There is no auragenerating bug we are using, maybe Lord Maltar wants
everyone to believe so to give him a valid reason why he is loosing this
conflict.
This is sad and shows no respect or honor at all.
Dominick.
----- Original Message -----
From: <Humakt2@aol.com>
To: <g2-list@pbm.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 1999 5:41 AM
Subject: Gloating Codrickers
> The Lords of the Crown are gloating this week because they managed to kill
2
> Necromancers in one turn using a series of 4 lightning strikes. This
> achievement casued us a 20% troop loss in the army stack. This same turn
> they showed up at an exterior castle with another 182 point storm, and
> teleported over a hundred troops to the stack attacking in that location.
>
> That's 200 aura for the 4 lightning storm, 90 aura for the second storm,
> hundreds of aura more for the teleport, more to put up barriers around the
> map.... over 400 aura expended this past week. In addition, over the
> previous 4 turns they farcast and aura blasted multiple targets around the
> map.
>
> Obviously, the Lords of the Crown are generating hundreds of aura per turn
to
> maintain this level of activity. If they are achieving this feat within
the
> confines of the published rules, they have a right to crow because they
are
> clearly outplaying the rest of us. However, we find this unlikely: the
only
> ways to rapidly generate aura are via 806 and 921 skill uses. Having
> visioned and scouted Codric's mages every turn for months, there are two
> possibilities:
>
> a) the Lords of the Crown have many hidden mages with higher max aura than
we
> have discovered, none of which are ever revealed to us by attacking us or
> aura blasting their buddies to build up aura. For this supposition to be
> true, the Lords of the Crown would have to be the largest alliance in the
> game, and developed mages longer and faster than PLATO or the Musketeers.
>
> b) The Lords of the Crown have found a way for a single mage to again do
> multiple uses of 806 in a turn, allowing each of their mages to create 80
> aura a turn. Since this is how they managed to build aura before, it is
most
> likely how they are doing it now. If the noble report in the Times rumor
> section was correct, they have found a way to produce a 611 skill > 28,
which
> then does not disappear after one use.
>
> We have asked the moderator to investigate this issue.
>
> If the Lords of the Crown continue to outproduce the rest of us in aura,
they
> indeed have a significant edge, and may be able to fight us to a
stalemate.
>
>
> If the Musketeers ever achieve parity in per mage aura production, you
will
> soon see Codric's armies destroyed and his nobles crucified.
>
> Lord Maltar
> Rimmon Musketeers
>