RE: [sg] Scenario with alien plants

An additional fun thing are Imitators using protective colouration which

look like dangerous plants but are not (animals also do this).

In game turns you have a dangerous plant type that has an imitator. you 
don't know which is which on the battlefield until some poor sod walks 
within its activation range and tests it the hard way (roll a die, even 
numbers harmless, odd ones are the real thing)
John

At 15:02 03/04/2002 +1000, you wrote:
>G'day
>
>I think you've pretty much covered the plant defences of spines/hairs,
>sticky exudates, poisons and tough fibres. The only major class of
defences
>I didn't see was the use of protective fauna (attracting ants/wasps
that in
>turn look after the plant).
>
>Cheers
>
>Beth

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