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Helpline / Re: Monarch Estate

« on: March 19, 2011, 05:30:29 AM »

So he did not have a current oath at the time the Duke offered one? Perhaps that's the key.

You want to know what the key is? This is it: ONLY the Duke of the Capitol city can offer an oath to the Ruler. The Ruler can not request an oath of anyone, even the Duke of the capitol. Also, he did not have a current oath at the time it was offered as far as I am aware.

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Atamara / Re: The Current War

« on: March 19, 2011, 01:43:36 AM »

Heck no. We're ready and raring to go. We *want* to have a few good fights. We just don't want to get slaughtered

(And yes the *current* treaty gives the northern realms permission to trael through Coria to attack CE. That's what Darka wanted. I think most of the animosity about the treaty actually comes from the first versions that were presented: Coria = off limits.)

Ahh okay, understood.

See, I would think that being as informed as you are about the political situation on AT, you would know the real score there. It's not just CE. If we only had to fight CE, it would be no big deal. But the treaty you agreed to with Eston secures Tara's northern border. And since they are not fighting in the south, that frees their entire army to defend CE's northern border.

CE/Tara/Talerium had 30K CS waiting for us in Alaise.

Ahh, well technically I have access to all of the scout reports of the happenings of that battlefront and could check on them after like 5 minutes of searching through messages but I haven't bothered. So yes, technically I should be informed of the exact numbers but I simply haven't had the time to worry about it. Well either way, good for them for putting up such a good defense.

As it stands though, you say Tara isn't fighting in the south so they can worry about defending the north, however as far as I know it was the northern alliance that asked that we include terms such that Tara can't aggressively attack Carelia without being attacked, so you would in effect be holding their forces in the north when they could readily be diverted south.

Interesting the way that politics run things. So much easy when I had just a regular troop leader. 

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Atamara / Re: The Current War

« on: March 19, 2011, 12:41:20 AM »

Talerium and Tara. Don't forget Talerium and Tara.

I didn't intend on forgetting them. They are Coria's allies as it were. Although, you were fighting Tara and Talerium already. What's the change?

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Atamara / Re: The Current War

« on: March 19, 2011, 12:12:04 AM »

It's not a problem of just going through "the mountains".  It's a problem that the one-region-wide route allowed by the treaty leads straight into a fortification.  Aside from the border with Carelia, CE now only has one border region, and it's fortified.

I'm confused. Is the north scared of actually fighting CE while their entire military force is having to focus on defending three realms in the south already? How defended can that region possibly be? Unless there is more than 10-15k cs always defending the region I see little reason for Darka/BoM/Eston//Hammarsett to be worried at all. Isn't the point just to get through to start fighting CE? If you think that CE will be able to prevent you from ever getting through that one region, then I must say CE is a lot stronger than I ever imagined and deserves to win this war.

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

« on: March 18, 2011, 10:20:15 PM »

Nope  apparently the Darkan leaders saw nothing wrong with Merodak's behavior because not a word of reprimand was sent. Funny actually, I think if it were any other realm on the island he would have been.

Wow...so much for what Darka's King told me then...

ugh....

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

« on: March 18, 2011, 10:11:56 PM »

Coria was sinking fast and needed something to spark it to life. 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. I love the blood oath, I have two characters in Atamara right now but one of them is paused. Moria is straitlaced, but Merodak is the son of Borus and quite villainous. He wants nothing more than to rain destruction down on the realm(s) that caused his fathers death. His favorite time in life was RPBing coria's capital.

To be fair, you hadn't been in the realm long enough to secure any lasting loyalty and you didn't go about things as cautiously as you maybe should have. I'm not sure you could have pulled off a successful rebellion without a fair amount of planning beforehand, and use the gold theft only as a final step before rebellion. Not to mention, even if you replaced the leadership, you'd have to deal with my character still as Duke, ready to send you to your grave as soon as possible. The counter-rebellion would have resulted in your losing all the power you had gained and splitting Coria forever in two as any who worked with you would be shunned.

Also, gold wouldn't be enough to simply buy over the knights of our realm. Coria's best trait was always its outstanding nobility. Not sure they'd stoop to bribes.

As far as Merodak goes, my character has already realized his "gross" ancestry. It didn't take long after he arrived in Coria's capitol for me to see that he hopefully gained a reprimand from the Darkan leadership. (Did it work? Just wondering...) Anyway, as far as my character is concerned, any nobles that set foot on Atamara from your family personally owe my character a lump some of gold to replace that which was stolen. Whether they want to pay it back slowly over time, all at once, or just have my hatred rain down on you for the duration that you stay on Atamara is their choice of course.

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Atamara / Re: The Current War

« on: March 18, 2011, 10:02:25 PM »

The demands I am familiar with, and what got Darka involved in the war, were "Eston has to give Coria the Barad Lacirith duchy." i.e. Eston has to give their capital duchy to Coria.

That is quite interesting. I've NEVER heard that before, and my character Merlin, like Saeculo's character was at the forefront of Corian politics during that time, perhaps more so than Saeculo at the time. Munro has stated quite clearly what Coria's demands were at the beginning of the war and I know that there was vast confusion in the leadership of the northern alliance about what exactly our demands were at the time, but I know I cleared that up personally with many of the NA leadership since then. (After they had joined the war against Coria of course).

I.E. I can guarantee that those were NOT Coria's demands in the least. Whether another realm such as CE stated those or not, is quite a different story, but it was never made by Coria's leadership that I am sure.

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

« on: March 18, 2011, 08:02:09 PM »

*Cough* Is stealing over 10000 gold  reason enough? It definitely had a few people quite up in arms.   

Well it certainly goes down in Coria's history. Since you stole over half of that from my character alone, I think I have plenty of objections to it. It was a good ploy but it did eventually get yourself killed and a blood oath from my character towards your family. (Just this one character of course, and only on Atamara)

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Atamara / Re: The Current War

« on: March 18, 2011, 08:00:00 PM »

That's all good and well, but Coria was the aggressor in this war, and made a rather ludicrous and unprovoked demand. If someone attacked my realm under that pretense and then sued for peace when his capital was sacked, I'd make him pay out the nose to get peace, and not just give up a claim to one region he doesn't even own anymore.

I don't think you understand how long Coria has been seeking peace. We had been in peace talks for well over a month before our capitol was sacked. We'd even already agreed to terms, and this was also while Nazia was still a region of Coria's. In fact, we agreed to terms once with Kerwin, and then he had to come back later and ask for more in order to satisfy the desires of his realm and allies. We agreed to these immediately as well. The fact is that the treaty was agreed upon well in advance of the sacking of Barad Falas. In fact, the only reason the city was sacked was because Merlin was trying to deliver the treaty to Eston via the new treaty system that was already agreed to be signed.

The access to CE we wanted is a joke. We have exactly one point of entry that takes us through mountains, where our men starve to death due to lack of food only to be greeted by an army sitting behind a wall.

You're right the access that you have to CE is a joke. However, if you want to go through "Coria" We can ONLY offer you passes through mountains. Coria's only connection to CE is through a mountain pass via Nazia or Galadia. If you want to take another entrance into CE, you either have to enter through Tara (roundabouts Tarasac) or through the rural regions of Talerium (which are "off limits"). So there should be no reason to complain to Coria. Coria gave you an entrance to CE and it is the best entrance that we can give you as a realm. It's not like Coria makes it a habit to go visit CE. In fact, even when my character did visit CE's capitol it was through use of Tara's lands.

Coria has done everything possible to rid ourselves of this problem, and it is only greed that has kept the northern alliance from signing full peace and doing exactly what they say they wanted to do: Fight CE.

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

« on: March 18, 2011, 08:41:02 AM »

- Have a character go down in BM history as an evil genius. Mind you, just going down in BM history with any character would be nice.

I'm just wondering, how exactly does someone go about going down into BM history?  I'm wondering because I'd also like to get a character to do just that, but I have no idea what sort of pre-reqs there are. What characters have already gone down in BM history?

- Participate in a genuine religious war

If you join Dwilight, you can join almost any realm except maybe two, and you'll be in the middle of a religious war. Well mostly, at least a war against a religion, but idk, any other Dwilight peeps care to clarify that?

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Feature Requests / Re: Change to Mentor position

« on: March 18, 2011, 07:47:34 AM »

So, I know that this has already been mentioned, but one of my characters is currently an ambassador but wants to become a Mentor to try and help out his realm in retaining new nobles and also because I think I'd make a great mentor and it fits the character. However, he doesn't really want to lose his ambassador status if he doesn't have to.

Since this is a feature request and it has a lot of support, (which I support as well), how likely do you think that this may be implemented in the short term, so as to just wait until the changes, or should I go ahead and become mentor because this won't happen for a long time anyway? (On a stable island)

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

« on: March 18, 2011, 07:30:46 AM »

Hmm..seceding is about the only thing I haven't done. Would like to try it some time. Problem seems to be that when you make it to the dukes position you like the realm enough not to secede.

Hmm, you must be going about getting the Duke position ALL wrong...

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Atamara / Re: The Current War

« on: March 18, 2011, 07:27:59 AM »

I think Darka should have pushed to build temples of Darkanism in Coria. How come this isn't standard procedure?

Well that's one surefire way to have Coria destroyed....Choose a treaty term that will never be accepted.

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Helpline / Re: Healers - How many to buy.

« on: March 16, 2011, 10:18:27 AM »

Also, it makes a large difference on how valuable to you your men are.

If you are running a large unit (takeover style unit) with weak stats then you don't need as many healers per man ratio.

However, if you're running extremely well trained special forces unit, of say 40 men, I would easily take at least 5 healers for those 40 men. I don't want to lose any soldiers when it costs me well over 100 gold per 10 men that I hire.

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

« on: March 16, 2011, 02:00:40 AM »

So if this is in fact allowed...

1. Get elected ruler somewhere.

2. Rebel and win on the same continent in another realm.

3.

4. Profit?

It's called a bug. It's not "allowed" persay. Although it happened either way.