Great Dwilight War:Astrum defeats Asylon and Farronite forces.

[Frostwood]

Not once it becomes a three-on-one. We could probably keep it up for quite a while as a 2-v-1. Adding a third realm to the mix is gonna hurt. There's not many realms that could hold off three realms of such combined size.

The whole Terran/D'Hara merger hurt Astrum, and caused a lot of political damage within the church.  Had Terran stood their ground, Astrum would have stood a better chance of winning. Terran's job was to hold out as long as possible, and they gave up.

In Niselur, our job was to face the Astrum and Corsanctum army as long as possible to allow our allies down south to do their work.  We had hoped we might win against Astrum, but as it turned out, Astrum won, but that was not our main objective.  The looting in Niselur helped stabilize our control situation as we were facing massive protests, and was close to Darfix going rogue, when your raiders went across the realm looting and causing the peasants to hate Astrum and Corsanctum, and stopping the protests.  We held on long enough to allow Asylon to complete their risky objective of doing two straight takeovers without a refit.

This was the first time that Asylon and Niselur worked together, so we had to trust in our allies abilities. Our trust it seems was rewarded.  Asylon is the stronger of the two realms, but Astrum couldn't resist trying to take out King Leopold, and in doing so ignored the fact that Asylon is more experienced in warfare, and knew what need to be done to weaken Astrum.

[Glaumring the Fox]

Asylon is not done yet! 

[Daimall]

The whole Terran/D'Hara merger hurt Astrum, and caused a lot of political damage within the church.  Had Terran stood their ground, Astrum would have stood a better chance of winning. Terran's job was to hold out as long as possible, and they gave up.

In Niselur, our job was to face the Astrum and Corsanctum army as long as possible to allow our allies down south to do their work.  We had hoped we might win against Astrum, but as it turned out, Astrum won, but that was not our main objective.  The looting in Niselur helped stabilize our control situation as we were facing massive protests, and was close to Darfix going rogue, when your raiders went across the realm looting and causing the peasants to hate Astrum and Corsanctum, and stopping the protests.  We held on long enough to allow Asylon to complete their risky objective of doing two straight takeovers without a refit.

This was the first time that Asylon and Niselur worked together, so we had to trust in our allies abilities. Our trust it seems was rewarded.  Asylon is the stronger of the two realms, but Astrum couldn't resist trying to take out King Leopold, and in doing so ignored the fact that Asylon is more experienced in warfare, and knew what need to be done to weaken Astrum.

I don't know, I think it was more helpful for the Terran nobles to merge with Astrum rather then just hanging on in the Chateau, because now they can hire as much soldiers as they can lead from one of the richest realm in the continent (Of course, whether they remain profitable is to be seen.)

Attacking Asylon when they were not even in Astrum's lands yet would of been ridiculous considering Niselur was Taking over a region already. Of course the looting did help stabilize the situation enough so Niselur could raise taxes back again to normal levels, considering most of the stronger protest was from being at war with Astrum, but Astrum simply has little options in this war. They can't waste time taking over Niselur's regions while Asylon taking over core regions of theirs. The best they can do is loot and cause some tangible (temporary) damage in the short run, even though in the long run it may have benefited their enemies more.

If this condition persist where only Corsanctum can help Astrum, they will eventually be destroyed simply because each time they engage one of their enemies, one or two of their regions will fall to the other realms' armies and they lack the ability to permanently damage their enemies in some fashion.

[Indirik]

We have a very coherent strategy for our defense. The loss against Asylon was predicted, but unfortunate. We know we will lose land. Nothing we can do about it, so it's pointless to try and stop our enemies from taking every outlying region they can reach.

[Lanyon]

I'm extremely impressed by niselur and asylon. Your armies must have some pretty dang good cohesion because the numbers game is far on the side of Astrum.

[BarticaBoat]

You guys forget a certain old man with a very long history of warfare is in Astrum

I don't believe we've had a loss that wasn't anticipated yet.

[Glaumring the Fox]

With the construction of the first time machine on Dwilight we have already predicted the outcome of every Astrum strategy since the beginning of time... Asylon.. Wins... Again...

[pcw27]

If this condition persist where only Corsanctum can help Astrum, they will eventually be destroyed simply because each time they engage one of their enemies, one or two of their regions will fall to the other realms' armies and they lack the ability to permanently damage their enemies in some fashion.

If Corsanctum can completely cover the southern defense then this wont be the case. I also have high hopes for Morek sending troops. It's my understanding that the Lurians are mostly just raiding here and there.

In Niselur, our job was to face the Astrum and Corsanctum army as long as possible to allow our allies down south to do their work.  We had hoped we might win against Astrum, but as it turned out, Astrum won, but that was not our main objective.  The looting in Niselur helped stabilize our control situation as we were facing massive protests, and was close to Darfix going rogue, when your raiders went across the realm looting and causing the peasants to hate Astrum and Corsanctum, and stopping the protests.  We held on long enough to allow Asylon to complete their risky objective of doing two straight takeovers without a refit.

Is the war with Morek not also a problem?

[Vonyx]

Morek's army seems to be rather small so they are a minor threat for the time being.

[Jaden]

Morek are busy with Libero Empire and Lurian raiders, so Astrum has only tiny Corsanctum helping them...

[Vonyx]

If they are still fighting lurian raider then they need to realize that Luria left Morek over a week ago.

[Glaumring the Fox]

Guys can we keep strategy& tactics and troop movements/sizes and raids etc private?

[JeVondair]

Guys can we keep strategy& tactics and troop movements etc private?

So long as observations made here to not endanger current strategies being made or executed, I rather like having an idea of what's going on up there.

[Lorgan]

Libero Empire was already cut in half at Mt. Black Nastrond. The location of where they were cut in half just changed.

They were cut in 3 before the war, now they're cut in half and have cut Morek in 2. Not saying they're winning the war but you've got to appreciate the small victories, don't you?

[Glaumring the Fox]

So long as observations made here to not endanger current strategies being made or executed, I rather like having an idea of what's going on up there.

As long as they dont endanger long term strategies either. Sometimes the observations here are too eager to ascertain the nuances of movements like a 24 hour news broadcast. Much of strategy is knowing how to move within the fog of war better than your enemy and if they are reading stuff here it will affect their knowledge.