catch

Olympia: The Age of Gods PBEM (Oct 4 2000)

## `catch`

      catch [number of horses] [days]
      * time: as given
      * priority: 3

Attempt to catch any wild horses found roaming the plains or in a pasture. Each day the noble will have a 25% chance of catching a wild horse, if any can be found.

Each plains or pasture location contains a population of horses. Plains provinces can support 100 wild horses, while pastures, being smaller, can support only 20 horses. At the end of each month, the horse population breeds new horses. In plains, one new horse is bred each month. In pastures, where forage is better, three new horses are born each month.

If the population of horses in any location drops to zero, it will take some time for the horse population to recover. A noble can add wild horses to a location by dropping them from his inventory in that location.

A unit must know the Catch wild horses [1930] subskill of Ranger [1900] in order to catch horses.

Examples:

      catch        # catch as many horses as possible
      catch 1      # stop after catching 1 wild horse
      catch 0 10   # try to catch horses for 10 days
      catch 1 10   # stop after catching 1 wild horse, or 10 days,
                   # whichever comes first

In all cases, horse-catching ceases when no more horses can be found roaming the plains. `catch` is an alias for ```collect` 51`'.