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Strategus General Discussion / Strategus Battles - when time runs out

« on: December 27, 2012, 10:10:34 pm »

I don't really get why the defenders win when time runs out.  This seems to be an unrealistic and rather shitty mechanic.  It would make a lot more sense to have an army withdraw and not lose any more troops/equipment or perhaps a small amount like 10% as a result of the route.  As it is now, the defender can put so many troops into a location that the attacker must cap flags to win and if they fail they lose everything.  If the timer running out was considered a tie then we would see more battles overall.  Some of the city/castle sieges might take multiple battles to win as the attacker would have to grind down enemy troops.  It would be more realistic as well since sieges typically were not over in a single battle historically. 

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Mercenary Recruitment / The Defense of New Tibault Castle

« on: November 11, 2012, 09:18:37 pm »

You wish to end this? You wish to go home? Then we must face that the price may be dear. I, for one, would rather die than spend my life in hiding. Our enemies call us outlaws, but I say we are free. And one free archer defending his home is more powerful than ten hired archers. Fighting the UIF taught me that. I will make you no promises, save one: that if you truly believe in your hearts that you're free, then I say we can win!

- A speech given to the defenders of New Tibault Castle.

Looking for NA/EU mercenaries for siege defense.  The battle will be at 11:21 AM GMT Monday.  http://c-rpg.net/index.php?page=battlesupcoming#!?page=battledetail&id=1350

EDIT:  Since the time sucks so much we have put together an incentive package for our mercenaries.  We will be offering cRPG gold to the MVPs of the battle.  #1 MVP will receive 50k cRPG gold, #2 MVP will receive 30k cRPG gold, and #3 MVP will receive 20k cRPG gold.  We will mainly be looking at KDR to determine MVPs but may also look at other stats if someone goes above and beyond the call of duty.  Also, 5k cRPG gold for anyone with a positive kill death ratio, the castle is easy to defend so it shouldn't be too hard.

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Strategus General Discussion / Requesting temporary strategus freeze

« on: October 31, 2012, 10:47:01 pm »

Considering that the latest patch will require 1/3 of the cRPG community to respec or retire, could we maybe get a strat freeze for 2 weeks to give people a chance to adjust and for the bugs ect to get worked out?

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Suggestions Corner / Supply and Demand suggestion

« on: October 09, 2012, 09:27:18 pm »

Instead of an S&D value, change S&D so each fief has separate Supply and Demand values.  By selling in a fief it's Supply increases and Demand decreases.  Buy from a fief and it's Demand increases and Supply decreases.  Remove the fixed prices for goods and have the buy/sell price based on the current Supply and Demand values. 

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Suggestions Corner / Zero Slot Weapons

« on: October 02, 2012, 12:28:13 am »

I suggest that some zero slot weapons be added that are actually somewhat useful for killing people.  When I play c-rpg I often hear people bitch about kiting archers.  However, as an archer with a warbow and 2 stacks of arrows, the only option is to fight with a steak knife, a broken tree branch, a hand rake or a carpentry hammer.   These crappy weapons combined with the fact that most archers will not have wpf in a melee weapon or points in powerstrike, mean the only option is kiting. 

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Suggestions Corner / No Shows in Strategus

« on: September 25, 2012, 08:31:04 pm »

Currently, when no one shows up to a battle on either side, the attacker wins.  This should be changed so that the defender wins.  The risk should always be with the attacker.  Also, since the attacker can choose when, how, and how often to attack, they can abuse the system.  An attacker can spam attack a powerful target until they get a time where no one will show up or the server bugs out and they defeat a much more powerful target through bug abuse.  Fix please. 

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Suggestions Corner / Sumpter Horses

« on: September 19, 2012, 07:38:39 pm »

The Sumpter horse is kind of a joke horse as is.  It is slow, weak, and basically useless.  My suggestion is to have it reskinned as a Donkey.  In addition, instead of rearing up like a regular horse, it should have the ability to launch a vicious kick to the area behind it.  This deadly back kick attack would make up for the Donkey's otherwise subpar stats. 

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Strategus General Discussion / Battles not working?

« on: July 14, 2011, 04:49:50 am »

Doesn't look like strat battles are working.  4 Battles are set but all at 1:00am server time, which has already past with no update... Or am i misreading this?

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cRPG Technical problems / Where is my anime hair?

« on: May 02, 2011, 11:17:52 pm »

There is a bug with the new patch where my anime turquoise hair is gone.  I have great faith in the cRPG team that this bug will be fixed ASAP.

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General Discussion / Give us the old ladders back!!! Warning: Rage Post

« on: March 15, 2011, 01:34:34 am »

Please give us the old ladders back. The new ladders are so fucking dumb.  They stop at 45 degree angle instead of landing  when they hit something.  I'm sure this saves a few thin skinned morons  from the horror of ladderpaulting but is it worth sacrificing the physics?  NO!  It's not worth sacrificing the physics.  Instead of needing to take a wall in siege, we get ladder ramps that run from attacker spawn all the way into the highest tower of the castle, maybe skirting around for asthetic or pratical reasons.  It looks fucking dumb.  Also, why is it that ladders constantly fall through the castle walls?  There is no way we can restart strategus if it works like this with ladders.   Is it because the walls were tweaked because some skill less noob cried that his weapon kept hitting the side?  (and was too much of a dumbshit to adjust fighting style) Or is this simply some other form of dumbfuckery associated with these new ladders. 

Solution:  Fix the fucking walls and give us the old ladders back.

I realize this is a rage post, but I have been thinking about this for a long time and feel that I need to say something.  I used foul language in order to enunciate my point appropriately.  A rage post for a rage worthy subject.

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Suggestions Corner / Heirloom Resets

« on: January 24, 2011, 09:02:03 pm »

Seems like weapons are changing pretty often.  How about allowing heirloom resets for a large cash fee.  Maybe 100k to reset your heirlooms so you can pick new ones.  In case anyone heirloomed a piece of garbage that nobody wants to trade for.

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Suggestions Corner / Realism based on weapon

« on: January 21, 2011, 07:39:06 pm »

I think Katanas should get a bonus vs. shields.  Since they were the greatest blades ever made, they can cut through almost anything in one strike so it would make sense for them to break shields easy.  Also, Katanas should do pierce damage to reflect how they can slice through heavy armor like butter.  Also, they should have a secondary mode where you can throw it, and it of course should do 200 pierce damage. 

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Strategus General Discussion / Strategus History

« on: January 15, 2011, 01:04:01 am »

Strategus is down for now, and probably will be down for a while.  Possibly even being wiped.  In the mean time, I think it would be fun to put together a complete history of strategus.  I will continue to edit the intro post with any additions posted later on in the thread.  I didn't really get involved in strategus until October of 2010 so any events prior to then I have no real knowledge of and would love to hear individual accounts.  There was a thread on the old forums with some information so I will start by copy pasting.


From Nebun (DRZ Diplomat)

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when DRZ appeared in strategus they decided to settle in the north, and that part of the map was claimed by ninjas. When DRZ set up attack on the village, Ninjas warned them to withdraw or they will attack DRZ. Thats how I think 1st proper war begun in strategus. DRZ was underestimated and taken for a small clan. While Ninja's had a lot of allies that didn't help them in time and some didn't help at all.
Ninja's fought well but lost.
After Ninja's lost their fiefs to DRZ, 2 of their allies (Coconuts and Shogunate) reacted by attacking DRZ. Coconuts had about 20k troops, DRZ in total at that time Had about 2-3k. But with lack of knowledge or money, coconuts didn't supply their armies, so about 10k of troops deserted the rest fought naked. When coconuts run out of troops, half of their territories was taken by DRZ and the other half by nK.
Shogunate 10k army came from the south, with good supply and armor. DRZ stalled/attrite their army by attacking with 1k troops every day.
Shogunate decided to negotiate peace.
Ninjas moved south and received one village from Shogunate with promise of vengeance.

Maybe I forgot few things, but I think you'll get an idea of how it was. [/color]

From Boss_Awesome (Fallen Brigade Diplomat)

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DRZ created a coalition that they term the UIF (united independant factions).  UIF includes DRZ, 22nd, Legio Italica, Nordmen of Fenada, Grey Order, RuConquista, STR, Crusaders of Acre and probably some more i am forgetting.  DRZ itself is a very large and active guild that has quite a large amount of nasty archers.  DRZ came up with some very good tactics usually involving flanking with archers. 

Templars were a large clan in the beginning of strategus.  Through force of arms they forged a large alliance of their surrounding neighbors, who were scared of them.  They defeated 22nd, and DRZ used 22nd's call for aid as an excuse to go after the Templar bloc, which was very powerful at that time.  The DRZ war machine made short work of the Templar block

Mercs are a large clan with a lot of fiefs that follow a strict policy of neutrality.  I imagine they are very rich due to their focus on hiring themselves out and buying fiefs.  They don't get involved in wars so they haven't wasted resources that way.

Northern Republic is 3 clans working as one:  ATS, NK, Takeda.  They have stayed neutral throughout strategus.

LLJK was wiped out by Shogunate in one of the first real wars in Strategus history.  They recently took over IRC's old territory in the south after all the troops left with the Pub Crawl.  They currently consolidate their new holdings.

The Pub Crawl was created by IRC, Caravan Guards, and Shogunate in an attempt to overwelm DRZ with a massive number of troops and also due to boredom in strategus by those 3 clans.  The pub crawl created a significant amount of havoc but eventially failed.  Clans small and large flocked to the undefended territories.  The River Pirates, Free Companies of Caladria, Knights Hospitaller, and LLJK all took up residence in the territory not snatched up by DRZ and it's allies.  The Fallen Brigade attacked the Hospitallers because their name sounded similar to Templars, even though they requested permission to cross Fallen territory.  The Hospitallers had taken fiefs on the Fallen border and the Fallen also wished to expand territory during the event. 

Fallen (along with HRE, Eastern Tsardom)went to war with UIF after the defeat of the Templar Bloc.  The decision was made due to fear that DRZ and their allies would conquor the entire map.  We used this little dispute between HRE and Nordmen as an excuse to legitimize our war with DRZ.  An offensive was launched against many DRZ targets and it failed.  Eastern Tsardom split into two clans and made peace with DRZ. 

LLJK flexed it's muscles and the other small clans in the south were destroyed.  LLJK consolidated IRC's old powerbase.

Skirmishes continued with a few forays by the Brigade into UIF territory and also an infilitration attack by Brothers in Arms, who were believed to be a UIF infilitration force.

The Turks fought a few battles of Seramish in UIF territory but were defeated by the Bum faction, believed to be a UIF proxy.  Hungry for territory but limited on resources, the Turks attacked the Bandits territory, taking a castle in a sneak attack without losing a single soldier.  The Templars, also hungry for territory and smelling weakness in the Bandits, attacked a village owned by the bandits but were defeated.  The Turks attacked the weakened village and prevailed.  The Turks weren't through yet and marched across the steppe to attack another small clan, the Centurions, defeating them and taking their village as well.    The Templars moved south in a desperate attempt to do something right and somehow ended up with a village previously owned by Band of Brothers, I don't really remember how, but it sounded like they came to some sort of agreement.   [/color]

The SeaRaiders/Nordmen of Fenada history:

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It all started back when I was a lone SeaRaider, slowly recruiting recruits for my first village. The first enemy of our not yet established faction was Selechti, the strange person doing strange stuff, who tried to attack me after he realised he couldnt get any recruits from my area, as I had the better clock. Thankfully a friendly passerby did sell me his troops, and the first attack on the Nordmen could be stopped with intimidating the enemy trough numbers.
At one point and after an ugly farm weekend we had enough troops and gold to finaly take what was ours, Fenada. But as I refused to be part of the templar block, we were instantly attacked by the RS (now Gardarika), hoping to steal our village right after we took it, which we could avert.
Being thrown back due to the attack, it took some time until we were able to take on Kwynn, our second village. Even here we were attacked after we took it, this time by the LLJK hoping to steamroll us, but the shieldwall did stand strong this day, too.
The next step was taking Sargoth, right after we took it, the Pecores did show up trying to force their old claims on us, as we were weakend, but trough a combination of good mercenaries, lucky timeslot, awesome random map and being completly underestimated by the Pecores, we could win a 200vs2000 (they only had items for 500, though).
After all this attacks after we took something, we thought to ourselves "fuck it", and just hired the Mercs to take Curin Castle for us. But now it was boring, no enemy in sight, no war going on.
Being fully established in our small realm, we began looking for allies. Joining the templar block was out of question, as that would have led to us being unable to raid anything in the near future. Talks with the RRC and Serfs were started to form a Republic of the North, but didnt bear fruit as we refused to ally their allies, and the Serfs insulted our friends, the DenBitre.
With them delivering us a Casus Belli, and nothing better to raid than Serfs (maybe monks, but they were out of stock), we prepared our ships to sail west. But as we needed all able man on the ships, and being worried about a templar intervention, we began looking for allies on the other side, and approached the DRZ, which whom we had friendly relations since they won the Ninja war, simply asking them if they are yet bored with their peace. As the 22nd did plan their counter strike against the templars at the same time, it was more than welcome to them that we were not on their enemies side.
With the Serfs only owning villages, they had more troops than us, but were heavily outgeared by our SeaRaiders in banded armor, leading to a short and brutal raid, which ended with total annexation of them by us, with the aid of our old friends the DenBitre. During this time, the 22nd and Gardarika took out the RRC, preparing for a strike on the Templar core. After a few battles, the templars switched to using the doctine of combined ingame and forum whine to conter the battlefield strategies of the others, it was not that effective. While the armies of templars and few of their allies were tied down in the north, the DRZ came by sea, taking out D'Hara, Roses (completly unaware to the war of their allies) and Legio by surprise. D'Hara and Legio did surrender, saving themselves from the unwanted war the templars brought onto them, will the Roses did decide to go down with at least putting up a formal fight, trying to save face after they wasted troops on neutral fiefs instead of helping their allies.
Now with the templar block eliminated and half the eu-population being fiefless, the forum whine for a reset did grow big enough so 3 unaligned factions just threw all their troops at our cities, not even trying to defeat us, just (rage?) quitting with a few big battles.
Now, the Fallens, the "enemies" of the templars who used our war to gain neutral fiefs in templar territory tried to snitch too many of these 3 factions now empty fiefs, thinking they had any right to them as they didnt fight any of the armies themselves, tried to force us to give them what was rightfully ours. We refused, and the Fallens did show their true face as templars without moustaches and joined their former "enemies" in fighting with us.
This last war did start interesting, our cities were under control of the Pubcrawl (the 3 quitting factions new faction), we were short on man and material and all the border regions were under coordinated attack. Yet we managed to hold the line, losing nearly nothing to the enemy, and entrenched ourselves while slowly retaking our cities, gaining back our strength. For some strange reason, the Fallens did allow us to recover there, entrenching themselves, too, throwing away their only window of opportunity to win the war. With the Pubcrawl cleaned out of most cities, we managed outproduce the Fallens by far, shifting the balance of power back to our side, and with every day they wait, we get even more stronger, until we can crush them like the bug they are, finaly bringing peace back to Calradia.

The Ninja clan's desperate plea for help and an account of the first war in strategus

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Wikileaks just released this desperate plea of help from Ninja Thomek to the other clans, it's from the beginning of strategus, near the end of the first war. :-)

It was sent to all the major clan-leaders around the 8th of september 2010.

Dear friends.

First things first. The war with the invading DRZ is nearing its end with victory to the invaders.

They came out of the blue, like small green dots, attacking at the heart of ninja territory. (Jayek) I warned them to back off, telling them what they were doing but they were unmovable. They were extremely aggressive, and coordinated their attacks well. freezing my troops, (then canceling battles) with superior numbers of players.

The reason they came to Ninja-land was that they saw a map with an "unclaimed" area.

What now? The Ninjas have about 500 men left, as we speak, just locked in a battle against 97..

I requested help early on, but it was usually to little or too late.

What I ask of you:
A coordinated action, containing forces from all the big clans and alliances, teaching the DRZ a lesson and forcing them to re-evaluate their claims. If everyone would send a force big enough/strong enough relative to their factions size, none of you would loose an edge over the others.

Reasons for it:
1. An exercise in warfare. The DRZ are a tough enemy. They have good communications, and seem very capable in every respect. The lessons learned here could be invaluable later on. Both in game mechanics, and all their implications.
2. I would not be surpriced if the DRZ quickly can become a major power in Calradia. A hard strike on them now, or soon, would weaken them enough that it would take weeks before they attempt anything again.
3. In the long game, you will stand a better chance of winning.
4. I will cite a modified version of a famous poem:

First they came for the peasants, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a peasant;
Then they came for the Ninjas, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a Ninja;
Then they came for the Coconuts, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a Coconut;
Then they came for the Nordmen of Fenada, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a Nordman of Fenada;
Then they came for me--
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

I'm sure you will find reasons against it, but if you ask me, this is the time to give a very dangerous clan a hard kick in the balls.
The faster the better.

I made a channel in irc called #warcouncil where I hope we can discuss this matter further, and coordinate actions. You are all welcome there without promises. At this point in time the Ninjas cannot offer much in return beyond our swords in battle. In the end we are content if we can keep our dark Ninja Fortress somewhere on the map

Ninja Thomek

We'll I want to make the "Deal" they offered public and write a short history of the war from Ninja point of view.

The DRZ came onto us out of the blue, striking at claim Jayek with no warning or communication. I managed to track down their leader, and told them to stop or they would face war.

(The reason for their attack was presumably a map made earlier with no marked claims in our area..  :roll:  I was alarmed when I saw that map at the Uxhal conference.. On the other hand I was ignorant of the mysterious DRZ, which i never saw much of in 3 months playing cRPG. I simply didn't know they were the largest russian clan around, or else I might have yielded early..)

Day after Uxhal they attacked Jayek, and I let them do it, simply in order for them to wear down both themselves and AI Jayek before I attacked. After randomizing DRZ troops for a day, they started to get a drift on how randomizing and warfare worked. Quickly they adopted the  "1/10 lockdown by numbers" strategy. Where they simply froze all our movement and hindered us to reinforce and consolidate our movements. The Ninja administration was not ready for this, and we could simply not react quick enough because we were not yet established on TS and irc channel. War in strategus is a 24/7 game, and dealing with it takes a serious toll on the life and quality of sleep of the players.  :-)

After this they simply continued their strategy, beating us in battles, by:
1. Economical advantage (gear/more player based income/not wasting gold on taking ai fiefs like ninjas)
2. Crew trained in tactics from Native clanbattles/leaders
3. Former experience in fieldbattles, of what works etc.

I don't know for sure, but I have a feeling some of them have experience from the typical space-empire browsergames.

It was also a great advantage for them that they early understood the recruiting system, and they were probably there every hour to recruit. (This system is now changed though)

The "Deal" and negotiations.
After Ninjas began to understood how powerful DRZ were we offered them some of our claims. (Ismirala, Ismirala castle and Curaw, Curaw was perhaps a bit far fetched, but nonetheless. :-)

At our meeting today, they were as well offered Fearichen (Already taken by them, but peace offered in return)

The offer they made to us was as follows:
"Leave your/our land with a 600 man army + peace". It is an offer of nothing, and a simple insult.

Therefore, my friends, the war rages on.

The Ninjas might be beaten for land, but we cannot die, (Neither can you) we have more friends than you do, (some haters too i reckon, but we love you still :-) and we will pop up and make love to your skull with our katanas when u least want it. xD

In any case, we still respect you, as soldiers, diplomats and generals. But we hope you are still humans, to understand our rage.
(And you can have that laugh now)

Ninja Thomek

- "Ninjas! Just when you thought you were safe.."

In Re Plazek (leader of the 22nd Battalion)

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2.1) "They made the RS take one of our villages" hmmmmmm. Really? See they took it of their own volition because they were not aware of the Strategus claims map. So after they took it as I know the RS and I knew the Shogunate (at that time at least) I brokered a deal to avoid war with RS and then again by extension their DRZ allies. This deal involved the RS being allowed to hold the village for a few days to recoup their losses before they would hand it back to the Shogunate. We the 22nd at our own cost would then help them take an alternate village. Of course after the Templars took all of our villages we were unable to support this agreement so as far as I am aware the Shogunate simply ended the deal and attacked RS without any communication.

Oh look more evidence! (hope you do not mind Black Corasair but it is hardly an important convo anymore)

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{22nd} King_Plazek: hey
{22nd} King_Plazek: need to speak to you about amashke
{22nd} King_Plazek: message me when your around
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{22nd} King_Plazek: it is important unless you want to be at war with a powerful faction
{22nd} King_Plazek: and we wont be able to give you support either
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BlackCorsair_RS: ?
{22nd} King_Plazek: oh hi
BlackCorsair_RS: y,  it was our leadersm istake
BlackCorsair_RS: hey
BlackCorsair_RS: he thought its neutral village ^^
{22nd} King_Plazek: hehehe
{22nd} King_Plazek: i thougth as much
{22nd} King_Plazek: but i have a deal that can sort it out
{22nd} King_Plazek: and get you a village as well
{22nd} King_Plazek: so long as the shogunate agree
{22nd} King_Plazek: interested?
BlackCorsair_RS: think yes, continue plz
{22nd} King_Plazek: ok
{22nd} King_Plazek: if the shogunate accept
{22nd} King_Plazek: they will stop opposing you in the battle
{22nd} King_Plazek: and will instead help you
{22nd} King_Plazek: as will we
{22nd} King_Plazek: so
{22nd} King_Plazek: you will take the village
{22nd} King_Plazek: we will le tyou take all the troops and the gold out
{22nd} King_Plazek: to fix up your army a bit
{22nd} King_Plazek: and then if you still need more you can get them from 22nd territory
{22nd} King_Plazek: then when you are ready
{22nd} King_Plazek: we will help you take qalyut
{22nd} King_Plazek: from a faction called desert bandit
{22nd} King_Plazek: they have an army of 1000 men right now
{22nd} King_Plazek: but we dont like them
{22nd} King_Plazek: and they have not many players
{22nd} King_Plazek: so will only be able to hire random mercenaries
{22nd} King_Plazek: that is basicly it
{22nd} King_Plazek: you hand over amashke to the shogunate
{22nd} King_Plazek: and you get both of our help taking qalyut
{22nd} King_Plazek: then you get a war with a small tiny faction
{22nd} King_Plazek: instead of a large one
{22nd} King_Plazek: sound acceptable?
BlackCorsair_RS: i pretty sure that yes, but still need to get confirmation from Neud
BlackCorsair_RS: i sent him a message right now
{22nd} King_Plazek: ok good
BlackCorsair_RS: hope to answer u in 20min
{22nd} King_Plazek: if you do not give up amashke
{22nd} King_Plazek: you will get drawn into a war with shogunate
{22nd} King_Plazek: as it is claimed by them
{22nd} King_Plazek: and they will not give it up
{22nd} King_Plazek: also
{22nd} King_Plazek: they have a mutual defence pact
{22nd} King_Plazek: with the caravan guards
{22nd} King_Plazek: and the 22nd
{22nd} King_Plazek: ie me
{22nd} King_Plazek: so
{22nd} King_Plazek: as your attack counts as invasion
{22nd} King_Plazek: unless i go back on my word
{22nd} King_Plazek: and break the treaty
{22nd} King_Plazek: we have to declare war on you as well
{22nd} King_Plazek: i do not want that
{22nd} King_Plazek: but i need to keep my word
{22nd} King_Plazek: i am sur eyou understand
{22nd} King_Plazek: this is why i want to find a solution
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BlackCorsair_RS: Neud aggreed
BlackCorsair_RS: so lets do like u said!
{22nd} King_Plazek: ok
{22nd} King_Plazek: sorry i was afkl
{22nd} King_Plazek: you here?
{22nd} King_Plazek: this is a simple explanation of the deal that i sent to the shogunate
{22nd} King_Plazek: 1) You do not oppose them and instead help them take Amashke, as will we.
2) You let them hold it for a little while to refresh their army.
3) They take all the population and gold out.
4) You attack it and obviously take it easily.
5) We help them take Qalyut from the Desert Bandits. They have proven themselves to be unpredictable and dangerous neighbours and I want them out.
{22nd} King_Plazek: ok i spoke to the shogunate
{22nd} King_Plazek: they accept the deal as well
BlackCorsair_RS: nice, thx
{22nd} King_Plazek: so long as your are out of amashke after 2-3 days
{22nd} King_Plazek: which should be enough time to get more troops
BlackCorsair_RS: mmm, ok
{22nd} King_Plazek: if you still need more you can recruit all you like from our fiefs
{22nd} King_Plazek: and then go for qalyut when you are ready
{22nd} King_Plazek: but now some extra information
{22nd} King_Plazek: just so you know
{22nd} King_Plazek: all the villages and castles and towns
{22nd} King_Plazek: around qalyut are claimed by 22nd, shogunate or guards
{22nd} King_Plazek: so you will not be able to expand easily
{22nd} King_Plazek: but
{22nd} King_Plazek: if you play nice and align yourself with us
{22nd} King_Plazek: and wait until we end up at war with someone
{22nd} King_Plazek: then
{22nd} King_Plazek: if you support us in that war
{22nd} King_Plazek: we will help you get new fiefs from it
{22nd} King_Plazek: and form a proper sized land to call your own
{22nd} King_Plazek: ok?
{22nd} King_Plazek: some of the hsogunate and guards were worried you would not be happy for long in that 1 village
BlackCorsair_RS: ok
{22nd} King_Plazek: cool
{22nd} King_Plazek: so long as your happy to wait
{22nd} King_Plazek: i will definitely help you get more places
{22nd} King_Plazek: when that day comes
{22nd} King_Plazek: but remmeber attack shogunate or guards and we cannot be firends
{22nd} King_Plazek: but i am sur eyou wont
BlackCorsair_RS:
BlackCorsair_RS: y
{22nd} King_Plazek: if you have any question or problems then do not worry
{22nd} King_Plazek: just sned me or evgen a message

Unfortunately they accepted the deal on Teamspeak so there is no record. Of course they claimed I forced them to accept later on and used that as a justification for why our mutual defence pact was no longer valid and so they therefore did not have to help against the Templars. Of course I always thought it odd that that only came up in the face of great opposition.


I would also like you to notice the level of dedication to our mutual defence pact that I exibited in that conversation with Corsair. Mentioning several times that if RS went against you then we would be forced to act against them.

3) Guess you are all idiots then. Because after I saved you two times from a foe superior to you in numbers, skill, grinding ability, strategic thinking, honour, respect and class you went and attacked them anyway like the colossal idiots you are. Oh and what happened? Despite your powerful allies, two of the most powerful factions in the game? Oh yea like I warned you going up against DRZ got you all fucked


I always knew it was smart to keep records, see I abide by my deals and my words so it means if I keep a record of them when people start lying about the truth I have something to back me up. Of course I do not expect everyone to believe me, maybe I just forged all this! 

Anyway honour and respect! The Shogunate way!

 :roll:

History of the D'Haran Legion - from Lord Braeden

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A long time ago, Strategus was a closed beta.  Only those with invites were inside, which meant even in the enormous clans there might be only a few members.  For D'hara, a clan numbering three at that time, the odds of getting in before the map was claimed were few.  However, against all odds, I got in, though I was alone.  After finding some empty space to recruit under a completely different system, I managed to amass an army of just over 300, and equip them quite abysmally.  Villages at that time were quite weak, but it still had 500 soldiers and more money than I did.  Still, not wanting to fall behind and full of D'Haran pride, I attacked.

At that time, the sides weren't limited to how many people they could hire.  The computer would hire literally anyone who signed up, and they could all play.  So when it came to the actual battle, we had 60 people on the server, but they had 90.  But the AI's hiring of everyone who signed up didn't help it, and since I hired all the good players first, especially the Mercs (who killed half the enemy alone), Templar, and others who will be added when I can get back in Strategus to check the hiring list.  Through discipline and superior ranged firepower, we slaughtered, losing only half our inferior force.  Istiniar was ours.

From there, the numbers of the army grew quickly, though the money still did not.  As I was the only member of D'Hara in Strategus, we weren't making insane income off my limited play.  However, then Ozin got in, and suddenly our income was doubled.  Up until that time, only villages had been taken in game.  The Mercs had 6 or 7, the Templar a similar number, IRC was rolling in them, but we only had our one, because above 1, you had to pay upkeep.  Having just one meant we weren't losing half our income, since we didn't have the advantage of a dozen members in game.  So, needing money and being possessed of insanity, we decided to be the first to take a castle and assaulted Maras Castle with a troop count equal to its garrison and equipment decidedly inferior.

We won that battle as well, with the help of the Mercs again, as well as a significant showing by ATS and other NA groups who fought exceedingly well despite EU ping (in the days prior to an NA strategus server).  D'Hara was the first group to take a castle, and we rejoiced in it.  I hadn't even believed we'd take it, myself, expecting to only damage the garrison to prevent it from making money faster than us.  But it was ours, and we were eager to keep it.

From there we quickly expanded into the other villages, though careful to keep a powerful army at Maras.  From time to time a group would show up intent on taking part of our claims, but we were able to run them off either through auto-calcing their armies or diplomacy.  To name a few, the SlavWarriors, Grey Order, Murtagh's army, and the Nemesis clan were all among those either talked or fought ought.  (SlavWarriors were actually banned out for cheating their way into the closed beta en masse.)

D'Hara grew to hold all our traditional lands when I got bored of defending and autocalcing.  When the Templar put out a call for crusade, I dropped everything, left D'Hara, and marched on the 22nd with my bodyguard.  There was no resistance, sadly, so that quickly grew boring too.  I came back to D'Hara shortly after, selling my village to LLJK for a decent sum of gold.  However, I wasn't able to stand our new arrangement with the Guard of Istiniar, being more of an absolute power kind of guy, so I got bored again and wanted to cut back on my playtime, so I left.  Why they keep letting me come back, I'm not sure, but I am the king of wanderlust.  Anyhow, I left to witch hunt, launching various attacks on other groups which were small but enjoyable.  However, it wasn't quite fair to Ozin, who never wanted to be a leader.  Shortly thereafter, D'Hara fell to the UIF following a lightning speed invasion and Ozin disappeared, leaving Gavin of the Istiniar Guard in command of the army, which then surrendered to attempt to save a remnant of D'Hara.

At that point, things sort of died off for D'hara, until the UIF began to slowly return lands to the Istiniar Guard under terms of the surrender agreement.  However the faction went inactive quickly, and soon there was no one in command of the Legions nor really active in the region.  After some time and discussion, I made my peace with the Guard of Istiniar and returned to D'Hara, maintaining the treaty with the UIF and splitting our territory into two sections, D'Haran and Guard of Istiniar territory.

At that point the freeze hit.

Burning Bridges: the BRD experience in Strategus - from Kalam

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I'll share my experiences, from a smaller clan that doesn't have any fiefs.

The Bridgeburners entered Strategus just before the First Calradian World War started. We were a tiny, unknown (I think there were about five of us) new clan among a sea of them with no real idea of the diplomatic relations at the time or the inner workings of the game. What we did do, in order to familiarize ourselves with the game, is fight in every battle we were accepted in. We met Kesh and his clan then, and he joined us and filled us in on what he knew. We were intent on taking a single village and keeping it. There were numerous offers of vassalage, but we wanted to see what we could do on our own first.

RandomDude and the Fallen Brigade helped us build our first small army of about 1500. It was right around then that the 22nd, backed by hired Mercs, attacked Templar Bloc territory while The Nordmen of Fenada and DenBitre attacked Those Grubby Serf lands. We figured that somewhere in all those battles was an opportunity for us to take some land.

A clan whom we wrongly assumed was also a small and unaffiliated like we were took Haen from RRC. Preliminary scouting told us that there were only about 300 troops in Haen, and a look around the area showed no possible reinforcements. At the time, we didn't know about chain link reinforcing. We swelled our troops to 2000 and came to an agreement with RRC. We attacked and received mostly Caravan Guard, D'Haran, and Templar fighters.

We were issued a warning from the 22nd, stating that 'you don't know who you're dealing with'. This was true. We didn't. Still, we thought we'd take it anyway since we already started the fight and they still had 300 troops. In the last few hours before the fight, they received reinforcements that put their numbers at 3000+.

We entered the battle with a small group in ventrilo, and despite our inexperience, managed an almost 1:1 K/D thanks to the advice and performance of Fiq Al Mata, Ozin, RandomDude, our archers, and a few other veterans- in spite of the fact that the Gardarika roster was made up of highly organized DRZ fighters.

It's after this that we realized that Druzhina was backing a few different clans aligned with the 22nd, and there's enough in the old threads about Kesh's 'conspiracy theories', most of which proved true.

We continued to fight for the Templar Bloc, and overwhelming defeat after defeat from a lack of equipment and general incompetence on their part taught us what not to do. It's in the defense of Those Grubby Serfs that we came across the Cavalieres and formed the still unknown Free Companies of Calradia with them and RRC, though RRC disappeared shortly after. We continued to fight until D'Hara was attacked- we reinforced them until we were told that they had accepted the UIF's (quite reasonable) terms of surrender. We stopped fighting and started recruiting once again.

After Ozin's disappearance, D'Hara offered us a place in their council, but we wanted to make sure we had something to bring to them first. It was about then that IRC announced their land grab. There were a lot of deals and misunderstandings in the air, but the short of it is that we took Iqbayl and Fishara. LLJK took the vast majority of the land, with the Hospitallers in the east. The Fallen went after the Hospitallers, and we assumed that someone or other was going to come after us, and it'd be better to have a city than two villages.

In addition, we wanted to have experience coordinating the attack and defense of a city, so we attacked Bariyye- an LLJK city. We concentrated our small force, gave up the villages, and planned for the siege. We'd contacted numerous clans and had fully expected ATS and RS to fight for us, given the fact that a lot of us played on the 80 frequently together.

We were wrong and found ourselves facing them instead. However, Druzhina and the Strangers proved both approachable and dependable. They supplied a majority of the archers that let us take Bariyye and later in our attempt to hold it. On a whole, we lost the small land grab skirmish with LLJK due (we believe) to a lack of troops and proceeded to go back to D'Haran territory.

It's at this point the freeze hit.

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General Discussion / Why are leechers so stupid?

« on: January 11, 2011, 11:21:07 pm »

I've seen a lot of criticism of the new patch by people who say "You don't need to do anything to get money" and "there is no reason to try and win anymore".  Now it is pretty obvious that these people aren't too bright because they don't even mention the multiplier.  I'm not gonna bother wasting anymore time talking about these types.  What I want to talk about is leechers.  They have high level characters but don't wear much gear and don't try to help their teams.  They say they do this because they can make more money that way by avoiding upkeep.  What do they do with this money?  They don't wear gear so they don't need to buy anything.  They don't have to worry about upkeep so they don't need money for that... Why do leechers need money?  I don't get it!!!  Do they swim in a big virtual pool filled with money somewhere? 

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General Discussion / NA Server Crisis

« on: January 04, 2011, 09:25:54 pm »

NA servers are severely overcrowded right now.  45 seconds after the password comes off the 120 server is full and the 80 server is perpetually full.  And of course, the siege server disappeared.  Where did the siege server go?  Finally the population is so full that people would be forced to play siege with me and it disappears.  I expect a much higher volume of playing when the patch comes out.  Any plans for NA servers?