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9 (56.3%)

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2 (12.5%)

Total Members Voted: 16

Voting closed: November 05, 2016, 04:00:47 pm

[Haspen]

Grumbling, you decide that the Gubta can get away with this, for now.

888 AD, Spring

"Orcs?"

"Indeed, my Queen!" The tired messenger drops to one knee. "A force of about half a thousand of them spilled from the hills that were once cleansed, and raided the souther borderlands of Luathbas, pillaging and taking captives."

A) Send the Army to go hunting for orcs in the orcish hills.
B) Buy services of some mercenaries who will go and perform some genocide.
C) Do nothing but wait, maybe they won't be coming back?

[Taricus]

A, time for the elephants to earn their keep.

[Elephant Parade]

We have seven points of army right now. Seven. A.

[ZBridges]

A

[TankKit]

AA Batteries

[Tiruin]

I am Mustad Kummin Kasha Tumerikjoos[...]

You made me pronounce several herbs and other plantlife.

Eh, am I supposed to be drawing parallels to the story about a king giving away his prized albino elephant away as a gift in order to bankrupt his enemies? You guys know that one right?

Spoiler: In case you don't (click to show/hide)

There was this king. He owned a legendary white elephant. He would often give the elephant away to his enemies as a gift. Why his enemies? Because he wanted to bankrupt them. You see, the elephant had high maintenance costs, you had to feed it food wrapped in gold leaf, it had to sleep on blankets made from the finest purple silk, etc.

Now you couldn't give the gift back or reject it because it would be a considered a great insult to the king and everyone knows it's a bad idea to insult a king. Anyway, so you were stuck with it. You would take care of it for as long as your wallet could last and once you were bankrupted, the king would take the elephant back since you couldn't care for it anymore, allowing him to give it away to his next enemy.

Anyway, the reason why I bring it up is cause as Tiruin mentioned, spamkingdom draws many historical parallels and I feel that this might be relevant (although this is more of a fable rather than history). I feel like we're gonna have to get rid of our elephants at some point or else they might bankrupt us.

What do you guys think?

Talk to my Ballista projectiles next time, is the first thought. Yeah sure it is expense-ive, BUT we can draw upon that like an inactive resource in the future.

Say...improved designs or learning from Gubtan tactics using these animals and infantry to accommodate other things that may pop up in the future.
...Although I do believe that may not be a one-time cost, and vague assumptions lead to me guessing a value of "2" from our Econ.

Eh, why can't we do this diplomacy with our neighbors?! Where's our knowledge of past history and our lands! D:

Aaaaaaah!

[Criptfeind]

Our past history of genocide and racial cleansing? I think we probably will be putting that knowledge to use.

A

[Haspen]

6

Your Army deals with the orcish raiders swiftly and decisively, chasing the remainder into the hills and hunting them down even there.

All these recent victories make the people proud - and happier.

888 AD, Summer

In fact, there has been a group petition from some city governors in the south. They wish for the Crown to sponsor a large military festival, where reenactments of old battles and a tournament of the traditional Luathbas Knights could be held!

A) Fine, let's have a big melee and feast!
B) Naw, they just had festivals recently!

[Criptfeind]

B

[NUKE9.13]

We did just have festivals- but these are military festivals. The people want to know what their husbands and sons are up to when they get called up for emergency mobilisation. Let us show them why they should be honoured to serve in the Luathbasian military!
(More pragmatically, I feel like success here could raise our army score as well as our happiness)

A

[TankKit]

I don't have an Attic.

[Kashyyk]

We seem to be pretty good for funds, so I reckon we can do this A

[Haspen]

You decide to throw a feast and tournament.

888 AD, Autumn

The day has come!

Many peasants could watch the olde Knighte spar in melee and jousting just as a military parade of most accomplished commanders was moving through the capital. Thenm there was a great feast and lots of drinking - all this sponsored by the Crown's money.

888 AD, Winter

Alas, not all is well in Luathbas, as religious clashing erupted in the north once more. This time however it is a bit more serious; several young noblemen, filled with ideas of 'change' and 'revolution' has swore to preach Singularism with a pointy end of the sword to 'uproot the old, corrupt, chaotic system of Pantheonism'. That was two weeks ago; now their movement is about forty people who alike abandoned their cozy lifestyle and they're making all kind of mess near the borders with Tven and Dahnia, harassing the old believers and trying to incite (and failing to) the covert Singularists to get out on the streets and rattle some sabers.

A) Send a letter to them specifically asking for them to abandon their highwayman-like ways.
B) Do nothing except have the Spymaster send agents to keep an eye on the young nobles.
C) Order the governors of the northern cities to put up a bounty on the hot-blooded noblemen.
D) Get the Army moving to trample these savage youth and teach them a painful lesson.

[Kashyyk]

A is unlikely to do anything
B might give us more actions later, but I'm skeptical
C treats them like criminals rather than martyrs
D sounds heavy handed and risks martyring them

So, I'm going for C

[TankKit]

Hopefully someone will Cut them to pieces.