I just want to call bullshit on Hospitallers trying to act like underdog - they now have 16,500 troops in their fiefs, in addition to the over 10K troops they have already lost in this war - thats 26,500 troops - we have never even come close to those numbers and we attacked them with only half our army (the rest is for homeguard as much as Hosps try to get people to attack us it would be kind of stupid).
Even with Remnant's armies attacking them they still outnumber the combined attacking armies of remnant and fcc. Every battle they have had equal gear to us. I know they prefer to fight in plate and consider anything less than plate armor as under-equipped therefore making them underdogs - but we always fight in what they call "minimal" gear. That doesn't make us an underdog. This is pretty much an equal fight - but we get better k/ds - which makes a big difference.
Also, every faction has the same trouble - we have a lot of inactives too and a bunch of people without strat ticks - we are smaller than Hosps and Occitan with active membership - and there is no way Remnant has 43 people active at this point - maybe 15?? at best making them a small faction against your much larger faction where you can recruit almost 27K troops - obviously more active members with strat ticks than both fcc and remnant combined. We have every active person recruiting troops and cant produce those kinds of numbers.
P.S. also, yeah Cyranule was trying to help you guys despite our objections. Really dropped the ball on that one.
It's not just raw troops, it's equipment for them too. When you wiped KUTT you got all the gear from those battles plus what you brought. You got their goods as well. While you've been gathering up equipment, we've been spending equipment trying to repel invaders. All these battles we lose (without re-attacking to stop your guys from taking the booty from the battle) allows you to keep gathering more gear. It's a tough balancing act trying to not overextend yourselves and leave your fiefs even more vulnerable than they are versus trying to keep all the gear you guys bring to the steppe as presents for us. I'm pushing for the latter, but so far have been unsuccessful. I would have taken your approach and thrown everything at the invaders to not just repel them, but to take all their equipment they brought to fight us with. My strategy would be, you may win this battle, but we'll have an army waiting to re-attack, and re-attack, and re-attack until we control all the gear that was used in those battles.
Also do you really think it would be smart for us to send most of our troops to repel the invaders? It would leave us even more vulnerable for other factions to jump on board and try to take territory.
When it comes to your merc support and your influence on the map, you have a lot more support than we do. You're eastern fiefs are defenseless and have been for over a month but nobodies coming to challenge your claims on them.
And arguing about who's more of the underdog is fucking retarded...it's a war game, of course you want to better equipped, and have more troops than the enemy.
FUS also was signed up and asking to get in the battle, but when you have 100+ people signed up for a 51 spot roster, you have to pick and choose. We're not going to take a merc who's part of a faction actively engaged with a war of aggression in our territory. NO matter how good of a player he is, or how much we believe in his honor. We had enough players to have an only level 30+ roster, and still had problems getting all our guys and all our friendly factions into the fight.
