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[Ghazkull]

[1] Sneaking out does fail, the widows are constantly watching you. Even when you try to explain the issue they are not willing to let you go [3] at least they promise to bring a mid-wife.

[?] The Mid-Wife takes a good look at you and determines that you are indeed pregnant. [6] Luckily the widows are outside. She passes you some brew made from nightshade and tells you to make your choice, then she goes outside and tells the widows that you are not pregnant but that she will take you to a doctore to make sure.

Minutes later you are finally away from teh coven of hags.

"I am Corinna. You find me at the marketplace if you need a place to sleep. Now make your getaway before they send somebody to look for you. Once they have you they not gonna give you back.heh. Anyway, the brew i gave you, is gonna abort the pregnancy...it's your choice whether to take it or not. I gotta go, good luck."

With that Corinna vanishes in a side street.

[Azthor]

Have a trade post built in Kol'Thelos and a merchant enclave erected, upon the Duke's authorization; all goods to be sent to Trinicria by land.
Initiate the sale of wine surplus from Trinicria to Kol'Thelos, also by land and upon the Duke's authorization.

Spoiler: Ledger - subject to change (click to show/hide)

Property:
- Trinicria: mansion;
- Kol'Thelos: trade post, merchant enclave;
- 4 caravans;
- Treasury: 0,5d.

Routes:
- 3 general goods (Kol'Thelos -> Trinicria - paved road (Trinicria - Kol'Thelos): 3/5). Gross profit: 6d/season. Net profit (25% tariffs -> Kol'Thelos): 4,5d/season;
- 1 wine luxury resource (Trinicria -> Kol'Thelos - fishing port (Trinicria): 1/1). Gross profit: 4d/season. Net profit (25% tariffs -> Kol'Thelos): 3d/season;
- Total: 7,5d/season.

Income:
- Savings: 2d;
- Trinicrian grant: 3d.

Expenses:
- 1 trade post (Kol'Thelos): 1d;
- 1 merchant enclave (Kol'Thelos): 2d;
- 4 caravans: 2d;
- Total: 5d.

Income (next season):
- Goods: 4,5d
- Luxury/Strategic resources: 3d
- Expected treasury: 7,5d

Edit: for some bizarre reason unknown to me, I had forgotten to factor in caravan/trade ship costs, that has now been amended.

[TCM]

Alexis looks at the vial, down at herself, and then back to the vial. This was all so sudden...She put the vial away for now, deciding that she would think about it later, as she had more immediate problems.

Alexis made it her goal to run to the most desolate part of town, where the widows would never be able to find her, and hide there until dark.

((Wow, with all the threats and dealings of the other players, I'm surprised Alexis has gotten the hardest decision to make so far in the game.))

[Patrick Hunt]

Arriving in the middle of the day a Messenger was escorted into the Dukes meeting chambers and bowed before handing a note to the duke and awaiting a response.

Spoiler: Note (click to show/hide)

Enemy strength confirmed at 17000 active warriors and a minimum of 3000-5000 more who could be drafted all well mounted and with a vast herd for supply.

If you plan to make allies or expand your army now is a good time, I have agents attempting to sabotage the alliance before they can choose a war leader.

Tsujochi.

[Shootandrun]

The Duke frowned upon seeing the messenger, and frowned further upon reading the note. When he looked up, his annoyance was visible.

"Seventeen thousand men? What sort of nonsense is this? Where in the name of Kol did your tribe master manage to find that many enemies in one season? Where do they come from, what do they want?"

Kol'Thelos recruits one regiment of Light Noble infantry (1000, Levy Reserve, Light, Structured, Recruits) - cost 1d, upkeep 0.75d
Word is put out by the Duke that the city may be be interested in hiring mercenary troops.

[Patrick Hunt]

" That is the combined number of the enemy tribes warriors including the old and those about to come of age as best we can tell. They could draft even more if they include the younger children who will still have years of training. As you know they raid regularly and we are no longer in a position to hold them back.

The tribes combined men numbered over 30000 possibly 35000 even but a few months ago. My tribe may have been cut down but they paid in blood to do it.


As for what they want? Maybe us, maybe just to begin raiding new lands now that we are not around to stop them or maybe both. Whatever the case may be they are going to come so I was sent to tell you how many they are.

We are attempting to sabotage the alliance between them before it comes to that and searching for any survivors of our tribes or the minor tribes that have been destroyed and absorbed as well. "

[Shootandrun]

Alecto hand-waved the messenger's words aside - instead of the usual smooth and dismissive movement which seemed to be a tic of his, however, that one was abrupt and rather impolite. In a logical succession, his speech was also faster-paced and much less affable than usual.

"Idiotic. We cannot have a war in sight - even the possibility of a war - and not plan for its coming. To hide behind a sabotage attempt would be to refuse to flee from the forest fire because a pond stands between us and inferno. Go back to your master and get him to show up here, with all his tribe. I'm calling a war council. If he cannot come here within a week, he's no longer welcome in Kol'Thelos."

[Patrick Hunt]

The messenger nods and leaves the room speaking over his shoulder.

" If it fails we've lost nothing if it works then we weaken our enemy. I was sent to you the moment we had information to share. "

[Ghazkull]

Year One: Winter

((from now on please post your spoilered summaries below your actions so that i dont have to search for them all over the place.

Heltania

Even thougAh Heltania had a change of Leadership, things continue as normal, as it had always been.

[6] Even though Samus went mad the Agricultural Reforms he initiated were extremely successfull and soon the lands around The Capital of Talrius were prospering, and soon enough a Bunch of Granaries to store the Seasonal Produce from Heltanias farms turned into a prosperous town.

[2] [4 vs. 6] However increasing the Security of the Sultanates Trade Routes wasn't as successfull as hoped. WHile Bandits were indeed engaged they proved to be hardier than the Heltanian Patrols and 40 men were lost in skirmishes and ambushes all along the Trade Route with the Bandits.

[6] Your Call for Merchants has been heeded. Soon enough a Shadar Envoy reaches Talrius and offers to renew the Trade Agreement of Old. Shadar Merchants will deal with the Shipping of Goods if you wish or if you can procure a Merchant of your own then one of them can handle it.

Days after teh Shadar Envoy rreaches Talrius, you are awakened by a Guard at the brink of Dawn. a Massive Column marches towards the City. As it closes with the city you notice that it flies the banner of the Dwarven Confederacy or rather the West Peak Trade Company. Preceded by a Marching Band and at least 3 Companies of Dwarven Soldiers marching in Orderly Ranks a Fat Dwarf is carried by several Greenfoot Tribesmen on a Palanquin. The Amount of Wealth Displayed here almost makes you blush.

It turns out the Dwarf on the litter is no other than Trade-General Urist Grinhafen (you have no diea what that rank means but he appears to be some big wig in the Confederacy). He offers a Trade Agreement with the Dwarven Confederacy aswell as another Agreement. The Dwarven Confederacy offers 2 Ducats per season for Fleet Stationing Rights.


First Company,Talrius City Guard lost 40 Men
Gained 2 Parcels of Farmland
Gained 1 Size 3 Town
spent 4 Ducats


Gregory

[6] You and your men easily pass unseen into the lands of Kerns. Due to the High Bandit Activity all along the Blackwater Coast most patrols confine themselves to civilized areas.

[1,1] You learn that the Duchy of Kerns is incredibly poor. the Swamps and Moors don't give much as Farmlands and constant raids from Horsemen has exhausted the people. It's military is barely Four Thousand Men Strong, mostly armed peasants and hunters defending the villages from the worst transgressions of the Horse Tribes. The exemption to this is the Vojvods personal guard. Well Armed Heavy Cavalry paid for with the misery of the normal people. Kerns seems also to be pressured by the dwarves and has to pay tribute. In Return Dwarvish Free Companies regularly hunt down Marauding Horse Raiders from the Tribes. All in all Kerns is poor, mostly weak and wrecked by constant raids, pestilence, starvation and high taxes. [6] However the People of Kerns are used to this and in recent years there was a growing sentiment that the Vojvod should be replaced...maybe by the Emperor of Heltania...


Tsujochi

[1] Your Scouts are captured, tortured and the Alliance soon knows everything it needs to know. Including where to find you and that Heltania has put a price on your head.

[?] Your efforts to locate Survivors fail. Ultimately it occurs to you that nobody else survived the Campaign against the Windborn.

You form the Oldest Children (between 8 and 14) into a New Company even against the complaints of the tribe elders and your warriors. You need more Men after all. While this allows you to bring in another hundred Riders it severly diminishes the growth of your people.

[4 vs, 4] Soon enough your border patrols stumble upon the Vanguard of the Horse Tribes. [2] Quickly getting surrounded the Company has nothing left but to fight. [3 vs. 2] through sheer luck your riders manage to escape with minimal losses, although you lose some of your prized horses...



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Herd Growth: [5] 20%
Cattle Growth: [6] 30%

The rich fertile grasslands of Kol'thelos are good for your Herds and your Herds grow exponentially.


The Horse Tribes have arrived in Kol'thelos
1 Company of Youths raised.
100 Windborn Horses born
300 Cattle born
20 Horses lost.
10 Tribesmen lost.


Varanasi Twins

[5+2(Extra Ducat)+2 Windborn Horses] Through extensive use of money and the help of the Windborn Horsewives you manage to aquire quite the breeding stock of Horses and hire several dozen farmers for the singular purpose of Horse Breeding. Right now you can only produce Sumpter Horses but during the next two years you should easily manage to turn your current mix-breed into tough, light skirmishing horses.

While one of you two set up the Horse Breeding Business, the other twin concerned himself with matters of a more private nature. The Building of your own estate. And on top of that you managed to funnel out some of the best horses for yourselves.

1 Undeveloped Land turned into Horse Breeder(Sumpter +5)
Lost 3 Ducats
You established a Small Country Estate.

Kol'thelos

Similiarly to Heltania the Duke of Kol'thelos releases several Agrarian Reforms, mostly by granting free land to the poor and attracting more farmers through tax advantages, soon several farming communities form around Kol'thelos.

Financing a Trade Post in Trinicria and another one in Heltania soon causes Trade to flourish and your coffers fill with tariffs.

[4] Everything seems to be going fine until vague rumours reach you that Horsemen are crossing the borders en masse...

2 Farmlands established
Tradepost in Heltania financed
Tradepost in Trinicria financed
two Trade Caravans financed

Agnad Nallbrine

Freshly and well financed by the Duke you establish Trade Posts in Heltania and Trinicria. All seems well until your Trade Caravans get ambushed by Bandits. The Trade Caravan from Trinicria doesn't return at all,  the one from Heltania manages barely to escape.

Trade Caravan lost.

Trinicria

Trinicria as all other City States reforms its Agriculture and newly established Farming Communities soon dot the landscape. Reports reach you of increased banditry and a Trade Caravan leaving form your Capital towards Kol'thelos vanishes and is never heard of again.

3 Ducats spent
3 Parcels of Farmland established.
3 Ducats given to Master Giacomo

Giacomo

With the Grant from Trinicria Master Giacomo invests in an entire Merchant Enclave in Kol'Thelos. The influx of Traders and Commerce into the City State causes an increase in immigrants and populace in Kol'Thelos proper. However the massive flow of Goods between Kol'thelos and Trinicria causes the Road Network to collapse under the flow of goods. Until this is fixed no trade will flow at all...


Built Trade Post in Kol'Thelos
Built Merchant Enclave in Kol'Thelos
Bought Three Caravans

Spoiler:  Heltania (click to show/hide)

The Country

Talrius - Size 3 City  (3 Tax, 3 Manpower)
>Trade Post (Agnad Nallbrine)

Unnamed Town - Size 3 Town (3 Tax, 3 Manpower)
2 Parcels Farmland - Grain (2x 0.5 Tax, 0.5 Manpower)
7 Parcels of undeveloped land (7x 0.1 Tax, 0.1 Manpower)

Infrastructure

Fisherman's Dock (0/1 Tradeships)

Paved Road (1/5 Caravans) to Kol'thelos
1 Caravan To and From Kol'Thelos (Agnad Nallbrine)

Paved Road (0/5 Caravans) to Shadar Sultanate


Military

Army Tradition: None

Military Professionality: Strict Levy (+300% Manpower, -50% Morale, Losses may cripple Economy)

Available Manpower: 3.950 (2950 Talrius, 1000 Rural)
Maximum Manpower: 9.625
Replenishment per Year: 2310 (900 Talrius, 900 Unnamed Town, 510 Rural)
Losses this Year: 50 (50 Bandit Engagements)


10 x Talrius City Guard Companies (1.000, Levy, Simple, Militia, Recruits)

Economy

Treasury: 2,75 Ducats
Taxes: 7,7 Ducats
Tariffs: 0,5 Ducats
Troop Maintenance: 0.25 Ducats
Road Maintenance: 2 Ducats
Mercs: 0.25 Ducats

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Treasury: 8,45 Ducats

Spoiler:  Kol'Thelos (click to show/hide)

The Country

Kol'Thelos - Size 5 City  (Provides 5 Tax, 5 Manpower)
> Trade Post (Giacomo)
> Merchant Enclave (Giacomo)
> Mansion (Agnad Nallbrine)

2 Parcels of Farmland (Provides 0,5 Tax, 0,5 Manpower)
9 Parcels of undeveloped land (9x 0.1 Tax, 0.1 Manpower)
1 Parcels of undeveloped land (1x 0.1 Tax, 0.1 Manpower)(grazed)

Varanasi Twins
Varanasi Estate
2 Parcels of Undeveloped Land (2x 0.1 Tax, 0.1 Manpower)
1 Horse Breeder (Sumpter +5)

Infrastructure

Fisherman's Dock (0/1 Tradeships)

Paved Road (1/5 Caravans) to Heltania
1 Caravan to and from Heltania(Agnad Nallbrine)

Paved Road (4/5 Caravans) to Trinicria
3 Caravans to and from Trinicria (Giacomo)
1 Caravan to and from Trinicria(Agnad Nallbrine)


Military

Army Tradition: Great Cavalry (Horses cost no extra upkeep, Professional Infantry costs double the normal upkeep)

Military Professionality: Strict Levy (+300% Manpower, -50% Morale, Losses may cripple Economy)

Available Manpower: 3.500 (3.000 Thelos, 1.500 Rural)
Maximum Manpower: 9.000
Replenishment per Year: 2.160 (1.500 Thelos, 660 Rural)

Mount Reserves: 0 Sumpter Horses
Mount Replenishment: 500 Sumpter Horses (500 Varanasi Twins)

1st Thelossian Light Noble Cavalry (1.000, Levy Reserve, Light, Structured, Recruits, Sumpter)
1st Thelossian Light Noble Infantry (1.000, Levy Reserve, Light, Structured, Recruits)

Economy

Taxes: 6,2 Ducats
Tariffs: 0,5 Ducats
Grazing: 0.1 Ducats
Troop Recruitment: 1 Ducat
Troop Maintenance: 0,75 Ducat
Road Maintenance: 2 Ducats

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Treasury: 2,85 Ducats

Spoiler:  Trinicria (click to show/hide)

The Country

Trinicria - Size 4 City  (Provides 4 Tax, 4 Manpower)
> Trade Post (Agnad Nallbrine)
> Mansion (Giacomo)

3 Parcels of Farmland  (3x 0.5 Tax, 0.5 Manpower)
7 Parcels of undeveloped land (7x 0.1 Tax, 0.1 Manpower)
Unnamed Fort - Size 1 Fort


Infrastructure

Fisherman's Dock (0/1 Tradeships)

Trails (4/1 Caravans) to Kol'thelos
1 Caravan to and from Kol'thelos (Agnad Nallbrine)
3 Caravans to and from Kol'thelos (Giacomo)



Military

Army Tradition: Mercenaries (Mercenaries cost no upkeep, Regular Troops are twice as expensive in upkeep)

Military Professionality: Strict Levy (+300% Manpower, -50% Morale, Losses may cripple Economy)

Available Manpower: 4.000 (3000 Talrius, 1000 Rural)
Maximum Manpower: 7.750
Replenishment per Year: 1860 (1200 Talrius, 660 Rural)

Raglans Bunch (1.000, Professional, Simple, Professional, Experienced) Contract going for 4 more seasons

Unnamed Fort Garrison (500, Garrison, Light, Structured, Recruit)


Economy


Treasury: 2 Ducats
Taxes: 6.2 Ducats
Tariffs: 0 Ducats
Troop Maintenance: 0 Ducats
Road Maintenance: 0 Ducat

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Treasury: 8.2 Ducats

Spoiler:  Nallbrine Company (click to show/hide)

Kol'thelos Holdings
Mansion (+1 Company Cap, +1 Ship Cap, +1Pop)

Trinicria Holdings
Trade Post (+1 Goods, +1 Company Cap)

Heltania Holdings
Trade Post (+1 Goods, +1 Company Cap)

Trade Routes

Kol'Thelos <-> Trinicria - 1 Caravan - 2 Ducats
Overburdened
High Bandit Activity

Kol'thelos <-> Heltania - 1 Caravan -2 Ducats
High Bandit Activity

Personnel Assets

Cog [4 Cannons]
20 Men Crew (Professional, Simple, Structured, Recruits)

2 Caravans

Treasury
Trade: 2 Ducats
Tariffs: 1 Ducat
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Treasury: 1 Ducat

Spoiler:  Giacomo Trade (click to show/hide)

Trinicria Holdings
Mansion (+1 Company Cap, +1 Ship Cap, +1Pop)

Kol'thelos Holdings
Trade Post (+1 Goods, +1 Company Cap)
Merchant Enclave (+2 Goods, +1Pop)


Trade Routes

Kol'Thelos <-> Trinicria - 3 Caravans - 6 Ducats
Overburdened
High Bandit Activity

Personnel Assets
3 Caravans


Treasury
Grants: 3 Ducats
Treasury: 2 Ducats
Construction: 3 Ducats
Hiring: 1,5 Ducats
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Treasury: 0,5 Ducats

Spoiler:  Varanasi Family (click to show/hide)

Holdings

Small Country Estate (+5 Company Cap, +1 Ducat Income)
Stable (+500 Coursers)

2 Parcels undeveloped Land (0,1 Tax , 0,1 Manpower)

1 Horse Breeder (Sumpter +5)


Treasury

Treasury: 3 Ducats
Estate: 1 Ducat
Development: 3 Ducats
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Treasury: 1 Ducat

Spoiler:  Gregory Montal (click to show/hide)

Contracts
Heltania: 0.25 Ducats/Season
Scouting/Patrolling

Undivided: 0.25 Ducats
Company Treasury: 1 Ducat
Personal Treasury: 1 Ducat
Gregory's Band [100, Mercenary, Simple, Professional, Blooded] 

Spoiler:  Tsujochi (click to show/hide)

4 Companies Windborn Tribesmen (100, Professional, Light, Professional, Bloodied, Windborn-Horses)
1 Company Windborn Tribesmen (90, Professional, Light, Professional, Bloodied, Windborn-Horses)
1 Company Windborn Youths (100, Professional, Light, Structured, Green, Windborn-Horses)

Windborn Tribe

480 Windborn Horses
900 Women and children.
1300 Cattle (worth 4 Ducats)

Morale: meager
Provisions: good (currently grazing)

Currently occupying:
1 Parcel of Undeveloped Land (Grazed) (1 Season till Overgrazed)

Granted by Kol'Thelos:
1 Parcel of Undeveloped Land (Grazed) (1 Season till Overgrazed)
2 Parcels of Undeveloped Land

[Patrick Hunt]

(( Ughhh I might just cut my losses now. Everything is goimg horribly wrong anyway so it'd save everyone some work.

Yeah just scrap me this game isn't working the way I expected. I didn't realize my small froce would be so completely horrible. I expected an actual bonus for my people being more skilled and better mounted then the other tribes.

Sorry for wasting your time what I designed is not built for this kind of game system.))

[Ardas]

Upgrade/fix the roads.
Construct 2 towns on empty land.
Dispatch Raglan's Bunch to remove banditry from the roads.
Dispatch scouts to the western wilderness just beyond my borders and prospect for border expansion into empty land.

[Taricus]

Heltania had only received it's first influx of dwarves when another, if much less obstencious, had arrived. The smaller troupe, only numbering a single company with strange devices being pulled by their pack animals (Along with the usual wagons).

Waiting outside the walls, with said devices fairly concealed under tarp and canvas, an emissary is sent to arrange a meeting with the city's leadership.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

To the emperor of Heltania:
It has come to my own attention that you have a very serious deficit in well-trained troops, and a military that sorely lacks both a backbone and proper equipment. While we cannot sort the latter out, we can most certainly give them the former, alongside that we offer a rather unique addition for your forces, and a very potent one at that.

If you wish to discuss this offer, I can most certainly come to you myself to personally hammer out an agreement once the Trade-General has left, so as not to offend him. If not, just send a massage back declining our services and we shall go seek out a better deposit, so to speak.

-From Ulric Karzaller
Artillery Officer and head of Karzarller's Thunderbarrels.

[TCM]

...

[Ghazkull]

Alexis

[?]You hide until dark without being found and then leave your hideout...what now?

[TCM]

Sadly take the brew. Then go find Corrina's hideout.