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Dwilight / Re: The Great Northern Civil War

« on: January 14, 2016, 06:44:54 AM »

I'm surprised that two rulers in a row of HD are on what appears to be a suicide sprint head first into a stone wall.   I'm waiting for some brilliant tactic or some random ally to pop up and save you.  I thought for sure the new realm would be helping you since they are Asylonians, but they signed a peace treaty right away.  I offered them peace to see if they would take it and they did.  So that makes me think they aren't going to help HD.  HD bought some time with what appears to be a fake ceasefire offer and now the war 3v1 war against HD starts up again.  3v1 of their instigating for what its worth.

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Dwilight / Re: Food shortages

« on: January 13, 2016, 06:06:54 PM »

Portal stones have historically had little effect on Dwilight.  Unless of course you count making the Zuma angry as an effect.

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Far East Island / Re: Good luck to all

« on: January 11, 2016, 06:43:51 AM »

I'm guessing it had more to do with your tone and the words you used rather than it being you saying the words.  Your other posts are there...

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Questions & Answers / Re: Naming Duchies

« on: January 05, 2016, 05:36:59 PM »

Titans removed our ruler for naming a Duchy after a characters family name.  My family name is Kabrinski.  I once founded a realm named Kabrinskia and asked that my Duchy be renamed to that.  The previous ruler, Urtagoth, had my Duchy and it was named Urtagonia or something like that.

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Questions & Answers / Naming Duchies

« on: January 05, 2016, 02:58:28 PM »

Naming Duchies after nobles?

Where is this rule?  Further in Morek the recent titan decision against the ruler was a poor one in my opinion.  Previous ruler changed the Duchy names to name them after Indirik and after himself.  After I took over his Duchy the ruler changed Urtagonia to Kabrinskia. 

This has to be an obscure rule if one of the major contributors(titans?)  of the game didn't even know about it.  His Duchy was named after himself months and months ago with no repercussions.   I know the player of the Indirik family to be just and fair.  I have to believe he woulda said something if he knew it was against the rules.

I looked on the wiki and couldn't find any rule for this.  Combine that with the previous ruler doing it without punishment AND Indirik not saying anything about it leads me to question the Titans decision.

In my opinion the Titans made a poor decision considering the circumstances.  I hope they do better in the future.

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Dwilight / Re: The Great Northern Civil War

« on: January 03, 2016, 06:36:31 PM »

That's your problem, you're waiting for the army to be ready. Rule #1 of Armies: they're never ready. If you wait for them, then they'll become lazy and wait even more for you.

Um what?   It wasn't a blanket order:  go to Zhongyuan.  We went from region to region.  Trying 2 turn moves trying this trying that.   The point is that my army only has 3 or 4 active nobles.  The rest can be expected to catch up within a coupe days.  Some only move on weekends which makes for following an army impossible.   So how is that exactly the "easy road"   explain how Morek could have done something more to make this a meaningful conflict? 

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Dwilight / Re: The Great Northern Civil War

« on: January 03, 2016, 08:45:00 AM »

How does that change the outcome of Arnor taking Springdale and having sovereignty over most of Morek Empire's old territory, plus allies north and south of Astrum, Helyg Derwyddon, and soon to be Westfold?

Besides, Morek has had plenty of chances to make a meaningful conflict out of this, but has taken the easy road throughout.

meaningful conflict?  We went from 4 nobles protesting each other to having a 2 noble mobile army to assist in a battle of Springdale.  We managed only a 50% movement rate for that combat and went to refit. 

Now we have more nobles, but it still took me 10days to get half the army to arrive in Zhongyuan.  We've had about all of the meaningful contribution to this conflict that we can manage.  Had I not bought Nihm we'd still be there trying to do a take over.   Now, we might be able to start a take over of Zhongyuan if we're lucky.

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Dwilight / Re: The Great Northern Civil War

« on: January 02, 2016, 01:42:52 AM »

Considering the mass spamming of militia that Arnor is obssessed with, I personally wouldn't mind a game mechanic that causes militia to get a bit power-hungry and declare themselves independent when the militia outnumbers mobile forces by the margin it does in Arnor. I've seen 20k militia at the least in three regions alone (none of which was a city), while their mobile army I've seen barely keeps pace with our own despite them having 50% more nobles than us we had 7k CS at the most, and only 5k CS are in the region their army is taking over currently.

It's killing any kind of fun fight that could be had.

But their whole army wasn't doing the take over.  Part of it was in the north fighting by Springdale.

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Dwilight / Re: The Great Northern Civil War

« on: December 31, 2015, 10:51:42 PM »

You might be right.  It's not my decision though.  I had a great deal lined up for them.  They are not interested in capitulation.  Their ruler seems to think there is some glory in fighting to the last.  Which is very dumb.  They've already lost over half their nobles trying that.  That's why I say let them rot and starve.  There is no glory in fighting to the last.  If they really think that then deny them that priveledge.  Let them rot and starve.

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Dwilight / Re: The Great Northern Civil War

« on: December 31, 2015, 10:24:56 PM »

Because the realm is tainted.  They need to capitulate.  Otherwise it makes no sense to just hand over regions.   The capitulation should be more than symbolic. 

A new realm would start fresh and wouldn't have the taint from Fulco?  Was that his name?  Old ruler in Darfix who has made poor choices and committed betrayal more times than I can remember.

Also I hate the realm name.  A fresh start let's them forge their own identity and not have their history around their neck like a heavy yoke.

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Dwilight / Re: The Great Northern Civil War

« on: December 31, 2015, 07:54:16 PM »

Which would bring back the collective Morek Empire, sounds like a good plan

Trust me, you can defeat Springdale but it may take some time and some smarts. With the townsland surrounding them, there is little they can do in the first place. If you don't have the patience to siege a city, then that is your issue at this point. You succeeded last time and fighting peasant militia on the walls is much easier due to it's melee origin.

In this pace though you'll find the south much more interesting than the north again in a month from now, curious how all will develop.

That would require Arnor to revamp their whole army and somehow convince the bulk of their nobles to recruit archers.  Too easy to tread in the inalienable rights.  War with HD will be more fun.  Antiqualia has chosen to die by boredom.  Why give them the pleasure of assaulting their walls?

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Dwilight / Re: The Great Northern Civil War

« on: December 31, 2015, 04:57:22 PM »

Springdale is a very rich city.  Not as much as oligarch but still...

In Dwilight we have the benefit of the donut townslands.  Unlike other continents we can actually siege the city.  There is lots of militia in the townslands around the city so its really simple to just let them rot.  Repeated assaults against a heavily fortified city to wear them down over time is no fun.  Especially when you need 2-3 realms armies just to have equal CS not counting the walls.

Antiqualia got themselves into this position.  They declared war foolishly.  They turned down at least 2 overly generous peace deals and several other less generous ones. 

Now HD declares war on essentially all 3 of their neighbors with no militia defenses and their army had sailed north to enter a besieged city leaving 3 armies to march through their lands unnopposed.  Further, they left 2500 bushels of food for us in Nihm when we took it.

HD should realize their mistake and sue for peace while they've only lost one region.  Talk some sense into Antiqualia and help spin off a new realm in Springdale with nobles from all 4 northern realms.

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Dwilight / Re: The Great Northern Civil War

« on: December 31, 2015, 05:25:40 AM »

They seemed eager enough to join the attack on Cold Spring, and only diplomacy hijinks prevented that from being interesting.

Why? I have no reason to war Morek alone. And I honestly doubt Arnor would have even bothered, they could have just gone neutral and attacked our forces in an offensive, letting Morek do the takeovers. So your reasoning is false.

Your arguments make no sense.  I'm sorry, but its virtually impossible to discuss these things with you.  Glaumring too...

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Dwilight / Re: The Great Northern Civil War

« on: December 31, 2015, 12:43:01 AM »

You should have declared war on Morek and not Morek and Arnor.    If you would have declared war on Morek you would have forced Arnor to drop alliance with Swordfell in order to fight HD. 

Morek vs HD is actually a fairly even fight.  Would have been fun. 

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Dwilight / Re: The Great Northern Civil War

« on: December 30, 2015, 10:28:30 PM »

Would also like to point out that Arnor+Morek+Swordfell vs Antiqualia is very much an Atamaran pattern of conflict.

well,  when they refused very generous surrender terms we had no choice.  One realm can't attack a single fortified city especially when they can draft peasants as militia.   Look at Sirion and Oligarch on EC.  Very similar situation here.   In fact now that the assault on Springdale failed and HD made some political blunders with their war declarations it is unlikely that Springdale will ever be assaulted again.  We'll take the food producing regions from HD so they can't feed Springdale and then the city will slowly starve.