From: ingo@bode.uwaterloo.ca (Electroholic)
Subject: Re: JUNTA - help please
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 19:38:42 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.205805.17828@m.cs.uiuc.edu> silber@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Ami A. Silberman) writes:
>gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
>
>>In article <1992Aug18.100252.1@wombat.newcastle.edu.au> engjs@wombat.newcastle.edu.au (James Smith) writes:
>
>>>The government players try to position theirs to protect three of the five
>>>buildings, the rebels decide which of those three is easiest to capture.
>
>>And it's worth remembering that players can switch sides at the end of
>>the coup -- the rebel/loyalist declaration at the beginning only
>>decides who gets to get an extra move. In our games, this often
>>results in one side winning militarily and then the other side
>>actually winning. Or that's how I faintly remember it.
>
>You can even switch sides during the coup. A common tactic is for someone
>to declare as a rebel and then support el Presedente. The one drawback to
>this tactic (or the reverse, declaring as loyal and acting as a rebel) is
>that if el Presidente wins, he can execute any (or maybe any one) of the
>"declared" rebels, likewise the rebel, if they win, can execute one of the
>"declared loyalists". This happened to me once.
>-- 
>ami silberman - janitor of lunacy
>	silber@cs.uiuc.edu

	Actually el Presidente can have any one declared rebel sent to the
firing squad (free automatic assassination, blocked in all the normal ways),
if they so choose.  A declared rebel is anyone who moved/or fired in the 
rebel phase of the coup (even if fired upon!) OR at any time during the 
coup fired upon the palace guard (regardless of who was controlling them at 
the time).  Once a declared rebel there is no way to turn back during that 
coup.  If the Junta wins then the new el Presidente can have ANYONE sent
to the firing squad ("So you supported me, Manual, you're smart, too smart.
Guard take this man outside and have him shot!").  

	Of couse being a declared rebel has no bearing on who wins the coup.
El Presidente must be pro-president, anyone else can go either way.  I once
was in the position of deciding a coup.  El Presidente controlled two areas
and the rebel two.  I had sole control of the fifth.  Both sides bribed my
with their entire cash on hand (planning to have me sent to the firing squad)
to the tune of about 25 million pesos.... I did live through it, however it
was rather expensive.


					Cheers!
						i.
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