388@genrad.UUCP> Date: Tue, 18-Sep-84 16:34:39 EDT Article-I.D.: genrad.388 Posted: Tue Sep 18 16:34:39 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 07:33:30 EDT Organization: GenRad, Bolton, Mass. Lines: 37 I have been playing the VMS version of empire, and have some general comments to make about it. 1. The difficulty level it mentions at startup is computed on the basis of how many citys are on your starting island, versus the number on the computer's island. 2. One of the first port cities you capture should be set to producing troop transports. Once you capture all the cities on your home, you need to go adventuring elsewhere, to build up your production base. 3. One city close to your troop transport city should make armies solely for the troop transport. When one TT is built, there will be 5 armies hanging around, waiting to get on board. 4. Another port city should be set to making destroyers. They should search out unowned coastal cities for your TTs to assault, and to go looking for the enemy. 5. Your first military priority is to SINK THE ENEMY'S TRANSPORTS. If the computer determines that your production is overwhelmingly superior to his, it throws in the towel. If you sink his transports, he cannot expand. 6. The first few units any city produces should be armies. This way, when you are invaded, there will be a home guard to kill off the mauraders armies before they take over cities. 7. The above points revolve about one signifigant rule: armys are the only units that can take cities. Thus, I think that fighters are much less important than someone else's (sorry, I have my listing at home) article would make them appear. Is this the appropriate newsgroup? Maybe we need a net.games.emp.vms :-) Carl Hommel Wife: Are you playing empire again? Husband: This is a different empire! Really!