AoW vs Illdist and mates

[Herr_Thomas]

Damn sorry about this late battle tonight, We did have our night-time settings so I don't know why that happened :/ We'll try to make sure that doesn't happen again. This fights have been coming down to the wire though all very fun and exciting.

I agree, these have been some of the more enjoyable fights this strat, other than me having to call my old friends out on not following orders. But yeah, bad battle times cant be avoided since the 1 hour invincibility keeps pushing the battles back. The one tonight won't be much of a fight, though.

So how about that fort of armored guys hiding from naked wild hell hounds.

What were we supposed to do? Run out and get shot to bits by all your ranged?

[Wesleysnipes]

Perhaps

[Holiday203]

I agree, these have been some of the more enjoyable fights this strat, other than me having to call my old friends out on not following orders. But yeah, bad battle times cant be avoided since the 1 hour invincibility keeps pushing the battles back. The one tonight won't be much of a fight, though.

Yeah it's kind of shitty, I wish you guys could get the chance to defend yourselves in this one.

[Herr_Thomas]

Why you guys gotta be raiding? Did 90% of the looted gear from our previous attacks not satisfy you?

[Holiday203]

No sir, the wu-tang can never be satisfied. Plus you got Ildist back, you guys will be fine.

[Blackzilla]

They don't wanna risk the chance of a close battle again where in comes down to the final tickets. Which had the potential to happen and would've been really fun again with 1600 v 1600. You guys need to stop bein like FCC (raiding wise that is)! I can understand a raid if a fief has an  unreasonable amount of population or troops, but not if the total army is less than 1800.

[BaleOhay]

privilege of the attacker. Defense has enough advantages

[Wesleysnipes]

Tactics.

[Jack1]

I personally call it common sense

[Wesleysnipes]

Totally agree. If an individual does not believe in "raiding" they R R Tarded.

[Canary]

I dunno, you get situations where you surprise yourself with a flag cap and then don't have to go through the trouble of another fight, complete with opportunity for the defense to reinforce further.

In this battle for instance, a raid would have been a waste of time for your side.

privilege of the attacker. Defense has enough advantages

I sure wouldn't call being able to take as much time as I wanted anything but a privilege, you are right about that. It's definitely a good way to keep the opposition from being able to defend themselves when they're already weaker.

[Holiday203]

Poor Aquaman, may he enjoy his vacation.

[BaleOhay]

There is an easy way to pick which are battles and at what times and where. Go on the offensive.

Otherwise do not judge those who do.


Last I checked making things as easy as possible for the defenders was not the best idea for a sustained campaign.

[Canary]

There is an easy way to pick which are battles and at what times and where. Go on the offensive.

Otherwise do not judge those who do.


Last I checked making things as easy as possible for the defenders was not the best idea for a sustained campaign.

I'm not sure anyone's beleaguering the notion of attackers putting themselves into an advantageous position; obviously anyone would do what they can (within reason) to perform better than their enemy.

I think the problem people have with the raiding mechanic is that it practically nullifies completely another mechanic: fief population.

Whether that's for good or for ill is, I should think, what the debate centers around, but considering even your own track record, I'm surprised you FCC guys aren't bigger advocates of going for the whole shebang without having to fiddle around with raids.

[BaleOhay]

I think it is clear we have captured fiefs several ways.

We have taken things in huge brass ball moves (see reyvadin, curaw, and recently tulbuk comes to mind, we have also tried it and failed the first run at ichamur, Huge reward... but huge risk as well)

We have used the whittle technique without raids (see Ahmerrad and several others I can not remember off the top of my head)

Now we have started to incorporate some raiding in to mix things up.

All of them have uses. We have war on three fronts at the moment and preserving troops is the name of the game at the moment.