Re: [Epic] Tyranids a good Army? (An Old time Newbie!!!)

From: Christophe HAUSS <chauss_at_...>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 14:30:31 GMT

At 12:29 12/03/1997 +0000, you wrote:
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>> Hello, I'm French, and my english is perfect! You think so?
>
>No
Oh god, and I thought I was perfect!!!!
 
>> Other games : Epic, Blood Bowl, Man O War, Armada
>>
> What is Armada?

First of all it's a french game, so you can find it ... in France, the
retailer are
Descartes games!

Players 2 - 4
You need between 1-2 hours to finish a game.

The game in a few lines:
Do you remember North America during 1400 and 1500???
The players starts all in a different island, they build ships and hire
troops to explore an
unknown continent.
To win the game there are several possibilities, you have to control a
certain amount of
territories and/or towns.
The unknown continent is divided into 24 territories.
Each of the players starts in an island divided into 7 territories.
The players are playing one after the other.
They move their ships thruw water squares and their troops thruw territories.
Each time you enter for the first time a territory, you can explore it, and
discover
a certain amount of Indians and gold. You have to fight the indians to take
the gold.
You can bring the gold back to your island to hire new troops and ships.
Each turn you can recruit new troops for free, 1 for your island, and 1 per
5 territories
of the continent.
The combat are resolved with special 6 face dices.
Each time you throw the dice the attacker or the defender can loose between
0 and 2 troups,
the attacker always throw the dice!
The originality of the game is that you have 10 decisional points per turn.
Each time you move one ship or troop you have to spend 1 point per square moved.
When you exchange 1 gold, you have to spend 1 point (1 gold = 4 troops, and
4 golds=1 ship),
so when you build a new ship and store it with 10 guys, you have wasted 7
points, and
now you can take only 3 other actions!!!
When you hire extra troops you have to spend a point.
Each time you fight an opponent you spent 1 point each time you roll the dice!
So each turn you have to choose between hiring troops, moving, fighting...
you can 't do
anything!
There is a lot of strategy in the game, but mister Luck take a great part in
the game!!!
Of course you can make alliances with other players.
You can win a game in 15 mn, but with veterans this cannot happen!!

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 Hello, I'm French, and my english is perfect! You think so?

 Other games : Epic, Blood Bowl, Man O War, Armada

 ARTECH The Master of Chaos
Received on Wed Mar 12 1997 - 14:30:31 UTC