Burden of Time

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Zapmeister:
1. Violate my assumption that the victim is a "non-astral nation", by which I meant that the pretender has no astral and the nationals could only get it by random pick, at best; or

Any nation can put astral magic on their pretender.

2. Rely on someone else solving the problem; or

Which isn't going to be that much of a problem in most MP games. There are bound to be nations with good astral income that dislike it just as much as the non-astral nations. Besides, casting BoT is an effective method of declaring war on everyone in the game, so Ermor should shortly be overwhelmed.

3. Contradict each other (#6 and #16 can't both work).

That would be wrong. #6 and #16 are essentially the same thing. Filling the global enchantments works via the same effect as casting other's to push out burden of time. Why should they all have to be able to work at the same time in order to be a useful solution anyways?

Add to that the practical difficulty of wiping out Ermor while suffering BoT, being lucky enough to find independants with astral or knowing where and how to kill the casting mage, and the list of practical options becomes somewhat shorter, I think.

How to kill the casting mage isn't that bad. Find provinces with labs and cast commander killing spells at it. Cast them at large armies as well. Use your assassins if you have them.

[ February 03, 2004, 03:00: Message edited by: Graeme Dice ]