I will now impart a little info on the one ring i have from
experience in 2950.
Finding the One Ring is a HUGE pain in the Ass, dont try till
around turn 20 and with a mage of 200+ ability or you will get
shafted. Finding the One ring is one thing and getting it is
another, Bilbo has the ring untill after turn 40, not sure how
long after but at least turn 40, he will move randomly around the
map turn after turn but will occasionaly stop in one hex for two
turns so you will be following him for a while if you are even
lucky enough to keep tracking the ring and moving an agent to the
hexes it was in. This is when you can steal the ring (stole it
with a 47 and 77 agent before) or challenge bilbo but you better
have a damn good challenge. When the Ring is "STOLEN" no other
nation receives a message like when the ring is "FOUND" of this
i have proof.
The possible reason for not being able to curse the carrier is
that the ring provides extra health to the carrier, he is not
limited to the 100 points as normal characters are, not sure what
the health ranking is but is IS above normal.
The ring CAN be transfered to another character as i have done
it.The 77 agent transfered it to Khamul, so maybe a
transfer down in rank is less likey to succeed.
The ring will corrupt high level characters quickly i have heard
of Saruman being corrupted the same turn he received the ring and
he was a 100 Mage at the time. A corrupted character is lost for
the rest of the game.
Lower rank characters can hold on to the ring for shorter periods
of time then Mid level characters my 47 agent only held the ring
for two turns where as the 77 agent held it for 4 turns before
transfering it and Khamul held it for 4 turns before losing it.
When lost the ring will fall in the hex of the character carrying
it or one hex from that spot.
I have heard, though never confirmed, that the one ring can
travel on its own.
Once you lose the ring it seems about 50% harder to locate it or
pick it up, after i lost the ring a 260 mage with a 98% casting
rank on LAT could not find it after 6 tries as well as the 3
other mages with a little less chance of finding it, the
reason we knew where it was is from the end game report.
There it sat as high and low level characters and different
classes attempted to pick up the ring using the 900 order,
probably 10 attempts.
The ring Does afford the bearer 100 stealth, my 77 agent that
showed up everywhere DID NOT show up on two cities with
over 90
loyalty that were friendly towards me. As for the other bonuses it conveys i am not sure, but i do know that the bonuses
DO NOT show up on your character information on your turnsheet.
Moving the one ring is by foot only, spells will make you lose
the ring automatically. Movement over 2 or 3 hexes is possible
but with lower level characters it is not as possible, with the
77 agent i moved 12 then 11 hexes and Khamul then moved 8 hexes
then 6 hexes.
All of these things may change from game to game and probably do
and actions failing and succeeding where the one ring is linked
to the characters involved so all in all it is a crapshoot.
BTW the discription above when referring to tracking the One Ring
was tracking bilbo not the ring specifically but while he had it
we did locate it as with him. I have heard that he loses the ring
in the later stages of the game and that Frodo does indeed have
it at some point but have not personally confirmed this.
The events above took place in two diff games as DS and from turn
37 to turn 57 and turn 39 to turn 50. |