Re: doing it the proper way

From: Bryan Thexton <bethexton_at_...>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 06:24:12 -0700 (PDT)

Chris;

I've not been brave/disciplined enough to commit myself to such a game yet, although I've thought about it.

A couple of heroquest tips that seem to reduce the odds of failure

-the "suicide" O&A quest. If you have someone who should be able to do well on it, but is old or otherwise dispensible, go do the quest, choosing to strengthen the warriors. When you face Daga, take all the damage that he can dish out. It seems to give a pretty good bonus on the rest of the quest, but it will massacre your questers combat skill.  However, you stand a good chance of giving a really good bounce to your other top warriors.

-The Ernalda quest seems easier to me when your crop is going to be bad--maybe only when you choose "improve crops" as your goal. So if you wait for such a year, and go for the Ernalda quest choosing improve crops you'll avoid having such a bad harvest that year, and give yourself some padding on the food front.

Good luck, I'd love to hear how it goes!

-Ed

• Chris <zcore_uk_at_...> wrote:
  > Well I'd made a decision to try playing an easy version without any
  > saves including just before heroquesting. Six years in and I'm
  > surprised the clan hasn't starved to death although the clan raids
  > are generally a nail biting experience. The map seems to have a
  > rather large amount of pink clan names, however, it was surprisingly
  > easy to develop alliances to buffer around the clan land. THe two
  > feuds that were there at the start have not resulted in much apart
  > from the odd curse and sporadic raid nothing you can't handle with a
  > stone wall.
  >
  > After six years I sent the clan chief on his first heroquest.
  > Somehow he survived although he only succeeded at two of the
  > stations. Maybe a bit too early I'll try and do another death
  > defying act in two years time in the game. No way do I dare to do
  > the Uralda "cow quest".
  >
  >
  

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