Southern War of Nobility (Civil war in Madina)

[Nathan]

This MUST be 'GM' interference, they hate us sooo much! :P ow and there is probably a gm playing in candiels!

No, no, silly. Tom plays in Madina! He clearly gave us loads of rogue forces so we can increase the training on our forces easily, then we can walk into Candiels and take it from their untrained men :D

[dustole]

My limited understanding of the monster situation is this:  Estates have some effect on monsters.  I would think that estates set on authority would decrease the # of monsters in the region or at the very least decrease their spawn rate.  So more rogue regions does equal more monsters.   Monsters tend to gravitate towards regions that have food in them(food for monsters is food and peasants).  Rogue regions tend to have 1 population and no food.  I believe the monsters will naturally migrate toward the realms since they are a huge food supply in both peasants and food.



I've seen some pretty nightmarish monster hordes in Morek.   I always thought Madina and Libero Empire had it easy.   LE had to only guard Mt Black against monsters since Morek covered their southern border.   Madina was on a big island.   That severely decreased the # of monsters they have had to face over the years.  I don't recall ever seeing a monster cross water and if they do, most water routes are guarded by walls.  So they probably only had to deal with whatever spawned on the island.   

[Vellos]

Sounds like you guys are starting experience what other realms have been going through for months now without end... 10k is a large horde, but nowhere is it abnormal.

Odd; in Terran we've never seen 10k monsters. The most is usually 5-6k. Maybe that's because the wildlands between us in Caerwyn is fairly small?

[Indirik]

I think you also have the Zuma thinning them out for you. Every now and then there is a Huge Battle Report of the Zuma fighting the monsters. There must, therefore, be quite a few not-huge-battles between Zuma and monsters, no?

[Glaumring the Fox]

Asylon was hit a few weeks back by about 10k in our capital for ages. Thulsoma used to get hit by 10k like it was the most normal thing in the world.

[Chenier]

Ugh, I wish I had more time to commit to this plot line at the moment. I'd love to write up a nice big RP about how honour demands the Madinan flag fly over the Candiels duchy once more, stating if they wanted to secede then they should have formally asked for it, paid Madina some compensation and then leave.

All I can muster at the moment is: "buy my food!" :(

Ahh well, maybe I'll be free for the next interesting thing to happen in Madina.....

Food? I'll buy your food. Just ship it to Paisly for 40 gold per unit.

[Phellan]

Madina use to have 10-15K beasts and Monsters regulariy - those disappeared mostly once we got both the isles under control.   There IS a bonus to having two very easily defended regions be your choke points.    However, due to our almost non-existant noble count they are becoming an issue again.

It's never been unusual to see 5-6K undead or monsters hit any Realm on Dwilight.

[Shizzle]

Large regions of course act as HUBs too. The Palm Sea, for instance, _always_ holds rogue forces, with thousands of CS passing through every week or so. Taming the region would probably requie securing all regions around it :p

[Shizzle]

So how is this conflict going? Aurvandil is still standing, despite Nosferatus confident approach... Fissoa had one noble coming over from Aurvandil though, the beginning of the end?

[Indirik]

Large regions of course act as HUBs too. The Palm Sea, for instance, _always_ holds rogue forces, with thousands of CS passing through every week or so. Taming the region would probably requie securing all regions around it :p

Bah, that's the wimpy way. If you want to do it right you'll march your army into the Palm Sea, set up your defenses, and play King of the Hill. Last one in the region wins!

[dustole]

Madina is making peaceful overtones to SA.  I find that interesting.  That and they specifically mentioned how they didn't like Allison.  Which is good.  I spent a lot of time making Allison hated by as many people as possible. 

Looks like SA might get a presence in Madina.  Ugh!  Damn heathens are stealing all my fun.  I might have to transfer my rage to Auvrindale.

[Nathan]

Madina is making peaceful overtones to SA. 

The only reason we went to war was because the rebels led us that way before they split off, so we figured it's time to change that back to "we don't really care about you" :P

[Shizzle]

Auvrindale.

Amazing how many variants that name has spawned ... I tend to stick with Aurvandil (checking if that's correct now would be cheating :))

[dustole]

You don't get to just declare war on our church, say bad stuff and expect it to go back to status-quo by saying  "oops, we didn't mean it"

[Phellan]

In this case, we're making peaceful attempts with Morek cause the player of von Genf actually did quite well, and managed to impress Abbot and by proxy Vallyn.   Also it turns out there may be a few nobles who sympathize with SA and kept their mouths shut when the others were around.

Throw in Madina being threatened by Barca, Terran, D'Hara, Aurvandil, and Fissoa. . .and well.   We might have a few positions in our roster of friends opening up :)

We still don't like Allison ;)   But with von Genf's actions we can discount Allison as being a one off - and that SA is better represented by von Genf and others.

We wouldn't be taking this step, but Morek contacted us, and sent us an Ambassador looking for peace.  Vallyn might like war, but he knows full well marching past Paisly with an army is foolish. (700 miles from the Capital?   ugh, morale just plummets after that).