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Atamara / Re: The Current War

« on: May 24, 2011, 10:51:01 AM »

The irony of fate ... that was their plan for Eston 

And you'd know this how? We sent an offer of peace before the Northern and Southern realms became involved in the conflict. That's how you all know we asked for Nazamroth because that's what we had asked for in the terms of peace with Eston! To find out later that other people had spread lies about us wishing to take the Duchy of Barad Lacirith were utter fabrications.

So sending a peace offer, whilst we were winning, with the loss of a single region for a multi-region realm like Eston is destroying their realm how?

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Atamara / Re: The Current War

« on: May 23, 2011, 01:03:46 AM »

I do love the Darkan mentality. They've gone from wanting to hurt and attack the CE to attacking Tara, to threatening Coria, threatening Talerium and even threatening to ignore Eston's wishes (during the initial peace).

I can't wait for the future when people finally get tired of Darka doing exactly the same thing that the CE is accused (rightly so) of doing.

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Helpline / Re: Religion

« on: May 16, 2011, 12:09:22 AM »

Thanks for all the advice, much appreciated!

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Helpline / Religion

« on: May 12, 2011, 09:29:39 PM »

As I've only just started playing with a Priest, I'm still learning the religious side of the game mechanics. But here is my question;

If there is a majority faith in a region of Religion A (RA) let's say 100% for simplicity and RA has a temple supporting these numbers.

If Religion B (RB) creates a temple in the same region and the region lord decides to close down the temple of RA, would this mean that the peasants following RA would gradually drop in number or would it be quicker? What faith would they then choose, could RB then gain followers?

In general how much effect would this have? (I know this is variable, but let's just say at the moment all regions stats are 100% and control is Core, would the peasants automatically declare independence, or is it something that some harsh courts and a bit of police work can handle?)

Also is it easier to convert peasants who believe in paganism or a player created religion? Or are they both the same type of conversion percentages (not talking about temples here, just oratory skill). Basically what I'm trying to find out here is whether it would be quicker to close down the temple of RA and then convert the followers of RA to RB (with an inexperienced priest) or whether being patient and just constantly preaching to the followers of RA would be a better option?

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Atamara / Re: The Current War

« on: April 07, 2011, 02:12:14 PM »

It is uncalled disliking his char IG and wanting to see his realm burned to the ground? I do not think so...

I agree, but this particular part of the forum is supposed to be OOC, not IC. (I concede that it is easy to blur the lines however, as I've nearly done so myself before now).

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Atamara / Re: The Current War

« on: April 07, 2011, 02:10:54 PM »

Suddenly, Minas Ithil barrels through the door, a glass of spiced punch in one hand and a party hat in the other.

Ahahaha! The mental image of that actually made me laugh

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Atamara / Re: The Current War

« on: April 06, 2011, 11:49:58 PM »

And now we wait for Bigmouth to strike again.

A bit uncalled for and unnecessary wouldn't you say? Let's at least pretend that we are adults.

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Feature Requests / Re: Military feature

« on: March 21, 2011, 05:39:30 AM »

more realistic if the person in control of the entire army falls during a battle,

From my very limited knowledge on the subject, I don't believe this was how battles were fought in the Medieval ages. Marshals in feudal times certainly didn't command the entire army as far as I'm aware, this is a unique BM feature.

I could be wrong, but I believe that the individual Lords, and Barons etc. had their own Knights, who served under them. In return for land they were employed to fight for their Lord. If they had wealth, these would in turn recruit their own men, such as men-at-arms etc.

During a battle, you'd be in command of your own men, no-one else would command you or your men, other than perhaps Royalty. (Although in England at least, the Barons were also extremely powerful, almost equaling the Kings power). So I doubt that they or their Knights would have been following a single leader in the modern sense anyway.

I understand that there is one person who can control the unit settings of the entire army in BM (although individual leaders can also set their own unit settings which is a bit more realistic). But I don't think this is how it was in actual Medieval times.

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Feature Requests / Re: Military feature

« on: March 21, 2011, 04:04:07 AM »

maybe the army can be disorganized?

Being unable to change unit settings whilst the Marshal is injured kind of already achieves this.

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BM General Discussion / Re: What you really wanted to do in BM but never did

« on: March 20, 2011, 04:22:16 PM »

I'm sure that Coria will remember, but I doubt that it resonates too much even on the rest of Atamara.  When my character executed yours, it barely made a blip even in Carelia.  I did earn some political capital with Coria (at least temporarily), so I appreciated your visit!

You earned a lot more than you think! At the time we were still pretty resentful at finding your troops in our lands after we explicitly denied them permission after the execution of Borus this helped things a lot.

I was really wishing I would get enough people behind me to oust the leadership, but I guess gold alone was not enough to get all those knights to wake up.

Haha Borus was RP'd as being insane, and put none of the groundwork required into a successful rebellion. Given that you had already sent the majority of the gold back to your family when you started asking for the rebellion, I don't understand how it could have been used?

Let's just say Merlin isn't the only one with a grudge against the Igelfeld family

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Atamara / Re: The Current War

« on: March 20, 2011, 03:45:58 PM »

Cagilans are all baby-eaters.

They ate my poor little Jimmy! 

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Atamara / Re: The Current War

« on: March 20, 2011, 05:17:19 AM »

Come now. Did CE have any say in the matter in the end?

Haha I don't want to be giving too much away in an OOC forum and after this message, I won't be going into details about the type of things I've been discussing already, as it gives away a lot of the secrets that some characters don't and shouldn't have information to (and rightly so), but you should certainly speak to Aldarion and Ottar if you think we acted alone That was certainly not the case, and it really didn't go down like that.

We brainstormed and it was decided it would be a good idea for Coria to try and get peace. This was months ago now, long before we started taking the heavy damage that we had been more recently.

I agree it was a mistake to raze the foritifcation in Elost rather than attempt a TO of Lyton, but we learned from that mistake.  At the time, I still believed the relations between Hammarsett and Coria could be spared. We recieved reports that Hammarsett wanted peace etc. so I thought a less harsh approach would be better. This turned out not to be the case.

As it happens, out of all the Northern realms, the relationship which has most been damaged has been with Hammarsett. So yeah, if I knew it was going to turn out the way it did, I'd have ordered the TO rather than damaging military infrastructure. But for their allies, Hammarsett wouldn't be in this war at all. Their organisation at the start of the war was a shambles. They had hardly any RC's, a significant part of their forces were captured by Militia in their first offensive action and had we damaged any of their regions significantly, they'd still be unable to recruit an army now probably. Coria should have capitalised on this, we didn't and that was my fault.

Yet there was no other chance to correct our biggest mistake as Tara did exactly the same thing with Hammarsett, that Eston did with Coria. However unlike the other Northern realms, we didn't kick up as much fuss.

Other than the CE, the only other allied realm taking a beating was Coria...we've taken just as much damage as the CE in your defence. You have a character in Coria, in the military council. You know exactly what the situation is in Coria. The reason it took so long for peace to be signed was because we tried to get the best deal possible for the CE in our peace negotiations. I'm sure the leaders of the Northern Federation can confirm this was the case. It was only after the peace treaty with Eston that Coria agreed to give military access through its own lands. And even then, this was discussed with the allied leaders beforehand.

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Atamara / Re: The Current War

« on: March 20, 2011, 03:21:22 AM »

That's not what he's referring to.

What's he referring to then? The whole we wanted a 1vs1 thing was well before I got involved in the political side of things

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BM General Discussion / Re: Situation: Assaulting Fortifications

« on: March 20, 2011, 03:07:01 AM »

But still, like you said, we wiped them out because of the completely lopsided, archer-heavy defending force.

Nah you won because the Duke of the City was not there to recruit a decent amount of Infantry militia at the time of the assault Some nifty politics were to blame for that, but it was a decent strategy by the enemy nonetheless.

Merlin had constantly been in the city so that he was able to do so in that eventuality, however, having been asked to travel to Anost, that was why he was not there.

But yeah, it just goes to show, CS matters little in such circumstances.

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Atamara / Re: The Current War

« on: March 20, 2011, 02:59:46 AM »

Coria was quite willing to throw CE under the proverbial bus if it came to it

That's not true. We were encouraged to sign a peace with the North by the allied rulers. I really don't know what else we could have done, we just don't have the resources to hold back the combined armies of the North. We were limited to a defensive war for one reason or another, and everyone knows the best defence is a good offence. Our defences were slowly being eroded away whilst the Northern realms were allowed to recover and regain strength. Strategically speaking, Hammarsett should have been knocked out of the War. They would have been more vulnerable to such attacks than Coria. Tara could have easily accomplished this.

Plus we've not abandoned the CE, we've had multiple offers in which we could gain more lands from the CE to make up for the losses we have sustained in this War. This was respectfully declined by Saeculo. We're honestly not throwing you under the bus. You should know this given that you have a character in our military council