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Total Members Voted: 16

Voting closed: November 05, 2016, 04:00:47 pm

[Prophet]

A

[crazyabe]

A.

[Haspen]

You agree to the deal.

"The runemasters will be ready to use their magicks against Damdamians every few days. I hope your military leaders won't use them up on mere skirmishes.

The dwarf leaves, and the Dahnian envoy enters the throne room.

"Greetings, Queen Elana." He then opens up his cloak and points a small crossbow at you!

6

Unfortunately for him, one of your guards up on the gallery is quick with reflexes and plants a crossbow bolt in his head, killing him instantly.

Later that day, the Spymaster visits you.

"Your Majesty, this man was carrying a coded letter which my agents are working on currently. Preliminary investigation suggests a Damdamian cipher. We will inform you whenever we discover anything else."

891 AD, Week later

The investigation into the matter of fake Dahnian envoy has been completed by Spymaster and his agents; the coded letter used a Damdamian cipher and was ordering the emissary to kill you in hopes of throwing the government into further chaos.

The agents also had checked on the identity of the emissary; the 'real' man by the name given by the would-be assassin is an actual diplomat of King Anktuk, who is currently in Duchy of Tven on a courtesy visit.

4

Prince Ceodwell and his soldiers scored another, minor victory against Damdamians. Unfortunately Ceodwell is now low on men and has ordered an orderly retreat toward the capital.

5

Report from Augas places the war in the east in your favor; two outposts were retaken and while the Damdamians there are still causing havoc, the Governor has them restricted to southern borderlands.

Unfortunately, it's time to face a much closer danger; the Damdamian-Kiwi army has moved through the Forest and are marching toward the capital! The officers at the capital convene with you, asking about the strategy for defense of the capital. You decide to...

A) Pull all forces within the city walls and prepare to repel a siege.
B) Send some cavalry forces to harass the Damdamians in hopes of thinning their numbers.
C) Send out the Gubta, Ceodwell with his leftovers and Dwarvish runemasters in large big troop in hopes to squash the western force.

[crazyabe]

C, final chance to win.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

C

[Tiruin]

The dwarf leaves, and the Dahnian envoy enters the throne room.

"Greetings, Queen Elana." He then opens up his cloak and points a small crossbow at you!

6

Unfortunately for him, one of your guards up on the gallery is quick with reflexes and plants a crossbow bolt in his head, killing him instantly.

Dahnia...Dahnia .-.
...I'm forgetful but wasn't that one of our allies or vassals?

Why can't WE diplo-assassinate others while they have the full range of options that our spies lack :I

*grumble grumble*

Edit: oops, he was fake. Makes more sense now.

Report from Augas places the war in the east in your favor; two outposts were retaken and while the Damdamians there are still causing havoc, the Governor has them restricted to southern borderlands.

Unfortunately, it's time to face a much closer danger; the Damdamian-Kiwi army has moved through the Forest and are marching toward the capital! The officers at the capital convene with you, asking about the strategy for defense of the capital. You decide to...

A) Pull all forces within the city walls and prepare to repel a siege.
B) Send some cavalry forces to harass the Damdamians in hopes of thinning their numbers.
C) Send out the Gubta, Ceodwell with his leftovers and Dwarvish runemasters in large big troop in hopes to squash the western force.

SOOOOO summary?
> East =OKAY, Augas is totally cool and we can move our people from that front to reinforce ours.
> South = House of Lech lost; gonna take LONG TO REBUILD. Also lost our DWARVEN TAX from it (and we're paying them for the next ten bloody years of REBUILDING), I really would've gone for B knowing that they DID make a cumulative interest rate tax =I and we just annulled it...
> West = Beren I better hope you're pulling a fast one on the Damdamians and then when battle is joined you subtly just stay back a tiny bit and your cavalry 'accidentally' lance the Damdamians I:

Ehh. Capital in danger, bring out our version of 'Parsian sorceress'.
Although I do wonder how Gubta and our forces managed to beat THAT when we couldn't (with similarities to strength of a scouting force, but still)

These next years if when we win are going to be very...delicate. Hopefully we find more non-humans and do some cultural swinging. AND NO WE SHALL NOT CHARGE A MYTHICAL BEAST AND LIKELY DIE. THAT'S WHAT KINGS DO. QUEENS LIVE. (And I seriously want to see this one live, and probably nudge the advisor on age {And then he was a wizard all along})

Also I really feel for our treasurer. Such a caring man for the Kingdom. Not a miser or a jerk. Shows emotions freely. That guy needs something commended in his honor. Alongside our advisor too and who else is our...cabinet? The (unchanged?) Marshall?

[NUKE9.13]

Also I really feel for our treasurer. Such a caring man for the Kingdom. Not a miser or a jerk. Shows emotions freely. That guy needs something commended in his honor. Alongside our advisor too and who else is our...cabinet? The (unchanged?) Marshall?

Advisor, Treasurer, Marshall, Spymaster. I think that's it?

Anyway. Ho ho, worrying about what will happen 'after the war'. After the war the Damdamians wipe our blood off their cloaks and install some guy as the new Governor of Luathbas.

That being said, never surrender. (Having dwarves on our side is going to give the Damdamians a boost, but hopefully the magic will make up for that)

C

[Tiruin]

Anyway. Ho ho, worrying about what will happen 'after the war'. After the war the Damdamians wipe our blood off their cloaks and install some guy as the new Governor of Luathbas.

That being said, never surrender. (Having dwarves on our side is going to give the Damdamians a boost, but hopefully the magic will make up for that)

C

I love how our views follow the same idea but pounce on expressing either side of the whole cheese wheel.
But yeah, here's just me wishing we can manipulate some variables here too--we get word from other Kingdoms but aren't sending out our own; cheers to probably branching out on either the Priesthood (Defender of the Faith title, everyone~ We have little worries this way and can finally probably expand and find out priestly powers~), or our spyforces.

That and we should probably scavenge Republic tech and have some creativity with our own--they dislike non-human tech; we can improvise and make new actually working ones. But worries first, I'm of a feeling that Haspen did mark down approximates of how many armies/numbers from the 20k+ were defeated. (You go, son!)

[Prophet]

C

[Haspen]

You kiss your son on forehead for good luck and send him off to battle alongside dwarves, Gubta, and the leftover of Luathbas military. Not that there are many soldiers left.

891 AD, The day after

Even more bad news come from the south; the beaten Damdamians regrouped and are now camping near the ruins of House of Lech, and scouts have detected another full troop, 4000 Damdamians, marching from Lametania to reinforce their fighting brethren. This means that somewhere between 6 to 9 thousand (any estimates are sketchy at this point of war, really) Damdamians occupy the south.

891 AD, Three days after that

5*

Ceodwell has won! The numerically inferior troops of Luathbas and its allies have beaten back the mixed troop of Kiwis and Damdamians! The dwarvish runemasters, shortly before the battle, turned the Damdamian camps into muddy swamps, softening and liquidifying the soil. Then the Gubta rained slingbullets and javelins upon their heads before main corps of Luathbas infantry moved in to push upon the enemy. The Kiwi got panicked and ran away, leaving their Damdamian allies to die. The two thousand or so Damdamians stationed at Beren's lands might not be happy about this.

While a victory, it chipped away another few hundred of Luathbas men, leaving Ceodwell woefully outnumbered against any coherent force that could show up.

You decide to...

A) Declare this a good moment to ask the Damdamians for peace negotiations.
B) Have Ceodwell swing southwards and attack the fresh Damdamian troops.
C) Recall the leftover leftovers to the capital, and prepare to a inevitable siege by the Southerners.

[Taricus]

EDIT: Changed vote, see my latest post.

[Kashyyk]

The West flank should be reeling for a bit, the East is in hand. We just need to deal with the South somehow.

Haspen: How many men (Lauthbas, Gubta and whatever may be left of Tven) do we have left? I'd like to be able to guess at just how outnumbered we are before I vote.

[Haspen]

Three thousand with Ceodwell and another three at Augas would be my reasonable proposal for an answer

[crazyabe]

A.
We don't have the men to invade them at the moment, Beyond that we have someone Else to Deal with...

[Kashyyk]

Okay. I don't think the dwarvern runecasters can make up for being outnumbered a 2.5 to 1. That's not a pitched battle we can win, but it is definitely a siege we can hold.

I think it would be best to fortify the city and wait for Augas to mop up the Damedanians they have then march to our aid.

C, whilst A? I worry as to what our army and theirs will do whilst our messenger runs around.