Six Ages: Ride Like The Wind

Humbaba · Post by **Humbaba** » June 22nd, 2023, 15:39

Glorantha thread lads. I'm currently doing my second attempt, after bouncing off the game 2 years ago when I first bought it. This time around, I managed the food situation a lot better and established nice trade routes with my neighbors. So far it seems like a good successor to Kang of Dragon Pass I think.

Emphyrio · Post by **Emphyrio** » June 22nd, 2023, 15:53

is there any reason to play it instead of dragon pass

Acrux · Post by **Acrux** » June 22nd, 2023, 16:01

Does it have the same problem as King of Dragon Pass where winning the game requires selecting the correct option in a single dialogue?

Post by **rusty_shackleford** » June 22nd, 2023, 16:21

I like the Glorantha setting, shame it's so underused. Other than King of Dragon Pass, there's not much. Maybe there was a MUD? Or I might be confusing it with Role Master.

Post by **The_Mask** » June 22nd, 2023, 22:19

How is the RNG in this game? Do I have to pray hard, or is it manageable if I show a minimal, or even mediocre, amount of gray matter?

Emphyrio · Post by **Emphyrio** » June 23rd, 2023, 14:22

I still remember the King of Dragon Pass game where I got some "chosen one" girl with super high stats and a lot of story events. Her highest stat was in fighting. One day a druid came and kidnapped a bunch of my people, and I sent her to rescue them. He just ******* killed her. I guess that was game over because after that everything went wrong and my tribe died.

Humbaba · Post by **Humbaba** » June 23rd, 2023, 15:32

Emphyrio wrote: ↑ June 22nd, 2023, 15:53
is there any reason to play it instead of dragon pass

Not really, they're essentially the same game just with a different story. It's just more of the same, which is good if you liked Dragon Pass.

Acrux wrote: ↑ June 22nd, 2023, 16:01
Does it have the same problem as King of Dragon Pass where winning the game requires selecting the correct option in a single dialogue?

No, it requires passing several checks, which aren't that hard unless you've mismanaged your clan really badly. The ending is extremely anti-climactic btw., a lot less involved than Dragon Pass but I suppose they're planning to compensate for that by releasing sequels.

The_Mask wrote: ↑ June 22nd, 2023, 22:19
How is the RNG in this game? Do I have to pray hard, or is it manageable if I show a minimal, or even mediocre, amount of gray matter?

It's not bad. Listening to the circle usually pays off, though sometimes you can still get ****** but nothing is unrecoverable. I only rewound the year a couple of times. I got hit by a meteor after (presumably) failing the magic ritual to stop that event, which reduced my population by like 100, my swords from 30 to 12 and my herds from 900+ to 500. I recovered fairly quickly though.

Combat has some sort of logic behind it, which I don't fully understand but I kept using similar tactics that made sense to me and I very rarely lost. One thing I find weird though is that you can wipe out the enemy army to a man but still lose. That only happened once though.