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[Worldmaster27]

I'm with PewdsRocks. We should offer to recruit some bandits. If they take it and betray us, we will be able to handle it and learn not to recruit bandits. If they stay with us and are loyal; that's ten more guys we can utilize. Alternatively, if they say 'no', we can just do what we came to do and kill the bandits. On a side note - we haven't even found where the bandits are. We should probably do that.

[Prophet]

The bandits just hurt the economy and trade making it even harder to survive and forcing more people to become bandits and murder, steal, and pillage when they could get real jobs and help get trade flowing again and help the dukedom recover. so no not one mistake but many all out of their selfish choice.

[PewdsRocks]

Perhaps, or perhaps they already had no means of making money and had no other option but to become bandits to survive. It's not for us to judge when we have no information to go. Even if that is correct it doesn't change the fact that they deserve a chance to redeem themselves.

Killing them will not change what's already happened but sparing them may improve what will happen.

[Aseaheru]

How about this, when they get captured we give them the choice of working for us or going to jail.
If they work for us then they get guarded.

[PewdsRocks]

Suits me, we gain nothing by killing them or imprisoning them so it's worth the potential risk of betrayal to try recruiting some.

[Prophet]

You know what fine let's let the more then like cowardly and useless bandits into our camp i don't care about it anymore i just want the game to move on from this.

[PewdsRocks]

I did say to pick those who have useful skills. They've been fighting a guerrilla war against an enemy with superior numbers, training, experience and weaponry for months and winning hands down. That doesn't seem useless to me.

If they were useless cowards then the Duke wouldn't need us to remove them his own men would be more then adequate for the job, for him to have needed people like us means that these guys or at least some of these guys, are very good.

Besides if you want to succeed you have to take risks, you can't win by always playing it safe.

[Prophet]

I'm not going to fight you about this even though i want to so truce?

[TalonisWolf]

 

I did say to pick those who have useful skills. They've been fighting a guerrilla war against an enemy with superior numbers, training, experience and weaponry for months and winning hands down. That doesn't seem useless to me.

If they were useless cowards then the Duke wouldn't need us to remove them his own men would be more then adequate for the job, for him to have needed people like us means that these guys or at least some of these guys, are very good.

Besides if you want to succeed you have to take risks, you can't win by always playing it safe.

  I'm inclined to agree with the post above. We need more experienced men (and women- no need to reject potential talent!), we simply don't have enough manpower to do any of the better jobs and more difficult tasks.

[PewdsRocks]

Prophet it's a suggestion game, this is the whole point of the game. You give your opinion I give my opinion other people give opinions and then we come to a conclusion that the majority agrees with and see how it works out.
Sometimes it's right and sometimes it's wrong but that's the point of the game, the differences of opinion just make it more interesting.


In this case you prefer a much harsher and more black and white approach to things then I do. I prefer a more flexible and gray approach to things then you do. That doesn't mean either of us is right or wrong and for that matter neither of us ever will be. Sometimes giving people a chance allows them to rise above past mistakes and redeem themselves and sometimes it just allows them to repeat past mistakes.

I believe people believe a chance and that some of these bandits can redeem themselves, if that turns out to be wrong then we execute them when they prove it but they should at least be given that chance.
Wouldn't you want a chance to make up for it if you'd done something wrong in your past?
Heck I made some pretty big mistakes in my past but my friends gave me the chance to make up for it.

[Prophet]

While i don't agree with your view on the bandits i will at least try it. So how do we find the bandits.

[PewdsRocks]

Well plan A is the simple approach.

Go to the last place they hit and look for tracks, we're foresters by trade this is exactly what we're trained for. We stand a pretty good chance of being able to find a trail or at least some sign of what way they went to help us narrow things down.
While thats going on we need to train the spearmen as well they need to be taught stealth and ambush warfare or they'll be more of a hindrance then a help to us.

[Prophet]

Well plan A is the simple approach.

Go to the last place they hit and look for tracks, we're foresters by trade this is exactly what we're trained for. We stand a pretty good chance of being able to find a trail or at least some sign of what way they went to help us narrow things down.
While thats going on we need to train the spearmen as well they need to be taught stealth and ambush warfare or they'll be more of a hindrance then a help to us.

+1. Makes sense.

[Worldmaster27]

Well plan A is the simple approach.

Go to the last place they hit and look for tracks, we're foresters by trade this is exactly what we're trained for. We stand a pretty good chance of being able to find a trail or at least some sign of what way they went to help us narrow things down.
While that's going on we need to train the spearmen as well they need to be taught stealth and ambush warfare or they'll be more of a hindrance then a help to us.

+1. Makes sense.

+1

[3man75]

[quote authormercenarydmaster27 link=topic=137detectivesg5203905#msg5203905 date=1398031037]

Well plan A is the simple approach.

Go to the last place they hit and look for tracks, we're foresters by trade this is exactly what we're trained for. We stand a pretty good chance of being able to find a trail or at least some sign of what way they went to help us narrow things down.
While that's going on we need to train the spearmen as well they need to be taught stealth and ambush warfare or they'll be more of a hindrance then a help to us.

+1. Makes sense.

+1
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+1 detective mercenaries on the way!