Yes...Begun...

 

A ) Everything is done under the Holy Order of the Banhammer, heretics will be ban-hammered out of existance...Since it is religion people accept it.

 

B ) Its a well known historical practice, known as Decimation. Though I am using it to achieve more than 'If you retreat there is a 1 in 10 chance you will die'...and basing it off skill rather than randomly killing people.

 

C ) It is only used in the Archery Cores, any other core currently doesn't have this system, though the luxurious standards of the Archery Cores are not maintained for the Swords/Spears/Axe/other cores.

 

D ) Its is inline with established traditions within the Cretian Government(since I took over)...and most people are happy that they, unlike the squabbling masses on Europa, are not worried by the sight of a man coming over the hill, on the off chance he has plague...

 

E ) If we are gonna get hissy about soliders dying then war will have to be cleaned up...I want the very fewest casualities possible in war, hence why my soliders are trained to a high degree and always have the threat of death hanging over them...so that when they face the baying hounds of wherever, they are not overcome by fear of their impending doom because I gave them saftey bows and arrows and wrapped them in silk to protect them from the stiff breezes of Island life.

If you want to play nursemaid then go ahead, but when your soliders die in their thousands, you will get no sympathy.

Basically...

 

If I can march my 20,000 soliders off to war and know that they will perform like 20,000 soliders, then I am happy.

If I march my 35,000 soliders off to war and think they will will perform like 35,000 soliders and actually they only perform like 15,000 soliders(Extra training and extra rations/weapons not being avalible with a larger army, thus perform at a lower quality), then all the food and metal/wood I wasted on those other 20,000 is not gonna be there when I need reinforcements/whatever.

Archi, I think we will get along just fine.

 

Our nations are actually incredibly similar, when you think about it.

yeah, well i have a much better way of doing things. wont be telling you though. sidistic tyrants get on me nerves.

Don't make me send spies back into Scotland.

its not like itll be secret, at least until the program is in palce. and anyways, you can always tell a spy in scotland. if he dont talk like us, cant hold an ounce of our home brwewed beer, and cant use any of our weapons, he either aint scottish or the medival form of a stay at home dad.

I could hire Scots, or those of Scottish descent in Iceland. Accents wouldn't be that difficult to train early on, and Military School enrollment begins as soon as a child can walk and talk.

but the beer? thats the one thing youve forgotten.

Er...

 

Nope, no comment.

good. i dont know what im talking about either. glad to see we are on the same page. anyways, what other crazy stuff are we going to see comin our way?

Well as soon as I can find the world maps from the previous Hegemonies, then the far east will become open for the empires, instead of just traders. Maybe open up Africa so that you can exploit its resources like in every other Hegemony we've ever played.

okay, okay. is the egg nuke thing going to become a running joke now? and, ok retech.

Except it's a whole lot harder to get to Africa now. And lots of troops will probably die on the way there if we invade.

 

Tricksy Retech is luring us into a trap.

what, like tricksy hobitses lured golem into a trap? nah, i dont care about overtaking africa, jsut trading with it.

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Simply giving you more options. :rolleyes:

:thumbup:

 

 

Simply giving you more options. :rolleyes:

There is a map on the front page (or so) that shows the various kingdoms (and tribes) of africa.

Crete announces its wish to form closer ties with Iceland.

 

Also a consignment of 5 albino, plague free, rats, are sent to Leon as a token of Suzerainty, representing the five parts of the Holy Trinity.

Spain kills two of the rats and keeps the other THREE.

Crete is deeply upset by Leon's insensitive regarding this matter. The Christian Churches and Monestaries are burnt to the ground by unruly mobs. The Cretian Government sends out its armies to deal with the riots, but are unable to keep order, what with the sheer hatred in the bowels of every right thinking Cretian alive.

The Holy Order of the Banhammer stays strangely silent for the duration.

 

Any surviving Christians are given free passage to Leon, after seeking approval to send them.

You sent me 5 rats to symbolize the 3 points of the trinity! Hahahaha

As though there was some sort of ulterior motive....

Cretians have always been master trolls.

which was to include your two countries, dusty. that was a bit of a diplomacy fail, on both sides.

Archi deffo plays this the most interesting out of anyone.

interesting?... cant disagree with you there.