Post by castiel on Nov 7, 2014 23:10:07 GMT
Actions for week 2:
1. Send covert scouts disguised as small trade caravan into nearest Minerva settlements for trading (and info gathering). They are told to be very discreet and not to mention the Khanate by name (be vague about their origins).
2. Gaining tribes. The bulk of the army is to approach the main settlement of each of the unaligned tribes and stand back as we attempt to add them to our cause. For each tribe, this will be a join or be taken proposition.
We will try diplomacy first (but with the not-so-subtle hint of the army backing up the delegates!), by highlighting the MANY benefits of joining the allied tribes of the Great Khanate, and their share of the land/riches/slaves etc after our inevitable victory against all who would stand in our way! (There is no need to mention WHO we wish to defeat at this point...let's not start ugly rumours abroad, huh?) oh, and maybe mention what happened to the last tribe that refused! Mwahahaha!
If the tribe wants to join us (or just wants to survive and joins us to do that), then we will ask for their tribute of fighters to join us immediately and they will be assigned across a number of squads to be trained up (ie not stationed together)....and we move the army along to the next target.
If the tribe declines our generous offer, we flatten them and their tents, take their herds as our own and enslave the survivors as serfs to be stationed separately around the Khanate!....and we move the army along to the next target!
Tactics for flattening of settlements, IF needed (because who would be so foolish as to turn down such a wonderful opportunity as to join in the Great Khanate?):
Sailbuggies and mounted fighters to sweep in fast, firing bows and rifles as needed. Target the leadership of the tribe and the leader's home, with an aim to break morale without killing off too many potential workers. Pull down any remaining structures (they won't need them when we've shipped them all off, and our loyal workers can build better ones when they take over the land.)
3. Leave a small scout unit behind at on the lands of each tribe taken, with means to send Intel (carrier birds), so that they can scout out our expanding borders for foreign trouble (and mop up trouble with any tribesmen that might have been absent and object to their tribe joining the Khanate).
this will take a while to approach each tribe separately, but we feel it is more likely to succeed than splitting the army into smaller groups. Many men and horses do look rather intimidating, after all!
1. Send covert scouts disguised as small trade caravan into nearest Minerva settlements for trading (and info gathering). They are told to be very discreet and not to mention the Khanate by name (be vague about their origins).
2. Gaining tribes. The bulk of the army is to approach the main settlement of each of the unaligned tribes and stand back as we attempt to add them to our cause. For each tribe, this will be a join or be taken proposition.
We will try diplomacy first (but with the not-so-subtle hint of the army backing up the delegates!), by highlighting the MANY benefits of joining the allied tribes of the Great Khanate, and their share of the land/riches/slaves etc after our inevitable victory against all who would stand in our way! (There is no need to mention WHO we wish to defeat at this point...let's not start ugly rumours abroad, huh?) oh, and maybe mention what happened to the last tribe that refused! Mwahahaha!
If the tribe wants to join us (or just wants to survive and joins us to do that), then we will ask for their tribute of fighters to join us immediately and they will be assigned across a number of squads to be trained up (ie not stationed together)....and we move the army along to the next target.
If the tribe declines our generous offer, we flatten them and their tents, take their herds as our own and enslave the survivors as serfs to be stationed separately around the Khanate!....and we move the army along to the next target!
Tactics for flattening of settlements, IF needed (because who would be so foolish as to turn down such a wonderful opportunity as to join in the Great Khanate?):
Sailbuggies and mounted fighters to sweep in fast, firing bows and rifles as needed. Target the leadership of the tribe and the leader's home, with an aim to break morale without killing off too many potential workers. Pull down any remaining structures (they won't need them when we've shipped them all off, and our loyal workers can build better ones when they take over the land.)
3. Leave a small scout unit behind at on the lands of each tribe taken, with means to send Intel (carrier birds), so that they can scout out our expanding borders for foreign trouble (and mop up trouble with any tribesmen that might have been absent and object to their tribe joining the Khanate).
this will take a while to approach each tribe separately, but we feel it is more likely to succeed than splitting the army into smaller groups. Many men and horses do look rather intimidating, after all!
