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Indirik

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Re: Apparent CS
« Topic Start: May 01, 2014, 06:50:07 PM »
To me personally? Nope. Never used it.

To make it useful, it would have to be used by a large number of nobles, each of whom make extensive modification to their equipment. Making an entire army look weaker could entice others to attack without proper strength. But the effect would have to be big. 10% probably wouldn't be enough to make the expense worthwhile, given the unpredictable reactions of your opponents. 20%? 30%

I suppose you could do it to make your army look stronger, and thus prevent people from attacking. But then you'd probably just have someone muster enough to attack your apparent strength, and get yourself slaughtered.

Individually, a noble could use it to make his men appear stronger, and thus get away with not contributing as much to the army as people think. But that does seem to be a very expensive way to do a tiny bit of sabotage. You could do more effective sabotage much less expensively by using other tricks.

This always seemed to be one of those options that sounds cool, but just doesn't deliver what it promises.
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