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Post by castiel on Oct 25, 2014 13:20:56 GMT
Sound strategy...what do you think about diplomacy with the other factions?
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Post by dratsabasti on Oct 25, 2014 23:43:00 GMT
always a good idea
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Post by Dazim on Oct 27, 2014 9:20:55 GMT
I have returned and apparently have a lot of work to do to make up for my time away so watch for my postings in the other threads. Here are the general ideas i think we should consider for our first week:
1. Take over surrounding tribes, through a mix of military might and offering a share in the goods and status within the khanate we can increase the number of not only our slaves but also our warriors, livestock and farming area.
2.Get in diplomatic contact with china they are the closest to us and therefore most likely for us to know about them. If we send a gift caravan down with examples of our trade goods we can show them its worth it to trade with us and any deals we can make should give us more room to work.
3. scout the unknown edges of our borders IE minerva. i do not think we should attack as the first force to do so will incur a greater opposition and we don't have the men to spare.
Those are my proposals. what else should we do?
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Post by Admin on Oct 27, 2014 13:18:14 GMT
Good proposals. You're also a little far from the NRF, but you will at some point be definitely wanting to scout and talk to them. They have big plans, let me tell you  RE Number 1: You are the great Khanate because you already have most of the surrounding tribes. You do need to sound the call to gather a warcouncil, maybe discipline a tribe that doesn't respond promptly. |
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Post by castiel on Oct 27, 2014 13:30:19 GMT
I agree with what you've got so far Dazim.
Trading with both neighbours (China and NRF) will give us supplies, but if we also include some brains in those caravans,we can scout what they're up to.
Return the info and any trade deals by bird? (Can we have homing Hawks like in Mulan, plzplzplz? Cos pigeons will get eaten up)this will hopefully get us the info in time to move quickly if we need to.
Calling in tribal war leaders for council will probably take a little while too, so if we're to take advantage of Minerva's withdrawal from the hinterlands, we need to get that done ASAP. We need the commitment from our tribes in place before we can start military actions, but this looks like a good time to push for more territory, as they've fallen back so we can fill the void.
I agree that we don't want to be the first to put our heads over the parapet (and get them shot off), but I think we still want to be able to move early enough that we aren't competing with our neighbours for space. It's going to be a tricky balancing act, I guess.
(Sorry, I've been ill for nearly a week, and the cough mix has made me a little whimsical! Hehe)
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Dazim
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Post by Dazim on Oct 27, 2014 13:39:07 GMT
Dan i fully intend to propose we take over all tribes/groups anywhere near our borders and everyone along the way to minerva. we might have taken over all the tribes around us but we havent taken all of the tribes around the ones we took control of.
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Post by Admin on Oct 27, 2014 13:40:45 GMT
Gotcha. Then taking over some other tribes is a good way to increase the numbers of troops you can field too  You can choose to try diplomacy or war. Either way you can submit your proposed action and I'll roll some dice and tell you how successful you are  |
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Post by castiel on Oct 27, 2014 13:42:02 GMT
I think we should be able to do this without interfering with NRF and China, because they're both fairly centralised/urbanised, and this isn't about attacking towns, but gaining more rural tribes. Sound fair?
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Post by Admin on Oct 27, 2014 13:44:14 GMT
Yup. Just you versus NPC other tribes.
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Post by dratsabasti on Oct 27, 2014 20:52:02 GMT
I'm fine with what you think of as a time table for operations. I'm just offering strategic and tactical import (for approval).
I have looked up army organisational tables and thick our forces general make up should be as follows:
raiders: 2 person teams with 2 impact lances, 3 Frisbee bombs each and rifles/bows
squad: 5 raiders and a land-yacht with 10 resupply Frisbee and lances armed with pistole, 4 lances and 5 Frisbee's
platoon: 4 squads and a balloon with a marksman rifles for sniping, 20 Frisbee's (only used when lack of opposition air cover)
company: 10 platoons + scout platoon (20 2 person teams)
battalion: 2+ company's
company's are commanded by the war-chiefs.
if this is ok
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Dazim
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Post by Dazim on Oct 28, 2014 10:15:45 GMT
A few things. Lances are heavy and thus you wouldent be able to carry more than one at a time on horse back. Frisbee bombs would be too heavy and slow moving to use from horseback also and would only really benifit from being used by a balloon due to the height advantage. And due to wind sway even on a calm day you wouldent be able to hit anything from a gun in a balloon.
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Post by castiel on Oct 28, 2014 13:02:57 GMT
I think cavalry would be using bows (composite, recurve - fairly small, light, yet still powerful!)
Sorry if I don't contribute much this week. I have a chest infection, so I'm really tired. =(
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Post by dratsabasti on Oct 28, 2014 20:02:55 GMT
ok 1 lance per person if expected to encounter armed resistance and no Frisbees
a machine gun would be useful from a balloon.
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Post by Admin on Oct 28, 2014 20:16:20 GMT
Well they could maybe have holsters to hold extra lances?
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Dazim
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Post by Dazim on Oct 28, 2014 21:28:21 GMT
Its not so much a weight thing as it is how long a lance actually is normally longer than the horse itself any holster that could hold that lance without it scraping the ground would not be able to be reached by the rider. The problem is easily solved by having a resupply wagon at the back with spare lancee, ammo and rocket tubes the riders can just go back and grab. as for shooting from a balloon you still have wind sway that would make even a machine gun useless not to mention the weight of a machine gun prohibits that on the lighter ones. Then you have the problem of the balloons operating height being so high up its out of range of most weapons. On the plus side shooting a scout balloon down with any hand held rifles and even sniper rifles would be neigh impossible.
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