Conquer Club

when i first started playing risk i played lord of the rings risk the boardgame and they used a couple of very good rules that are very simple to understand and use.

1) they had a stronghold rule. key building locations in the films, like helms deep and weathertop, had an additional +1 to a die roll defense to represent their defensive benefit

2) they had captains. a captain was a different shaped figure that added a +1 to a die roll on attack and defense

while the captain rule will be difficult to represent on the board i think the strongholds rule will be very good on conquer club and can even be used on other maps as a option when starting a game

Not a bad idea. by the way like the Avatar.

Not possible with the current xml format.

it si a good idea though

I like the idea

I started playing risk with the lord of the rings board too, i really liked the idea of strongholds, but the captains thing was a little much.

everywhere116 wrote:Not possible with the current xml format.

Anything is possible with XML - The problem in this instance is that the parsing of the XML will merely ignore it...

C.

i know absolutely nothing about xml or anything, but i think this would be a cool additional rule to use.
so does anyone know a way around the problem then?

Judge Gabranth wrote:i know absolutely nothing about xml or anything, but i think this would be a cool additional rule to use.
so does anyone know a way around the problem then?

It would have to be added into the Coding by LackAttack...

The XML is merely a transport mechanism for information... the reader can do with it what it likes...

C.

well, if the coding can be done, why not??

Not so sure about the captain idea, but the stronghold idea rocks. +1 die for defence no matter how many armies present. Cool!

It's amazing how little people know about coding sometime.

Right now the way it's set up, there's no tracking for individual troops, and adding such a thing would be a fairly big undertaking, so the captain idea is a pretty difficult thing to implement.

+1 to defense is easier to code, but doing it the way it "should be done" (adding it into the XML syntax so it can be used for future maps, ie:
<country>
Argentina
<defense>
+2
</defense>
</country>
with no defense tag indicating 0- neutral)
is somewhat difficult to code, and has to be done somehow in a way that doesn't break things.

Are we all expected to know about coding? I don't have a clue myself.

Oh yeah - good idea too