Reno, your levies demobilized on the grounds that you weren't in a war in which they had any interest, and you didn't order them around.
The whole purpose of merging navies was to engage the Perseid fleet. I'm confused as to why the admirals wouldn't bother going to where the Perseid's were when they were clearly not in the Aegean.
Its just a completely nonsensical action, that would never occur.
Their navies were combined precisely so they could defeat the Perseid navy, yet they don't modify their plans to fight that navy when it is nearby to them?
From the plans, it's not clear that your main goal
was to defeat the Perseid fleet. Thlayli's orders certainly didn't make any reference to even engaging it until much later, and then by using Crete as a lure. Kentharu's orders specifically forbade an engagement with the Perseid fleet until after they'd linked up with the Panormans off the Libyan coast, and by then the damage had been done anyway. The entire situation was made even more complex by Kentharu's statements that a) his ships needed to hang tight with the Panormans and that b) the point
was to destroy the Perseid fleet - irreconcilable in the face of Thlayli's instructions.
But the main thing is that uncovering Alexandreia was the key point. It appeared in everybody's orders, to be done at the beginning of the turn, with no alternatives for me to follow in the event that Bill did...well, exactly what he did.
To - Abraha, renegade Malik of the rebel kingdom of Quataban
From - Negusa nagast Gersem, Ruler of Aksum
We have grown tired of these revolts. Either you surrender immediately and unconditionally and you shall be escorted to your home for house arrest, or your and your soldiers' heads will be on display on Adulis' walls, after we behead each and every one of you. You have been warned.
You demand unconditional surrender after having been driven out of Himyar? We did not defeat your armies merely to submit to your wrath anyway. No terms, no deal.
Another thing, if Mysia and Chaonia have submitted to their old overlords, why are they still shown as independent?
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Bill3000 said:
You know I would have thought that you guys would have learned from
last turn that coordinating two independent navies is
extremely hard in this era. It's like touching a stove after you get burned from it once.
Feasibly it should work but you would need to form it as one navy and put one person in overall charge, or other attempts to giving the entire thing more structure.
From a command-structure-specific point of view, yes, that would be the right thing to do, but from a purely political point of view, it was more or less disastrous.
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You have a good handle on the rules, etc.?
Okay, I counted a net gain of +5 Prestige for this turn, but I have only 9 Prestige in the stats, despite having 6 last turn. 'sup?
OOC:
@ Dachs - Um did my army quality improve, since it says 190/190?
Tree151 said:
EDIT: Also, I am pretty sure I had 3 Prestige Points last turn, I lost 1 because of the Quataban revolt, but then I got one for the invasion of Aigyptos. Why did it go down to 2 points?
Yes, I can't count. Fixing...
Great update, and prompt too!
Sorry about my spending orders. So, am I right now? :
1. the charges on the front page are for raising the infantry;
2. upkeep is calculated utterly unpredictably from the number of troops;
3. I can recruit additional troops (up to an unpredictable extent) from levies.
Yes, sort of, and yes. There is a method to the upkeep madness, and you can generally be quite sure that if you are increasing the number of professional troops, their quality, or fighting a war, or something else of that nature, that your upkeep will go up. Upkeep also covers civilian bureaucracy and (for a generally much lower cost) infrastructure maintenance.
spryllino said:
Also, I didn't see in the update that I got a port opened to my merchants in Patalene, and no Patalene warships arrived in the gulf. Has Commander Gorma been playing tricks on me?
As you suspected, 'Nova Corinth' does not actually exist. Substantively, I was unsure as to whether to add reduced trade duties for you, on the grounds that I wasn't sure whether he really was being sneaky or not, but then decided that it didn't matter since trade through such a port would be negligible with the heavy commerce-raiding still going on.
And the reason no Patalan warships arrived in the Gulf, as one might have suspected from the update, is because I am apparently missing casualties for both that segment of the update and for the Indian one. Oy. Rest assured, they did actually get there, though engagements were limited. I'm in class for more or less the next nine hours, so I won't be able to fix it until then, sorry.
