Re: Smashes (was: Another combat factor)

Rich Skrenta (skrenta@pbm.com)
Wed, 21 Sep 1994 17:26:25 -0400 (EDT)

> As N gets large, a larger and larger percentage of peasants start to
> swing and fewer and fewer knights get a chance, so the stack's combat
> effectiveness decreases.

Decreases over what? It's not worse off than if it didn't have the
peasants, is it? The whole point is to disadvantage large groups
with respect to small ones. But it's never the case that adding a man
will cause two to die.

("or is it?", he asks meekly)

-- 
Rich Skrenta <skrenta@pbm.com>


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