Sammyboy
Veteran
Here is a place to muse about your most evil deeds that did not cost you honor (gamewise)
Here is mine. I was King in Reyvadin and was at war with what seemed the world. I was originally a Kherjit at war with the Sarranids when I broke off not realizing that the war would follow me and then the Vaegirs decided it was time to reclaim their old lands which I had conqured as a Kherjit. I had taken the time to recruit proffesional soldiers and had huscarls and Rhodok crossbows to my call but the protecting of the villages for absolutely no benefit was beginning to slowly drain at my power house army. I simply wished there was a way to get the farmers out of the way so I could bring my full force to bear and not some stupid half real force.
I found the solution while randomly hitting a group of bandits who had a peasant woman and a farmer as prisoner. I reclassified them as group 6, peasants. The next time a village was being raided I ordered all my men to a halt and told the peasants to charge while I set up my army. This worked superbly as it soaked up all those pesky kherjit arrows, allowed my men to rain bolts and javelins and all sorts of point objects into the back of the enemy, and by the time they had cut through the human meat shield my second wave was just about upon them.
All it cost was the weight on my conscience that within about a month nearly 2000 villages died in the twons outside Reyvadin.
But hey, you gotta do what you gotta do to keep those towns not sacked. The commoners depend on it.
Here is mine. I was King in Reyvadin and was at war with what seemed the world. I was originally a Kherjit at war with the Sarranids when I broke off not realizing that the war would follow me and then the Vaegirs decided it was time to reclaim their old lands which I had conqured as a Kherjit. I had taken the time to recruit proffesional soldiers and had huscarls and Rhodok crossbows to my call but the protecting of the villages for absolutely no benefit was beginning to slowly drain at my power house army. I simply wished there was a way to get the farmers out of the way so I could bring my full force to bear and not some stupid half real force.
I found the solution while randomly hitting a group of bandits who had a peasant woman and a farmer as prisoner. I reclassified them as group 6, peasants. The next time a village was being raided I ordered all my men to a halt and told the peasants to charge while I set up my army. This worked superbly as it soaked up all those pesky kherjit arrows, allowed my men to rain bolts and javelins and all sorts of point objects into the back of the enemy, and by the time they had cut through the human meat shield my second wave was just about upon them.
All it cost was the weight on my conscience that within about a month nearly 2000 villages died in the twons outside Reyvadin.
But hey, you gotta do what you gotta do to keep those towns not sacked. The commoners depend on it.
