Rules about War/Armies

[Torin Lannister]

Right, so now that the site really is involved in the War of Five Kings (or rather, 3 kings at the moment) I think it might be appropriate to get up a thread detailing information concerning how certain things are resolved or what people can/cannot do.

So I'm going to set up a thread in the rules section to deal with rules regarding war in particular. Is there anything people would like it to address in particular?

List your questions here and in a couple of days I'll gather them all up and address them in the thread, where possible.

[coloradia]

Not a rule so much as a suggestion. Catapults were priced very low early, allowing some people to purchase large numbers that aren't really feasible to move with an army, much less with how much damage they were doing in the one battle we have seen. I know Alric's army was crushed, and his catapults were lost. Stannis however has 500 catapults. I would suggest that all catapult purchases pre-price increase be cut by a factor of 5 or 10. (I can't recall how much they cost before, 10 may be overkill.) I realize it seems unfair to tell people they can no longer use what they purchased completely by the rules, however for balance I think it will be needed. Even 50 or 100 catapults will be plenty for Stannis' army I believe. I don't recall who all else bought catapults, I think the Lannisters got some, and perhaps a few for the North? Stannis' would lose the most from this, which makes me sad, but I think it would help to even out what was imbalanced to start.

[duncan]

I completely agree that Catapults are a problem & I considered asking people if they would mind them being reduced, but in the end I thought it unfair. My manner of resolving this however, is King's Landing. The Lannisters have 100 in stationed in King's Landing, Stannis has him outnumbered 5 to 1, but the King's Landing Catapults will be wall mounted and thus able to hit Stannis's catapults much before Stannis can hit the Lannister catapults.

Not to mention Robb might end up coming at Stannis from the rear as the two tear each other apart to chop off Joffrey's head and mount it on a pike. Long story short, most of those Catapults won't make it out of King's Landing.

[jbutton169]

To be fair, to move 500 Catapults would take absolutely ages to move, not to mention the fatigue it will cause, by the time they get their his army will be too tired to fight.

[Torin Lannister]

There's about 23,000 Horsemen between Dragonstone, Storm's End & Highgarden forces. That's about 3 dozen horses each, moving the catapults won't be awkward.

[coloradia]

Question for the admins, I know that we are stretching the battle out timewise to ensure everyone can get time to reply and such, do you plan on having the northern armies arrive once it is done and face off with whomever is left from the Stannis/Joffrey fight as would happen if we didn't have to take extended lengths of time for the battle? Or will you just have the northern armies join in after this first turn of posts which would only take 30 minutes (give or take 15) in real time.

[Torin Lannister]

That's a good question and something we discussed at length to resolve, especially Stannis and I.

We have decided that, while IC it should take Robb & Edmure quite a lot longer to reach King's Landing than for the battle to resolve we have to consider that this is also a game and it leaves Robb & Edmure in a rather awkward spot being stuck in limbo waiting for this battle to resolve (which could take a very long time).

In the end we decided Robb & Edmure can take part in the thread once they arrive (two days to travel) and once the current round of posts resolve (in this case the first). We feel that, while we could have taken the option of Robb & Edmure need to wait until turn 6 or 7 to give Stannis time to make progress its propably more fair on everyone involved in Robb arrives sooner rather then later, as we don't want a situation where Stannis & the Tyrells do all the work and then Robb can sweep in late-battle and clean up, so instead we're going to let him take part as early as possible while all armies have as many men, which we feel evens the playing field.

[Torin Lannister]

To make an update here. The following have been established and are affective immediately.

1) Shop purchases may only be made when a character is in an allied friendly location (Castle, Stronghold or Port).

2) A board may be raided. Raiding a board (Westerlands, Riverlands, The North, etc) requires an enemy force of at least 100 units and 1 player character leading them. Raiding a location moving units into an enemy board and setting up a thread performing hostile actions (attacking farms, looting small villages, attacking trade caravans etc).

While a raid is in effect, the affected board's Lord may only claim 10,000 Dragons of their Castle income update. The remaining 5,000 is re-directed to the House of the character performing the raid. In the event that player does not have a House, their Liege Lord.