Alright, we must admit that was a massively embarrassing oversight, but give the guy some credit. He's trying his best. Sirion isn't exactly a compact, geographically-unified realm overflowing with gold and elite troops these days. More like a bloated morass festering beneath the weight of its own bureaucracy, but still. Outside of being cleaved in half to form twin realms, Sirion can't do much to remedy its financial woes.
Yes, I gave Elric credit too. He has offensive mind to attack, hence the attacks up till Hamadan city. Maybe we will do well to do what he suggested, burn all the lands than taking them like what Xavax war till the former Xavax lands become useless. This is war of attrition, we all recognize that
You can't tell me that Ecthelion's gold is gone...unless he's not sharing of course.
Also he wasn't the only one who missed the fortifications. Several elders in the south also were pressing Garas to order a retreat and I was just like, but why? After few messages back and forth it turned out that they didn't know Tokat had lvl 2 walls. Garas was like "why the hell did you think we assaulted this region in the first place?"
Yes, it is funny that we assaulted this region with its wall intact. In fact, nobody not even ally who once has this region is sharing any intel information until my character presses for more.
Rivers of gold. I had Avamar/Krimml/Oligarch and several rural regions, etc. And Dürion had Trinbar. Almost all the gold, plus the one from prisoners, for years... all sent to him. And that's just from me. Add all the other Dukes and some Lords to this list.
Yeah, river of gold. While I cannot assume I know how much income Oligarch city and by extension Ecthelion is earning, I think Sirion should have no income problem, compared to...
That depends on the nature of the war. Very few wars in Battlemaster are evenly matched. There's usually one powerful side and one underdog. Several of the Generals I've seen called 'great' during the years I've played have actually been ones that led armies that already had a numbers and power advantage. The really strategy game minded players often tend to be attracted to the realms that already have established military reputations too.
A General who leads a small realm and wins a couple of battles could actually be punching well above his or her weight. People would probably still say, 'oh. they suck' because they lose a majority of their battles. But it's probably the case that it was very hard to win battles anyway.
Same here although I hope you're not trying to argue this specific case here :p
But you're right. There's often one side with a clear advantage as few people are willing to risk their marbles even in BM
Back when Brock was a General, he found it difficult leading Nivemus fighting against Perdan especially their PMW which are considered elite units. However Ryu eventually found a solution for a good allied defense of Nivemus lands and Sirion lands, which led us down the path of pushing Perdan back till Duchy of Perdan. If I have to recognize a good General and even a good Commander of all allied armies, I will put Ryu name down first.
