Crown of Control

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

## F.34: Crown of Control

This artifact may be used to gain control of a stack of monsters. Each artifact is tuned to one particular type of monster and has a limited number of charges. For example, a Crown of Control (orcs) may be used to seize control of a stack of orcs. To seize control of a stack of monsters, the user must be in the same location as the stack and issue the order USE <artifact> <target>.

Once a player has seized control of a stack of monsters, the new unit will appear in his turn report and can be treated in many ways like any other noble. The new unit will be of loyalty "NPC" and will not require pay or any other incentives. However, the commands that controlled monster units may execute are limited to the following:

accept
admit
attack
banner
behind
contact
default
defend
drop
execute
flag
get
give
hostile
move
maxpay
name
neutral
pay
pillage
promote
raze
seek
stack
stop
take
terrorize
unstack
wait

In combat, a controlled monster unit can command the same number of men as a garrison unit (i.e., 20 men on attack and 40 on defense). A controlled monster unit can command any number of beasts of the same type, but none of any other type (e.g., an orc unit could command any number of orcs, but no centaurs).