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Post by DeVille on Mar 25, 2020 10:14:30 GMT
David I am sure that it is armies you give orders to not provinces. you need a unit in your province to give tax order or muster if there is a castle or stronghold. Anton will no doubt confirm or not.
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Post by Jangles on Mar 25, 2020 10:48:56 GMT
Provinces without units do not get orders. I imagine it as you can only tell your loyal troops what to do, the peasants and nobles ignore you. If you need something done, you need units there.
Yeh, each March move is from one adjacent province to another, unless by ship or wings. You can chain movement together though as mentioned previously, though that requires units stretched out along the chain to work, which isn't always viable.
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Post by Von Widdler on Mar 25, 2020 10:55:46 GMT
Right so basically you would just pay to maintain control over a province if you wanted to count the castle for victory purposes, or the supplies there. Thanks.
Anton, if you were wanting to transport troops via ships, how does that work? Can ships transport troops acting like a bridge between two land areas separated by water? So you would give land troops a march order and the ships act as transport?
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Post by Jangles on Mar 25, 2020 12:11:01 GMT
For the provinces, yes that's right. Not really useful for anything else. If someone enters your money province then it becomes theirs without a fight and you lose the money spent on it. There is one extra benefit. There is a random event card that musters units at all controlled Castles and Strongholds, so if you have a province without units there but you own it, you will get troops this way. However when this occurs is random and hard to predict.
Yeh that is correct. As long as you can trace a connection by sea from two pieces of land, and you control all the sea provinces between them, your units can March (and Retreat from combat, though you cannot Support) as if the two land provinces were adjacent. The boats don't need a special transport order, they just allow this automatically, so they can defend or support as normal. They could even do their own March order after the land units have moved if you wanted to get the boats out the way.
Ships are very powerful tools in the game, so while you don't need to own a large navy, it is worth keeping an eye on what sea spaces everyone owns as people can fling their armies very far distances if they play their cards right.
While I remember, you cannot allow other players to march through your lands or use your transports. If they enter your province they automatically fight/take it.
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Post by Von Widdler on Mar 25, 2020 20:53:27 GMT
I suppose this means I'll have to dye my hair platinum white... the lock down is getting to me, the mad Targaryen side is coming out lol
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Post by Jangles on Mar 25, 2020 22:06:31 GMT
I've had someone ask about Mustering.
You can muster in a location with a Castle or Stronghold as long as you have a unit there to do so, which is a good way to keep a small increase in your combat strength each turn. However, the other bigger way to muster is to also wait for one of the random events that occurs at the beginning of each turn. One of these is Muster! which allows all Castles and Strongholds to muster as long as they are controlled, even if just by money.
Everyone gets a big boost during those turns in army sizes. It is hard to remove armies due to the retreating rules so people don't have to be too cautious. Battles are more about pushing armies back away from locations that out right killing them (though that is a real possibility).
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Post by meliadus on Mar 26, 2020 12:24:54 GMT
First orders sent
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Post by DeVille on Mar 26, 2020 18:32:47 GMT
mine too, after a false start.
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Post by Jangles on Mar 27, 2020 8:27:07 GMT
I've got everyone except Ken.
I've sent an email to chase him up. Otherwise at ~10am I'll go ahead anyway with the new turn.
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Post by Jangles on Mar 27, 2020 10:42:45 GMT
That's us, Turn 2 has been sent out! Next orders in before Sunday morning please
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Post by Jangles on Mar 27, 2020 14:38:49 GMT
Had a few queries come in about transporting units by boats
Boats function similarly to land units except they can't Tax or Muster. They move between provinces with March orders and you are considered 'controlling' the sea space if you have at least 1 boat in it. You cannot pay money to maintain control over a sea province if you leave it.
For transporting, you can March land units from one land location to another land location if you can trace a path through sea spaces that you own. So for example, Stark could reach all the way down to Dorne if they controlled enough sea spaces to draw an unbroken path.
Units can also Retreat from a losing battle by boat, so flinging your troops abroad is fine as long as your boats aren't pushed away when you need to retreat!
The transporting is instantaneous, so the land unit March order will see them arrive at their new destination immediately. You do not slowly make your way through the sea provinces.
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Post by DeVille on Mar 28, 2020 16:46:00 GMT
First Combat tomorrow if I am not mistaken. The benefit of going first about to be demonstrated.
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Post by Jangles on Mar 28, 2020 17:49:46 GMT
We shall see! A chance for someone to get hurt I'm sure.
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Post by Jangles on Mar 29, 2020 8:05:47 GMT
This should be the start of Turn 3, just waiting on a few more orders then we are good to go!
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Post by Jangles on Mar 29, 2020 11:02:01 GMT
That's Turn 3 up!
Indeed there was a battle, though not where you might have expected it.
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