The Crusade against SA

[Gustav Kuriga]

There were a lot of things that went wrong. 

We had a general quit and join the clergy (Brackern), a general go absent (Kanai) and had to wait for the game to drop him, that hurt alot (There should be a way to remove someone from a position if the player goes AWOL.  We had the next general (Amandil) alienate the troops with his demands.  Famine and Monster/Undead are really what did us in, it caused all the militia to drop from the capital, over ten thousand CS gone overnight.  The splitting of the Realm did no favors either.  Of course, with three large realms plus allies against us the only thing we had going for us was the distance. 

I really hoped for something epic that would be worth telling to other people to draw them into the game as new potential players.  Instead it fell flat.

I wish to tell everyone there is no hard feelings, this is just a game and I am completely aware of this. 

At least with Allison forming her own realm, things might get interesting in the SA church as we will no longer have anyone to unite against...

[Zakilevo]

Sadly for Caerwyn, they just could not organize enough manpower to attack Eduib (did I even spell this right? lol) outskirt. After making Astrum lose three regions, only region they could attack was EO. They could have tried to go over the mountain regions but that would made them go through 6k of monsters and undeads. Too bad Astrum's region layout is just better than Caerwyn's

[Gustav Kuriga]

For defending against a hostile realm, yes. For defending against rogues... no.

[Hossenfeffer]

At least with Allison forming her own realm, things might get interesting in the SA church as we will no longer have anyone to unite against...

Perhaps you need to re-examine that sentence.  Your first statement and your last may not necessarily bear the relationship you posit.

That said, Mathurin's growing more fond of Allison.  She must be getting tame 

[dustole]

Perhaps you need to re-examine that sentence.  Your first statement and your last may not necessarily bear the relationship you posit.

That said, Mathurin's growing more fond of Allison.  She must be getting tame 

Tame?  hmmm,  clearly I am not doing my job then! 

[Jhaelen Irsei]

There were a lot of things that went wrong. 

We had a general quit and join the clergy (Brackern), a general go absent (Kanai) and had to wait for the game to drop him, that hurt alot (There should be a way to remove someone from a position if the player goes AWOL.  We had the next general (Amandil) alienate the troops with his demands.  Famine and Monster/Undead are really what did us in, it caused all the militia to drop from the capital, over ten thousand CS gone overnight.  The splitting of the Realm did no favors either.  Of course, with three large realms plus allies against us the only thing we had going for us was the distance. 

I really hoped for something epic that would be worth telling to other people to draw them into the game as new potential players.  Instead it fell flat.

I wish to tell everyone there is no hard feelings, this is just a game and I am completely aware of this.

To me you wasted the opportunity at the beginning of the war when Averoth/Thulsoma was raiding the north of Astrum while Caerwyn pillaged the south. You should have strike harder preventing the gathering of more than 40K CS of the SA Brotherhood that destroyed Valkirya. With the close of the northern front your days were counted considering the food that SA can control.

[Indirik]

... considering the food that SA can control.

Sadly, the days of SA having a huge surplus of food are no more. With Morek taking Muspelheim, Corsanctum growing, and Astrum losing quite a bit of farmland, there just isn't the kind of surplus we used to have.

[Jhaelen Irsei]

Sadly, the days of SA having a huge surplus of food are no more. With Morek taking Muspelheim, Corsanctum growing, and Astrum losing quite a bit of farmland, there just isn't the kind of surplus we used to have.

In Morek we had some bad harvests recently and due to lack of knights production isn't at optimal level but if efficiency will increase again we can have again that surplus or at elast I hope so.

Anyway, I think every player that want to smash SA has to study a lot this last war. And food will play always a big role in future conflicts.

[dustole]

In Morek we had some bad harvests recently and due to lack of knights production isn't at optimal level but if efficiency will increase again we can have again that surplus or at elast I hope so.

Anyway, I think every player that want to smash SA has to study a lot this last war. And food will play always a big role in future conflicts.

For sure!  I targeted Caerwyn's food supply and they suffered hard.

[Lopeyschools]

If only those damn peasants have just eaten each other instead of all starving to death, then Golden Farrow wouldn't have starved.

It's all the peasants fault!

[Bedwyr]

And food will play always a big role in future conflicts.

Food has played a big role in every war in years.  On Dwilight it's just worse because of how population growth worked.  New immigration code will, I think, change that dynamic.

[Geronus]

Food has played a big role in every war in years.  On Dwilight it's just worse because of how population growth worked.  New immigration code will, I think, change that dynamic.

We used it to devastate Caerwyn. In two seasons, Golden Farrow starved from 75k+ population to (I think) under 1k today. Ouch.

[dustole]

71353     6/27
71058     6/29
76058     7/07
70759     7/14
70719     7/15
70563     7/16
71179     7/17
71054     7/19
68814     7/20
65099     7/22
54364     7/24
52743     7/25
43770     7/26
42895     7/27
39035     7/28
30057     7/29
24335     7/31
18495     8/01
11964     8/03
 9093      8/04
 6820      8/05
 6752      8/06
 3253      8/09
   766      8/27


Here are my records for Golden Farrow.  The city peaked at 76k.  It was really interesting to keep track of this and see the progress.  Unfortunately for me it is going to take way longer than 2 months to get the city back up to 76k...

[Nosferatus]

71353     6/27
71058     6/29
76058     7/07
70759     7/14
70719     7/15
70563     7/16
71179     7/17
71054     7/19
68814     7/20
65099     7/22
54364     7/24
52743     7/25
43770     7/26
42895     7/27
39035     7/28
30057     7/29
24335     7/31
18495     8/01
11964     8/03
 9093      8/04
 6820      8/05
 6752      8/06
 3253      8/09
   766      8/27


Here are my records for Golden Farrow.  The city peaked at 76k.  It was really interesting to keep track of this and see the progress.  Unfortunately for me it is going to take way longer than 2 months to get the city back up to 76k...

almost 70K dies in one month, jeees, how inhumane...

it will indeed take you more then half a year to build it back up, good luck..
Funny to imagine a extremist character like alison have to wait about half a year until she can start harassing her neighbours.

[dustole]

almost 70K dies in one month, jeees, how inhumane...

it will indeed take you more then half a year to build it back up, good luck..
Funny to imagine a extremist character like alison have to wait about half a year until she can start harassing her neighbours.

Thankfully I can use that time to take over a few more rural regions around Golden Farrow and I can harass Itaulond.