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Beluaterra / Re: Fifth Invasion

« on: April 28, 2012, 12:40:04 PM »

Ideally, recruits should/would be recruited from the fiefdoms themselves. With the calling of the banners, each region would be bringing forward units, they wouldn't all be syphoned through a central location like the capital unless ordered to.

Right now a majority of the capitals are either under siege or under constant attack, leading to it being nearly impossible to recruit up a unit and organize an army.

In reality, if there were any men left that hadn't been recruited previous, they'd be recruited in the countryside. [ignoring the unrealistic speed in training time and the massive amounts of dudes our little fiefdoms seem to mass produce :p]

Because of game mechanics, we really can't fight back with anywhere near the strength we could muster "normally" without sneaking in and out of the capital with units on evade and hoping that we succeed. A kind of funny tactic considering that the city we're supposed to be recruiting from is either under siege or actively being ransacked. [I have a mental image of some guy running into a burning bar and saying "Oie! You dudes! Follow me! You're now archers!" "YARRR!" "Jolly good! You in the front! You're the Captain! On to victory!"]

Hence my comment about it being like command vehicle sniping. In any RTS, its possible to win by killing off the worker units or command vehicles that bring the ability to create or maintain infastructure to bring in the combat units to instantly win the game. Its gamey and annoying but a viable tactic if you don't mind reaching outside the spectrum of realism within the game.

And yes, I realize that there's magic and the like in BM and its not considered "realistic" in any shape or form. But the terminology seemed closest to appropriate.

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Beluaterra / Re: Fifth Invasion

« on: April 28, 2012, 07:16:04 AM »

At this point it just feels like we're getting command vehicle sniped.

We've won when we're fighting standing armies in the fields, but we got maneuvered to a point where we couldn't all protect our capital cities. So now each capital city is getting taken out. We were doing relatively fine until about the last week or so.

Feels more like gamey tactics than anything.

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Beluaterra / Re: Netherworld Prison

« on: April 13, 2012, 08:56:29 PM »

Wimps.

I say bring it.

Too many people are making it past their thirties. It should be a honorific position make it to your sixties! :p

I was wondering when something about the prison setup was going to be changed. My infiltrator got caught and executed last invasion about halfway through. This one got caught almost instantly and nothing happened for about 3 days before I paid the ransom and ran away screaming like a little girl.

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East Island / Re: Fontan vs Westmoor III: third times a charm

« on: March 31, 2012, 07:48:00 AM »

Its funny. I was about to move both of my characters from Westmoor to Dwilight. Then my Adventurer was captured by Fronen.

Two days later, they execute him.

To say I'm a little peeved would be an understatement. I do believe I will be staying in Westmoor for the time being. And I do believe this just became a family vendetta.

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Beluaterra / Re: Fifth Invasion

« on: March 27, 2012, 11:04:59 AM »

Its around this time that I really wish I wasn't so hard on adventurers when I was around breaking things in the last like three wars.

I really want a magic scroll so I can blow one of my characters up while yelling "SCHZAM!"

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East Island / Re: Fontan vs Westmoor III: third times a charm

« on: March 27, 2012, 11:02:04 AM »

I have a good feeling my Hero is about to get some Blade in the Face syndrome as a result from this war.

I just bloody well know it.

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Beluaterra / Re: Fifth Invasion

« on: March 08, 2012, 10:06:01 PM »

It seems Overlord change it's tactics and will attack everyone to break our union...


...And while the invasion happens, Fwuvoghor starts it's 3º/4º rebellion of the day.

Why? Because there are only 4 nobles there...So they keep protesting against each other to ruler and starting rebellions...

I have this mental image of four guys standing around a table, all holding on a crown saying "NO IT'S MINE!" "NO YOU HAD IT LAST ITS MINE!" "YOU BOTH ARE LOSERS! GIMMY!"

Is there a limit to how many rebellions they can throw?...Because I could see the peasantry becoming very annoyed and just kicking them all out and going rogue :p

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Beluaterra / Re: Fifth Invasion

« on: February 27, 2012, 10:11:54 PM »

Wait...so we can't just stab the blight to nonexistence?...

Laaame.

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Beluaterra / Re: Fifth Invasion

« on: February 27, 2012, 10:54:44 AM »

But a tipping point. It was less than half when the invasion started. It is more than half now.

And I'm not done yet. :-)

Not exactly like we can do a whole lot about it.

I mean honestly. No one has said anything about removing the blight [that I know of anyways], so pretty much the only way to deal with the blight is to prevent it from happening. Generically that can only happen when you completely defeat an army. So far as far as I can tell the only group that's managed to do so is the Northern Alliance, hence the lack of progress in blighting the northern lands.

Kind of a weighted average. I don't know much about the southern states, but if the north was any indication, they probably weren't in the best of condition at the beginning of the latest invasion anyways. The North was gang...ing up on Fronen, but for the most part those differences were relatively easy to get past so we could kill stuff that was bigger than us. I don't think the south really had that luxury of not being backstabbed by eachother.

On a separate note, I'm pretty sure just stepping on the field gains my cavalier honor. It's almost amusing. Doesn't really matter if he was actually involved in the fighting [one battle he was stuck on the wrong side of a wall and didn't see any combat]. I have this mental image of a guy standing with his arms akimbo in full plate armor with a flag waving in the background with a pair of bards humming "da da daaaaaaah"