[FOR THE TIME BEING THE CONTENTS OF HELP GLOBEGOAL IS AN INDICATION OF WHAT IS GOING TO BE SWITCHED ON BUT, CURRENTLY, TO ALLOW PEOPLE TIME TO ASSIMILATE OTHER ASPECTS (MELEE, ACTIVE DEPLOYMENTS, etc) THESE ARE SWITCHED OFF]
The legions associated with a city do not benefit from the broader range
of specialist-skills available to those associated with the various guilds
of the land, but instead mitigate this loss somewhat by the ability to
interact closely with the city's divine globe. There are globe actions
relating to warfare documented in HELP GLOBEACTIONS - specifially
affecting the morale of legions, the sanctity of homesoil - and ideals
satisfied by city legion successes/failures and events taking place
on homesoil and, to a lesser extent, within homeland sphere of influence. The
file HELP GLOBEIDEALS documents these. Additionally, however, there are
some goals/command-orders relating to legion use of the divine globe actions
and globestaves in its possession. Legions may use globestaves just as
individuals can and, by dint of their numbers and thus importance to the
city's divine globe, their use of the globestaves can be more efficient than
their player counterparts.
Syntax: ... GLOBEACTION <globe action> from HELP GLOBEACTIONS.
Employing the 'globechanneling' specialist skill which determins the
legions' affinity with the divine globe of its parent city, this
goal/command-order allows the legion to call into being a globe power as
listed in HELP GLOBEACTIONS in precisely the same way as
player-commander might do so. The cost in globe power and the pace of
action/recovery from reaction is primarily determined by
'globechanneling' potency but also impacted by legion size, distance
from the divine globe's altar, and recent history of successes and
failures in the field.
Syntax: ... GLOBESTAVE/GS FIX/UNFIX [<globestave>/WEAKEST/STRONGEST]
Here you may command your legion to fix or unfix a globestave labelled
as loyal to its banner - when fixed in a location its broader powers can
be called into being, when unfixed it is removed safely into the
vanguard stores of the legions; out of sight and mostly out of harm's
way. The 'globestavepower' specialist-skill is used here to determine
the pace and efficacy of the fixing/unfixing.
Syntax: ... GLOBESTAVE EMPOWER [<globesave>/WEAKEST/STRONGEST>]
Using the 'globestavepower' and 'globechanneling' specialist-skills to,
in part, dictate the speed and potency of the empowerment, this goal
brings forth might from the divine globe and absorbs it into the orb of
the globestaves; ready for execution of globestave commands. Distance
from the parent city's divine globe is also a major factor in the speed
of successful empowerment and such circumstances as being deep
underground or on a battlefield whose ground is of another continent may
ruin an empowerment altogether.
Syntax: ... GLOBESTAVE/GS <power> from HELP GLOBESTAVES.
Using the 'globestavepower' and 'globechanneling' specialist-skills in
tandem to determine an overall potency with the globestaves and
divine-globe of the legion's parent city, this goal/command-order is
used to evoke (generally via a fixed globestave) a stave power, as
documented in HELP GLOBESTAVES. The strength, pace and general
effectiveness of the power called upon is determined by the power
invested in the globestave's orb coupled with the 'globestavepower' and
'globechanneling' specialist-skills. It is worthwhile learning the
subtleties of the various globestave powers and experimenting on a
personal level to become familiar with the possible outcome of legion
use.
