Dear
megalomaniacal nerds Strategus players,
As you all well know, the rule of having >= 1/3 troops to be able to attack a player, or a fief, is having grave repercussion (verily!) in the end game of this strategus round, seeing how we have been able to grind enough troops to "forbid" attacking fiefs we deliberately (or not) put amazing amount of tickets in.
The situation can be summed up in one image :
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loginDetailed situation:
To attack a fief which has 6000 army, you need to have an army size of 2000 troops on yourself, at the moment of attack (further reinforcements can be done in the reinforcement timeframe).
To attack a fief which has 9000 army, you need to have en army size of 3000 troops on yourself, at the moment of attack.
etc...
The problem is, that the maximum duration of a battle (the battle timer) is not enough to "use" more tickets than 2000 (approximately, depending on the map, tactics and roster). At the end of said battle timer, the attacker automatically retreats, lose all remaining soldiers and give to the defenders all remaining non-used gear, and 50% of the used gear.
Due to this rule, countless of wars arent fought, simply because we cannot attack!
This is what is killing EU strategus at the moment, and has been the cases for many months, and almost all factions have used this cheap game mechanism to win a defensive war.
We can blame developers for not bending that rule to allow more fun, and defensive factions for creating that situation in the first place, but we, the people, can change this, if we cooperate between attacking and defending factions...
Something that I never seen or heard of, before I yesterday attack on Grunwalder Castle, held by the Apostates, which was deliberately decreased in army size to allow the Grey Order to attack.With renewed hope in mankind, in the hope that this will become the norm in the future, I hereby create the
Battles Conclave for strategus :
* only 1 rule : - Each faction that applies to this Conclave, has the moral duty to decrease its troops size in a
about to be attacked fief,
as long as the attacking army has a party size of 1500 men awaiting at the door of your fief, to a garrison size of 4500 men for the time of the agreed upon attack (then the lord put all remaining troops back in the fief in the reinforcement timeframe, at no to little cost to themselves).
(you could use this topic to give screenshots of your army, and call out the faction owner of the fief if he's a member of this group)
(time and conditions of such a "rendez-vous" has to be worked between faction leaders, fief owners and generals)* only 1 reason to do so : - To do battles !!!
If you are a leader of a strategus faction, and can speak for it, just pledge to follow that simple rule each time you can, you and all your faction, and
sign after you post;
visitors can't see pics , please
register or
loginThis topic is the best way I found to try to create a shock to the cynical strategus leaders that believes in the "tactically worthy" doctrin of forbidding strategus players to attack them by garrisonning all troops they can to completely cockblock everyone without having to do anything.
Forum renown/infamy is also a good way to shame people in becoming better and changing strategus in a good way at the same time (like
Haboe's homemade rules about things that shouldnt happen in a strategus battle).
I hope I
can WILL HAVE the support of all the
big knightly strategus factions.
Battles Conclave members list :
