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**Jumpingfist** · 03-02-2015, 02:45 AM

yes 991 can be issued up tell turn 3. If possible good to do on turn 1 or 2 because you could then overwrite it if you did it wrong on T3.

manaleshi · 03-02-2015, 05:35 PM

Well... Went fairly sell. Except wasted 13000 gold trying to move to emmisaries to ye instead if yd. I did find some towns and villages and what looks like something unusual that needs investigating.

**Jumpingfist** · 03-02-2015, 05:47 PM

Ouch. If you found enough PCs you could still be on track to take the region soon. Does it say what the unusual encounter is rated at? You will likely need wizard support on anything greater than easy.

Was not expecting to get the council seat so that was a plus. Since it is a 5 player game I figured I would just put in a low bid standing order. I ran by a DW town in R6. Just sayin HI

Maybe making it so the towns that groups run across report they saw a certain group. Seems fair if the group gets to see the town and who's town it is.

manaleshi · 03-02-2015, 08:54 PM

Well, so...

"This encounter is of Free difficulty."

I also didn't come across any towns or villages belonging to anyone else. All neutral.

**Jumpingfist** · 03-02-2015, 09:11 PM

Free can be very good. Portal to DW land, wandering wizards, Pegasus, or giant bats

Odd are you found the other side to the portal DW already knows about.

Derfel Cadarn · 03-03-2015, 05:01 AM

Digesting turn. Very interesting that I had 0 errors

Gamejunkie · 03-03-2015, 02:36 PM

I'd have to say things went fairly well for me, 8 neutrals found, and an unusual sighting. Too bad that's wasted on me, maybe I'd share the location for the right price....its a medium difficulty.

**VballMichael** · 03-03-2015, 03:16 PM

Pretty sure i have investigated some unusual sightings with the Red Dragon. Didn't they make that change at some point? Still cannot use some of the artifacts, though. But you may get lucky and get one that is helpful even to a dragon.

Gamejunkie · 03-03-2015, 04:03 PM

The BL set up says:
[*]Black Dragon groups cannot investigate unusual sightings.
[*]Black Dragons gain no benefit from weapon artifacts.

Has this been changed? If so, then I guess I take back my offer of its location. Tongue

**Jumpingfist** · (This post was last modified: 03-03-2015, 05:39 PM by Jumpingfist.)

Yes you can investigate as the BL with the penalty that your troop strength does not add to the encounter. At medium difficulty maybe a bit tough right now for your kingdom. I can work with you to help figure out when you will be strong enough to try and take it on. Or you could read up on the artifacts use the g300 link I provided above.

If you guys want to paste your special abilities in an email to me I would be happy to let you know what does not actually match up or has been changed. If you would like sample setups and T0s of the other kingdoms in this game let me know that as well I can send some to you.

Edit: went and got the chart from the 300 post
Here is the difficulty chart. Medium says average artifact but can actually be very useful.
Free________No risk (no leader promotion)____Recon won't show other criteria (like need to be an Evil kingdom to pick up Red Bats)
Easy________25-50 rating______Low grade artifact, may kill leader/wizard that's not protected
Medium _____51-75 rating______Average quality artifact
Hard________76-100 rating_____Decent artifact, will help you in the long run
Extreme_____101-150 rating____Uber artifact, go home if you're a Halfling without a siege machine

I sent you guys an article by Rick that does a great job explaining about artifact hunting.
-Basically leaders give the same points as they do for bonus in combat. A general would be +10
-Mages give between 5-10 points per level based on quality. if they use the 139 order or 1/2 if they use 101 spell.
My best guess is BL mages are 7, EL and GN 8 or 9, and DW well 5 or 6. WA likely 9 or 10 as with other pure mages.
-troop quality is another factor. Ranging from 12 to 20. My best guess BL 0, DW and EL 16 or 17, WA 13.

Another concern about these encounter is leaders and wizard will die. Wizards can protect themselves using the 101 spell. Death rates are rather high during these encounters more than in standard attacks. Modifier to death rate for kingdoms are as a percentage less chance to die. These can be found on Ry Vors chart on p29 of the 300 forum. BL 0, DW and EL -25%, WA 0. So much for being a dragon

Other artifacts can aid in these encounters as well. So weapons and wands add bonuses. Shields and armors can protect heroes.