pillage

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

## `pillage`

      pillage [flag]
      * time: 7 days
      * priority: 3

Loot and pillage a province or city. If flag is not given, pillaging will not take place if the province is being protected by guards. If flag is 1, the looters will first attack the guards, then proceed with pillaging if the guards are defeated.

At least 10 fighters must be in the pillaging stack. Pillaging may be done with beasts or men, but the noble directing the pillaging must be able to control the pillagers in battle. Only the top most noble in a stack may initiate pillaging; only the men he directly controls are involved in the pillaging. Other nobles in his stack will continue with whatever actions they are doing.

Pillaging kills one peasant for every two fighters pillaging until there are 100 or less peasants left in a province. It then becomes more difficult to find the peasants, and five fighters are required to find and kill each peasant. Each peasant kill yields 2 gold. For example, a location with 112 peasants pillaged by a group of 218 men would kill 51 peasants and yield (at most) 102 gold. If the peasants do not have the gold to pay off the pillages (e.g., they have paid it in taxes) then the pillagers may collect less than the maximum gold (or none at all).

Pillaging can be dangerous. There is a 33% chance that a mob of 12-36 angry peasants will form to resist further pillaging attempts. Angry peasants have a combat rating of (attack-2, defense-1, missile-0). If a mob forms, there is a 33% chance that the mob will immediately attack the pillager in retaliation.