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Atamara / Re: CE-Tara Federation

« on: October 23, 2012, 03:21:36 AM »

Tara did not fight directly with CE on the same battlefield. But they were definitely fighting on CEs side. They were fighting in the northeast to hold off MI/BoM/Hammarsett/Darka so they could not directly attack CE, and to prop up Coria.

To be honest in the beginning of the war when Suville was still witht he southern coalition, some moral-wise rather important battles within CE were fought with Tara using their dipmomatic relations to change the allegiances so that the whole southern assault was halted, we ended up with a third of our force on the other side by accident. Obviously we are going with the Suville being untrustworthy scounderels of no honor until the end of days due to these events, but I do believe they were an accident that caused the war go as it went.

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Atamara / Re: The Current War

« on: August 20, 2012, 09:41:19 PM »

Carelia and it's "never surrender" policy aren't making it any easier.

How dare they not simply roll over and die! Carelia has done plenty of surrendering recently though.

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Atamara / Re: The Current War

« on: August 19, 2012, 09:17:37 PM »

I love this war. Through the whole trying to run around the Cagilan farmlands and running headfirst to the walls of Nida and Skalk to seeing the population of the Carelian regions at practically 20% of what it could be. It's been very exciting to be fighting for Carelia.
Then again our battlefields have always been rather close, and right now it's next to our capital, so there's very little marching back and forth. Also, it's always lovely when others take the position of the "bad guy" and we can run these pompous "we are so honorable in our struggle against the evil southern backstabbers" and "my horse is amazing"-roleplays.

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Atamara / Re: The Current War

« on: August 08, 2012, 08:34:40 AM »

Interesting battles. Partly because it was likely the "last hurrah" of Carelia, but also because it was two very different armies clashing against each others, archers vs infantry.

Live and learn, eh?

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Development / Re: More Estate Features

« on: August 07, 2012, 09:39:41 AM »

I think that if an option to bank gold at your personal estate treasury is introduced, an option to loot estates must also be included, specificly. This could be possible by region lord or nobles of other realms, and the household guard could act like temple guards in protecting them. This change will be the final nail in the coffin for wealth taxation, unless property tax targets the estates.

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Atamara / Re: The Current War

« on: August 04, 2012, 02:11:09 PM »

You can thank Tara for making sure that Suville stays out of this war.

They've done nothing but provoke Suville and support Carelian interests since peace was declare with CE. Very odd stance to take. Maybe their tune will change if their rurals get pulverized again.

Hey now, give Carelia and Caergoth (and Suville, the initiater of this distraction conflict) a little credi too.

Maybe the whole supporting rebellions within Suville's neighbours, attacking them when the opportunity presents itself, and as an ally delivering a fourth or a fifth of your force to aid (as it looks to outside, not sure how it really is) makes them hesitant of having you press closer to their border. Could be something weirder of course too.

I think the position of the northern  realms looks bleak given that however the southern conflict ends, Carelia and Caergoth are likely to aid Tara, and Suville is likely to aid Coria. But who knows, nobody seems to like anyone around the great lake anymore.

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Atamara / Re: The Current War

« on: July 02, 2012, 06:18:47 AM »

It is unlikely a realm the size of Carelia can keep up a war against a realm of the size of Suville. Especially with the new estate system benefitting larger realms, and with Suville's capital so close by. Been a fun run though, there's some satisfaction in grabbing any victory as the underdog.

And who knows, perhaps Evgenis shall lead his chosen ones to more glory through valor.

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Atamara / Re: The Current War

« on: May 16, 2012, 01:28:51 AM »

A good general cleans up the messes left by bad politicians .

It seems to me a general who starts cleaning up after politicians is just a politician who plays with the military. In which case there already is an awful power vacum in politidcs.

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Atamara / Re: The Current War

« on: May 16, 2012, 12:48:08 AM »

Agreed, generals can not accomplish anything if the politics are done incorrectly. A general matters in an even war, the current one on Atamara is an exception to the basics of the continent on how balanced it was. And even if a general would want to begin an uprising, funds  would be an issue if not loyalty. A monarch who appoints a general a duke is asking for it anyway.

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Atamara / Re: The Current War

« on: May 15, 2012, 06:38:52 AM »

Nice battle. Wondering why they both fighting over what exactly

Land.

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Atamara / Re: Atamara: We're not afraid to Gang up on you!

« on: April 17, 2012, 05:44:11 AM »

Anyway, glad to see that we've cleared up the misunderstanding about why Suville is picking on Carelia.

Misunderstanding eh.  I'm rather sure Suville is "picking" on Carelia for the long valued reasons of "because we can".

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Atamara / Re: Atamara: We're not afraid to Gang up on you!

« on: April 17, 2012, 02:09:19 AM »

I'm not sure what sort of force Tara has in the area (though since we retreated I presume it could make a difference), so let's assume that you lose; would Carelia be willing to accept a peace where you lose Tarkhog and Lurgrod or are you too far beyond trusting us dirty Suvillans at our word?

Of course, I'm starting to wonder if we can actually hold either region.

Quite honestly losing half of its farmlands would probably be a deathsentance to Carelia anyway, I doubt Suville wants or needs Carelia's trust. Then again you could consider losing 3 of 4 duchies to be "the end" of a realm already so who knows. I think this will be a longish war seeing Lurgord and Tarkhog rogue several times, and then eventually politics will ruin a nice fight one way or an other.

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Atamara / Re: Atamara: We're not afraid to Gang up on you!

« on: April 17, 2012, 12:53:38 AM »

I only remember one good battle between Suville and Carelia, the rest of the battles were all a bunch of nobles vs one or two of the other realm because they were stragglers but to insult Suville anymore they even give false reasons for war unless they are just that stupid. They say the war is for food but both regions they try to do a takeover on they do a brutal takeover so that when they do take it over its worth crap foodwise plus instead of being a decent realm and asking for Carelia to try and sell some food to them they just declare war out of the blue and say its a misunderstanding.

We've had 2 bigger battles. The first (small) Lurgord engagement that Carelia won, and the second Chasnoff engagement that Suville won. I really liked the setup of the Chasnoff battle though, shame it didn't work.

I like the war, sure it might not be going Carelia's way, but it gives a military challenge for a small realm vs large realm in an actually doable fashion. Much better odds than when it was CE and Suville vs Carelia . I'm actually a bit mixed on what I hope for, 'cause as the general of Carelia I of course hope our realm would prevail, but then on the other hand I'd like to see how things turn in the south if Carelia gets wiped out. Especially since it'd release a lot of nobles angry at a lot of realms to join larger realms, though might be they'd simply leave Atamara.

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Development / Re: The Problem of Blobs

« on: March 23, 2012, 01:38:58 PM »

Any personal initiative introduced has the risk of simply becoming a "ask the general/marshal"- feature that futher increases the power of micromanaging generals. It is the nature of team pvp to be afraid of making mistakes. Though I am unsure what that team nowdays is.

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Atamara / Re: The Current War

« on: February 08, 2012, 09:39:37 PM »

My charecter in Carelia was quite inactive when the war was switching from a southern war to one against the Empire, but I recall what was told to the court of Carelia was basically that CE had explained Carelia would need to change their religious views, or the war in the south would begin going poorly. Given that at that time Carelia stretched from Ser'quea to Oyonniarre, the realm would've been very very vulnerable to a Tara/CE attack. What actually happened, also regarding wether or not King Nathan ever searched for peace as was demanded, is impossible to say without the relating private IC letters.

Malic de Aquitane believes the whole war was a Caergoth/Suville/Empire plot to take down the glorious land of heroes, but it seems likely to me that some sort of meddling occurred from CE side, which Leta and company then tried to use to get Carelia into a better geopolitical position (It's troublesome being the only realm with a border with the south). After that, due to whatever reasons, the combat strength coming from the south did not match what was expected. That, and some absurd military decisions (an assault to Nida with 10 h travel time and almost even strength comes to mind..) lead to a halt in progress.

Was a fun war, I expect Carelia will be bitter to the realms around it for quite a while (the rest of its life).