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[Mlamlah]

true, even if we don't achieve mounted archery, having mobile archers can be a really great advantage. However, weren't we going for something more akin to rangers and woodsmen? I propose we stick to that for now. Besides, knights of any worth tended to have more than one horse(usually taking a train of horses on campaign), so a small breeding project for maintaining horses for our personal stable wouldn't be out of place, though it'll have to wait until we get some serious cashflow when the mine really gets going since proper warhorses are FANTASTICALLY expensive(which is why I suggested finding the best horse available in our lands right now, and just learn better riding skills)

I agree with this. We could actually get on training them on mobility and stealth right away during the winter.

[Gotdamnmiracle]

true, even if we don't achieve mounted archery, having mobile archers can be a really great advantage. However, weren't we going for something more akin to rangers and woodsmen? I propose we stick to that for now. Besides, knights of any worth tended to have more than one horse(usually taking a train of horses on campaign), so a small breeding project for maintaining horses for our personal stable wouldn't be out of place, though it'll have to wait until we get some serious cashflow when the mine really gets going since proper warhorses are FANTASTICALLY expensive(which is why I suggested finding the best horse available in our lands right now, and just learn better riding skills)

I agree with this. We could actually get on training them on mobility and stealth right away during the winter.

Arctic training GO! Go! Go! Plus the fur armor should actually help them perform in such conditions. Y'know, if we became good at winter tactics we could thrive in it, launching seiges when food supplies are low and people DO NOT want to fight.

I am really fond of this idea. Can we, while improving roads and other civic projects this time around also improve the barracks, armory, and O course. It's all splinters and stuff plus... ^{I live in a shitty barracks and it would kinda blow to live in  any worse of one...}

[tryrar]

Oh yeah, last we we proposed renovating the barracks we ran out of time, so yeah, see what we can do to improve the barracks as much as we can bacause winter

[Mlamlah]

Yeah, we're going to need some more military presence in the near future.

[kahn1234]

Well, now that we got a small shipyard we can build fishing skiffs all day, so that's another project we can do(that shouldn't be very expensive or troublesome!). So, in addendum, see if we can get some small craft for the fishermen going. Also, find the most serviceable horse/mule and learn to ride better, since horsemanship is ALSO something expected of a knight

Overfishing is a thing, so I propose we just limit it to upgrading/maintaining the current fleet.

Archer cavalry isn't something we can achieve, no European nations had that

Well technically they had, but those were just mounted archers. In order to fire they had to dismount. In order to fire while mounted you need to have a compact yet strong bow, ie a composite bow, a technology that wasn't known in Europe till the Mongols attacked using it.

The Technology was known, however it wasnt practical.

Composite bows were held together using resins and other things like it. Things that did t do well in wet weather. now, Composite bows were fantastic in the dry steppes of central asia and the deserts of the Middle east, but in the wet west, central, eastern and northern European countries? hugely impractical.

[Maldevious]

Year 3, December

December is mild for the month, but still sees snowfall. You concentrate your building efforts on upgrading the communal housing that you own, as well as the barracks. Work is slow, given the weather, but you make some nice repairs and improvements, and they seem to be appreciated by the new residents of the town who don't own their own place to live yet.

You check on the winemaking, and Marge Kannity informs you that it will be several months yet fermenting, and then it will be bottled and aged. So that is still a bit off in the future.

You try to pave the area from the market to the docks, but the ground is frozen solid. This project will have to wait until spring.

You spend some time looking for horses on your land, but fail to find any of note, given the relative level of wealth in your land. You'll have to travel to Curbiston, most likely, to purchase a good breeding stock of horses. As you have progressed as far as you can with your mare, you don't really focus too much on riding.

You ask your Steward about Courting, and he explains that it is a relatively simple undertaking. You must ask permission to begin speaking romantically with a young lady, and, once received, will be expected to call upon her and write to her. If she is receptive to the match, you will be expected to wed relatively quickly if all parties agree.

Lastly, you decide to start up a special training regimen for some of your veteran archers. You lack horses for now, but you wish to train them in riding, as well as swordsmanship, winter survival, stealth, woodsmanship, and archery. You put the question to your men, and five of your veteran archers take up the challenge. You refer to them as Rangers, and they begin their training. As they learn their new skills, they will be shakier on the battlefield, but you expect that they will eventually be deadly warriors.

As you spend time at the barracks, you begin to take up the spear, in anticipation of eventually working with a lance. You progress well with the weapon, and have a modicum of skill by the end of the month.

January beckons. What would you like to do?

Spoiler: "Sir Samuel Stone" (click to show/hide)

Age: 21 (February birthday)
Good Health
Great Fitness
Literate
Average Etiquette
Poor Rhetoric
Average Swordswman
Novice Spearman
Mediocre Shield User
Natural Archer
Mediocre Woodsman
Average Rider
Novice Legal Mind

Spoiler: "Equipment and Possessions" (click to show/hide)

Militia-grade Short Sword
Average Clothing
Mail Shirt
Fur cloak and leggings
Oak Shield
Old Brown Mare
Average Farmhouse
Bound New Testament
Book of Laws
Cask of Beer

Spoiler: "Feroshire (Capital Town)" (click to show/hide)

Treasury - Empty
103 Citizens
Wooden Palisade
Nice Communal Housing
Nice Inn
Small Courthouse
Brick Roads
Growing Small Brick Paved Market
Nice Clayworks
Small Smelter
Modest dockyard
Watermill (Lumber Mill)
Basic Shipyard
Brewery
Two nightly patrols
Two-way Ferry

Spoiler: "Your Land" (click to show/hide)

Medium population (Loyal)
River Parlon (fertile banks on both sides, light forest to the north)
Modest parcel farms south of the river (two plantings per season)
Adequate Communal Farm
Small Vineyard
Crude Roads
Small Warehouse
Average Barracks, Armory, and Obstacle Course
Mines north of river (silver, copper, gold, iron)
   * Small community of miners in communal houses

Spoiler: "Your Forces" (click to show/hide)

Five veteran Archers
Ten veteran Spearmen
Five regular Axmen
Five regular Archers
Five green Rangers

Spoiler: "Your people" (click to show/hide)

Skilled Potters
Average Trappers
Novice Masons
Journeymen Miners
Novice Mechanics
Novice Metalworkers

Spoiler: "Nearby" (click to show/hide)

Market Town of Carshire - One day's ride on main road
Folesden - Land of Count Foles - Downstream
   * Curbiston - County Seat of Folesden
Land of Sir Denton - Upstream
Land of Sir Percival - Adjacent to Sir Denton's land, across the river
Hemswood Abbey - Far Upstream - Known for dark beer
Lands of Duke Erran - Across the river to the north - Used for hunting

Spoiler: "Known Lords by Rank and Relationship" (click to show/hide)

King Edward Geronos IV, Lord of the Falls, Keeper of the Flame, Seer of the Dawn - Vaguely remembered

Duke Erran - Unknown

Count Aaron Foles - Your Liege Lord - An angry drunkard - Suspicious

Sir Blake Denton - Friendly
Sir Alan Percival - Friendly
Sir Uriel Lope - Count's Marshall - Unsure
Sir Melvin - Lady Marna's brother, Duke Erran's nephew - Polite

Lady Marna - Intrigued

Spoiler: "Important Citizens by Occupation and Relationship" (click to show/hide)

Alan Alanson - Squire - Companionable
Fin - Captain - Happy
William Dent - Steward - Companionable
Ian Wood - Overseer of Construction- Devoted
Marge Kannity - Brewer - Happy
Victor Irlof - Master of the Market - Devoted
Curtis Stumpf - Miner - Happy
Morgan - Shipwright - Happy

[tryrar]

Well, we have nothing else to do then but send off that letter to the duke saying we're going to call on in in regards to Mirna

[Gotdamnmiracle]

Attend the same rigorous, bone rattling training you put your men through.

[10ebbor10]

Have some ice cut out and stored sometime. Good for conservation in summer.

[Talvara]

I don't think there will be any objections to initiate formal courting?

but maybe we should first send a letter to Marna inquire if she would appreciated it if we were to... court her?
would that be a romantic thing to do... or the opposite of romantic? would it be too romantic and considered bad form? its sort of like sending her a letter with "I like like you".

Attend the same rigorous, bone rattling training you put your men through.

sounds decent.

Have some ice cut out and stored sometime. Good for conservation in summer.

I erhm... dont think you can 'store ice', even during the time of that french king who'se name I forgot... they had to send guys up a mountain to get snow/ice so that they could have icecream.

[Gotdamnmiracle]

Have some ice cut out and stored sometime. Good for conservation in summer.

More work than worth. You can dig out pits and line it with wood and store bags of food in it. Caches. They work great back home. The ground is always the same temp and it isn't a very warm one at that. I would suggest making a bunch. Cellars don't really work in this regard because they have large open spaces to the above ground. Ideally you would dig a lot of 8 foot by 8 foot pits lined with plywood (or the equivalent) and then place a sixth piece on the top and completely bury it, marking it from the top. Can keep meats and things fresh for months as long as they are packaged. Grains can last just as long and don't require the heavy packaging. Just dry cotton bags.

[tryrar]

The pits will have to wait until spring to dig, though, the ground is pretty frozen.

So letter and visit to the duke to ask permission to court Marna, letter to Marna making our intentions to her clear, working out more with the troops, oh and since we've gotten the process started for our own heraldry, we'll need to come up with a design for when the royal administrators reply to our letter. I submit my previous design

[Mlamlah]

I don't think there will be any objections to initiate formal courting?

but maybe we should first send a letter to Marna inquire if she would appreciated it if we were to... court her?
would that be a romantic thing to do... or the opposite of romantic? would it be too romantic and considered bad form? its sort of like sending her a letter with "I like like you".

Attend the same rigorous, bone rattling training you put your men through.

sounds decent.

Have some ice cut out and stored sometime. Good for conservation in summer.

I erhm... dont think you can 'store ice', even during the time of that french king who'se name I forgot... they had to send guys up a mountain to get snow/ice so that they could have icecream.

Well, the whole idea of asking permission is so that you don't step on anyones toes, but courting is the process of establishing the relationship, not
neccecarilly a guarantee of marriage. We make our intentions clear during courtship, not before.

Attend the same rigorous, bone rattling training you put your men through.

This sounds good.

[Gotdamnmiracle]

The pits will have to wait until spring to dig, though, the ground is pretty frozen.

So letter and visit to the duke to ask permission to court Marna, letter to Marna making our intentions to her clear, working out more with the troops, oh and since we've gotten the process started for our own heraldry, we'll need to come up with a design for when the royal administrators reply to our letter. I submit my previous design

A white sun on a red back ground. The red representing our our soon to he made wine industry and the dawning sun. The white sun representing the purity of our lands as well as the rising dawning of our people, how we have grown from nonexistance to moderate popularity in little time. Plus it looks neat.

[Gotdamnmiracle]

Attend the same rigorous, bone rattling training you put your men through.

This sounds good.

This way we build camaraderie as well as encourage others to join the rangers. Hells to the yeah. Olde timey Spec Ops.