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Mind-bogglingly popular game series that you follow from early on and cannot stop, waiting for new installment like a drooling addict.

Long-runner soap opera you're too invested into to just stop watching it.

A fun little comic strip in the daily newspaper that's been around forever.

3/6

Who said it's fun? I didn't for sure.

I'm just waiting here for it to die horribly already so it will stop showing on my Unread Posts list.

[fireground42]

B

[Blood_Librarian]

b

[Haspen]

You send the Alldivines westwards, to reinforce Iwald's army.

Six days later, a forerunner is sent ahead of a thousand strong Cydwyl cavalry. The exhausted rider falls to his knee and looks up at you.

"Terrible news, Emperor! I bring word from my lord and master, King Cidric, who has been assaulted by his so called 'family', his uncles in west and east. Kingdom of Cydwyl is in clutches of civil war, and the King had to fly toward Dahnia as the uncles massed supporters amongst soldiers, officials and mercenaries. We alone have been dispatched to your Kingdom, as guards."

"Guards?"

"Guards of Queen Eirika and her royal children."

An hour later, Eirika along with Ela, Anwyn and Irsa end up in your Palace. Your daughter speaks with you at once.

"They didn't send any formal declaration of the sorts. Their men just took over some border forts and keeps in vicinity of the capital. CIdric decided to retreat northwards as to keep his rebelious uncles wedged between his loyal vassal, Duchess Astrid of Dahnia and your Empire.

As Eirika has to calm down and breastfeed little Irsa, a council is held between you and important officials.

As for the course of war...

A) We continue fighting!
B) It's time to ask Dwarves for peace!

As for Cydwyllian reinforcements...

A) They shall reinforce Iwald's army.
B) They shall go harass Zonalath dwarves.
C) They will stay at the capital.
D) They should return to Cydwyl and help crush those rebel bastards.

And as for Estrid, Houlandin's wife and heiress of Stjolf of Cydwyl...

A) Execute this rebel spy at once!
B) Imprison her so she won't try anything sneaky at your palace.
C) Nothing, she is of no importance.

[Weirdsound]

B
A
C

Peace will be expensive, but if we can buy it, Cydwyl is all but ours.

Also, did we just skip over Houlandin's wedding? Thats kinda mean.

[Criptfeind]

B
A
B

[Weirdsound]

Also, can we let Leath handle the negotiations if A wins?

Seems kinda odd that we can take advantage of our fighty sons, but not our talky one.

[Kashyyk]

Let's buy off the dwarves. It won't be fun but we can come back later when we actually have an army.

BAC

[mightymushroom]

We're bleeding, but we're bleeding them, too, I think.

Our reinforcements make up for our losses. We can try once more, see how that runs, then consider peace talks.

A

A This guy is more dangerous

C Have her watched, perhaps, but she could as easily be a victim of her uncles as a conspirator.

[Weirdsound]

We're bleeding, but we're bleeding them, too, I think.

Our reinforcements make up for our losses. We can try once more, see how that runs, then consider peace talks.

A

A This guy is more dangerous

C Have her watched, perhaps, but she could as easily be a victim of her uncles as a conspirator.

If Iwald's army rolls anything less than a five or a six they are likely fucked. We were depending on the 3k riders from Cidric.

[Criptfeind]

Yeah. We are bleeding them, somewhat. The issue is that they started with such a numbers advantage that our losses essentially amount to us loosing more then they are, proportionately, even when we win. Reinforcements helps, and will even even it from a -2 to a -1 hopefully. But we're still loosing that on average. And even if we manage to pull though and eventually win against this dwarf army... Then we have the second one.

[Haspen]

You send an offer to negotiate to Ankurvat dwarves, as they're closer.

Four days after you dispatch the messenger, you receive a battle report from Iwald!

4*

He's done it again! Thanks to timely arrival of Alldivine zealots, he was able to fight against Ankurvat dwarves once more, yet this time he lost more forces and what's more, he is pretty sure that the dwarves pulled reinforcements from Ankurvat, because their brethren keep falling yet each battle they always start as if freshly assembled.

1139 AD, Mid-Spring

Some ten days later, a letter arrives from Iwald, who writes that the thousand Cydwyl horsemen have arrived.

He also writes that High Chief Anathazol of Ankurvat agreed to negotiate the proper amount of money and other compensations for the acts of destruction of Zasitost and grave robbing that occured recently. Anathazol refuses to even consider any sort of white peace with Methiant, and if negotiations do begin, the dwarven lord will send a dispatch to his fellow High Chief of Zonalath to ask a cease fire.

Your courtiers convene with you and ultimately you decide to...

A) Keep fighting until you can force something on them.
B) Agree, and go and lead the peace negotiations by yourself.
C) Agree, and send Leath to lead the talks, hopefully his charm works on shorter stock too.
D) Agree for negotiations, but send a minor court official just in case Dwarves are planning an assassination or two.

[Kashyyk]

C, he can't do any worse than we can and I have never once heard of dwarves assassinating. They may be underhanded asshats but at least they let you gather an army before trying to stab you in the face.

[birdy51]

C

Having sons extra lives is nice.

[Weirdsound]

C

[Criptfeind]

C

We already paid for Zasitost, what assholes.