Conference hydra::amiga_v1

    Has anyone managed to recruit a subordinate captain yet ? How do you do
    this ? Maybe it's just because I haven't played it enough for this to
    happen yet (got it last night and only on my 3rd conquest)...
    
    Brilliant game though... and the detail when you zoom in is great!
    
    
    
    
    				Jamie.

    Does anyone in the US have this game yet? I have searched far and wide
    among the popular mail order places, as well as the local dealers, and
    no one has it yet. 
    
    I am *really* anxious to get this game.

    re: .1
    >Has anyone managed to recruit a subordinate captain yet ?
    So far I haven't been able to do that, but the other captains have similar
    castles(looks like tower) that you have(you can see it when you start
    your quest) and if I have understood correctly you have to defeat the
    captain or buy him(using food/weapons/other goods) to join your
    forces... so far when I have been playing those cities having a castle
    are far too big to defeat... Altough you can end the current map(use
    retire option) when your balance scale is over 50% gain to you.
    
    Hope this helps!
    
    Has anyone succeeded transfering troops from previously conquered map
    to a new map??? To me it seems that every map that you want conquer
    will start with approximately 20 men... 
    
    -Kari-
                                                       

    re: .2
    If I remember correctly Electronic Arts is distributing the game in US,
    so you should contact a retailer that sells other EA's games.
    
    -Kari-
    

re .4

Thanks for the reply, but I've called Electronic Arts themselves, and they still
won't admit to a specific release date here (other than "sometime before the end
of the month"). 

    I managed to recruit someone last night. Having someone else commanding
    a bunch of men gives you some insight into the complex strategies that
    could be used in the game! Imagine commanding six captains into an
    attack on a large city... could be fun!
    
    You can't move men or supplies from one island to another. The
    instructions state that most of the men and all of the supplies are
    needed to continue to control your conquered island! Also, I think the
    balance has to be 2/3 in your favour.
    
    Anyone seen the stork yet ?!!! Waterfalls ?

	It,s on the shelf as System Eyes. I toyed with picking it up but
have been to busy to play it. I may add it to my game collection for a rainy
day.
								bill

    I picked it up Friday myself, and will be returning it today. It is
    probably in incredible game, with a richness of detail that is truly
    amazing. However it will only boot on my 2000 about 1 out of every 10
    times. It has no on-disk copy protection, but the disk has a custom DOS
    which my 2000 (3 meg, 2 floppy, 80 meg HD) just doesn't seem to get
    along with. I am incredibly disappointed by this, since I've been
    looking forward to this games' arrival for months.

   The stork just looks like a fat seagull but havent managed to zoom in on it.
 
   The manual says that after you have formed an alliance you have access to the
 resources of the other half of the alliance. Has anyone managed to do anything
 along this line. I have formed a few alliance's but I cant seem to control the
 troops or do invent in their villages.

   I only seem to recruit another captain if I attack another settlement with
 minimum agression. I have managed to have myself and four captains this way.
 I normally use them as spies as this can show you on the map where the roving
 bands of men are if you click the overhead map to people. Using them to 
 control armies from a distance is awkward because the carrier pidgeon takes so
 long to get to them.
 Overall the game is very good. Brillant sound effects and good graphics but 
 there are some things which annoy me totally!
 The information windows move very slowly and if I click on a captain's medal
 I normally get two windows of the same information back instead of one. So 
 the next thing I have to do is cancel one.
 I have an Amiga 500 1meg with 3 floppies and to do any saving, loading and
 formatting of data disks I have to keep another floppy in df1: 
 When loading from cold I have to fully load start new conquest, do the 
 protection check from the manual and then load the data A,B,C etc or I dont
 always find myself in the right place.

  Unfortunately the weather over Christmas was terrible so instead of rushing 
 out with the kids all the time I was forced to play some games on the Amiga
 and this was the most popular.
  
   Dave 

    
    Just a quick note to ask what sort of Equipment you guys have been
    inventing ??? My troops seem to constantly invent either boats or
    pikes, I did manage to capture a vilage once which had a mineshaft and
    my troops set about building cannons which were put to good use later
    on in the game !!!
    So far I have conqured 4 grids of the map but It's proving to be very
    difficult to make anymore progress. 
    
    Re -1,
    I've tried for an alliance a couple of times and have been told
    quite bluntly "NO". Due to this I now only use hack'n'slash tactics
    with maximum aggression. I only lower my aggression setting to recruit
    more cannon fodder, maybe this is why I'm not getting very far ;-)
    
    All in all it's a brilliant game which I'm looking forward to exploring
    over the coming Winter months.
    
    						Geo.

    Re. -1,
    
    The rules say something like:
    
    What is invented has a lot to do with the aggression of the captain
    that you order to invent and the situation of the settlement that you
    are working with. For example, if you invent with a passive captain in
    a settlement that is next to water, then you will invent boats or
    pikes.
    
    There's a table somewhere in the rules that explain what will be
    invented depending on aggression and situation.
    
    Ady

    Re A2000 loading problems:
    
    I'm using a 2000 myself and it seems to load every time but the d*mned
    non-standard format really beats my drive to death.  I intend to keep
    the game since it appears to be a terrific one, but I also intend to
    draft a letter to Electronic Arts to tell them what I think of their
    use of such things.  Admittedly, it was probably Bullfrog who did the
    deed, and they may even think they're doing us a favor by "speeding up"
    game loading, but this kind of thing is inexcusable in a marketplace
    that has an increasing number of hard disk users.  Since the game has
    no on disk copy protection, it SHOULD be installable on my hard drive.
    
    Interesting game, though.
    
    
    -Gary

    Well, I think they are actually stepping the heads at a slower than
    normal rate, which is why you hear it.  If you listen, you can *count*
    the tracks.  I got the impression that they are using simple busy loops
    for the stepping delays and made them r-e-a-l-l-y l-o-n-g to "support"
    accellerated machines.  Yet another classic case of brain-dead
    programming!

    i have done a quarter of the game and i havent seen any waterfalls yet.
    except on the back of the package :-)
    anyone seen any?
    Ian.
    

    Try using the rotation icons (bottom left).
    
    Regs,
              Miguel