Present the royal court of your unified Calradia

[sandoval]

My kingdom is near achieving total conquest of Calradia. Makes me wonder what my companions should do afterwards. My imaginary plans so far:

Firentis: reliable and competent. The right hand of the King.
Nizar: Master of Royal Festivities, Ceremonies and Tournaments.
Alayen: Something pompous but insignificant, like honorary leader of a new knight's order.
Marnid: some important position in the merchant's guild.
Bahestur: don't know really. Maybe Governor in the Khergit provinces?
Karin: Minister of Finance.
Deshavi: as scout and bandit-hater, she'd be perfect as chief of a mounted police which keeps the royal roads safe.
Borcha: Master of the Royal Stables.
Klethi: leader of an organization with special tasks we don't talk about.
Artimenner: Master of construction and road repair.
Jeremus: Dean of the new Royal University.
Matheld: Governor along the northern coast. Gets secretly support to launch her revenge campaign against the homeland of the Nords, with the aim of keeping them in a state of permanent civil war.
Ymira: a position which requires her to hang around in court often. Lord Justice maybe?
Lezalit: notorious drunk in taverns all over Calradia. Gets jobs now and then from Artimenner. Or maybe jailmaster.
Bunduk: dangerous troublemaker. Gets a frontier post far away.
Rolf: Don't know. What shall we do with Rolf?

Anyone else pondering important problems like that?

 

[tzlop]

Rolf can be a singer, the master choir of Viva De Rolf.

 

[sandoval]

Hmm … on second thought maybe it's not a good idea to hand the whole police over to Deshavi alone, considering her good understanding with Klethi. Dangerous concentration of power there.

Better split the police into two independent organizations and let her nemesis Rolf have the other one. Make their areas of responsibility overlapping.

 

[Mods]

sir Rolf the court jester
and Bunduk should be captain of the royal guard!

 

[Gilwe]

I would give Lezalit the position of captain of the guard. He is a skilled disciplinarian after all and teaches the men to be tough and unforgiving.

 

[tzlop]

Bunduk and Lezalit can both train armies, and watch them clash every now and then at the tournament 

 

[Mods]

Bunduk wants troops that respect their leader, and argues that treating them fairly will make them happier to fight for you
Lezalit want troops that fear their leader, and argues that treating soldiers harshly will make them tougher

It just depends on what kind of character you are playing as really

 

[Captured Joe]

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My kingdom is near achieving total conquest of Calradia. Makes me wonder what my companions should do afterwards. My imaginary plans so far:

Firentis: reliable and competent. The right hand of the King.
Nizar: Master of Royal Festivities, Ceremonies and Tournaments.
Alayen: Something pompous but insignificant, like honorary leader of a new knight's order.
Marnid: some important position in the merchant's guild.
Bahestur: don't know really. Maybe Governor in the Khergit provinces?
Karin: Minister of Finance.
Deshavi: as scout and bandit-hater, she'd be perfect as chief of a mounted police which keeps the royal roads safe.
Borcha: Master of the Royal Stables.
Klethi: leader of an organization with special tasks we don't talk about.
Artimenner: Master of construction and road repair.
Jeremus: Dean of the new Royal University.
Matheld: Governor along the northern coast. Gets secretly support to launch her revenge campaign against the homeland of the Nords, with the aim of keeping them in a state of permanent civil war.
Ymira: a position which requires her to hang around in court often. Lord Justice maybe?
Lezalit: notorious drunk in taverns all over Calradia. Gets jobs now and then from Artimenner. Or maybe jailmaster.
Bunduk: dangerous troublemaker. Gets a frontier post far away.
Rolf: Don't know. What shall we do with Rolf?

Anyone else pondering important problems like that?

What the...

Right. I got no kingdom, but my army is a state in itself.

Artimenner is my second man, and Lezalit the third. Reliable, solid and professional soldiers, who got usefull skils besides just being good at killing something. And overall good chaps and comrades. I can teach Lezalit to not flog my men to dead but keep them into some kind of shape, and Artimenner has good potentian of becoming a brilliant tactican.

Bunduk is kind of a revolutionary. He is good as corporal, or maybe junior sergeant, but not more. I don't want to see what happens if you give any authority or responsebility to that troublemaker. Learn to obey your betters and all will be well.

Baheshtur is a Khergit, and as such completely incapable. He isn't allowed anywhere near my company.

Klethi is a weirdo, and maybe a thief. Her place is in the enemy camp, slicing throats of anyone who seems remotely important.

Ymira... Well, she's sympathic, and has skills in both trading and healing. Oh, and music. She is at least as good in selling loot as Marnid, but the latter is better in getting the credit for it. She is the second chief of hospital, besides:

Jeremus. Arrogant and pissing my second man (Artimenner) off, but saving many a soldiers' live. And as such, he is very precious. Supreme head of Hospital. Sounds good enough.

Firentis is quite the hypocrite. He killed his brother! If he keeps on whining, I won't regret it at all when he leaves. As Supreme Upper Chief of Lavatory and Cleaniness, I don't have to worry for too much trouble from his side.

Nizar. I hate that guy. arrogant, stealing the women's attention from me, and a bad musician. I'm not envious at all, nonono. And he's a freaking horseman. I don;t like horses, but I like Nizar even less. So that makes him the perfect Forlorn Hope Generalissimus of Suidical Issues.

Katrin is an old wench. She's useless. She stays a Camp Follower.

Marnid is an idiot. He can't hold a big sword, and heavy armor kills him. After a lot of training, he may become a reasonable Regular Ranker.

Alayen is a good, healty and noble warrior. But he is an arrogant snob and insists on being an officer. But he does well what he's doing, or at least in battle. He does great as a subaltern, and if I give him a medal now and then he won't complain too much about lack of promotions. I don't trust him as a senior officer, yet.

Deshavi... I guess, under all her roughness she is not that fierce and harsh at all, but she just wants to hide that. She is a good shot and is worthy to lead my skirmisher advance guard.

Borcha is great as scout, as long as you keep your horses away from him. As my company is all-infantry, that won't be a problem. He is useless as a horse-thief anyway, since he can't ride horses.

Matheld is a Nordic woman who imagines that she can be a noble and lead people in her estate or whatever. Completely ridiculous, of course. I don't want another Isolla. Women to power is dangerous, everybody knows it and every sane man will prevent it if possible. She can clean my sword, nothing more.

Rolf: Good Sergeant. 'nuff said. Nothing more.

 

[Mods]

"Viva la Revolution" ~ Bunduk- Whilst chopping off Joe's traitorous head, with Harlaus next in line

 

[Captured Joe]

That's hard enough since I only arm him with a broom.

And we Swadians not only got the thickest skin & grease in Calradia (courtesy of Mount&Feast), but also the best armors!

 

[sandoval]

The problem with Lezalit is that he is good in discipline, but he is bad for moral. His army would be something like the Prussian Army 1806. Arranged in neat lines, but run when things get tough.

 

[annallia]

We talking your faction as in one you started or just one you are a part of?

If it is one you started I would have them all executed... After all they know all about all the things you did in your grab for power and in my case my humble beginnings. We won't even go into that night with the goat...

If it is one you helped them I would try and put them in places of power, and then use them to help me rebel and claim Calradia for myself. And then execute them all.

 

[Mods]

We talking your faction as in one you started or just one you are a part of?

If it is one you started I would have them all executed... After all they know all about all the things you did in your grab for power and in my case my humble beginnings. We won't even go into that night with the goat...

If it is one you helped them I would try and put them in places of power, and then use them to help me rebel and claim Calradia for myself. And then execute them all.

You've been watching too much game of thrones I'm afraid!

 

[annallia]

We talking your faction as in one you started or just one you are a part of?

If it is one you started I would have them all executed... After all they know all about all the things you did in your grab for power and in my case my humble beginnings. We won't even go into that night with the goat...

If it is one you helped them I would try and put them in places of power, and then use them to help me rebel and claim Calradia for myself. And then execute them all.

You've been watching too much game of thrones I'm afraid!

Actually haven't gotten around to watching that yet... was about to start one of these days but muddling through a different show at the moment. I was thinking more of Goodfellas where they started killing everyone involved in the Lufthansa heist.

 

[Captured Joe]

The problem with Lezalit is that he is good in discipline, but he is bad for moral. His army would be something like the Prussian Army 1806. Arranged in neat lines, but run when things get tough.

The Prussian army of 1806 held their ground under French artillery fire for a whole midday.

Their problem was: 1. Their commander-in-chief was killed by a musketball, which caused confusion among the officers.
                            2. At Jena, they were outnumbered 2 to 1 by the French.

And at that other battle, at Auerstadt, they got lost in the fog.

Weird, all those English historicians calling the neat lines of the Prussians 'obsolete' and 'antique', while they praise the strikingly similar linear tactics of the Duke of Wellington. Apparently the only difference was that Wellington made better use of the terrain.

Also, discipline in every Napoleonic army was very tight, exept in the French army. But the disciplined soldiers could be very brave often.

Take the Hessians in 1809. They army resembled very much those of the 18th century, and only their administration was modernised. But they performed so well at Aspern-Essling and Wagram that Nicolas Davout himself, France's 'Iron Marshall', commented to Napoleon: "France ould not be better served than by these [Hessian] troops."

 

[Argeus the Paladin]

"Viva la Revolution" ~ Bunduk- Whilst chopping off Joe's traitorous head, with Harlaus next in line

Haven't you heard the modus operandi of TeaTRC?

Obey your masters, ****ers.

 

[Captured Joe]

Yeah, I thought about D'Sparil too...