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Calls for a meeting with the siege engineers to discuss the possibility of using spring-loaded, spear-shooting devices to be implemented in the defenses near the wall. Asks to meet with the captain of the Cavaliers to begin the planning of possibile feints to draw some of the troops from the main body into a trap. Arranges for him to meet and teach coordination tactics to the younger and less experienced officers, personally. Spends the rest of the evening drawing up the design for a device that would help to negate the use of siege ladders against the defenses.))Statistics: Posted by Mr_Praetorian — Sat Jun 16, 2007 8:26 pm
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On the subject of the hill, the generall concesus was to mine the hill with glyphs, blast disks, blast spikes, and a few symbols of insanity. The possibility of entreching and fortifying the hill was brought up, but in the end, it was decided that it would not be worth the resources nor the lives necessary.
The next subject covered was the best means by which to coverd an enemy approach from the moat. Since it had been earlier decided that most of the mines would be placed to safeguard the hill, heavily mining the are would be out of the question. Instead the utilization of various walls spells would come into play here. Walls of Fire would be brought up as a deterrent for those heading for the river, and, if the primary defenses were being overwhelmed, then walls of force would be summoned to delay newer waves of foes. And, of course, there would be the usuall glyphs of solid fog, holy storm, web, and similar battlefied control spells. It was a this point in the discussion, that the the command group regretted not having any Druidic casters.
The conversation began to taper off around the discussion of the the defense of the moat. Wherein it would decided that the same basic tactics would be used with slight modification. The possiblity of conjuring dire (fresh water) sharks to guard the moat was also discussed, albeit briefly.
The final topic brought up was what to do if the city was breached. The current plan it hold up in the city center (where fortifications will be erected later), and in the two southern positions, and hope that reenforcements arrive soon.
"Any other questions?" Asked Derovarr.
Statistics: Posted by Mr_Praetorian — Sat Jun 16, 2007 3:00 am
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Major Amadei, the Archeronian war-wizard commander, then stands up. Well most of the static defenses we've gone over last night (he then makes a brief summary of it, read back on ). My wizards have mostly been working on reinforcing the city's existing defenses. They, like most of our other troops, are still a little lax since they don't think Trelling will become the enemy's point of attack. Other than that, they've been working on supplies ordered by each troop unit. The only thing I've made in preparation, is 50 symbols of insanity scribed on large catapult boulders. I haven't decided what to do with them, but at worst they'll be used for onager ammunitions, for which they are attuned to one of our north stronghold catapult crews." he then looks back at the rest of the room, noting that he was finished.
Major Elizabeth from the Misalin Crusaders was the next to speak. "My clerics have also been mostly working on supplies needed by our troops, mostly for the inscription of Glyphs of Warding onto grenades needed by our skirmisher and crusader groups. I believe we should be finished today with storing spells to all our existing Glyph Grenades, so they can be pulled off for something else if you have plans to, like how they were used to lay down glyph fields back in Winchester."
Statistics: Posted by Zanaikin — Fri Jun 15, 2007 10:49 pm
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(this marks the conclusion of the briefing, and the start of you guys' planning stage.)
- A lot of parts also didn't scan in very well.
Statistics: Posted by Zanaikin — Tue Jun 12, 2007 3:18 pm
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Penthiaen Companies and Regiments are MUCH smaller than their equivalents in Real Life.
A company in Penthiae is only around 100 men strong.
A regiment in Penthiae is around 1000 men strong.
and a line or team (depending on troop type) is typically 10 soldiers.
commanders typically cause the numbers above to get raised a bit.
so, quite a metric system
a squad is normally 5 soldiers, special ops squads may vary up to 12.
a wing is strictly given to air units, and is one dozen strong.
This is in comparison to REAL WORLD companies (150~200 soldiers) and regiments (2000~3000 soldiers).
Statistics: Posted by Zanaikin — Tue Jun 12, 2007 4:19 am
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There are two villages about 3 miles east and west of the city, named East Village and West Village. Almost everything within 3miles west of Trelling, as well as everything within 1.5miles of East Village, is farmlands. There is also a large orange orchard to the city's northwest, and a hill rising more than 200ft above the city on Carnia River's east bank. The hill, named Sunrise hill, is just northeast of the city and has a perfect unobstructed view of the city's inside. Currently a detachment of one company of light infantry occupies the hill. There are also a number of other hills and small patches of woods, mostly to the north at a distance of at least two to three miles from Trelling.
Apart from the Garrison of two light infantry regiments, five shock infantry companies including the newly returned ones from Misalin, two war-wizard companies, and two scout cavalry companies, Colonel Garris also has command of his two teams of twenty Phantom Knights. Two wings of Kharva Air Dragon Knights and a company of elite guard infantry are based just north of the southern stronghold, who are led by Governor-General Andrei Gant and Colonel Konstantin Gant. However, Colonel Garris admits he has no jurisdiction regarding them and the knights are out of the town most of the time on missions towards the north, as they are currently. He hopes that with the arrival of a commanding officers who is also of the Gant family, Governor-General Andrei will finally fork over control of that company of elite guard infantry, as he has been unwilling to give control of his personal guard unit to a Palmiran commander.
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After the two Archeronian governor-generals finished their brief explanation of the situation, they asked if either Samael or Kati had comments or questions. Samael began to ask about the possibility of summoning extraplanar creatures to help defend against the orcs. However, Lord Torric immediately became very uneasy as he expressed his disapproval. The last Archeronian attempt for planar summoning was performed by a dwarven wizard during the First Great Alliance War, where he tried to summon forth a positive energy elemental. The elemental was called through successfully, however it seems to also attracted a horde of demons which opened a rift and poured through. In that incident the demons and the rift were destroyed as it was caught in a crossfire between Arithmancers. Since then, Archeronians have become very afraid of the idea of summoning from planes for which they know little about, and planar knowledge isnt a specialty of Archeron wizards. Lord Torric expresses that he is unwilling to utilize summoning to defending his country when it has just as much chance of destroying it for the orcs. When Samael recommended producing planar summoning scrolls as a backup plan, Lord Torric became annoyed and slightly angry and forced an end to the discussion. However, he also stated to Samael that he would leave the matter up to the Misalinian's judgment in Trelling, but he would not order his other men to summon extraplanar beings.
With no further questions or comments, the two Archeronian governor-generals calls in the two Citadel Elite escorts from earlier to show Kati & Samael how to teleport to Trelling before taking their leave. The Citadel Elites leads the two Misalinians to a small assembly area within the city, heavily guarded by fortifications from four sides. Kati and Samael was then shown an image of the inside of the Trelling teleportation point before they teleported off.
On the other team, Jens teleports Derovarr, Ranmor, and Graamos to Blackbog Keep where they boarded the their Sky Galleon that was parked in the Keep's inner courtyard. Most of the bodies in the keep have already been cleaned up, and the wards that were deactivated last night were also raised again. Currently the guild repair teams were making repairs on the west walls where Misalinian bombardment did considerable damage during the last two battles here.
Once inside the ship they went up the decks and to the bridge, where the warforged pilots immediately took off and charged the teleporter before making the jump, arriving outside Trelling in a matter of seconds. The Sky Galleon then flew inside the city where it landed in a small plaza near the central city square. Upon landing, the four Misalinians stepped off the ship to find several Archeronian commanders, all humans, rushing up towards their landing spot. The lead commander then introduces himself as Colonel Garris, a Phantom Knight of the Archeron Palmira Province and commander of Trelling's garrison. After prelimary introductions, Garris lead the group to examine the city's defenses as per request of Derovarr.
The city sits on the left bank of the Carnia river, at a point where the river spans over 500ft with a depth of up to 50ft. A split was created to the west side of the city to serve as a moat, which has a width of 30ft at the narrowest sections and a depth of at least 15ft. The walls are built within 10ft of the river, its foundation supported by a bank of rocks and masonry. However, due to the limited foundation support available, they were unable to build the walls any higher than 30ft for fear of architectural instability. The walls is fortified by an impressive coverage of battlements and crenelations, and is segmented by guard towers each mounting two heavy ballistaes.
The city has four gates, each of which 20ft wide with magically hardened steel gates. Four stone bridges connect to the outside, however these bridges are fixed and cannot be retracted. The city's garrison has placed enough sonic contingency runes capable of demolishing the support beams on each of these bridges, which will activate upon command from a rod which Colonel Garris keeps with him.
The city also includes a small Keep to the south, as well as two strongholds at the northern and southern tips. The Keep and the two strongholds are each equipped with four fixed trebuchets, ten wheeled heavy onagers, and a stock of glass alchemist fire shots capable of sustained fire for three hours.
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Graamos get a message from Kati while he's still working (I presume?).
Statistics: Posted by Zanaikin — Sat Jun 09, 2007 6:24 am
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((<ahhhnuld>"Look at my bulging muscles! Today I am going to show you how to pump iron."</ahhhnuld>))
Statistics: Posted by Sajuuk — Sat Jun 09, 2007 6:21 am
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2. Asks Kati why she's wearing her backpack everywhere, and what on earth are those two bulky items she's apparently carrying in it?
Statistics: Posted by littleangryman — Sat Jun 09, 2007 6:14 am
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3. Well you have a light chat with your item familiar. It tells you about some of its abilities and so so... you get the distinct feeling your item familiar is quite... lazy, and not very interested in taking the initiative to do something. However, it does express that it would be glad to assist you when asked.
//Kati thinks she saw a shadow following her when she heads to the city gates, but when she tries to take a better look it vanishes again.
4. As soon as you take out the crystal, it fills your entire area with freezing fog again, and (presumably) you pop it back in the bag.
Statistics: Posted by Zanaikin — Sat Jun 09, 2007 5:53 am
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At noon, when the two of you go to the command post and meet Lenneth, she tells you she has something to discuss before leading you to her office and locking the door. She tells you that the Misalin's military aid to Archeron, as well as the Archeronian troops that came over, are being sent to Port Carnia today via teleportation circle. She also tells you to get your core squad members ready and teleport after the troops at dusk. From now, it is official that Kati is the commander of the Misalin forces being sent to Archeron. It will now be the responsibility of her and her subcommanders to uphold Misalin's honor from the Four Nations Alliance Treaty and aid Archeron to their best, as directed by both Misalin's agreement and by Lord Strusler's doctrines from after the first Alliance War a hundred years ago.
The forces she's sending over include one banner of Fist of Misalin heavy cavalry (including 5 pegasi aerial cavaliers), two companies of Elite Guard skirmishers, two companies of Guard Crusaders who were veteran and professional military officers withdrawn from the Guard regiments, one company of Elite Guard warmages (including 1 tactical spells squad), 50 field clerics, and 25 church priests plus 25 creationists she managed to 'lend' from the Church and the Guild. She tells you that other than the church priests and creationists, the rest of the military units and lead by commanders whose loyalty laid with Misalin and the Guard, not to any other organizations within the theocracy.
Lenneth then takes out a small box of brand new ranking insignias from within her table. She explains that in order to assist her campaign to Archeron, she is promoting her core unit subcommanders. She hopes the higher ranks will provide Kati's group with better overall command of the expedition force. Lenneth also comments that the Theocrats are not going to be happy about some of the promotions, but she wants them done while she still commands the military. She takes out one of the insignias and gives them to Derovarr, announcing that she's promoting him to Colonel and second in command of the Misalin forces to Archeron. She also tells Derovarr in a half jokingly manner to keep Kati out of trouble.
For the rest of the promotions, she's trust Kati to handle, and hopefully it'll help tie the bonds of loyalty within her core unit better.
--Samael to Major (although Lenneth notes to be careful with him. As capable as Samael has proven himself, Lenneth just can't shake off the feeling that's he's not fully trustworthy).
--Jens & Graamos to Captains.
Lenneth then continues in a slightly darker tone. She says that she's not sure if she should be telling you this, but both of you have shown in the past to be more loyal to the Guard and the Paladin Order than to the Theocrats running it.
She tells you that as you may have heard, High Priest Anstrun and Sirimel is returning to the Capital for the 'selection' of a new Archpriest to lead the Theocracy. However, both Anstrun and Sirimel is from the same faction within the church, and with Anstrun being the factional leader there is no doubt he will be chosen as the next Archpriest. With the rest of the country still deserted, there's no reason for Anstrun to push for the selection of new High Priests for a full council before the executive selection.
Lenneth has always heard from Strusler and Deoneir that High Priest Anstrun and Sirimel are from one of the original three political factions within the church who were often called the Proclaimers. Their faction believes in the ideal of centralized power within the Theocracy and a stricter structure for better control of the nation (and hopefully, the rest of Penthiae). They're also opposed to how Deoneir has ran the theocracy over the last hundred years, particularly in foreign diplomatics and Deoneir's adaptations to Strusler's doctrines. The Proclaimer faction believes that the results of the First Alliance War was proof that it was the will of the divine for the Church of Misalin to take control in Penthiae. The Proclaimers believe that the Church should have seized the opportunity back then to take control of the southern nations, then give a decade to recover military strength before marching north to eradicating Norinth. In that manner, they would have been able put an end to both the endless squabbling and warring between Archeron and Airindale which drains at the southern nations, and prevent a disaster such as the opening of the First Great Alliance War from ever happening again. They believe that this second war happened because Misalin was too focused on 'aiding other countries in rebuilding' and thus, allowed Norinth to recover and bring forth such an event again. The devastation done to Misalin during this war was divine punishment for failing to perform up to task after the first war.
With the end of the currently present threats to Misalin, Lenneth doubts she will maintain control much longer. The paladin order has no power unless the Church declares a state of war, and with the war's end in Misalin it is most likely that Anstrun will withdraw all wartime powers granted to the Paladins. It is also highly likely, that Anstrun will replace most of the existing high ranking personnel with candidates he finds more trustworthy and loyal. Rather than keep the remnants of a command structure left behind by those who followed Deoneir and Strusler. Because of this, Lenneth warns Kati to beware of any orders or messengers from Misalin. There is a possible chance at any time that a new High Commander of the Misalin Guard will relieve Kati of her command. Although Lenneth doesn't believe Anstrun will try to make a move on Archeron. Unlike in the last war, Misalin did not emerge from this one in the best of states, where Archeron still has military strength matching Misalin's own and Naralan besting both of then by far. However it is highly possible that Anstrun will try to make use of the Sacred Kingdom for his plans, although she's not sure how. Apparently, Anstrun has took the communication device given and made it clear to Lenneth that the High Priests are in charge of Foreign diplomacy on this matter, not the Guard commanders.
If it were up to him, Lenneth doubts Anstrun would even approve of sending aid to Archeron. However since this has been a pre-approved procedure of Deoneir's administration, Lenneth still has the capability to send off the forces now before Anstrun can stop it. But she is sure that Anstrun will bring an end to such plans once he consolidates his power within the Church.
Statistics: Posted by Zanaikin — Thu Jun 07, 2007 6:50 pm
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[its command word triggered in draconic]
"that could come in handy" they said.
Statistics: Posted by Zanaikin — Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:08 am
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(passes a little time doing paperwork)
(gives eric the belt)
(gives jens orders to take a day off)
(does more paperwork)
(drops off item orders at the creationists) ((shall post at later time))
(drops off antimagic belt at artificers so they can figure out how we can use it)
(heads to meeting)
Statistics: Posted by Sajuuk — Sun Jun 03, 2007 9:39 pm
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