Turn
10
846 - 850 ad.
Greetings!
I hope the summer isn’t as hot for you
all, as it is for us here in Arizona. The humidity has been rather high for
the last several weeks...and they call this a dry heat! Now, on to the current
information.
Just a quick reminder to check the rules
supplement if you haven’t recently - there are several changes to it that
are important. I just hate to
keep harping on this, but several players have continued to send me orders
that don’t work according to those rules and I have been forced to cancel
all or parts of their orders.
Turn costs are currently $2 a turn. Probably still the lowest charge per turn in any campaign.
If you have a zero account balance (at the top of your turn sheet) then
you will need to send money. Be
aware, that at any time after turn 10, I may raise rates - But if you have
already sent in money OR send it
in before turn 10, then you will have locked in the current rate, up until
turn 20, which will be the latest that the turn rate will go to $3.
One thing I will need everyone to do, is email me to let me know who you’re
willing to exchange map information with. Some of you have not made yourselves
clear.
FYI: There
are about 7 positions left in game available currently, not counting religious
primates. As most of you should be aware of by now, the basic concept of this
version of LOTE is the “white man’s” history. That is history, from the
European point of view. If players spend a lot of time exploring far and wide,
particularly outside the European theater, then these other areas will be made
available for game play.
CURRENT CHANGES/UPDATES
Although I do track fractional agro, I do
not track fractional investments - if you invest a fraction in a rating, for
example, it will likely be dropped (not rounded).
I haven’t done so yet, but soon, probably
next turn, I’ll be changing the route numbers on all trade routes. While
this really won’t have any game play effects, I want to warn people now that
I’m doing this so as to avoid the onslaught of email I would expect to get
if I didn’t warn you.
MERC
POOLS
Inf
Cav
Sge
W/Ts
Britannia:
9
3
-
6/1
West
Europe:
6
6
2
6/2
Central
Europe:
10
11
-
2/2
East
Europe:
8
10
-
6/4
Middle
East:
12
10
7
2/1
North
Africa:
4
5
2
5/4
Central
Asia:
11
11
4
-
The turn is due as
always, the last day of the month, in this case 31
August. CYA!
SPECIAL
FYI: for all you Arizona gamers, September 8-10 will be
Coppercon 2000
(a gaming convention), at the Sunspree Holiday Inn, in Scottsdale, AZ. It’s
the 20th Annual Speculative Fiction Convention. Rumor has it that a certain
game designer/fantasy writer will be there as a guest. I will be there running
several Dawn Patrol events. Dawn
Patrol is a W.W.I aerial combat game, designed by Mike Carr.