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Title: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Empty on April 09, 2012, 04:26:30 pm

Battlemaster (http://battlemaster.org/) is a sort of medieval low fantasy strategy game.
Everyone in it is either a noble or an adventurer.
I haven't messed with adventurers yet so go look at the wiki (http://wiki.battlemaster.org/wiki/Adventurer) if you want a description of them. (adventurers while being able to do unique stuff have way less to do in the game)
As a noble you can own land in a kingdom or be appointed an estate on that land. There are levels above that but I've only been appointed a province so far.
There are a few different classes and sub classes of nobles as well. They mainly affect what kind of units you can recruit in your army or if you an even have an army at all and some other smaller details which I haven't bothered with.

I currently play only one character in the world of Dwilight which is a Serious Medieval Atmosphere (http://wiki.battlemaster.org/wiki/Serious_Medieval_Atmosphere) world. Which means it's a bit more rp intensive. With all the sir's and my queens and such.
My noble is part of the realm Summerdale in Dwilight. We've got some nice rich provinces while having a tad too few nobles to really fill up all of them with estates.
And even then we started a war with one of our neighboring realms. And we trounced them in the huge battle we fought. Even though we were fewer in numbers our nobles were renowned enough to field larger individual armies. Which gave us an extra edge over them.

I'll wait a few days for the battle report on that huge battle I mentioned to time out and I'll post it here as example.


Battle report:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Scribe Note, 6 turns old:

Battle in Mt. Black Nastrond
No.   Role   Army   Unit   Commander   Realm   Unit   Formation   CS
1   A      BlackCats   Theodred   Libero Empire   66 SF   box     1471
2   A      Cold Spring Guard   Clive   Libero Empire   60 Inf   box     657
3   A      Dark Guard   Rohk   Libero Empire   30 Cav   wedge     595
4   A      Hawk's Rangers   Hawk   Libero Empire   30 Cav   line     453
5   A      Mortekai Guard   Mortekai   Libero Empire   50 MI   box     528
6   A      Plains Archers   Veles   Libero Empire   91 Arch   line     1046
7   A      Praetorians   Kniva   Libero Empire   50 SF   line     920
8   A      Springdale Red Company   Walnar   Libero Empire   67 Inf   box     754
9   D      Dalian Warriors   Cairo   Summerdale   90 Inf   line     787
10   D      Deleus Dawn   Andira   Summerdale   153 Inf   box     1318
11   D      Grancourt Infantry   Charlotte   Summerdale   199 Inf   box     1252
12   D      Hunters of Nifel   Owen   Summerdale   142 Arch   line     864
13   D      I Company Archers, I Dalian Army   Gertrude   Summerdale   142 Arch   box     1047
14   D      Star Defenders   Roland   Summerdale   38 Inf   box     324
15   D      Steel Rain   Amalie   Summerdale   216 Arch   box     1189
16   D      The Silver Guard   Grundan   Summerdale   54 Inf   line     620
17   D      Valldir's Steel Rain   Perrin   Summerdale   160 Arch   box     1040

Total:
8 attackers (127 Inf, 50 MI, 91 Arch, 60 Cav, 116 SF)
9 defenders (534 Inf, 660 Arch)
Total combat strengths: 6424 vs. 8441
The forces from Summerdale brace as they prepare to defend their ongoing takeover.
The region owner Libero Empire and their allies attack the takeover forces.
The Libero Empire troops attack because they are at war with Summerdale.

Strong winds and gusts are making ranged combat a game of luck.
Even though there is a fortification nearby, neither attackers nor defenders are able to make use of it, so the battlefield is in the open.

Gertrude Aridania, Royal Treasurer of Summerdale, Viscountess of Ymer's Fall is spotted wearing the White Chain Mail.
Charlotte Grancourt, Queen of Summerdale, Duchess of Nifelheim, Margravine of Nifelheim, Marshal of the Dalian Crusade is spotted wearing the Doomed Crown.
Charlotte Grancourt, Queen of Summerdale, Duchess of Nifelheim, Margravine of Nifelheim, Marshal of the Dalian Crusade is spotted wearing the Tempered Ring of Lightning.
Charlotte Grancourt, Queen of Summerdale, Duchess of Nifelheim, Margravine of Nifelheim, Marshal of the Dalian Crusade is spotted wearing the Shiny Breastplate of the Kings.
Andira Deleus, Margravine of Nifel is spotted wearing the Cursed Girdle of Beauty.
Theodred Hormondson of Libero Empire, Royal Marshal of Libero Empire, Count of Rye, Marshal of the Guardians of The Empire takes command of his army. They deploy in Infantry Charge formation.
Charlotte Grancourt of Summerdale, Queen of Summerdale, Duchess of Nifelheim, Margravine of Nifelheim, Marshal of the Dalian Crusade takes command of her army. They deploy in Fortification Defense formation.

(legend: I=Infantry, M=Mixed Inf, A=Archers, C=Cavalry, S=Special Forces, U=Undead, M=Monsters)
Turn No. 1

Since the map doesn't really copy over I'll just describe the scenes.
Imagine all of Summerdale units both infantry and archers standing in one line.
The Libero Empire Is using an infantry charge formation which means their infantry and the like are in front while the archers and cavalry are one line back.
            
Plains Archers (6) fire on Deleus Dawn (10), scoring 650 hits.
I Company Archers, I Dalian Army (13) fire on Praetorians (7), scoring 650 hits.
Hunters of Nifel (12) fire on Springdale Red Company (, scoring 794 hits.
Steel Rain (15) fire on Cold Spring Guard (2), scoring 976 hits.
Mortekai Guard (5) fire on Grancourt Infantry (11), scoring 214 hits.
Valldir's Steel Rain (17) fire on Mortekai Guard (5), scoring 1018 hits.
Total ranged hits suffered: Attackers: 3438, Defenders: 864
Hawk's Rangers (4) and Dark Guard (3) ride on, closing in on the defenders.
Springdale Red Company (, Praetorians (7), BlackCats (1) and Cold Spring Guard (2) advance towards the enemy.
Grancourt Infantry (11), Dalian Warriors (9), Star Defenders (14), The Silver Guard (16) and Deleus Dawn (10) advance towards the enemy.


Close Combat (Center Line):
10 Summerdale banners are visible in the melee.
5 Libero Empire banners are visible in the melee.
Grancourt Infantry (11) score 521 hits on Springdale Red Company (.
Dalian Warriors (9) score 507 hits on Cold Spring Guard (2).
Star Defenders (14) score 188 hits on Dark Guard (3).
Dark Guard (3) score 434 hits on Deleus Dawn (10).
Dark Guard (3) score 132 hits on Star Defenders (14).
The Silver Guard (16) score 484 hits on Praetorians (7).
Springdale Red Company ( score 357 hits on Grancourt Infantry (11).
Praetorians (7) score 807 hits on The Silver Guard (16).
Deleus Dawn (10) score 1038 hits on Dark Guard (3).
Cold Spring Guard (2) score 342 hits on Dalian Warriors (9).
Total close combat hits suffered: Attackers: 2738, Defenders: 2072

Grancourt Infantry (11) take 571 hits (357 in close combat, 214 from archer fire), which cause 16 casualties.
Dalian Warriors (9) take 342 hits in close combat, which cause 11 casualties.
Star Defenders (14) take 132 hits in close combat, which cause 4 casualties.
Dark Guard (3) take 1226 hits in close combat, which cause 30 casualties, wiping the unit out.
Rohk Darksun of Libero Empire, Royal Justiciar of Libero Empire, Duke of Nifelhold, Margrave of Nifelhold, Marshal of the Defenders of the Mountain has been wounded by Star Defenders (14).
The Silver Guard (16) take 807 hits in close combat, which cause 26 casualties.
Springdale Red Company ( take 1315 hits (521 in close combat, 794 from archer fire), which cause 32 casualties.
Mortekai Guard (5) take 1018 hits from archer fire, which cause 28 casualties.
Praetorians (7) take 1134 hits (484 in close combat, 650 from archer fire), which cause 29 casualties.
Deleus Dawn (10) take 1084 hits (434 in close combat, 650 from archer fire), which cause 36 casualties.
Cold Spring Guard (2) take 1483 hits (507 in close combat, 976 from archer fire), which cause 33 casualties.
Total hits suffered: Attackers: 6176 (2738 from close combat and 3438 from ranged), Defenders: 2936 (2072 from close combat and 864 from ranged)
Total casualties: 152 attackers, 93 defenders

Turn No. 2

All infantry from both sides are now on the same line duking it out while the archers are taking shots from behind this line and the libero cavalry is charging in.
            
Mortekai Guard (5) fire on Steel Rain (15), scoring 139 hits.
Hunters of Nifel (12) fire on BlackCats (1), scoring 674 hits.
Valldir's Steel Rain (17) fire on Hawk's Rangers (4), scoring 356 hits.
Plains Archers (6) fire on I Company Archers, I Dalian Army (13), scoring 395 hits.
I Company Archers, I Dalian Army (13) fire on BlackCats (1), scoring 658 hits.
Steel Rain (15) fire on Mortekai Guard (5), scoring 881 hits.
Total ranged hits suffered: Attackers: 2569, Defenders: 534
Hawk's Rangers (4) charge forward.
BlackCats (1) advance towards the enemy.
Star Defenders (14) cannot join the melee, as it is too crowded.


Close Combat (Center Line):
10 Summerdale banners are visible in the melee.
6 Libero Empire banners are visible in the melee.
Deleus Dawn (10) score 733 hits on Springdale Red Company (.
Hawk's Rangers (4) score 777 hits on Dalian Warriors (9).
Grancourt Infantry (11) score 298 hits on Cold Spring Guard (2) (519 before overkill).
Springdale Red Company ( score 304 hits on Deleus Dawn (10).
Cold Spring Guard (2) score 193 hits on Grancourt Infantry (11).
The Silver Guard (16) score 327 hits on Praetorians (7).
BlackCats (1) score 1535 hits on Star Defenders (14).
Dalian Warriors (9) score 187 hits on Praetorians (7).
Dalian Warriors (9) score 305 hits on Hawk's Rangers (4).
Star Defenders (14) score 144 hits on BlackCats (1).
Praetorians (7) score 91 hits on The Silver Guard (16).
Praetorians (7) score 253 hits on Dalian Warriors (9).
Total close combat hits suffered: Attackers: 1994 (2215 before overkill), Defenders: 3153

Mortekai Guard (5) take 881 hits from archer fire, which cause 22 casualties, wiping the unit out.
Deleus Dawn (10) take 304 hits in close combat, which cause 10 casualties.
Hawk's Rangers (4) take 661 hits (305 in close combat, 356 from archer fire), which cause 16 casualties.
Grancourt Infantry (11) take 193 hits in close combat, which cause 5 casualties.
Springdale Red Company ( take 733 hits in close combat, which cause 18 casualties. 3 Libero Empire banners fall.
Walnar Of Stargard of Libero Empire (Knight of Springdale, Libero Empire) has been wounded by Deleus Dawn (10).
Cold Spring Guard (2) take 298 hits in close combat, which cause 7 casualties.
The Silver Guard (16) take 91 hits in close combat, which cause 3 casualties.
BlackCats (1) take 1476 hits (144 in close combat, 1332 from archer fire), which cause 24 casualties.
Dalian Warriors (9) take 1030 hits in close combat, which cause 34 casualties.
Star Defenders (14) take 1535 hits in close combat, which cause 34 casualties, wiping the unit out.
Praetorians (7) take 514 hits in close combat, which cause 14 casualties, making the unit retreat from the battlefield.
I Company Archers, I Dalian Army (13) take 395 hits from archer fire, which cause 16 casualties.
Steel Rain (15) take 139 hits from archer fire, which cause 6 casualties.
Total hits suffered: Attackers: 4563 (1994 from close combat and 2569 from ranged), Defenders: 3687 (3153 from close combat and 534 from ranged)
Total casualties: 101 attackers, 108 defenders

Turn No. 3

Libero has commited all their melee to the battle on the same line now as has summerdale the turn before this.
            
Valldir's Steel Rain (17) fire on Plains Archers (6), scoring 333 hits.
I Company Archers, I Dalian Army (13) fire on Plains Archers (6), scoring 232 hits.
Plains Archers (6) fire on Steel Rain (15), scoring 624 hits.
Hunters of Nifel (12) fire on Plains Archers (6), scoring 451 hits.
Steel Rain (15) fire on Plains Archers (6), scoring 365 hits.
Total ranged hits suffered: Attackers: 1381, Defenders: 624


Close Combat (Center Line):
10 Summerdale banners are visible in the melee.
3 Libero Empire banners are visible in the melee.
Hawk's Rangers (4) score 212 hits on Deleus Dawn (10).
Deleus Dawn (10) score 413 hits on Hawk's Rangers (4) (773 before overkill).
BlackCats (1) score 861 hits on Grancourt Infantry (11).
Cold Spring Guard (2) score 157 hits on The Silver Guard (16).
Springdale Red Company ( score 172 hits on Dalian Warriors (9).
The Silver Guard (16) score 273 hits on Cold Spring Guard (2).
Grancourt Infantry (11) score 619 hits on BlackCats (1).
Dalian Warriors (9) score 389 hits on Springdale Red Company (.
Total close combat hits suffered: Attackers: 1694 (2054 before overkill), Defenders: 1402

Hawk's Rangers (4) take 413 hits in close combat, which cause 10 casualties, making the unit retreat from the battlefield.
Deleus Dawn (10) take 212 hits in close combat, which cause 7 casualties.
BlackCats (1) take 619 hits in close combat, which cause 10 casualties.
Cold Spring Guard (2) take 273 hits in close combat, which cause 6 casualties, making the unit retreat from the battlefield.
Springdale Red Company ( take 389 hits in close combat, which cause 10 casualties, making the unit retreat from the battlefield.
Plains Archers (6) take 1381 hits from archer fire, which cause 37 casualties.
Steel Rain (15) take 624 hits from archer fire, which cause 26 casualties.
The Silver Guard (16) take 157 hits in close combat, which cause 5 casualties, making the unit retreat from the battlefield.
Grancourt Infantry (11) take 861 hits in close combat, which cause 24 casualties.
Dalian Warriors (9) take 172 hits in close combat, which cause 6 casualties.
Total hits suffered: Attackers: 3075 (1694 from close combat and 1381 from ranged), Defenders: 2026 (1402 from close combat and 624 from ranged)
Total casualties: 73 attackers, 68 defenders

Turn No. 4

Most of Libero's melee has routed due to too much wounded/killed men and the summerdale archers shoot at the stragglers.
            
I Company Archers, I Dalian Army (13) fire on Plains Archers (6), scoring 214 hits.
Steel Rain (15) fire on Plains Archers (6), scoring 331 hits.
Plains Archers (6) fire on Valldir's Steel Rain (17), scoring 405 hits.
Hunters of Nifel (12) fire on Plains Archers (6), scoring 483 hits.
Valldir's Steel Rain (17) fire on Plains Archers (6), scoring 290 hits.
Total ranged hits suffered: Attackers: 1318, Defenders: 405
Dalian Warriors (9) advance towards the enemy.
Dalian Warriors (9) cannot join the melee, as it is too crowded.


Close Combat (Center Line):
7 Summerdale banners are visible in the melee.
1 Libero Empire banners are visible in the melee.
Grancourt Infantry (11) score 446 hits on BlackCats (1).
BlackCats (1) score 151 hits on Deleus Dawn (10).
BlackCats (1) score 242 hits on Grancourt Infantry (11).
Deleus Dawn (10) score 971 hits on BlackCats (1).
Total close combat hits suffered: Attackers: 1417, Defenders: 393

Grancourt Infantry (11) take 242 hits in close combat, which cause 7 casualties.
BlackCats (1) take 1417 hits in close combat, which cause 22 casualties, making the unit retreat from the battlefield. One Libero Empire banner is lost.
Deleus Dawn (10) take 151 hits in close combat, which cause 5 casualties.
Plains Archers (6) take 1318 hits from archer fire, which cause 35 casualties, making the unit retreat from the battlefield. 5 Libero Empire banners fall.
Valldir's Steel Rain (17) take 405 hits from archer fire, which cause 15 casualties.
Total hits suffered: Attackers: 2735 (1417 from close combat and 1318 from ranged), Defenders: 798 (393 from close combat and 405 from ranged)
Total casualties: 57 attackers, 27 defenders

Defender Victory!

The battle does minor damage to the local infrastructure. Production falls 5 %.
The local roads network has also been damaged.

Do know that this is only a battle between two realms. I've seen a battle between two alliances of realms before and it lasted way more turns then 4.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: nenjin on April 09, 2012, 04:28:18 pm

For a minute I thought this was about the old GWS Table Top Wargame.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: bluephoenix on April 09, 2012, 06:32:08 pm

Looks interesting

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Baijiu on April 10, 2012, 01:51:23 am

I'm attempting to play, but wow, it's information overload. There also seems to be a lot of waiting, but I guess that's normal considering it's a browser game. I'm currently in Asylon, wondering what to do.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Julius Clonkus on April 10, 2012, 02:44:15 am

I would love to join but alas, when I try to log in, all I see is the following:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Warning: require(/var/battlemaster/include/Doctrine/BattleMaster/PasswordHash.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/share/php/Doctrine/Common/ClassLoader.php on line 148 Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required '/var/battlemaster/include/Doctrine/BattleMaster/PasswordHash.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/var/battlemaster/include/:/var/battlemaster/jpgraph') in /usr/share/php/Doctrine/Common/ClassLoader.php on line 148

Once I get this to work, I'll be a happy, happy man. Serious Medieval Atmosphere? Hell yes please. Everything to avoid a giant mass of people who play to win.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: ThtblovesDF on April 10, 2012, 02:52:15 am

~login works now

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Evilsx on April 10, 2012, 03:51:11 am

I am going to try this out, i am going as a adventurer and going into the Dwilight, give me the best for luck and i give you best for notes.

*Edit-
Day 1: Just came to this new land, had to leave 'Old land' due to problems, now i here at Rye, this land is ruled by the Libero Empire, I am hoping to make a name for myself here, for now i am living with barely anything, so i search for some items but all i found was a Piece of Amber,so i went to fight some undead, i got some silver from the job, I am writing these notes so that one day, someone can read my story, wish me the best for dreams, Reader.

John

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ghazkull on April 10, 2012, 05:51:45 am

Trying to join too

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Julius Clonkus on April 10, 2012, 06:08:48 am

I am now active in Summerdale.

Beware Konrad Auenstedt for...well, no reason, actually.
Unless his archers suddenly turn into actually useful warriors someday.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Empty on April 10, 2012, 06:35:01 am

If people still have problems signing up please mention it.
Also tell us what browser you are using.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on April 10, 2012, 10:37:30 am

Huh... thought there was already a thread for this, then realized that there wasn't when I used the search. 
I'm in the game, but pretty inactive, logging in whenever I remember to.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: ndkid on April 10, 2012, 11:58:47 am

Just my $0.02.
I played Battlemaster for years, and eventually had a character that climbed the social ladder to Marshall, and then King.

In my experience, the pain of high-level political/military gameplay is sort of like the pain involved in playing capture the flag with random team mates, times 10-100 (depending on the size of your kingdom). When you are a small kingdom, perhaps with only a handful of nobles, and everybody knows and trusts each other, it's easy to coordinate and work as a team.
Once you're working with large kingdoms, involving dozens of people, not all of whom have English as their first language, in different time zones, coordination can become a nightmare. Every move into enemy territory ordered becomes a game of trying to get orders out as early as possible (but not *too* early, because you don't want people to move before the turn).
There are many ways to mitigate the problem (concentrating force in the hands of a few, making warfare a matter of being where the enemy isn't), but many of the roots of the problem are systemic.

This doesn't come up when you're playing at the low level... then you're mostly going where your generals tell you, using the settings you're told, and learning how to fence with your spare gold. If that, plus a heavy RP environment shivers your timbers, BM is one of the best things out there.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Empty on April 10, 2012, 12:38:04 pm

Battlemaster is still being worked upon though.
The game has changed a lot since the half year I've been playing.
(I'm looking at you lovely new food and estate system :P)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Empty on April 10, 2012, 01:02:11 pm

Just to make it clear. Everyone (Except a few exceptions but those are special cases) in battlemaster is human.
So rping you are a dwarf would be a clear nono. Though there's nothing against rping a small "boned" person who loves to never shave.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Knave on April 10, 2012, 01:10:21 pm

Just wanted to say that I signed up as Corwin Cortobel last night and am on my way to help Summerdale. Looks like a number of other bay12ers have had the same idea. It looks like a lot of fun, but I hope that people understand the whole human only thing. It's nice to know that the bay12 community is on board, but it doesn't always have to be dwarf related, yanno?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: ThtblovesDF on April 10, 2012, 01:47:12 pm

What world/landmass is everyone on?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Julius Clonkus on April 10, 2012, 02:19:29 pm

It appears as though the majority of interested Bay12ers is heading to Dwilight with the intention to join Summerdale.

So did I.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Empty on April 10, 2012, 04:19:56 pm

I welcome all new nobles in or out of dwilight.

A noble's first priority should be swearing fealty to a lord and getting assigned an estate.
Since dwilight is the server running the latest game advancements getting on here is a bit different then on the other maps.
You have to move to where an empty estate is trough travelling there and then claim it trough the politics tab.
I don't know how it's done on the other maps so just ask the nobles in that realm.

Be sure to send a message to your fellow nobles about who you are and that you are looking for an estate.
Those with an estate will receive taxes once tax day comes round and can be assigned to the realms army by their lord.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Jimlad11 on April 10, 2012, 04:21:18 pm

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Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on April 10, 2012, 05:51:57 pm

This sounds interesting. Is there still room in Summerdale, or should new arrivals set about creating a new kingdom?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Karlito on April 10, 2012, 05:54:48 pm

I played this for a while, but I couldn't really keep up my interest.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Empty on April 10, 2012, 06:04:35 pm

Quote from: Sirus on April 10, 2012, 05:51:57 pm

This sounds interesting. Is there still room in Summerdale, or should new arrivals set about creating a new kingdom?

There's still ample room in Summerdale.
Also to create a kingdom you need both a lot of honour/prestige which affects individual army size and gold to fund said army.
So you're better of accruing them in an already established kingdom.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on April 10, 2012, 06:42:05 pm

Any classes or units you're looking for in particular?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Knave on April 10, 2012, 06:52:06 pm

Everyone starts out as a basic warrior class if you select a noble. From there you can select to lead a group of infantry or archers to start with, but these decisions are by no means concrete.

It's interesting to see the effects of the 'bay12 bump' on a small kingdom such as summerdale. Since I joined last night the population has doubled. From what I can tell, the noble population is still low enough that basically everyone can still get their own land if they swear fealty.

But what's most important right now is having commanders who follow orders from the general or Queen. In the midst of a war, so every body will count.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Smitehappy on April 10, 2012, 07:05:18 pm

Just became a knight with my Estate Odenir. Currently on my way to the capitol, Nifelheim but it looks like I won't arrive for another day.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on April 10, 2012, 07:34:24 pm

One more question:
Which duchy should I start in? I like the sound of Storm's Keep, but if I should go somewhere else to swear fealty I would rather start there.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Empty on April 10, 2012, 07:54:55 pm

Quote from: Sirus on April 10, 2012, 07:34:24 pm

One more question:
Which duchy should I start in? I like the sound of Storm's Keep, but if I should go somewhere else to swear fealty I would rather start there.

Doesn't really matter. All you'll accomplish this way is save on some travel time :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Knave on April 10, 2012, 07:58:57 pm

All three Summerdale Duchies have room for new knights I believe, so it's really a matter of preference. One thing to note is that you can only recruit more men at the realm's capitol province, Niefelheim in the Niefelheim Duchy. It's not much of a trek from Storm's End, but it might delay you a little bit if you're eager to get into the action.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on April 10, 2012, 08:14:05 pm

Honestly, I'm all for taking it slow. I'll go ahead and start in Storm Keep.

ETA: Joined as Cyrus Amberstaff. Completely confused, but I'm reading the wiki to figure out what to do. Also, are we at war with Libero? The peasants at Mt. Black Nastrond are apparently devoted to them  :-\

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Knave on April 10, 2012, 09:46:51 pm

Quote from: Sirus on April 10, 2012, 08:14:05 pm

Honestly, I'm all for taking it slow. I'll go ahead and start in Storm Keep.

ETA: Joined as Cyrus Amberstaff. Completely confused, but I'm reading the wiki to figure out what to do. Also, are we at war with Libero? The peasants at Mt. Black Nastrond are apparently devoted to them  :-\

Aye, that would make sense. We just um...liberated that region from Libero a few turns ago, so the population is still pretty hostile I'd imagine. They've also successfully deflected two attempts to re-take it.

If your men are in that region, who knows there might even be fighting!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on April 10, 2012, 09:55:07 pm

Well, now I'm scared. I've only got 23 men in my unit D:
Hope the local lord comes online soon so I can do whatever I need to officially join.

ETA: Apparently there is no local lord, and I sent a message to the guy who used to rule on the other side <_<;

Anyway, I "survived" my first battle! By which I mean a single unit (led, ironically enough, by the dude I sent a message to earlier) attacked, and was driven off by the large number of garrisoned archers that I didn't know about without injuring a single one of our troops. But hey, free honor.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Julius Clonkus on April 11, 2012, 12:54:45 am

Ah, oh wow. Travel time is harsh - I'm currently on my way to the capital which will take FOREVER and after concluding my business there, I'm likely going to trek to a different location altogether, this one distant as hell.

But I like this medieval correspondence simulator aspect. Even though I put thirty minutes of writing and then another thirty minutes of double-checking and research into every letter - especially the ones as long as this post.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Alehkhs on April 11, 2012, 01:18:19 am

Alright. Details Details: What do I do if I want to get in on this, and how far can I rise? Also, any microtransactions or similar that I should know about now before I get into the game?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on April 11, 2012, 01:23:43 am

I haven't seen any signs of microtransactions so far, but I'm pretty new myself. And it looks like you can rise all the way to king or queen, but I'm guessing that would take a very long time.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on April 11, 2012, 07:14:12 am

There are no microtransactions whatsoever.  Never have been any from all my time playing it... a few years.

The game is social, if you have the drive, ambition and charisma, you can become Monarch/Dictator/Presidente.


Top 4 Positions
Monarch/Dictator/Presidente
Judge
General
Banker

Those are the top 4 positions of a kingdom.  Kingdom laws determine how those positions are chosen. 
Monarch/Dictator is elected once and is the boss for life.  Whenever the boss is disposed of, a new election pops up for the next boss.
Presidente is elected every month.
Judge/General/Banker can be chosen by election every month or be appointed by Monarch/Dictator/Presidente.

Other positions...
Sponsor: The financial backer of an Army.  Usually a Duke/Lord/Lady sponsors an army since they have income.
Marshall: Leader of an army.  Chosen by the Sponsor.
Sub-Marshall: Second in command of the army.  Chosen by the Sponsor
Duke: Own and manage a city.  Very high income, but also greater responsibility... the city people require food that you have to buy from the Lords/Ladies... or foreigners.  Needs some knights, I think 1 is enough.  (Usually a for life position...)
Lord/Lady: Own and manage a province/town... income/food production ranges.  At least 1 knight is needed to properly manage the province/town.  (Usually a for life position...)
Knight: Has an estate in one of the provinces/towns/cities.  With that, your source of income is from that province.  Can be assigned into an army by the master they  have sworn fealty to.
Noble: Unlanded nobles.  You don't really have much of an income... Find a Lord/Lady/Duke willing to provide an estate to you.
Adventure: A commoner or bastard.  Hunt monsters and undead.  Adventure.  Loot unique items.  Get thrown into prison by ornery +noble.

How elections can work.
1) Everyone has an equal vote.
2) Everyone can vote, the votes of Lords/Ladies/Dukes count for more.
3) Only Lords/Ladies/Dukes can vote.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Alehkhs on April 11, 2012, 09:00:01 am

Sounds good.

So I should sign up for Summerdale, in Dwilight? Something about Duchies as well. And who am I pledging my loyalty?

Also, any shorefront property would be preferable, so long as I'm not going to be invaded by the sea.  ;D

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on April 11, 2012, 09:41:07 am

Wouldn't know the details, I'm currently in Asylon.  Duchy of Nifelheim is a good start for Summerdale since it seems to be the capital.


Also, forgot to mention... you can become a priest and go around preaching and fomenting hate and intolerance.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Alehkhs on April 11, 2012, 09:22:32 pm

So... Apparently I'll need to strive towards being able to change my "family home" at some point. Supposedly it can be done under "certain circumstances," anyone have a clue in that department?

I selected Valkyrja in character creation, but it threw me in Nifel anyways (I've been told this might have been the server being experimental?).

Anyways, I'm on my way to Valkyrja and hopefully some day I can move my family home there.  :'(

By the way, I'm in as Olek Havens.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on April 11, 2012, 09:30:28 pm

Moving the family home requires family wealth, a good portion of it... and probably other stuff.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: JPierreD on April 12, 2012, 04:18:38 am

Quote from: Zangi on April 11, 2012, 09:30:28 pm

Moving the family home requires family wealth, a good portion of it... and probably other stuff.

Hello, I come from the BM forums to give you guys a hand. Also play DF, but that's another matter.

In order to move your family home you need a character with the Sub-Class "Hero", but don't choose that lightly. Heroes participate in the front of the combat, so there is a small chance every battle they are in that they will die. They also have some bonuses (can tell their tales to improve the morale of the peasants, change their family home and call for volunteers to join his army), and some restrictions (cannot do Civil or Police Work, which is under their station).

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on April 12, 2012, 08:37:40 am

Greetings!

I'm one of the developers on BattleMaster (and I've been playing DF since about v0.31.12), and I'll be happy to help out with any issues or confusions people have that the other players on here can't handle.

Glad to see the communities for these two games starting to get together :D

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Alehkhs on April 12, 2012, 09:31:18 am

Quote from: danaris on April 12, 2012, 08:37:40 am

I'm one of the developers on BattleMaster and I'll be happy to help out with any issues or confusions people have that the other players on here can't handle.

Just as a heads up: there was a strange bug when I created my character. I selected to start in the dutchy of Valkyrja during the creation process (had a backstory/RP planned out and all  :-[), and when my I entered the world my messages screen showed my duchess as that of Valkyrja but it spawned me in Nifel and made that my family home. I still plan to head out to Valkyrja and settle in an estate there but...

Quote from: JPierreD on April 12, 2012, 04:18:38 am

In order to move your family home you need a character with the Sub-Class "Hero", but don't choose that lightly.

I was hoping there was a less death-inducing way to make Valkyrja my family home. Sucks about my bug then, I guess.  :-\

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Velax on April 12, 2012, 09:52:40 am

Feel free to come join Arcaea on the Far East Island, too. Plenty of room, and there's a big war on the horizon. :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: JPierreD on April 12, 2012, 12:24:08 pm

Quote from: Alehkhs on April 12, 2012, 09:31:18 am

I was hoping there was a less death-inducing way to make Valkyrja my family home. Sucks about my bug then, I guess.  :-\

Well, to be fairly honest the location of your family home doesn't change much. Mine was on the other side of the island for quite a while, before my Hero character moved it.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on April 12, 2012, 12:50:26 pm

Quote from: Alehkhs on April 12, 2012, 09:31:18 am

Just as a heads up: there was a strange bug when I created my character. I selected to start in the dutchy of Valkyrja during the creation process (had a backstory/RP planned out and all  :-[), and when my I entered the world my messages screen showed my duchess as that of Valkyrja but it spawned me in Nifel and made that my family home. I still plan to head out to Valkyrja and settle in an estate there but...

Yeah, that's an unfortunate bug we just learned about. It's primarily due to the fact that we're in the middle of a major coding transition (porting all our old procedural code over to OO, using Doctrine), and stuff that hasn't been converted yet doesn't always interact well with stuff that has. It'll probably take another few months to finish the transition, but once it's done, we've got a lot of big plans to make the game better—for everyone, but especially for new players.

But, as JPierreD mentioned, the location of your family home doesn't make a huge difference to the game experience as a whole.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on April 12, 2012, 01:11:44 pm

Quote from: Alehkhs on April 12, 2012, 09:31:18 am

Quote from: JPierreD on April 12, 2012, 04:18:38 am

In order to move your family home you need a character with the Sub-Class "Hero", but don't choose that lightly.

I was hoping there was a less death-inducing way to make Valkyrja my family home. Sucks about my bug then, I guess.  :-\

To be fair, your character will grow old and senile sooner or later anyways. 
I've managed to make an epic Hero/Duke in Giblot/Colonies way back when.  But yea, stagnation is what killed the fool in the end... not a glorious fight in the field of battle.... I think... I don't really remember.

Either way... it was such a sad end for a Hero like him...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Lorgan on April 12, 2012, 03:47:15 pm

Quote from: Zangi on April 12, 2012, 01:11:44 pm

To be fair, your character will grow old and senile sooner or later anyways. 
I've managed to make an epic Hero/Duke in Giblot/Colonies way back when.  But yea, stagnation is what killed the fool in the end... not a glorious fight in the field of battle.... I think... I don't really remember.

Either way... it was such a sad end for a Hero like him...

It's the hero's curse. If you want your character to die, he'll live. But if you've got a whole lot planned for him, he'll die in some stupid battle. :)

(So yeah, I heard about this topic from Empty and thought to come and check it out because there's really a whole bunch of realms that could use new nobles. :) )

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on April 12, 2012, 04:05:29 pm

Holy shit... Is this... What i think it is? Man, blast from the past used to play this yeeeeaaaars ago is it still goin' strong?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Lorgan on April 12, 2012, 04:49:36 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on April 12, 2012, 04:05:29 pm

Holy shit... Is this... What i think it is? Man, blast from the past used to play this yeeeeaaaars ago is it still goin' strong?

Hehe. I've been playing this game for... 9 years now (holy shit) and it has changed a lot over the years but I still enjoy it as much as when I started. :)
Probably more now even.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on April 12, 2012, 04:54:09 pm

Sweet, im interested in trying it out again, are most of us still on dwilight, summerdale?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on April 12, 2012, 05:12:16 pm

Summerdale is the place to go it seems.

Much room is to be had in Asylon too if you are looking for a different place to park a 2nd noble....   Or... you can have 2 nobles in Summerdale.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on April 12, 2012, 05:20:14 pm

I strongly encourage people to spread out their characters. All landing in one realm at the same time can burden that realm, and also cause suspicions of bad behaviour.

A good time can be had on all the continents, though I must admit that I, too, am partial to Dwilight. I'm pretty sure that any realm on Dwilight would be a reasonably good one to start in.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Lorgan on April 12, 2012, 05:24:24 pm

Quote from: Zangi on April 12, 2012, 05:12:16 pm

Much room is to be had in Asylon too if you are looking for a different place to park a 2nd noble....   Or... you can have 2 nobles in Summerdale.

Nope. Dwilight is a 1-noble only continent. But there's still plenty of other continents and cool realms out there. Dwilight may be the only continent where Serious Medieval Atmosphere is enforced, but there are very few players nowadays who don't play their characters as real medieval nobles (time and place that those nobles are based on varries). The only difference really is that in some realms on the other continents there's a little more silliness. :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on April 12, 2012, 05:28:24 pm

Ah, thanks for the correction, havn't bothered to make a 2nd noble there myself.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on April 12, 2012, 07:44:18 pm

K, so I signed up and stuff and now im a minor noble of Summerdale, Robert irkheart (soon to be EarnHeart), and I'm not too sure what to do next round, i've put my men through some normal training and mingled with the damnable peasentry. I'm curious is messaging the only form of communique in game? Also, I'm a bit confused (maybe I didn't read thorughly enough) how to make money; lastly, should I head to thr capital?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on April 12, 2012, 07:54:32 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on April 12, 2012, 07:44:18 pm

K, so I signed up and stuff and now im a minor noble of Summerdale, Robert irkheart (soon to be EarnHeart), and I'm not too sure what to do next round, i've put my men through some normal training and mingled with the damnable peasentry. I'm curious is messaging the only form of communique in game? Also, I'm a bit confused (maybe I didn't read thorughly enough) how to make money; lastly, should I head to thr capital?

Messaging: Yea only form of communication.
Money: Find a lord/duke willing to take you in as a Knight.  Message the realm asking.
Capital: It is where you recruit more soldiers.  Usually other stuff you can do there too, like banking and what-not.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on April 12, 2012, 07:57:19 pm

Forget going to the capital right now. We're preparing for an attack on another realm, and we need nobles ASAP.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on April 12, 2012, 08:00:22 pm

Quote from: Sirus on April 12, 2012, 07:57:19 pm

Forget going to the capital right now. We're preparing for an attack on another realm, and we need nobles ASAP.

I'm pretty sure a brand new noble with 16 infantry or archers is going to do wonders.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on April 12, 2012, 08:05:19 pm

Quote from: Zangi on April 12, 2012, 08:00:22 pm

Quote from: Sirus on April 12, 2012, 07:57:19 pm

Forget going to the capital right now. We're preparing for an attack on another realm, and we need nobles ASAP.

I'm pretty sure a brand new noble with 16 infantry or archers is going to do wonders.

It's all we got after a bug allowed a conquered region to instantly revert to the old realm controlling it - AFTER Summerdale packed the region with militia units.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on April 12, 2012, 08:14:32 pm

what should I include in my letter to the realm? and who should i address it to? are there people I should exclude?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: JPierreD on April 12, 2012, 08:17:31 pm

Two advises:

1) Try different realms. If one proves boring, try another. You will see there are loads of differences between them, from government forms (Republics, Tyrannies, Monarchies, Theocracies), cultures (the republican Maroccidentals, the plotting Lurian realms, the merchant D'Harans, the northern Astroists, and so on), religions (check the wiki and find tons of them), and player bases.

2) Ignore people joining here only to promote their own realms. ;D

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on April 12, 2012, 08:18:04 pm

Send it to everyone in the realm, for courtesy's sake. It can be a simple "I pledge to serve the Queen" or whatever, just try to roleplay it a little, announce your arrival. Oh, and be polite of course.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: JPierreD on April 12, 2012, 08:19:33 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on April 12, 2012, 08:14:32 pm

what should I include in my letter to the realm? and who should i address it to? are there people I should exclude?

Address every noble, if you are in Summerdale you can go with "Dalian nobility,". No need to exclude anyone. Just say you are a new noble seeking an estate, and willing to join an army.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on April 12, 2012, 08:34:44 pm

sweet, well I'll see wher that gets me, thanks guys. Any other miscellaneous tips before I head to intensive ArmA II gaming?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Alehkhs on April 12, 2012, 09:10:52 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on April 12, 2012, 07:44:18 pm

K, so I signed up and stuff and now im a minor noble of Summerdale, Robert irkheart (soon to be EarnHeart), and I'm not too sure what to do next round, i've put my men through some normal training and mingled with the damnable peasentry. I'm curious is messaging the only form of communique in game? Also, I'm a bit confused (maybe I didn't read thorughly enough) how to make money; lastly, should I head to thr capital?

I saw that it correctly spawned you in Valkyrja (I assume that's where you selected). I am insanely jealous and increasingly irrationally angry about my bugged family home situation.  >:(

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Rakonas on April 12, 2012, 09:13:07 pm

I'm sure it just puts you in a random province within the duchy you selected. Anyway, I'm en route to Nifelheim in hopes of securing a vacant estate.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: dennislp3 on April 12, 2012, 09:14:09 pm

no hotmail accounts allowed -.-

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Azkul on April 12, 2012, 09:17:29 pm

Quote from: dennislp3 on April 12, 2012, 09:14:09 pm

no hotmail accounts allowed -.-

I managed to register with a hotmail account.
(Although admittedly, it had "@live instead of @hotmail in the e-mail address)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Alehkhs on April 12, 2012, 09:20:21 pm

Quote from: Rakonas on April 12, 2012, 09:13:07 pm

I'm sure it just puts you in a random province within the duchy you selected.

That's the issue. It did assign me to Valkyrja as my duchy, but started me in Nifel and made that my family home.

Regardless, I'm already adjusting my RP backstory to fit, so we'll see how it goes. The ~45 hour hike is a bit ridiculous though, but I'm about halfway there. Perhaps divine intervention (or a server hiccup) will flip some numbers around it'll correct itself at some point. Who knows?

Quote from: Rakonas on April 12, 2012, 09:13:07 pm

Anyway, I'm en route to Nifelheim in hopes of securing a vacant estate.

We'll probably pass each other in Hvergelmir, it would appear. Supposedly the monsters that had been terrorizing the region recently have moved on...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: dennislp3 on April 12, 2012, 09:23:21 pm

Quote from: Azkul on April 12, 2012, 09:17:29 pm

Quote from: dennislp3 on April 12, 2012, 09:14:09 pm

no hotmail accounts allowed -.-

I managed to register with a hotmail account.
(Although admittedly, it had "@live instead of @hotmail in the e-mail address)

yeah when you try with a hotmail account you get:

We do not allow people to sign up using hotmail addresses. There have been way too many abusers, cheaters and other troublemakers from that service. In fact, the majority of troublemakers have been hotmail members.
In addition, hotmail.com is causing us and other third parties much grief with their unreliability, refusal to follow Internet standards, and total unresponsiveness to troubleshooting attempts.

Please use another address to sign up.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on April 12, 2012, 09:29:05 pm

funny story about settin' up in val actually, I tried for storm's keep but it actually put me there, which ender up nicer.

EDIT: unfortunately I might have to move to Storm's anyways as I think all the estates are taken up, I asked for one to be divided though so I'll see what happens

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Alehkhs on April 12, 2012, 09:48:29 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on April 12, 2012, 09:29:05 pm

funny story about settin' up in val actually, I tried for storm's keep but it actually put me there, which ender up nicer.

Huh... so your family home is probably in Valkyrja. But if you go to "messages," and look under "hierarchy," Where does it say your liege is (Valkyrja, I suspect) and where does it say your duke/duchess is (I predict Storm's End)?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on April 12, 2012, 10:15:12 pm

Duke is indeed storm's keep, liege is Val

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on April 12, 2012, 10:58:49 pm

Hey, greetings from a Summerdale player (not a new one). ;) We're really happy about the influx of new players and I was told this forum here was the reason for it. Welcome again to all of you! And yes, I have only just created this account, but not to promote anything, only to address some things that seem to cause confusion for the new players.

Heh, I'm wondering where all the Valkyrja love is coming from. Is it just because you all like the duchy's name or did you read something about this region in the game wiki that makes you want to play there? Which kind of background story for a new family would only work in Valkyrja? In any case, even if the home of your family is in a certain region, I have experienced your character's estate to be much more important in your gaming experience than the family home, so the place where your estate will be would actually matter more than the place where you "spawn". But estates are not for eternity either. If you aquire your own lordship one day, you might end up in an entirely different region yet again. So don't put too much focus onto your starting region.

Choosing Valkyrja as the duchy to start in will actually be quite troublesome for you since it will force you to do a lot of traveling (several RL days) to first get to the place where your estate will be (there aren't any empty ones in Valkyrja and it's a small duchy) and then get to the place where the action will be. So I don't really see it as anything to be jealous about, but maybe I'm missing something.

Anyway, I hope you'll all have lots of fun with BattleMaster, wherever your characters might end up. :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Alehkhs on April 13, 2012, 12:10:03 am

Quote from: Andira on April 12, 2012, 10:58:49 pm

Heh, I'm wondering where all the Valkyrja love is coming from. Is it just because you all like the duchy's name or did you read something about this region in the game wiki that makes you want to play there? Which kind of background story for a new family would only work in Valkyrja? In any case, even if the home of your family is in a certain region, I have experienced your character's estate to be much more important in your gaming experience than the family home, so the place where your estate will be would actually matter more than the place where you "spawn". But estates are not for eternity either. If you aquire your own lordship one day, you might end up in an entirely different region yet again. So don't put too much focus onto your starting region.

Choosing Valkyrja as the duchy to start in will actually be quite troublesome for you since it will force you to do a lot of traveling (several RL days) to first get to the place where your estate will be (there aren't any empty ones in Valkyrja and it's a small duchy) and then get to the place where the action will be. So I don't really see it as anything to be jealous about, but maybe I'm missing something.

Anyway, I hope you'll all have lots of fun with BattleMaster, wherever your characters might end up. :)

For me it was the a desire to be coastal, and Valkyrja was the most appealing in that regard (a culture of fishermen, compared to Storm End's apparent propensity of farming, according to the wiki). The info for Valkyrja that i found on the wiki is also rather in-depth, something I enjoy in world-building.

The jealousy was more a joking tone referring to what appears to be either a bug or a unexplained spawning system:

• I selected Valkyrja in character creation, and my duchy is indeed listed as Valkyrja in the messages screen. The game spawned me in Nifel however, placed my family home there, and claims that my liege lord is of Nifel.
• Similarly, Urist McScoopbeard selected Storm's Keep in his character creation and was assigned there as his duchy, yet he was spawned in Valkyrja, his family home is in Valkyrja, and his liege lord is of Valkyrja.

Perhaps that's how it's supposed to work, but had I assumed it was a bug: why ask for the player's preference, give them that choice, and then spawn them several days' march away when they are a newcomer to the game?


It's not really an issue: I'm about halfway to Valkyrja, and the fact that I'm traveling westwards from my family's home in Nifel, which is currently under threat of invasion from the East provides some good RP backstory opportunities.


You're not wrong about the travel time though!  :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on April 13, 2012, 09:46:59 am

You know what we need? We need someone to make a bay12 religion. Call it 'Acidic Toadism' the preists would be toads, the head priest would be the 1st toad, and we would worship the great toad. Up to debate, and of course this would have to be contextual; not too silly.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Rakonas on April 13, 2012, 11:54:17 am

Honestly I'm not all that interested in a toady religion, seems a bit silly. Would be interested in a religion styled in the theme of procedurally generated df gods, but that's just a maybe.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Bael on April 13, 2012, 12:01:45 pm

Hey folks,

Haven't seen it mentioned yet, but the reason that the travel times are so long is because it is currently Winter. I'm not sure of the exact amount, but I think that travel times increase by about 50%  :o

Never fear though, winter is ending in 4 days! (found at the top of the information page)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on April 13, 2012, 12:47:50 pm

Damnit man, in four days the empire could be pushing over the mountains!!! Also i guess maybe we could do an Armok religion?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on April 13, 2012, 01:10:48 pm

Hah, currently single handedly warding off 2 groups of monsters with my group of untested archers.  They are quickly learning though...

Thanks to winter, reinforcement is going to take days to get there.  I'm not sure if my people will be as lucky in the coming skirmishes...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on April 13, 2012, 01:47:04 pm

I've noticed something that is miffing me somewhat, maybe I just don't know how it works: I look at my estate and it seems that my income and tax rate are the same, is this correct? How am I supposed to pay my freakin' bills?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on April 13, 2012, 01:51:23 pm

Looking at my estate, it looks like the tax is your income. You then give a small percentage of the gold you earn from taxing the peasants to the region lord.

For example, I have an estate in Nifel. I earn approx. 125 gold per week from taxes, and 13 of that goes to my lord. I keep the rest.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on April 13, 2012, 01:52:37 pm

Oh ok I see, thanks man

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on April 13, 2012, 01:54:32 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on April 13, 2012, 01:47:04 pm

I've noticed something that is miffing me somewhat, maybe I just don't know how it works: I look at my estate and it seems that my income and tax rate are the same, is this correct? How am I supposed to pay my freakin' bills?

To confirm, your income is for a fact, the tax rate.  Your regional lord can choose to tax your income if they like, which is figured elsewhere.
The only bills you have to worry about is the one were you pay the wages of your soldiers and extras...  Well there are other expenses...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: JPierreD on April 13, 2012, 03:19:41 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on April 13, 2012, 09:46:59 am

You know what we need? We need someone to make a bay12 religion. Call it 'Acidic Toadism' the preists would be toads, the head priest would be the 1st toad, and we would worship the great toad. Up to debate, and of course this would have to be contextual; not too silly.

While this could work in the rest of the islands please don't take it to the Serious Medival Ambient one (Dwilight).

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: dennislp3 on April 13, 2012, 06:49:41 pm

Whats the best way to follow development or at least see some future goals/plans of Battlemaster?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Bardic Nerd on April 14, 2012, 02:38:04 am

Quote from: dennislp3 on April 13, 2012, 06:49:41 pm

Whats the best way to follow development or at least see some future goals/plans of Battlemaster?

Probably following along in the Development section of the forum is best, as well as it's subforum, Feature Requests.

http://forum.battlemaster.org/index.php/board,3.0.html

Major stuff that is coming very soon will often get posted as news or announcements, but following the forums is generally where you'll get most info about these things.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: dennislp3 on April 14, 2012, 04:30:19 pm

Well I am in the republic of Barca in the south as a newly landed knight. Despite only being about a day into it I am loving the RP so far and I can see myself sticking with this.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: JPierreD on April 14, 2012, 08:34:02 pm

Quote from: dennislp3 on April 14, 2012, 04:30:19 pm

Well I am in the republic of Barca in the south as a newly landed knight. Despite only being about a day into it I am loving the RP so far and I can see myself sticking with this.

Good luck in the war against Kabrinskia and beware of the Zuma ;)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: dennislp3 on April 14, 2012, 08:52:25 pm

Ha yeah I pretty much walked in, got land, and my Duke told me

"After the greetings were over, Brackern started speaking on another matter.

You see, things are rather unsettled at the moment; our one army is in the north to lend aid to Terran, our ally, against (a barely perceptible shudder here) Kabrinskia. Our other army sponsor is missing, and there is no Marshal."

...huh...sounds...hopeful >.>

Our neighbors to the south actually just got scattered for cheating (which is good as they were looking to crush us)

http://forum.battlemaster.org/index.php/topic,2266.0.html

so...all in all if we dont get utterly destroyed I can at least look forward to quick promotions and the like!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on April 14, 2012, 10:52:23 pm

How many Dalians are setting their affairs straight at or travelling to the capital?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: JPierreD on April 15, 2012, 05:15:27 am

Quote from: dennislp3 on April 14, 2012, 08:52:25 pm

Our neighbors to the south actually just got scattered for cheating (which is good as they were looking to crush us)

I really don't understand why those players even bother joining BattleMaster. The game is /not/ about winning, as Risk or such might be, and there are tons of games out there that are! It's like trying to win  DwarfFortress...

Quote from: dennislp3 on April 14, 2012, 08:52:25 pm

so...all in all if we dont get utterly destroyed I can at least look forward to quick promotions and the like!

Well, congrats! :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Dutchling on April 15, 2012, 07:46:32 am

The tutorial bored me to death yesterday so I'll try to go without. I am Tobias van Dutch and I'm in Norrdir in the realm of Summerdale. Let's see how this goes.

edit: The Wiki guide told me to swear fealty to a lord. Now I have two problems:
-There is no lord of Norrdir according to the realm hierarchy
-The wiki seems to suggest that swearing fealty is just a roleplay thing without actual in game effect. This seems rather odd to me. Is it true?

edit: Nevermind, I know what to do now.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Jopax on April 15, 2012, 10:38:09 am

How long do you usually have to wait for an e-mail from them?

Haven't gotten mine (it could be because it's the weekend) and it doesn't want to send me a new one to the same adress :S

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Dutchling on April 15, 2012, 01:02:22 pm

I have no idea. I signed up and only a few days later (now) did I actually bother to play it.
I love the way role play works though, it is enough to make it fun but not too much to make it look like an English exam.

I also just noticed that you don't need to add a signature to letters as the game does it for you. So my last few letters all look like they are written by some kind of moron :P.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Exerosp on April 15, 2012, 01:49:56 pm

Quote from: Dutchling on April 15, 2012, 01:02:22 pm

I also just noticed that you don't need to add a signature to letters as the game does it for you. So my last few letters all look like they are written by some kind of moron :P.

What.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Jimlad11 on April 15, 2012, 02:17:12 pm

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Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Bael on April 15, 2012, 02:52:38 pm

Quote from: Jimlad11 on April 15, 2012, 02:17:12 pm

I'm enjoying the roleplay as well, for pretty much the same reasons. Are all servers roleplay? This game would feel pretty boring if people just played it like a regular browser game.

Well, in a sense the entire game is roleplay, because on all the different islands people write & play as nobles, not players. But it is felt most strongly on Dwilight I suspect.

And yeah, the signature thing is always worth a few chuckles, remembering how one did the same thing when starting ;)

Edit: you come right with the email yet Jopax? Whats your requested family name? I can post it to the BM forum and hopefully get you some help.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on April 15, 2012, 02:55:15 pm

Guilty. I kept including my signature until my lord (very politely) informed me that it was added automatically. D'oh.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Kansa on April 15, 2012, 02:57:01 pm

I did the exact same thing

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Bael on April 15, 2012, 02:59:22 pm

Quote from: Sirus on April 15, 2012, 02:55:15 pm

Guilty. I kept including my signature until my lord (very politely) informed me that it was added automatically. D'oh.

Hehe, that's why it shows you the message once you have sent it - to go D'oh at your mistakes and note the double signatures (and so that you don't continue doing it!)  :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on April 15, 2012, 03:02:18 pm

I never look at the message after I sent it! I always clicked the Preview button first, and that doesn't add your signature! :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Dutchling on April 15, 2012, 04:17:53 pm

It seems like when the game tells you your travel target is 8 hours away, it is actually 8 action points away, and these action points are called hours.

I am also mildly disappointed that (at least in Summerdale) there isn't really a feudal system. It would have been awesome if dukes have their own schemes and wars within a realm and might decide to become king of their own in the midst of a war.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Neyvn on April 15, 2012, 04:51:09 pm

Playing as an adventure looks like fun. Seems less time commitment then Noble...
Lets see how it goes though, where am I joining to again??? \\goes back and checks\\

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Jopax on April 15, 2012, 05:14:04 pm

Trying to create a characther now (mail didn't come trough the filters, had to use another one), it's somewhat hard finding a name that sounds ok and isn't taken :<

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on April 15, 2012, 05:18:45 pm

Try using different period languages. Throw in a "von" or "di" somewhere. Cram two different words together and base your "history" around those words.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Jopax on April 15, 2012, 05:28:18 pm

Did it!

Roose Sternwod, picked Storms End but ended up in Nifelheim, we'll see where this goes, probably going to try and find me an estate or something now :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on April 15, 2012, 05:33:42 pm

Better send a message to whatever lord is in the area to see if there are any estates available. You joined at an exciting time, we're currently at war :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: JPierreD on April 15, 2012, 05:55:42 pm

Quote from: Dutchling on April 15, 2012, 04:17:53 pm

I am also mildly disappointed that (at least in Summerdale) there isn't really a feudal system. It would have been awesome if dukes have their own schemes and wars within a realm and might decide to become king of their own in the midst of a war.

In Dwilight the region (in)famous for its scheming nobility is the Lurias (http://wiki.battlemaster.org/wiki/Greater_Luria). It makes sense that the Dalian nobility is quite united, since the war against the Libero Empire has just started, and they were few in number, and thus tightly connected, not too long ago. Time, though, always finds a way to separate people and create conflicts.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Jopax on April 15, 2012, 06:04:13 pm

Applied for studies, asking around for some land now, it's quite fun this stuff, still lots of confusing stuff around but it's kind of late and there'll be plenty of time for experimenting with all the shiny buttons tommorrow :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Neyvn on April 15, 2012, 06:18:17 pm

I generally us DF's Name generator to select my names these days, even using the Masterworks Mod by Meph adds a few extra lanagage files to the mix to random up more by rolling a d15 (random gen) as there are 15 of them, then choosing 2 letters and then random genning from the english words and combining them or having them as the first and last name reseptavly......... damn my spelling today is terrible and no spell checker on this shitty laptop to catch my bad spelling. :P

Def thinking about making an Adventurer if I can, maybe go with a Jon Snow style story (game of thrones)... :P

FAKE EDIT:: Using this method I got two words, Youth and Gold, in Czech and Arabic in the language file from Masterworks Mod which come to be Meladik and Aledhheb.

Would an Arabic Adventurer be too far fetched???

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Exerosp on April 15, 2012, 06:25:49 pm

Quote from: Dutchling on April 15, 2012, 04:17:53 pm

It seems like when the game tells you your travel target is 8 hours away, it is actually 8 action points away, and these action points are called hours.

I am also mildly disappointed that (at least in Summerdale) there isn't really a feudal system. It would have been awesome if dukes have their own schemes and wars within a realm and might decide to become king of their own in the midst of a war.

I think you have to have those "action points" on you, when the next turn initiates to travel that length.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on April 15, 2012, 06:46:16 pm

Yes, you can see hours as a kind of action points. The confusing part is that some actions are done right away and also use your hours right away (like training, recruiting, repairing) while other actions (travel and battles) only happen at the turn twice a day and subtract your time exactly at the time of the turn. This means that if you spend your hours on training, you won't have any hours left to advance the travel at the turn. So in your case, if the destination is 8 hours away, you should not spend any hours on anything else. Sending messages does not use hours, so send as many as you like.

One thing I have to warn you about, though, is that travel times can vary randomly for up to 3 hours in both directions, meaning you can get lucky and arrive 1-3 hours earlier than planned, or it might take you 1-3 hours longer. This means that if the game tells you it will take you 8 hours to reach your destination, it actually means any random time between 5 hours and 11 hours, so you don't have a guarantee to arrive at the next turn, even if you have 8 hours left in your time pool.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: JPierreD on April 15, 2012, 09:37:13 pm

Quote from: Neyvn on April 15, 2012, 06:18:17 pm

Would an Arabic Adventurer be too far fetched???

Not at all. Specially good if he comes from the East Continent ;)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: dennislp3 on April 15, 2012, 10:21:16 pm

Quote from: JPierreD on April 15, 2012, 05:55:42 pm

Quote from: Dutchling on April 15, 2012, 04:17:53 pm

I am also mildly disappointed that (at least in Summerdale) there isn't really a feudal system. It would have been awesome if dukes have their own schemes and wars within a realm and might decide to become king of their own in the midst of a war.

In Dwilight the region (in)famous for its scheming nobility is the Lurias (http://wiki.battlemaster.org/wiki/Greater_Luria). It makes sense that the Dalian nobility is quite united, since the war against the Libero Empire has just started, and they were few in number, and thus tightly connected, not too long ago. Time, though, always finds a way to separate people and create conflicts.

Damn Lurians...I entered Barca in the south and we are at war...today I found out one of our region lords just up and left stating the reason as missing the Lurians and off to visit them...

Talk about dereliction of duty/abandonment of post

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: JPierreD on April 15, 2012, 10:34:02 pm

Quote from: dennislp3 on April 15, 2012, 10:21:16 pm

Damn Lurians...I entered Barca in the south and we are at war...today I found out one of our region lords just up and left stating the reason as missing the Lurians and off to visit them...

Talk about dereliction of duty/abandonment of post

Really? Who's that? The thing is that Barca was colonized by the defeated Lurian realm of Giask, so it's filled with former-Lurians. The Lurias export lots of nobles each time a rebellion succeeds or a realm is conquered by other :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Rakonas on April 15, 2012, 11:19:30 pm

If you're looking for an estate just ask the realm. Swearing fealty is essentially what getting an estate means, and an estate is your primary source of income.
Any advice on what the unit setting should be set to for different types of armies?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: JPierreD on April 15, 2012, 11:44:37 pm

Quote from: Rakonas on April 15, 2012, 11:19:30 pm

Any advice on what the unit setting should be set to for different types of armies?

It greatly depends on the tactics being used and on the enemy. Usually each army issues in its orders the recommended unit settings. If all follow it correctly noone will find itself alone in the front or back line, either butchered or not participating from combat.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on April 16, 2012, 06:39:59 pm

Dutchling, If I am correct most, if not all, the lords are loyal. What you are describing is what I believe destroyed the preceeding empire "Springdale"

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Fanofgaming on April 16, 2012, 08:53:14 pm

Well, I am now Antierre Talboh of Summerdale. Should be fun.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Springare on April 17, 2012, 09:54:55 am

Tjeners Hevonen has arrived in Summerdale.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: dennislp3 on April 17, 2012, 12:42:51 pm

pft all you people going north. South its where its at. Someone park over at Barca with me!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on April 17, 2012, 01:19:02 pm

If yo not careful foo' yo next! After we pop a cap in Libero's ass we're comin' for you!! (jk)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: dennislp3 on April 17, 2012, 03:39:55 pm

good luck marching for about 2-3 weeks to get to me =P

Can you travel by sea? might wanna try that >.>

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on April 17, 2012, 08:57:52 pm

There are sea routes available.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Fanofgaming on April 18, 2012, 12:59:54 pm

Hooray, I got permission to take up an estate. Time to join the war.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on April 18, 2012, 01:18:42 pm

Well done, are you near Nifelheim? You should probably go refit

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Jopax on April 18, 2012, 01:29:14 pm

Was in my first battle, didn't do much as the single squad of men was butchered by our archers before they could come anywhere near the city. Also got an estate permission thingy. Was hoping for a woodland one for some roleplay reasons but one in Nifelheim will do nicely :)

Also, turns happen twice a day or three times a day?

Seeing as they last 8 hours I'm thinking three times, but it's been kind of random, or I just haven't been noticing properly :S

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on April 18, 2012, 01:33:08 pm

There is an 11 hour period between turns

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on April 18, 2012, 01:48:06 pm

Turns are taken at 12 PM and AM, EST.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on April 18, 2012, 02:22:43 pm

To clarify a little:

Turn changes occur at sunrise (6AM) and sunset (6PM), BattleMaster time.  BattleMaster time is the time zone where the creator lives and the server is located, which is in Germany, so it happens to be Central European time.

The practical effect of this is that most of the year, turn changes do, indeed, occur at noon and midnight Eastern time. You do have to watch out for Daylight Saving Time changes, though, because America now does DST differently than the rest of the world, so there are periods in spring and fall when the turn change occurs an hour earlier or later in our local time.

You can always see what the current turn is (Day or Night) by the globe indicator on the left navigation bar, and see the precise server time on the Information page.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Fanofgaming on April 18, 2012, 02:39:47 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on April 18, 2012, 01:18:42 pm

Well done, are you near Nifelheim? You should probably go refit

Not particularly close; it's in Hvergelmir. I will go to refit before I rejoin our men in Nifel, though (or wherever I'm told to go).

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Dutchling on April 19, 2012, 11:57:37 am

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Your small troop that attacked Mt. Black Nastrond was quickly surrounded by overwhelming defending units. Vastly outnumbered, your men surrendered and you were captured.

I was under the impression that Summerdale was occupying the area, but whatever, being in prison is more fun than anything else I was able to do so far in this game Although that is probably because of the amount of newcomers (which, according to the forums, is mostly because of this thread) making it  lot harder for the older players to properly avoid me doing things like getting myself into prison :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Fanofgaming on April 19, 2012, 12:38:14 pm

Well, I've taken up my estate and my lord, Viscount Redbeard of Hvergelmir, has appointed me as his Steward.

...

I feel like a god right now.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on April 19, 2012, 01:29:25 pm

And I thought I felt all high and mighty with my knighthood :(

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Jimlad11 on April 19, 2012, 02:46:51 pm

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Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Empty on April 19, 2012, 02:48:25 pm

Each turn you have a random chance to escape.
You can send a message a turn to your realm but it's content will be known to your captors.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on April 19, 2012, 08:07:00 pm

One of you is in prison?!  :o I had no idea, why don't we get any kind of notification for that? I hadn't even checked for that possibility in the character list because I had no reason to assume one of us would be in prison. I'm seriously shocked now. Dutchling, there was no way for me to see what you were doing, or at least none that I know of. We can't see where (or even IF) someone is traveling by just looking at our own regions - all we see is who of us is in that region and there obviously wasn't anything alarming about the fact that you were in one of our own regions. To see where people in a region are traveling to, we would need a scout report and there is rarely a reason to scout our own regions. And you never showed up in any of the scout reports for Mt. Black Nastrond, your travel must have been too fast for that. Had I known what you were doing, I would have stopped you. :(

Am I missing something? Jimlad11, how did you know somebody was marching into the jaws of death?

Dutchling, I'm really sorry if one of my messages confused you. All I meant to say was that we had taken over Mt. Black Nastrond before and then lost it again. By no means did I mean to say you should travel there. I was really just trying to help and introduce the new players into the setting and current situation. Good that I'm not an official mentor, I would obviously suck with that if my messages can be misinterpreted so severely... I should probably just let those with the mentor subclass do their thing and shut up.

For all the others: Please do not travel into enemy territory if you do not see a direct order to do so.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on April 20, 2012, 08:21:17 am

I'm in as Salus Geron, sitting in a shady spot in Summerdale. This looks like it could be a lot of fun. I don't have an estate yet, but there probably isn't room for me to get one yet. But that's alright, gives me a chance to get used to the basics first.

I'll try not to stumble into the enemy army all alone ...  :D But you know how it is. "Sometimes I feel like I could take on the whole Empire by myself!"

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Dutchling on April 20, 2012, 11:12:17 am

Quote from: Andira on April 19, 2012, 08:07:00 pm

snip

Well, I knew Summerdale was trying to get one of the enemy provinces and for some reason I thought it was Mt <something>. If I even would have looked at the map while clicking the location I wouldn't have made this stupid mistake as I knew at what location is was.
 Anyway, as I am a very lowly ranked noble I could befriend the guards and thus read the news of my realm, which seems to be good news so far.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Jopax on April 20, 2012, 11:17:40 am

Luckily the other side has someone making the same silly mistake, so if he continues in his blunder we might get someone to trade for you :D

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Jimlad11 on April 20, 2012, 11:50:08 am

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Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on April 20, 2012, 11:52:48 am

Quote from: Jimlad11 on April 20, 2012, 11:50:08 am

I noticed a small report in my news feed. It said that someone had marched against a huge enemy army with only a small force, and that it ended in defeat. I'll see if I can find the report...

Here we go:

Quote

Skirmish in Mt. Black Nastrond   (1 day ago)
Small forces from Summerdale attacked Mt. Black Nastrond, but were quickly surrounded by overwhelming defending units. Vastly outnumbered, the attackers surrendered and were all captured.

I saw that a few days ago. Of course, it's kinda impossible to know who did it from looking at the report :/

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on April 20, 2012, 12:38:48 pm

Jimlad: Oh, yes, I got that Skirmish message, too, but of course it was already too late then. ;) I had somehow assumed you had gotten a message before it was too late.

SeaBee: Haha, I hope you don't feel like that too often or you'll end with an empire of rats in their prison. ;)

Dutchling: At least the guards are treating you well then. :P I hope you can get out of prison soon, though, by whatever means. *inconspicuously drops a file into Dutchling's cell*

Sirus: You're right, we can't see any names in that report, but if you go to "Information" and then click on the "Character List" under "Local Information", you'll see one unlucky character whose status is not "ok" like that of the others, but "prison".

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on April 20, 2012, 12:42:18 pm

Hmm...looking at the character list, it seems we have an outlaw in Odiner and another in Nifel. Can we do anything about those?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Vonyx on April 20, 2012, 12:58:48 pm

Doesn't outlaw just mean an adventurer with less then X honour/prestige?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on April 20, 2012, 01:04:33 pm

*shrugs*
No idea. I know I keep seeing battles against (rogue) in the reports, and the term "outlaw" commonly means criminal, or rogue, or whatever. I guess if they haven't done anything wrong, I don't have a problem with them.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on April 20, 2012, 01:06:12 pm

Rogues are not outlaws. Rogues are forces that belong to no realm.

Outlaws are characters with very low honour.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: JPierreD on April 20, 2012, 02:24:19 pm

Which you can always catch and give a proper beating to teach them to stay inside the law. :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on April 20, 2012, 02:51:38 pm

Quote from: JPierreD on April 20, 2012, 02:24:19 pm

Which you can always catch and give a proper beating to teach them to stay inside the law. :P

Actually, nobles can be outlaws, too, and you can't arrest or beat them.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on April 20, 2012, 02:53:50 pm

Do not worry citizens, commoners are non-noble and may be dealt with as any noble pleases. 

Mind you though, these commoners have the ability to find useful artifacts that a noble may find use for...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Lorgan on April 20, 2012, 03:53:20 pm

Quote from: danaris on April 20, 2012, 02:51:38 pm

Quote from: JPierreD on April 20, 2012, 02:24:19 pm

Which you can always catch and give a proper beating to teach them to stay inside the law. :P

Actually, nobles can be outlaws, too, and you can't arrest or beat them.

But you can execute them without having to ban them first. :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: JPierreD on April 20, 2012, 04:08:34 pm

Quote from: danaris on April 20, 2012, 02:51:38 pm

Quote from: JPierreD on April 20, 2012, 02:24:19 pm

Which you can always catch and give a proper beating to teach them to stay inside the law. :P

Actually, nobles can be outlaws, too, and you can't arrest or beat them.

Ah, yes, but I was supposing it was an outlaw adventurer, which you can catch and beat. Not that it will make him/her any less out of the law, but at least it will be fun for you. And possibly FUN for the advy. ;)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on April 20, 2012, 07:01:52 pm

Just so you know, one of these outlaws shares the last name with one of our new nobles, so it's a new player who doesn't have much experience with playing an adventurer yet. From what I see, the only thing he did to become an outlaw was leaving the realm that he had spawned in. I can't even remember how much honor adventurers start with, is it any higher than the 1 honor that the two outlaws currently have?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: JPierreD on April 20, 2012, 07:41:40 pm

Actually all Adventurers start as Outlaws. If it's a new player, then better leave him be. Not very nice being a punching box right at the start.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: ansontan2000 on April 20, 2012, 10:51:59 pm

This looked interesting, so I joined as Trevian Ervil and I'm right now in Valldir

Also, I have no idea what to do. Any help my fellow Dwarves?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on April 20, 2012, 11:18:34 pm

I've sent you messages ingame. ;)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: ansontan2000 on April 21, 2012, 12:19:17 am

Yeah, thanks for that.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on April 21, 2012, 10:05:14 am

Those messages really helped a ton. I think a few things in the wiki are out of date, or maybe Dwilight offers a different experience than the "regular" worlds. Either way, thanks a ton Andira. Huge help.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on April 21, 2012, 12:26:16 pm

You're welcome, glad I could help. :) Yes, it's very well possible that some things are outdated in the wiki. I've also often encountered the problem that questions I had simply weren't addressed at all in the wiki. And since Dwilight is a testing island, many features we have are not standard and don't exist on other islands yet, so they might not be mentioned at all in the wiki. Also, I guess information that is specific to the realm you're playing in with your first character is more helpful for a new player.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Vel on April 21, 2012, 01:09:55 pm

The Outlaw title is a bit of a misnomer; it doesn't necessarily mean the character has done anything wrong. It simply means they haven't gained enough honor to gain a different title yet. All new adventurers are Outlaws, as far as I know.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: JPierreD on April 21, 2012, 01:14:33 pm

Quote from: Vel on April 21, 2012, 01:09:55 pm

The Outlaw title is a bit of a misnomer; it doesn't necessarily mean the character has done anything wrong. It simply means they haven't gained enough honor to gain a different title yet. All new adventurers are Outlaws, as far as I know.

Until they gain enough prestige to become Freemen, yes. In medieval times being a commoner wasn't easy.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Alkhemia on April 21, 2012, 01:32:36 pm

well I just started an an Adventurer I'll head to Dwilight, Alkhemia Archer my name

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on April 21, 2012, 05:28:30 pm

Don't expect any letters when playing an adventurer, it's quite different from a noble. ;) You don't really have much to do with us.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on April 21, 2012, 08:04:18 pm

What do adventurers actually do? I almost picked one, then remembered reading that it was for advanced players. Which, heh, I'm not.

And Andira, they need to go ahead and give you some more land so I can govern a little fief for someone I already kinda know and my character trusts.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on April 21, 2012, 08:55:44 pm

Adventurers are a kind of "monster and undead prevention". If adventurers hunt monsters and undead in regions before they grow strong enough to form enemy units, then nobles don't have to deal with them and are relieved of that duty. Also, adventurers find unique magic items that they can sell to nobles. They can also find sages to repair these items. If an adventurer manages to get 3 recommendations from nobles, he can advance into the rank of a noble himself. There are several guilds for adventurers where they can combine their efforts and also tell each other about sage locations. Even if that sounds exciting, I didn't find it as exciting as it sounded, lol. But tastes are different, you can always try it out, maybe you'll like it.

Ha, they can't make me lord of more than one region. ;) And the one I have is already pretty nice. There should hopefully be some new estates available as soon as two certain lords open them in their regions. Probably your character didn't have much contact with those lords so far, though. Maybe he finds out they're trustworthy, too. And if not - he can still run to Andira then and beg for a better lord, hehe.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on April 21, 2012, 09:46:25 pm

Huh, might have to try the adventurer thing out sometime. It does sound interesting. Happy with what I'm doing now for the moment, though.

I might take you up on the offer to run back to Andira and beg for better lords to serve, we'll see. :)  So far everyone seems to be quite nice, so I probably won't have any problems. I always figured that if I didn't like Summerland, I could try a Rebellion of One and see how many hours I live. For Fun, you know.

But I like it. Already lots of interesting things happening in the area. And everyone's friendly with the new guys.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: AussieGuy on April 22, 2012, 06:24:14 am

As a noble in the Libero Empire:

Please stop hurting us, Summerdale? :(

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: ansontan2000 on April 22, 2012, 08:15:17 am

No can do AussieGuy. No hard feelings? (I can't talk for everyone else though :D)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on April 22, 2012, 10:45:26 am

Aussieguy, when we inevitably destroy your empire we will take pity upon ye

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on April 22, 2012, 11:04:44 am

AussieGuy, don't make me feel bad with your sad smiley, that's not fair! ;)

SeaBee, I'm really glad you're enjoying the game and our realm. :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on April 22, 2012, 12:38:41 pm

Quote from: AussieGuy on April 22, 2012, 06:24:14 am

As a noble in the Libero Empire:

Please stop hurting us, Summerdale? :(

Gimme my homeland back, first  ;)

Edit: And besides, it's not our fault Libero nobles keep attacking us by all by themselves!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on April 22, 2012, 01:00:34 pm

To quote sean penn "YOU DICK [Libero Empire}!!!"

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Vel on April 22, 2012, 01:59:02 pm

Unfortunately this conflict is pretty lopsided, because of the sudden huge influx on the Summerdale side.

Kind of a case of out of game factors having a bit of a negative impact on a roleplaying game.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on April 22, 2012, 02:03:01 pm

don't worry this'll be rped till the end

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Bael on April 22, 2012, 03:29:13 pm

Well, they did declare war when they had about 10 nobles, or something ridiculous like that. An act that like certainly deserves for something unusual to happen in return for sheer stupidity/bravery/somethingelsery  ???

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Jopax on April 22, 2012, 03:34:24 pm

Plus there was that bug thingy that gave you a province, so I think it's justified :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on April 22, 2012, 03:37:42 pm

Said province was my family's home, so it's understandable that I'm a little miffed :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on April 22, 2012, 03:57:56 pm

All this makes me suddenly wonder ... what's the goal of our war, here? To get back some lost territory, definitely, then what? Head to the negotiating table and figure out the next step?

Don't think I've ever played a game like this. Thought it would be like the traditional browser-based strategy game, but it's way different in feel. I think the slow turns and the high amount of dialog makes it pretty unique.

With all our new nobles (assuming they stick around), does that mean it's time to expand in all directions like a dwarven avalanche?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Laghed on April 22, 2012, 04:50:09 pm

Hi, I am from Asylon.

For those of you joining BM, have patience with the game it is really slow, do not get discouraged. BM is about imagination and what you the player put into it. I have been playing now for 3 or 4 years and it is hands down one of the best games I have ever played. You can play it every day for a few minutes, but you can spend the rest of your life developing your character, plotting, and causing trouble. If you like RP this is the classic old-School RP game that you have been looking for. If you like fast-paced action, well this isn't it... But there is action, and there is real consequence and reputation will follow you.

Oh and one more thing of advice, if new people join. Please try and spread out and join different kingdoms. If everyone joins one kingdom it really will make the game suffer. Please keep playing and have fun. Ask questions and stick it out, trust me, at first BM doesnt appear to be very much on the surface, yet it is a very very rich game.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: JPierreD on April 22, 2012, 05:23:14 pm

Quote from: SeaBee on April 22, 2012, 03:57:56 pm

All this makes me suddenly wonder ... what's the goal of our war, here? To get back some lost territory, definitely, then what? Head to the negotiating table and figure out the next step?

Both Summerdale and the Libero Empire claim to be the true heirs of the Springdale realm. The war is mostly around that, IC. OoC it was started by Summerdale seeking FUN (which was almost certain, given the advantage LE had).

Quote from: SeaBee on April 22, 2012, 03:57:56 pm

Don't think I've ever played a game like this. Thought it would be like the traditional browser-based strategy game, but it's way different in feel. I think the slow turns and the high amount of dialog makes it pretty unique.

Similar to DF, the game is not only about winning, it's about RPing, developing your characters and creating the history of the worlds played in. MinMaxers, Clanners and Powergamers in general should seek another game, for both BM won't really fulfill their expectations nor does the BM community want them.
Heck, in Beluaterra we have been enjoying getting constantly trampled by hordes of very nasty invading Daimons, and I must say that trying to survive that has been much more entertaining for me than any victory. We have not yet lost, and might even win, but the point remains.

Quote from: SeaBee on April 22, 2012, 03:57:56 pm

With all our new nobles (assuming they stick around), does that mean it's time to expand in all directions like a dwarven avalanche?

You can do that, but BM is not very rewarding for those who seek absolute dominance. The game mechanics are designed to somewhat hinder that, and it's not really the purpose of the game. Some people still try it, and some achieve something resembling it, mind you, but I personally find it extremely boring. I like the dynamic structures of the realms, the political struggles, the betrayals, scheming, religious tensions and everything that provides conflict to the game. What fun is it to be in a realm in where everyone perfectly follows orders, does as commanded and never complains?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Vel on April 22, 2012, 09:09:22 pm

I believe the last server to achieve single kingdom dominance was declared 'over' and ended, so yes, spreading out in all directions might draw quite a bit of ire from surrounding factions even if you don't attack them directly.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on April 22, 2012, 09:23:42 pm

I just watched the game of thrones episode and now i can only think of a bm that is extremely brutal

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Lorgan on April 23, 2012, 01:24:15 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on April 22, 2012, 09:23:42 pm

I just watched the game of thrones episode and now i can only think of a bm that is extremely brutal

Oh. We Lurians are slaughtering Fissoan peasants (and occasionally soldiers) by the thousands...  8)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Empty on April 23, 2012, 01:31:56 pm

Drats.

Forgot to return to the capital to get more gold to pay my men.
If i'm unlucky they'll revolt and rob me.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Alkhemia on April 23, 2012, 01:43:52 pm

So what can Adventures do just kill undead and monsters? there a law about magic in the region I'm at there magic in the game? hmmm to the wiki

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on April 23, 2012, 04:00:31 pm

Haha, I've been on the wiki every day since signing up. Just be sure to ask someone in your realm (not me, I don't know anything) for details since things might be different on that particular world.

I'll say this much ... I usually get very tired of browser-based games after a few days. The initial "hey, this is fun!" is usually followed by "eh, this is a chore, time to play Dwarf Fortress for a while," but I'm actually quite into this so far.

Can we make an Adventurer alongside our main characters? It seems like you can ... if I can play both without a penalty I'll probably try that, just to see if I can find any neat items or something.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on April 23, 2012, 04:04:45 pm

Quote from: SeaBee on April 23, 2012, 04:00:31 pm

Can we make an Adventurer alongside our main characters? It seems like you can ... if I can play both without a penalty I'll probably try that, just to see if I can find any neat items or something.

Yes, you can. I don't recall the details of how it works for brand-new players, but you can eventually have several characters active at one time, both nobles and adventurers.

For now, I think you can have two nobles and one adventurer (or one noble and two adventurers, but not three nobles), but I'm not certain.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: dennislp3 on April 23, 2012, 04:07:40 pm

Yeah same here...I don't ever like browser games...this one has me though. And yeah I have a noble and an adventurer.

as for the numbers for new players you can see that on the character select screen.

Your character limits are: 5 characters total, 3 active at the same time, 2 of those can be nobles

that's what mine is at.

That said you can only have one of each on Dwilight at any time. Though I think you can technically make an adventurer into a noble in time to technically bypass that (not sure)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on April 23, 2012, 04:15:33 pm

Thanks guys. Might have to make an Adventurer this week, if only for Fun and science.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Rakonas on April 24, 2012, 12:27:52 am

I have two adventurers and one noble, all on dwilight. Quite certain the 1 at a time thing only extends to nobles.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on April 24, 2012, 10:04:45 am

Is anyone heading over to claim that estate in Storms Keep? I'm chomping at the bit to get one, but most of you got here before I did and should have first dibs if you need it.

But if I don't see or read about anyone heading for it, I'll start that direction tomorrow. *defiant flip of the beard*

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on April 24, 2012, 10:22:50 am

Better ask the lord of that region, Owen, if he has made any arrangements with someone else instead of wasting your time by traveling there if the estate is already promised to someone else. ;) You should also have his okay first before you move into the estate.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on April 24, 2012, 10:28:31 am

Lord Owen offered an estate in the OOC channel to the Student list, but I didn't want to be a jerk and take it from someone who has been waiting longer. I asked the list if anyone was going, but no one has replied yet ... Owen just said to "come on over and claim it" pretty much, which is fine, but I almost expect to see three or four people arrive at the same turn. And that's a long hike!

But ... my greed! My ambitions! (Really, my guy just doesn't want to mooch off of everyone else to make it through the month.)

I'll send Lord Owen a letter this evening and see what's going on. Thanks!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Rakonas on April 29, 2012, 04:28:56 pm

Morek Empire just declared war on us and the future looks full of Fun regardless of the outcome. I highly recommend this game. This is the most interest I've had in a browser based game since eRepublik.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Empty on April 29, 2012, 04:55:05 pm

Summerdale's situation isn't as bad as it seems.

We greatly outnumber them in noble numbers.
And wars can swing one way or the other often in wars.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Julius Clonkus on April 29, 2012, 04:57:29 pm

Oh I will have fun reading the combat report once I wake up tomorrow.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Empty on April 29, 2012, 05:03:06 pm

Quote from: Julius Clonkus on April 29, 2012, 04:57:29 pm

Oh I will have fun reading the combat report once I wake up tomorrow.

Yeah.
It'll be a battle just a bit more then twice as large as the one I posted in the Opening Post.
Everyone will probably gain some honour and prestige.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: ConscriptFive on April 29, 2012, 08:30:40 pm

Hmm, just hopped in as "Aldus Thunderwood" and claimed an empty estate in Storms Keep.  Let's see how this goes.  Anybody know Owen Von Neuman?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on April 29, 2012, 08:51:38 pm

Haha, I know the person that the estate was reserved for. ;)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Fanofgaming on April 30, 2012, 12:49:03 am

That battle didn't go particularly well for some of us. I happened to get captured, unfortunately.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on April 30, 2012, 09:04:00 am

Quote from: Fanofgaming on April 30, 2012, 12:49:03 am

That battle didn't go particularly well for some of us. I happened to get captured, unfortunately.

Such is the glory and shame of battle... some will stand out above the rest, trodding upon the unfortunate who break under the pressure that life had allotted them..

Considering it, I'm going to have to turn my character into a Hero later.  There is no better* way to play it if you plan on being a fighter.


*Disclaimer: Subject to bias and opinion.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Exerosp on April 30, 2012, 10:33:25 am

So it seems someone wanted me arrested in Terran. Either someone who saw me as competition in a region, or something else. Derp.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on April 30, 2012, 10:41:27 am

Quote from: Exerosp on April 30, 2012, 10:33:25 am

So it seems someone wanted me arrested in Terran. Either someone who saw me as competition in a region, or something else. Derp.

Your betters need not give reason to arrest such a commoner as yourself.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Bael on April 30, 2012, 04:17:19 pm

Quote from: Exerosp on April 30, 2012, 10:33:25 am

So it seems someone wanted me arrested in Terran. Either someone who saw me as competition in a region, or something else. Derp.

The nice thing about adventuring on Dwilight is that you can flee to the rogue regions if necessary. There are quite a lot less than in the past, however  :(

Quote from: Fanofgaming on April 30, 2012, 12:49:03 am

That battle didn't go particularly well for some of us. I happened to get captured, unfortunately.

On Beluaterra, my character got captured in the battle that broke the Demon's takeover on our capital. And now my character is getting tortured  >:( :'(

Stupid green soldiers - I did much better with only a few cavalry than 40 untrained footsoldiers!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Rakonas on April 30, 2012, 04:22:44 pm

I just finally had one of my adventurers meet my noble in character, time to think of ways to trick myself into helping myself thinking that I'll be recognized as being of my house formally  :P. That is allowed, right?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on April 30, 2012, 08:41:16 pm

I can't read messages suddenly. Shows up empty. Will try with a different browser/clear my cache.

Quote from: ConscriptFive on April 29, 2012, 08:30:40 pm

Hmm, just hopped in as "Aldus Thunderwood" and claimed an empty estate in Storms Keep.  Let's see how this goes.  Anybody know Owen Von Neuman?

:-\

Quote from: Andira on April 29, 2012, 08:51:38 pm

Haha, I know the person that the estate was reserved for. ;)

;)

My first battle wasn't exactly a shining beacon of heroic triumph, but I only lost 60% of my men or thereabouts. That's what they get for being outnumbered and outpositioned, the silly louts!

My character came through with only a minor injury.

FAKE EDIT: Nope, different browser made no difference. Still can't read messages. IS MY CHARACTER BLIND OH GOD

REAL EDIT: I can see my messages again after the latest turn. Probably just a glitch.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on May 01, 2012, 08:41:22 am

Quote from: Rakonas on April 30, 2012, 04:22:44 pm

I just finally had one of my adventurers meet my noble in character, time to think of ways to trick myself into helping myself thinking that I'll be recognized as being of my house formally  :P. That is allowed, right?

Recommendations (which an adventurer needs to become a noble) cannot be given to a member of the same family.

Also, if your adventurer and noble are both on Dwilight, your adventurer cannot become a noble. You are only allowed one active noble character on Dwilight at a time.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Fanofgaming on May 01, 2012, 11:31:34 am

Quote from: danaris on May 01, 2012, 08:41:22 am

Also, if your adventurer and noble are both on Dwilight, your adventurer cannot become a noble. You are only allowed one active noble character on Dwilight at a time.

You sure? I'm pretty sure you can have two active nobles at once.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Exerosp on May 01, 2012, 12:01:12 pm

Quote from: Zangi on April 30, 2012, 10:41:27 am

Quote from: Exerosp on April 30, 2012, 10:33:25 am

So it seems someone wanted me arrested in Terran. Either someone who saw me as competition in a region, or something else. Derp.

Your betters need not give reason to arrest such a commoner as yourself.

Still, arresting your own citizens isn't exactly going to make you look 'Better'.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on May 01, 2012, 12:23:51 pm

Quote from: Fanofgaming on May 01, 2012, 11:31:34 am

Quote from: danaris on May 01, 2012, 08:41:22 am

Also, if your adventurer and noble are both on Dwilight, your adventurer cannot become a noble. You are only allowed one active noble character on Dwilight at a time.

You sure? I'm pretty sure you can have two active nobles at once.

On any other continent, yes. Dwilight has a limit of one noble per player. This has served to improve the tone of the continent considerably, for various reasons. (Many people bring a second character into the same realm as their first, which then acts as a drone, or a clone.)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on May 01, 2012, 08:10:48 pm

Quote from: Exerosp on May 01, 2012, 12:01:12 pm

Quote from: Zangi on April 30, 2012, 10:41:27 am

Quote from: Exerosp on April 30, 2012, 10:33:25 am

So it seems someone wanted me arrested in Terran. Either someone who saw me as competition in a region, or something else. Derp.

Your betters need not give reason to arrest such a commoner as yourself.

Still, arresting your own citizens isn't exactly going to make you look 'Better'.

That's how it was in the Middle Ages. Nobles were better, and that is that. Sure, going around and massacring your subjects probably wasn't the best idea, but there wasn't much to stop you from doing so.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Megaman on May 01, 2012, 08:17:43 pm

Peasant insurrections aren't very profitable

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on May 01, 2012, 08:19:19 pm

That's why I said it usually wasn't a smart idea :P

But that's the idea here. Nobles have special powers and privileges, adventurers have a few unique abilities but that is it.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Megaman on May 01, 2012, 08:25:41 pm

Anyway, I joined Summerdale as Mehga Mann. I hope I don't look like an idiot.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on May 01, 2012, 08:27:34 pm

Quote from: Megaman on May 01, 2012, 08:25:41 pm

Anyway, I joined Summerdale as Mehga Mann. I hope I don't look like an idiot.

So that was you, eh? I shoulda guessed :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Megaman on May 01, 2012, 08:28:12 pm

My personal gaurd is the Men of Rocks :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on May 01, 2012, 08:59:45 pm

Quote from: Megaman on May 01, 2012, 08:25:41 pm

Anyway, I joined Summerdale as Mehga Mann. I hope I don't look like an idiot.

I'm afraid that kind of name is not appropriate for Dwilight.  Please read the Wiki article on Serious Medieval Atmosphere (http://wiki.battlemaster.org/wiki/SMA), which is enforced on Dwilight. Silly names are one of the biggest things that are discouraged under SMA.

If you don't mind deleting the account and creating a new one, you can do that, or if you prefer, you can request a name change, which is under the Politics menu. You'll have to make separate requests for the character name and the family name.

Or, if you really prefer to keep that name, you can delete the character on Dwilight, and re-create it on another continent (you can't emigrate the character to another continent for two weeks after creation).

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Megaman on May 01, 2012, 09:05:24 pm

Ah, time to hang myslef then.

Edit: Or change my name to Johnson

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on May 01, 2012, 09:16:59 pm

Quote from: danaris on May 01, 2012, 08:59:45 pm

Quote from: Megaman on May 01, 2012, 08:25:41 pm

Anyway, I joined Summerdale as Mehga Mann. I hope I don't look like an idiot.

I'm afraid that kind of name is not appropriate for Dwilight.  Please read the Wiki article on Serious Medieval Atmosphere (http://wiki.battlemaster.org/wiki/SMA), which is enforced on Dwilight. Silly names are one of the biggest things that are discouraged under SMA.

If you don't mind deleting the account and creating a new one, you can do that, or if you prefer, you can request a name change, which is under the Politics menu. You'll have to make separate requests for the character name and the family name.

Or, if you really prefer to keep that name, you can delete the character on Dwilight, and re-create it on another continent (you can't emigrate the character to another continent for two weeks after creation).

Could I report an enemy unit's name? They have the atmosphere-breaking (and rather juvenile) name "Dumberfail".

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on May 01, 2012, 09:22:36 pm

Quote from: Sirus on May 01, 2012, 09:16:59 pm

Quote from: danaris on May 01, 2012, 08:59:45 pm

Quote from: Megaman on May 01, 2012, 08:25:41 pm

Anyway, I joined Summerdale as Mehga Mann. I hope I don't look like an idiot.

I'm afraid that kind of name is not appropriate for Dwilight.  Please read the Wiki article on Serious Medieval Atmosphere (http://wiki.battlemaster.org/wiki/SMA), which is enforced on Dwilight. Silly names are one of the biggest things that are discouraged under SMA.

If you don't mind deleting the account and creating a new one, you can do that, or if you prefer, you can request a name change, which is under the Politics menu. You'll have to make separate requests for the character name and the family name.

Or, if you really prefer to keep that name, you can delete the character on Dwilight, and re-create it on another continent (you can't emigrate the character to another continent for two weeks after creation).

Could I report an enemy unit's name? They have the atmosphere-breaking (and rather juvenile) name "Dumberfail".

On the Messages page, on the right, there is an option to make an SMA report.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on May 02, 2012, 01:12:06 am

I really can't wait to have an estate. Replacing my losses nearly broke me, no way I'll be able to pay their wages for more than a few days.

Seems like we have been getting several new nobles in the past couple of days, so competition for land is heating up fast. Hope we don't run out of room, otherwise I'll be bankrupt and homeless in short order ...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on May 02, 2012, 01:17:58 am

Quote from: SeaBee on May 02, 2012, 01:12:06 am

I really can't wait to have an estate. Replacing my losses nearly broke me, no way I'll be able to pay their wages for more than a few days.

Seems like we have been getting several new nobles in the past couple of days, so competition for land is heating up fast. Hope we don't run out of room, otherwise I'll be bankrupt and homeless in short order ...

We have some regions that are lordless right now, but once some lords are appointed they will hopefully be able to create estates for the newcomers. Just gotta battle some monsters to build some honor up, I think.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Megaman on May 02, 2012, 01:20:27 am

Yeah, I personally already sent some letters to lords asking for positions.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on May 02, 2012, 06:15:00 am

This is one of the biggest reasons it's a bad idea to have so many people join a single realm all at once...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Empty on May 02, 2012, 09:11:13 am

Quote from: danaris on May 02, 2012, 06:15:00 am

This is one of the biggest reasons it's a bad idea to have so many people join a single realm all at once...

Not really.
Once the other two provinces get lords there'll be ample space for everyone.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Megaman on May 02, 2012, 09:33:57 am

Yeah, some guy just gave the invitation over. I joined yestrerday. Ain't too bad

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Empty on May 02, 2012, 09:39:03 am

Quote from: Megaman on May 02, 2012, 09:33:57 am

Yeah, some guy just gave the invitation over. I joined yestrerday. Ain't too bad

Says the guy who was lucky enough to nab an empty estate while the rest of us were off fighting :P

Having an estate just saves some clicking for the higher ups.
Since they have to send you less money to keep you involved with the combat :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Megaman on May 02, 2012, 09:47:59 am

I'm a thinker, not a fighter!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on May 02, 2012, 10:37:34 am

Quote from: Empty on May 02, 2012, 09:39:03 am

Quote from: Megaman on May 02, 2012, 09:33:57 am

Yeah, some guy just gave the invitation over. I joined yestrerday. Ain't too bad

Says the guy who was lucky enough to nab an empty estate while the rest of us were off fighting :P

Having an estate just saves some clicking for the higher ups.
Since they have to send you less money to keep you involved with the combat :P

Estates also improve the efficiency of the region, allowing the Lord to actually do something else instead of catering to it by their lonesome. 
Do not ever forget, they need you knights too.  Usually only 1 of you though.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Empty on May 02, 2012, 11:26:04 am

It depends on the region (Ie how much population and what type)
Usually 1 is enough. But more make it possible to increase the tax rate without suffering too much a morale penalty.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on May 02, 2012, 02:22:41 pm

All I know is that if I don't get some land soon, I'll have to start "taxing" my superiors (everyone) in order to maintain an army at all.

Like a standing mercenary unit. Or just an economic drain, heh.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 02, 2012, 05:04:57 pm

So, who's still playing this? I recently joined and am really enjoying being a Knight in Kindara, on the Far East continent. I'm interested in joining Dwilight but I'm not sure which nation/group to join, or if the Summerdale B12 group is still active or has any room at all to spare a little land/estate for a intrepid new Knight who has a passion for RP and medieval strategy-war games.

=) Once I've been informed, I'll hop in immediately.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on May 02, 2012, 05:47:28 pm

I don't know for sure how many of us are actually active in Summerdale, but it seems like we've had about four sign-ups a day for the past few days (some from Bay 12, others probably just wanting to tag along).

Our immediate strategic situation is a bit grim, I have no idea where our queen went, many of us still do not have an estate (I grumble about that frequently in this thread), we just got massacred in a suicide attack, and I'm almost out of gold. Along with everyone else who hasn't got an estate, which is a pretty big number of people.

There's room for more, though -- the higher-ups just need to sort things out a bit so we can actually get established. There are still regions we control that have no lord, for example. I'm not privy to what the hold up is, or even how that mechanic really works, so I  just sit around and mutter. And hope for the best. (And wonder how I'm going to pay my unit ...)

On that note, if anyone reading this has an estate and is not interested in playing anymore, consider letting someone know.

Just don't join Liberos or their allies, they're mean and nasty  ;)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 02, 2012, 05:51:30 pm

How's Astrum? They seem peaceful enough to join. I'd rather not join in the middle of a bloody war, I want to take my time and get to know the game first.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Empty on May 02, 2012, 06:58:43 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on May 02, 2012, 05:51:30 pm

How's Astrum? They seem peaceful enough to join. I'd rather not join in the middle of a bloody war, I want to take my time and get to know the game first.

War's the number one way to self improvement at the beginning though.

It's a shame Too Much Peace was abolished.
I liked having to fight a new monster group each day :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 02, 2012, 07:03:09 pm

Heh.

I ended up joining , in Gretchew, as the noblewoman Alura Aurea. I also just retired my adventure Iktrios and spawned him in Dwilight. He's landed in the Morek's, which are at war with Summerdale. I don't quite like them, so I'd like to defect to Summerdale. Any way of doing that without having Summerdale militias murder me on sight?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Empty on May 02, 2012, 07:06:53 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on May 02, 2012, 07:03:09 pm

Heh.

I ended up joining , in Gretchew, as the noblewoman Alura Aurea. I also just retired my adventure Iktrios and spawned him in Dwilight. He's landed in the Morek's, which are at war with Summerdale. I don't quite like them, so I'd like to defect to Summerdale. Any way of doing that without having Summerdale militias murder me on sight?

If it's an adventurer then it doesn't matter.
If it's a noble just head on over. You'll most likely be captured without a fight and can ask the Judge to join the realm or something.
Would make for a great rp moment as well.
Just say that you ware scared of owens witchcraft and want to defect to a safer place or something :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 02, 2012, 07:08:51 pm

Ah, no. Its an adventurer. My noblewoman is in Terran, at Greschew.

I'll head over to Summerdale then, to drink some fine ale with my fellow Dwarves thick-boned, bearded comrades of short stature and strong liver.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Empty on May 02, 2012, 07:18:06 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on May 02, 2012, 07:08:51 pm

Ah, no. Its an adventurer. My noblewoman is in Terran, at Greschew.

I'll head over to Summerdale then, to drink some fine ale with my fellow Dwarves thick-boned, bearded comrades of short stature and strong liver.

Ha :P

Good luck with that.
Commeners are treated like they are less then dogs usually.
Well unless you've got a magic item for sale :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 02, 2012, 07:28:01 pm

Who says I'll be talking to any nobles? >_>

I'm going to be in Summerdale clearing out rogues and undead, for the benefit of the B12 community. Fuckall if I care about some rancid-assed noble pissants looking down on me from their hawk-noses. :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Rakonas on May 02, 2012, 07:37:52 pm

Careful about getting to Summerdale, though. Tried to do it a while back and I was arrested and tortured for fun personally by the Libero justicar despite being a peasant of a supposedly friendly realm..

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 02, 2012, 07:41:36 pm

Yeah but Libero are major douchebags...

I'll be keeping my head down. :P

Anyway, I used 9 hours to find items and got only 1 useless incense, so I'm not worried if I get killed.

Adventure mode doesn't take much RP effort. My nobles, on the other hand... Hmm...

If only I could have 2 nobles AND an adventurer in a continent.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Empty on May 02, 2012, 07:43:19 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on May 02, 2012, 07:41:36 pm

Yeah but Libero are major douchebags...

I'll be keeping my head down. :P

Anyway, I used 9 hours to find items and got only 1 useless incense, so I'm not worried if I get killed.

Adventure mode doesn't take much RP effort. My nobles, on the other hand... Hmm...

If only I could have 2 nobles AND an adventurer in a continent.

There's always the other continents :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Rakonas on May 02, 2012, 07:44:22 pm

I ended up with a unique item a while back, is it impossible to trade it to my noble? I see options to trade it to everyone in this region except for my noble..

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 02, 2012, 07:47:53 pm

Quote from: Empty on May 02, 2012, 07:43:19 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on May 02, 2012, 07:41:36 pm

Yeah but Libero are major douchebags...

I'll be keeping my head down. :P

Anyway, I used 9 hours to find items and got only 1 useless incense, so I'm not worried if I get killed.

Adventure mode doesn't take much RP effort. My nobles, on the other hand... Hmm...

If only I could have 2 nobles AND an adventurer in a continent.

There's always the other continents :P

My first noble is in Far East -> Kindara -> Azoahib, but its pretty damn boring on that continent, from what I've seen.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on May 03, 2012, 02:13:59 am

Andira rescued me, I have laaaaaaaaaand!

I've thought about making a character on another ... island, is it? I hear many of them are rather light on population and activity, but it still might be fun to have an alt around if/when my main character on Dwilight gets inevitably captured or something.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on May 03, 2012, 02:16:07 am

Capturing isn't permanent or anything. You have a chance to escape each turn, and other nobles can pay for your release.
Executions, on the other hand...

I'm planning to make an alt on another island, and then send him to that Demon-war island. Sounds like it could be fun, in a "the end is nigh" sort of way :D

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on May 03, 2012, 02:17:54 am

Haha, that's the best kind of Fun!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on May 03, 2012, 09:38:50 am

Sirus, that was exactly what I wanted to do. ;) I wanted to see the blight and the daimon attacks and stuff, so I created a second character after all. But now I'd feel bad to leave that character's realm to emigrate to Beluaterra when the realm needs knights so urgently (they still have the old estate system where things go really bad without knights).

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Bael on May 03, 2012, 03:10:56 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on May 02, 2012, 07:41:36 pm

Anyway, I used 9 hours to find items and got only 1 useless incense, so I'm not worried if I get killed.

Adventure mode doesn't take much RP effort. My nobles, on the other hand... Hmm...

Yeah, unfortunately searching for stuff as an adventurer takes a very long time. Quite a few times you won't find anything. Persistence does pay off, most times.

For a guide on the stuff that is available, and in what regions, you can check out http://wiki.battlemaster.org/wiki/Adventurer/Items
And then the links at the bottom: Animal Parts | Common | Gems | Materials | Usable.

I used it quite a lot when I was really into my adventurer. He mostly just hunts rogues now though.

Quote from: Andira on May 03, 2012, 09:38:50 am

Sirus, that was exactly what I wanted to do. ;) I wanted to see the blight and the daimon attacks and stuff, so I created a second character after all.

Yep, currently got a bit of breathing room on BT. Just waiting to see what emerges from the blight next!

Quote

But now I'd feel bad to leave that character's realm to emigrate to Beluaterra when the realm needs knights so urgently (they still have the old estate system where things go really bad without knights).

Yeah, it's can get heavy really fast if a couple of Knights disappear from a single region. Just lost a Knight from my city in Atamara, which leaves me with a grand total of one Knight. And one of my Lords doesn't even have any knights. Add to that the distance from the capital city, which causes extra unrest, and got plenty problems!

To conclude, however; if you find your current realm interesting, stay. If you don't, and want to go to BT, send your sincerest regrets and travel off. For me, one of the main features of battlemaster is planning your own path for your characters: their achievements and locations, both close and far. Imo, this is what drives the game and keeps people interested.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 03, 2012, 03:42:39 pm

Indeed! I am quite bored in Far Eastern Kindara, but I've just been conscripted into the army in Dwilight and am having a blast!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Megaman on May 03, 2012, 08:09:30 pm

Err, a question

I've tried to rename my Dwilight character to Johnathan or something, but for some reason when it got accepted I kept my blasphemous name of Mehga. What shall I do?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Dariush on May 04, 2012, 05:24:26 am

Registered today. Stuff looks amazing. Is there any comprehensive player list?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on May 04, 2012, 12:06:13 pm

There's a link on the information screen, but it wouldn't work for me until I'd been in the realm for a day or two. The one at the bottom of the Local Information list is the one for your current realm.

If that's what you were asking, heh.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Dariush on May 04, 2012, 01:20:49 pm

Er, I meant Bay12ers. :D

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on May 04, 2012, 01:39:12 pm

Ah, my mistake. I'm trying to build one now, should be publicly editable.

Google Docs link: BattleMaster Bay 12 List (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ar2wUiMiwXfndFQ0Ym5KT1A0cWwzRVVOSE9JU1FWTlE)

Feel free to change it, remove your name if you aren't playing, add your name if you are, add names for your other characters ... etc.

EDIT: Apologies in advance if I've messed something up or left you out, it wasn't intentional! Please correct anything that's amiss, and add/erase anything you like. You shouldn't need to log in to make changes.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Fanofgaming on May 04, 2012, 03:39:55 pm

I never knew that my fellow Knight of Hvergelmir was a B12er. Tough luck getting captured by the LE, bromigo.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 04, 2012, 04:41:10 pm

Aye! I've added myself and my friend, and have a few more of us from the Pixels! group who joined Terran. We're currently fighting Kabrinskia on the northern border, plenty of !!FUN!!

Anyone mind if I put the entire list in alphabetical order? Its driving me f'ckin' insane.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Megaman on May 04, 2012, 05:36:39 pm

Right, had my man in Dwilight hang himself because of his ludicrous name. Oh well.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 04, 2012, 06:11:14 pm

Quote from: Megaman on May 04, 2012, 05:36:39 pm

Right, had my man in Dwilight hang himself because of his ludicrous name. Oh well.

o_O

What was his name? Also, Terran-Dwilight is recruiting... ;)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Exerosp on May 04, 2012, 07:20:18 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on May 04, 2012, 06:11:14 pm

Quote from: Megaman on May 04, 2012, 05:36:39 pm

Right, had my man in Dwilight hang himself because of his ludicrous name. Oh well.

o_O

What was his name? Also, Terran-Dwilight is recruiting... ;)

Your Justice-person is evil :<

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on May 04, 2012, 07:32:15 pm

Quote from: Exerosp on May 04, 2012, 07:20:18 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on May 04, 2012, 06:11:14 pm

Quote from: Megaman on May 04, 2012, 05:36:39 pm

Right, had my man in Dwilight hang himself because of his ludicrous name. Oh well.

o_O

What was his name? Also, Terran-Dwilight is recruiting... ;)

Your Justice-person is evil :<

Nah, he just deleted his own character because his name (Mehga Man) was kinda against the roleplay atmosphere. No justice involved.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on May 04, 2012, 07:59:13 pm

Someone asked if they could alphabetize the list ... of course! Organize away, far as I'm concerned it's community property heh.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 04, 2012, 07:59:57 pm

You mean Sir Erasmus La Pointe, Magistrate of Justice of Terran, Senator of Vashgew? How is he evil?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on May 04, 2012, 08:03:36 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on May 04, 2012, 07:59:57 pm

You mean Sir Erasmus La Pointe, Magistrate of Justice of Terran, Senator of Vashgew? How is he evil?

Haha, sounds like a fellow that enjoys the odd twirl of the mustache.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Megaman on May 04, 2012, 08:53:20 pm

Quote from: Sirus on May 04, 2012, 07:32:15 pm

Quote from: Exerosp on May 04, 2012, 07:20:18 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on May 04, 2012, 06:11:14 pm

Quote from: Megaman on May 04, 2012, 05:36:39 pm

Right, had my man in Dwilight hang himself because of his ludicrous name. Oh well.

o_O

What was his name? Also, Terran-Dwilight is recruiting... ;)

Your Justice-person is evil :<

Nah, he just deleted his own character because his name (Mehga Man) was kinda against the roleplay atmosphere. No justice involved.

That and I decided I would perfer a less serious atmosphere as well.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Exerosp on May 04, 2012, 08:57:08 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on May 04, 2012, 07:59:57 pm

You mean Sir Erasmus La Pointe, Magistrate of Justice of Terran, Senator of Vashgew? How is he evil?

He threw me, and maybe the other 4 people were prisoners too, in prison in his Chetau, and tortured us :c

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 04, 2012, 09:00:42 pm

Quote from: Exerosp on May 04, 2012, 08:57:08 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on May 04, 2012, 07:59:57 pm

You mean Sir Erasmus La Pointe, Magistrate of Justice of Terran, Senator of Vashgew? How is he evil?

He threw me, and maybe the other 4 people were prisoners too, in prison in his Chetau, and tortured us :c

Its a medieval RP strategy-war game, that's not evil its normal.

Hell, I once RP'd creating an insane secret cult with some of the players who just joined Terran with me. We captured someone we found on our land and tortured them violently before executing them over the altar, hehe. Fun times. Folks quickly learned not to spy on us... :P That was actually the most entertaining RP I had EVER run. It was very liberating and fun to be the bad guys for once. I'm always the honorable white-knight in all my RPs.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Exerosp on May 04, 2012, 09:21:49 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on May 04, 2012, 09:00:42 pm

Quote from: Exerosp on May 04, 2012, 08:57:08 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on May 04, 2012, 07:59:57 pm

You mean Sir Erasmus La Pointe, Magistrate of Justice of Terran, Senator of Vashgew? How is he evil?

He threw me, and maybe the other 4 people were prisoners too, in prison in his Chetau, and tortured us :c

Its a medieval RP strategy-war game, that's not evil its normal.

Hell, I once RP'd creating an insane secret cult with some of the players who just joined Terran with me. We captured someone we found on our land and tortured them violently before executing them over the altar, hehe. Fun times. Folks quickly learned not to spy on us... :P That was actually the most entertaining RP I had EVER run. It was very liberating and fun to be the bad guys for once. I'm always the honorable white-knight in all my RPs.

I'd like to know where the lords torture their citizens which seems to be, for fun, were at. I think there were no such in Sweden. :c

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on May 04, 2012, 09:25:57 pm

Quote from: Exerosp on May 04, 2012, 09:21:49 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on May 04, 2012, 09:00:42 pm

Quote from: Exerosp on May 04, 2012, 08:57:08 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on May 04, 2012, 07:59:57 pm

You mean Sir Erasmus La Pointe, Magistrate of Justice of Terran, Senator of Vashgew? How is he evil?

He threw me, and maybe the other 4 people were prisoners too, in prison in his Chetau, and tortured us :c

Its a medieval RP strategy-war game, that's not evil its normal.

Hell, I once RP'd creating an insane secret cult with some of the players who just joined Terran with me. We captured someone we found on our land and tortured them violently before executing them over the altar, hehe. Fun times. Folks quickly learned not to spy on us... :P That was actually the most entertaining RP I had EVER run. It was very liberating and fun to be the bad guys for once. I'm always the honorable white-knight in all my RPs.

I'd like to know where the lords torture their citizens which seems to be, for fun, were at. I think there were no such in Sweden. :c

Vlad the Impaler?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 04, 2012, 09:30:07 pm

Wait, you were a CITIZEN of Terran? Noble or adventurer? If you're an adventurer, they can do what they please and no one cares. Terran nobles are usually nicer than that, though half the nobles of most nations will kill you on sight just for fun. Nobles, on the other hand, they shouldn't arrest/etc you unless they have good reason. If they did, they need to be reported to their superiors, or the admins.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Exerosp on May 05, 2012, 03:54:46 am

Quote from: Sirus on May 04, 2012, 09:25:57 pm

Quote from: Exerosp on May 04, 2012, 09:21:49 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on May 04, 2012, 09:00:42 pm

Quote from: Exerosp on May 04, 2012, 08:57:08 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on May 04, 2012, 07:59:57 pm

You mean Sir Erasmus La Pointe, Magistrate of Justice of Terran, Senator of Vashgew? How is he evil?

He threw me, and maybe the other 4 people were prisoners too, in prison in his Chetau, and tortured us :c

Its a medieval RP strategy-war game, that's not evil its normal.

Hell, I once RP'd creating an insane secret cult with some of the players who just joined Terran with me. We captured someone we found on our land and tortured them violently before executing them over the altar, hehe. Fun times. Folks quickly learned not to spy on us... :P That was actually the most entertaining RP I had EVER run. It was very liberating and fun to be the bad guys for once. I'm always the honorable white-knight in all my RPs.

I'd like to know where the lords torture their citizens which seems to be, for fun, were at. I think there were no such in Sweden. :c

Vlad the Impaler?

Plural. But yeah, he's one, but there weren't many of him.


And Ehndras, still. A citizen that's helping in your regions by clearing out monsters gets mistreated, but I guess it's just me taking it bad since i'ts ME being mistreated. Derp. But yeah, started in Inklen.

Edit: K, i'm in Chesland, though this might be metagaming and I do not know how far away from me you are, Come RP >:I

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 05, 2012, 04:17:43 am

Inklen. That's where my friend and fellow b12er PyroDesu started under the name Nekarios Ferratum, my IC distant-cousin as per our usual RP.

Chesland? That's just south of my home in Saffalore, though I'm up near Mistight atm joining the army =) I suggest you travel to Chateau Saffalore and take the vacant estate I was to take. The Duke is a good dude.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 05, 2012, 04:18:52 am

I suggest writing an in-character realm-wide (Messages > realm > all) introduction letter, like most folks do. =) Great way to meet folks IC and OOC. Last guy who joined did that and got 3 estate offers right off the bat.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Exerosp on May 05, 2012, 04:57:03 am

Quote from: Ehndras on May 05, 2012, 04:18:52 am

I suggest writing an in-character realm-wide (Messages > realm > all) introduction letter, like most folks do. =) Great way to meet folks IC and OOC. Last guy who joined did that and got 3 estate offers right off the bat.

Yeah I know how to do that, am on Sorraine at Far East too. But this guy is an adventurer though, and I was tortured over at the Cheatau... Not going back. NOT Passing this river. I've introduced myself before, but got no reply. Just igged :/

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 05, 2012, 05:25:40 am

Oh, nevermind then. Adventurers are expendable, and no one will pay attention to you In-Character by default.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Askot Bokbondeler on May 06, 2012, 02:40:49 pm

i'm in, and ptw

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 06, 2012, 06:30:18 pm

YEEEEAH!

Counting myself, I now have a 4-man crew in Dwilight -> Terran, all with the Highland army on the Kabrinskian border. :P Ass-kicking time!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Askot Bokbondeler on May 07, 2012, 11:53:30 pm

things are looking dire in summerdale

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: dennislp3 on May 07, 2012, 11:59:02 pm

Shits going down in Barca...had a few nobles flip and had a region leave....meanwhile me and the army I am with are heading up to Terran >.>

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on May 08, 2012, 12:07:35 am

Quote from: Askot Bokbondeler on May 07, 2012, 11:53:30 pm

things are looking dire in summerdale

I have a feeling I'm going to be captured or dead or something by the next turn. It'll be an incredible stroke of luck if I survive. The good news is that I only have 8 gold, so whoever relieves me of my wealth will be sorely disappointed. I just hope I won't be marching into this battle alone, or it'll be over for me real fast.

What happens to the nobles when their realm is destroyed or otherwise conquered?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 08, 2012, 12:22:14 am

Then, you get the chance to fight back and retake it ;) You can also swear fealty to a new nation, mind you.

We could use the help in Terran, actually. Some pretty good folks here! I just participated in my first ever battle, me and the other archers defeated

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read: utterly raped

a pack of monsters before they could ever get close to the main battle formation, hehe! I only got 1 honor and prestige, but its something :3 Hunting down the stragglers before moving to Lavendrow to destroy another group that's murdering villagers and all that good stuff.

In other news, I joined Hammersett in Atamara and am LOVING IT! They're VERY cool, very friendly, at war with like 5 nations, and its all Norse-themed, so this Norse-loving Pantheistic neo-Pagan gives it two thumbs up!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on May 08, 2012, 03:31:11 pm

That does sound fun! I like a good Norse theme. No idea what we're going to do once Summerdale is inevitably crushed, but I'll keep Terran in mind.

I didn't get captured today (yet) in Summerdale, somehow managed to get the "4 hours late" event and missed the whole battle. Figures. If a few more of us had made it there, we might have had a real fight. It would have taken two turns to get the whole force to arrive at once, but then they probably would have reinforced, too.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Alkhemia on May 08, 2012, 03:51:57 pm

so no point in heading to Summerdale then...but with all the fighting the monster and undead will probable be rampant  :D to bad adventure can't steal stuff

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on May 08, 2012, 03:55:24 pm

Unless some kind of diplomacy comes into play, Summerdale is probably not long for this world. I'm playing it out until the end, though, interested in seeing what might happen. We might make an awesome comeback somehow!  :D

EDIT: Accidentally a word.  :-[

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Empty on May 08, 2012, 04:06:40 pm

Haha :P
Where was Libero?
Can they only hide behind the skirts of Mama Morek? :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Kansa on May 08, 2012, 04:23:13 pm

My character got captured :(

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Megaman on May 08, 2012, 06:00:41 pm

What other continents are ya'll playing on? I'd like to see if anyone else is like me and avoiding Dwilight.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 08, 2012, 09:56:12 pm

Come to Hammetsett in Atamara, we have need of loyal berserkers to combat the enemies of Odin! ;)

I see no reason to avoid Dwilight. Hardcore RP is, after all, the best of the best.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on May 09, 2012, 10:52:19 am

And you don't exactly have to RP...  at least I don't.  When I speak though, I do so while avoiding sounding gamey.

It'd probably be harder to avoid not RPing if/when I decide to take a more active part in upper gov't....  not that I mind.  I'm just lazy.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Jimlad11 on May 09, 2012, 02:32:06 pm

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Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on May 09, 2012, 03:22:56 pm

The wiki is terrible.

A lot of the information either doesn't apply to the island you happen to be on (Dwilight), or is tremendously out of date. Because the codebase and rulesets are different between islands, and because the wiki doesn't clearly demarcate each topic by a specific island, the whole thing ends up being a giant mess that serves to obfuscate rather than clarify.

Andira has been working on a comprehensive guide for new players, but it might be awhile before it's ready. It'll be specific to Dwilight, I believe.

Summerdale getting crushed is pretty good atmosphere, I have to agree! A trial by fire is an effective way to learn some valuable lessons ...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on May 09, 2012, 03:41:20 pm

Quote from: SeaBee on May 09, 2012, 03:22:56 pm

The wiki is terrible.

We know.  :'(  We're just really terrible at doing anything about it. (Especially the dev team.)

Any assistance that can be rendered in that regard is more than welcome. Asking questions on the BM forum should yield good, current answers to most questions you have, which can then be transcribed to appropriate pages on the Wiki.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Rakonas on May 09, 2012, 04:07:09 pm

The wiki would probably be a lot better if it was just marked what update the info was last confirmed valid for, as in the DF wiki.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on May 09, 2012, 04:11:30 pm

Quote from: Rakonas on May 09, 2012, 04:07:09 pm

The wiki would probably be a lot better if it was just marked what update the info was last confirmed valid for, as in the DF wiki.

Unfortunately, BattleMaster doesn't really operate on a major/minor release basis; updates are applied pretty much continuously, as the dev team finishes coding and testing them.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: ConscriptFive on May 09, 2012, 04:43:19 pm

Quote from: Jimlad11 on May 09, 2012, 02:32:06 pm

I'm enjoying this game at the moment. Summerdale is getting slightly roflstomped at the moment, but it just adds to the atmosphere!

Yeah, after we curiously sacrificed over half our army at Torrent's Breath, we've transitioned more or less into "fish in a barrel" mode as Morek has moved in to mop up survivors.  Kinda like when a Goblin Siege breaks through the walls of your Dwarf Fortress and you get to see how long your civvies can hold out.  I broke from the main body to dodge the obvious trap at Odenir, and I'm trying to take the long way to the Capital via Valldir, but they sent two units after me which I've already evaded once.

This just proves once again...

Losing is !!FUN!!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Empty on May 09, 2012, 05:14:29 pm

On the plus point you'll probably get honour+prestige each battle.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 09, 2012, 05:36:41 pm

Indeed!


...Not that he'll be able to use it. :P

If you're lucky you'll find a stop where you can recruit troops.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 09, 2012, 05:37:14 pm

On THAT note, I suggest you blow ALL your gold if you think you're dying/being captured soon, since otherwise your enemies will just loot you.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Vonyx on May 09, 2012, 06:43:00 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on May 08, 2012, 09:56:12 pm

Come to Hammetsett in Atamara, we have need of loyal berserkers to combat the enemies of Odin! ;)

I see no reason to avoid Dwilight. Hardcore RP is, after all, the best of the best.

Asbjorn is ready to fight for this ticket to Valhalla!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: MehMuffin on May 09, 2012, 07:27:06 pm

Am I the only Bay12 player in Morek? Unfortunately, I don't really know how to play, so I haven't been able to join the army... yet.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Vel on May 09, 2012, 08:07:42 pm

I'm in Libero, so we're at least allies. ;p Haven't really been posting here since most of the B12ers are part of Summerdale. Don't want to look weird or suspicious or the like.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 09, 2012, 08:12:50 pm

Eh, I was in Morek before, a bunch of douchebags.

Also, FUCKYEAH ASBJORN! Go to Shanandoah, please. 3 armies rading Lyton, my homeland lmfao

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on May 09, 2012, 09:38:42 pm

Quote from: Vel on May 09, 2012, 08:07:42 pm

I'm in Libero, so we're at least allies. ;p Haven't really been posting here since most of the B12ers are part of Summerdale. Don't want to look weird or suspicious or the like.

Quote from: MehMuffin on May 09, 2012, 07:27:06 pm

Am I the only Bay12 player in Morek? Unfortunately, I don't really know how to play, so I haven't been able to join the army... yet.

So you guys are the ones to blame for my poor country getting massacred  :'( They just trashed an already-defeated retreating "army", it wasn't nice at all! (You guys totally dominate us haha)

But no, please talk! Would be interested in hearing a Liberos and Morek perspective. For example, what caused the sudden change in loyalties of that Orris fellow from Liberos to Morek? That was strange. And do you guys all hate us (in character) or is that secret?

Don't give anything away, of course ... er, not that there's anything we could do about it. We're too tiny. Lots of nobles, no money or military.

I think I might make another character to join you on your island there Ehndras, where should I go for an estate? Don't want to repeat my "play for a week with no income" Fun.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Vel on May 09, 2012, 09:57:27 pm

The loyalty-shift is not something I am comfortable as to whether I should discuss OOCly at the moment.

In character, we certainly see you as an invading army seeking to steal our lands on an age-old dusty claim that has little to do with your realm's current leadership, and everything to do with your realm making a land-grab.

(I say that in terms of 'exactly what my character would say if you deemed to ask him in an IC message; I don't want to mix OOC and IC too much.)


Though just as you all, that's my interpretation from recent events, since I joined roughly around the same time you all did. I'm only privy to things that a low ranked noble would normally be privy to, not to any kind of high government super secret information. I probably wouldn't post at all if I had that.




Edit - Edits nulled since my information was incorrect.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Askot Bokbondeler on May 09, 2012, 10:41:49 pm

we certainly wont have many estates once you're done doing whatever you are doing with us

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on May 09, 2012, 11:01:21 pm

Hah, yeah. Joining Summerdale now is joining the side that has zero chance of winning even one battle. For awhile there (before Morek moved in), I thought we had a chance for some fun fights. Oh well.

Now we find out if Morek and Liberos are going to draw this out or just end it quickly. I don't think I'm giving anything away here when I say that most of our nobles are inexperienced, penniless, and leading half-naked bands of starving peasants against the Space Marines. !Fun! times, as you can well imagine!

Thanks for the reply Vel, no problem (re: the loyalty shift). Was just curious. I'm actually glad we have some people from Bay 12 there, and sorry for flooding the thread with Summerdale tears  :D

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Vel on May 09, 2012, 11:10:26 pm

Well I presumed you guys were somewhat thinly stretched.

To my totally amazing credit* I did not actually say anything to my Libero compatriots; the only way they'd know I was B12 was that I just posted here this evening, if they thought to look.



* Credit may be slightly* overstated for personal egotism purposes


*slightly* may be a somewhat inaccurate descriptor


Actually I just didn't want Libero's noble's (if they'd seen this forum) to think I was some kind of spy before I'd had a chance to prove myself by being in their realm for a reasonable while during a sensitive period, nor for Summerdale's nobles to feel like they had to keep their words tighter here than would be customary for B12 for fear of spies. I really enjoy that BM is a very 'IC' game, and I wouldn't want to curb anyone's OOC discussion or enjoyment of the game for that reason.


Edit - Which isn't to suggest that I was being a totally Secet Libero Spy on your topic by not representing my allegiance outright, though sadly I have no proof of that. But I'm at least a Bay Watcher (registered '07) in terms of what I've got to lose for community reputation. Not that I've got much of any. I certainly won't gain any by betraying B12 over a web page game, though.

Edit 2 - I don't know how a country being destroyed works, but I assume that nobles from it can pledge their allegiance to other nations in the wake of their country's destruction, aside from possible capture/execution for being a high ranker?

That certainly adds, for me, a high degree of enjoyment, because a country's lowest levels may not hold as much regard for their leadership if the invading country has better treatmet.. or they may fight all the harder for their rights to remain independent. But more than anything, it provides an interesting, post-Antebellum South-style period of healing if a nation's lands are conquered or re-conquered in their entirety and the rebellious nobility remain. Having the enemy nobility be arbitrarily wiped out (and, in game terms, have to start over) would be incredibly boring in terms of possible upsets or surprise turn-arounds of power.


Edit 3 - From freely available information, I can tell you for sure that Libero used to be part of the Morek Empire before ideological differences separated them. It is not impossible, as in Some Games, that internal stife can lead to major conflict. I imagine a lot of it is about throwing caution to the wind, declaring Losing Is Fun, and placing your support behind someone who isn't the 'rightful leader'. B12's solidarity in terms of the concept of Losing Is Fun could be quite an upset force in civil conflicts of any realm.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Megaman on May 09, 2012, 11:42:34 pm

A random question, is it worth going around hunting for the undead while your realm is not on campaign? Or is it a bad idea to waste my men?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 10, 2012, 05:40:49 am

...I am not a happy Viking. My people in Lyton are getting WTFPWN'D.

"Tara forces are killing, raping and burning in Lyton!"

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 10, 2012, 06:37:03 am

LOL.

Decided to sent my trollish goodbye message to the whole realm before I left. I was 16 hours into the trip, and suddenly...

Arrested!   (just in)
personal message
You have been arrested by the men of Alanna Anaris, Countess of Santoo while you were in Giask.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on May 10, 2012, 06:44:09 am

Yep. Try to troll nobles as an adventurer, and that's the kind of treatment you can expect  :P

(And yes, Alanna's my Dwilight character.)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 10, 2012, 07:08:11 am

Not sure how the hell you imprisoned me though, I was 16 hours into my boat-ride. Mechanics seem a bit broken there.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on May 10, 2012, 07:42:57 am

Quote from: Ehndras on May 10, 2012, 07:08:11 am

Not sure how the hell you imprisoned me though, I was 16 hours into my boat-ride. Mechanics seem a bit broken there.

Yeah, that does need to be fixed. I know for a fact that that piece of code hasn't been touched since Adventurers gained the ability to do normal (ie, non-instant) travel over long routes. (I know this because I wrote the code for non-instant Adventurer travel ;) )

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 10, 2012, 07:45:46 am

Thank you for the broken code and the subsequent imprisonment :P I was hoping to travel to Terran to assist in putting down monsters before they can cause trouble for my main char's provinces, but I think being in prison might be interesting in a !!FUN!! way. I actually sent that out to the local adventurers first, before deciding to send it to the nobles and see how quickly I might get in trouble. Took about two minutes to land me in jail :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on May 10, 2012, 01:02:46 pm

Just for clarification: We still have 6 or 7 estates available in Summerdale right now. Of course I'm not saying nobody should join other realms, I just wanted to let people who are interested in joining Summerdale know that there is no lack of estates right now and that they are welcome to join us. But be warned, our situation in the war against Libero Empire and Morek is really not too good. ;) Though who knows... maybe something unexpected happens.

If you're wondering why we suddenly have estates available when we had a period of estate lack: It just took us a bit to get lords for some regions (characters needed a certain amount of honor/prestige first to be able to be appointed as lord) and also several of the new players have been auto-paused for inactivity lately, so that their estates can be given away now.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on May 10, 2012, 02:09:21 pm

Andira, tell them to fix your Internet properly! I need mah mentor.

Ah Vel, no problems at all! I'd never suspect anyone who has been here awhile to be a spy or anything, for either side. Not our style! I totally understand, though, wouldn't want to suffer IC just for joining in the conversation. Completely agree with you on the potential for interesting events even if Summerdale falls completely.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: stabbymcstabstab on May 10, 2012, 03:49:17 pm

Hey every one I just started a adventurer on the Eastern Continent, Anyone got some helpful advice?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Exerosp on May 10, 2012, 03:57:39 pm

Quote from: stabbymcstabstab on May 10, 2012, 03:49:17 pm

Hey every one I just started a adventurer on the Eastern Continent, Anyone got some helpful advice?

-Snip-

Edit: Nevermind, forgot I was on 'FAR' East.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on May 10, 2012, 11:06:35 pm

Stabby, sorry, I'd really like to help you, but I fear I'm not the right person to give much advice on playing adventurers. It has been quite a bit ago that I paused my only adventurer - too long for my memory to still recall much of it. Though hunting monsters and/or undead seems like a good thing to do. ;) Have you tried that? Also, you might consider joining a guild for adventurers if there is one where you are. Adventurers can exchange information about good hunting grounds in guilds.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on May 10, 2012, 11:23:04 pm

I have an adventurer running around on Dwilight. He's actually managed to amass a decent amount of gold from monster bounties and stuff.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: stabbymcstabstab on May 11, 2012, 07:26:50 am

I've been hunting mostly monster since theres about two adventures including me in the entire realm I'm in.

I also started a noble in the Islands any tips?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 11, 2012, 08:34:11 am

Oooooh, being in prison is fun :o I never knew you could befriend guards, talk to other prisons, and all this fun stuff. If only there were more mini-games while you're in prison, like catching rats or starting fights with other prisoners... Heheheh...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on May 11, 2012, 08:59:55 am

Catching rats... ?  That is pretty low for a person of noble lineage...

I seriously thought I posted this last night... but, I hear tell of priests calling for a crusade against the Zuma Coalition...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 11, 2012, 09:39:05 am

No, my adventurer is in prison. Adventurers are common rabble.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 11, 2012, 09:39:52 am

Quote from: Zangi on May 11, 2012, 08:59:55 am

Catching rats... ?  That is pretty low for a person of noble lineage...

I seriously thought I posted this last night... but, I hear tell of priests calling for a crusade against the Zuma Coalition...

LMFAO.

The shit is going to rapidly hit the fan then. Zuma are GM-led NPC demon-armies. If everyone goes to war with Zuma, its going to be EPIC.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: stabbymcstabstab on May 11, 2012, 09:47:06 am

Where is this happening at? I want to see!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Lorgan on May 11, 2012, 09:52:37 am

Quote from: Ehndras on May 11, 2012, 09:39:52 am

LMFAO.

The shit is going to rapidly hit the fan then. Zuma are GM-led NPC demon-armies. If everyone goes to war with Zuma, its going to be EPIC.

I doubt this is going to happen on Dwilight any time soon, it's just a bunch of bored guys who don't want to join the war on Summerdale's side and are looking for something to do.

But you know, on Beluaterra we pick our teeth with shattered daimon bones....

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 11, 2012, 11:13:49 am

Uhh, there's other wars and other nations beside Summerdale, dude. The Summerdale-Libero war is just one cockfest of the many that are ongoing. I think a continent-wide demon invasion would absolutely rock.

If the demons launch from multiple places, of course. If they just go from Zuma then its just retarded because Terran will get raped and everything will shrug and continue with business as usual.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Empty on May 11, 2012, 11:29:38 am

It's Terran's own fault anyway.
Shouldn't have gotten their hands caught in the cookie jar.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Lorgan on May 11, 2012, 12:43:47 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on May 11, 2012, 11:13:49 am

Uhh, there's other wars and other nations beside Summerdale, dude. The Summerdale-Libero war is just one cockfest of the many that are ongoing. I think a continent-wide demon invasion would absolutely rock.

If the demons launch from multiple places, of course. If they just go from Zuma then its just retarded because Terran will get raped and everything will shrug and continue with business as usual.

I know, I'm just saying: from what I know it's Corsanctum priests trying to motivate Sanguis Astroism to do it. Seeing however that one of their theocracies is currently "allied" with the Zuma, I don't think they'll manage to unite the entire religion against the Zuma. They'd kind of be shooting themselves in the foot. Corsanctum is just trying to find something fun to do without attacking other faithfuls of SA, i.e. the entire North, and good luck to them but I don't think that it'll work.

What you are referring to is something that won't happen on Dwilight. The Zuma abide to very specific rules set by Tom and maybe they can be provoked enough that they might go and try to conquer the entire continent but I doubt that that will happen.
That's just not Dwilight's theme, it's Beluaterra's theme. What you're describing is exactly what's happening on Beluaterra where non-humans come out of the blight around the entire continent and entire realms have already fallen last invasion and many capitals have already been lost this invasion. The current one is the 5th one and it is for the first time actually about the survival of the continent. Before, it was only about the survival of your realm, which was already hard enough. :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on May 11, 2012, 12:49:06 pm

Stabby, about your question what to do with the new noble you started: Write a letter to introduce yourself to the whole realm. I'm not sure which realm or continent you're playing in/on, but sending this letter usually makes at least some people send you a letter in return, probably including some offers for oaths of fealty. You need to give such an oath to a lord to get an estate and with that estate, you'll get an income to pay your soldiers with.

And I absolutely want to see that invasion on Beluaterra, too, but I still have to wait until one of my characters is able to emigrate there (of course I won't let Andira emigrate, just a new character).

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on May 11, 2012, 02:24:21 pm

I was wondering where the declarers of the crusade were based... cause I'm pretty durn sure the ones calling for war are not the ones in the southwest, next to the Zuma.  We are already embroiled in a war of our own anyways...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 11, 2012, 02:38:45 pm

Quote from: Zangi on May 11, 2012, 02:24:21 pm

I was wondering where the declarers of the crusade were based... cause I'm pretty durn sure the ones calling for war are not the ones in the southwest, next to the Zuma.  We are already embroiled in a war of our own anyways...

Where are you from, Zangi?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on May 11, 2012, 10:42:30 pm

Asylon, now I'm hearing some weird talk about making a reserve or something.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 12, 2012, 10:06:28 pm

Ah, my neighbors.

I am Alura Aurea, Vice-Marshal of the Terran military as of... Today.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 12, 2012, 10:07:44 pm

I always do that, for some damn reason. People ALWAYS end up putting me in charge of every game I ever play. I'm an admin or mod on so many games, I can't even begin to count them all.

I'm not sure if I just seem THAT trustworthy, or if I've got some mystical powers I don't know about.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on May 12, 2012, 10:13:31 pm

Have you killed the Marshal or why are you the one in charge? ;)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 12, 2012, 10:28:36 pm

No, the marshal who is also the army's founder/sponsor who is also the magistrate of War, aka General, apparently appreciated my support so much he made me vice-marshal.

Whatever it is I'm apparently doing, its working?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on May 12, 2012, 10:43:46 pm

Activity, communication and being proactive.  It will get you very far up the chain.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 12, 2012, 10:47:05 pm

Ain't that the truth.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on May 12, 2012, 10:54:52 pm

Hah, so that's why some school teachers award points for "participation." It really pays off!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 13, 2012, 11:43:28 pm

If you're from Terran, please vote Alura for Lord of Vassar.


Oh dear god. It'll NEVER happen. But if it does, it'll be the most epic achievement I've ever done. Hell, considering the amount of time I spend on this game... >_> I refresh every 10 minutes and am always on top of every action lmao.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 15, 2012, 10:00:52 am

Any adventurers in D'hara/Barca/Terran? My adventurer Maximilian is in Chesney, Terran, at the Adventurer's Guild. Plenty of good loot in the region. If anyone's interested, Maximilian is interested in networking with fellow monster hunters ;)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 15, 2012, 11:59:57 pm

Welp, I'm officially Lord of Vassar.

Surprisingly, of the 15 who voted, 12 voted for me. o_O

I not only won, but I did so with an epic majority vote.

I'm absolutely flabbergasted that people actually voted for me...

Still can't believe I'm not a bloody Senator/Lord!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 16, 2012, 12:00:47 am

Woops, meant now* I'm a senator/Lord. :P

The history is so in-depth! I love learning the history of the nations and many wars. =)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on May 16, 2012, 12:10:11 am

Congratulations!

Yes, the history of some of these nations is pretty impressive.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Alkhemia on May 16, 2012, 01:02:31 am

What with this? Your family has worked hard to regain some of its wealth spent on allowing you to start a military career, and has managed to make a profit of 25 gold. So can adventure do anything besides kill undead, monster and be tortured the wiki no help?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: ConscriptFive on May 16, 2012, 01:52:47 am

Uh... anybody else unable to access characters on their family page?

"Fatal error: Call to a member function getId() on a non-object in /var/battlemaster/live/userdata.php on line 458"

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on May 16, 2012, 02:50:38 am

Quote from: ConscriptFive on May 16, 2012, 01:52:47 am

Uh... anybody else unable to access characters on their family page?

"Fatal error: Call to a member function getId() on a non-object in /var/battlemaster/live/userdata.php on line 458"

I've got that, too. A fix has been submitted, so it should be corrected Soon™

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on May 16, 2012, 02:54:37 am

Same here. Server must have wonked out :|

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on May 16, 2012, 02:56:23 am

It's working now (for me).

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on May 16, 2012, 03:05:55 am

Same here :D

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on May 16, 2012, 03:20:04 am

Quote from: Alkhemia on May 16, 2012, 01:02:31 am

What with this? Your family has worked hard to regain some of its wealth spent on allowing you to start a military career, and has managed to make a profit of 25 gold. So can adventure do anything besides kill undead, monster and be tortured the wiki no help?

Automatic/random bonus.  Don't count on it too much...

Skilled adventurers are able to find cool stuff that the nobility would pay for...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on May 16, 2012, 03:58:57 am

I know nothing about Adventurers (have yet to make one) except that they kill monsters, find rare items (they're the only ones that can do that, far as I know), and have a much different time resource (it's more real-time than per-turn).

I'd imagine they have a far lower life expectancy due to nobles randomly deciding to arrest them, but that's all part of what makes it a different experience.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 16, 2012, 04:53:38 am

Aye, adventurers are quick to die, and thus, are mostly for short-term fun. They don't RP like nobles, have no rights unless they *become* a noble(how often does that happen, and how?), and are mostly just for romping around the world clearing undead, finding random loot, and pissing nobles off.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on May 16, 2012, 10:28:39 am

Quote from: Ehndras on May 16, 2012, 04:53:38 am

Aye, adventurers are quick to die, and thus, are mostly for short-term fun. They don't RP like nobles, have no rights unless they *become* a noble(how often does that happen, and how?), and are mostly just for romping around the world clearing undead, finding random loot, and pissing nobles off.

They can be rather helpful. My adventurer on Dwilight seems to have prevented a monster attack before it could happen, finding a region where the monsters were about to hit critical mass and trimming their numbers (even going up against an alpha creature, though he couldn't kill it).

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 16, 2012, 07:42:40 pm

Quote from: Sirus on May 16, 2012, 10:28:39 am

Quote from: Ehndras on May 16, 2012, 04:53:38 am

Aye, adventurers are quick to die, and thus, are mostly for short-term fun. They don't RP like nobles, have no rights unless they *become* a noble(how often does that happen, and how?), and are mostly just for romping around the world clearing undead, finding random loot, and pissing nobles off.

They can be rather helpful. My adventurer on Dwilight seems to have prevented a monster attack before it could happen, finding a region where the monsters were about to hit critical mass and trimming their numbers (even going up against an alpha creature, though he couldn't kill it).

Nice!

Yeah, I'm using my adventurer to cut down on monster/undead groups in Asylon/Terran/Barca. :) Just found a Wootz. No idea what it is, desc says its a mystical metal used to make ultra-high quality steel, so maybe I'll get a nice profit from it.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: vagel7 on May 18, 2012, 11:30:04 am

The registration is so broken, they don't accept hotmail or yahoo. What the hell??

EDIT:Got registered with hot(different from hotmail), how long does it take them to send the email?

EDIT2:Got the email, Cendry von Rippendrop in Marquessate of EVanburg Dwilight.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on May 18, 2012, 12:25:42 pm

As I believe it states, BattleMaster has received an undue share of spam account registration attempts from those domains.

GMail accounts are allowed, and are so easy to register if you're a real human that we're not likely to change that restriction. (I believe the proportion of the playerbase that uses GMail is pretty large, too: way over half.)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 18, 2012, 05:59:20 pm

Quote from: vagel7 on May 18, 2012, 11:30:04 am

The registration is so broken, they don't accept hotmail or yahoo. What the hell??

EDIT:Got registered with hot(different from hotmail), how long does it take them to send the email?

EDIT2:Got the email, Cendry von Rippendrop in Marquessate of EVanburg Dwilight.

I've been in plenty of games that don't allow hotmail. Hotmail is too spammy. Yahoo is usually the same way. My two most hated emails, heh.

Welcome! I am Lady Alura Aurea, Senator of Vassar, Vice-Marshal of the Phantarian army of Terran, and Maximilian Aurea, traveling vagabond monster-hunter.

I have no bloody idea what nation you're from, but I hope you have a load of fun here in Dwilight!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on May 19, 2012, 02:16:49 pm

People on Dwilight probably got word of a massive frickin' battle in Nifel. Here's the combat report :D (http://battlemaster.org/ShowScribeNote.php?ID=195857&Hash=7cda871f8187878a)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Fanofgaming on May 19, 2012, 06:53:28 pm

Quote from: Sirus on May 19, 2012, 02:16:49 pm

People on Dwilight probably got word of a massive frickin' battle in Nifel. Here's the combat report :D (http://battlemaster.org/ShowScribeNote.php?ID=195857&Hash=7cda871f8187878a)

"You look at the message for a long time, but it is in a language unknown to you and you cannot make heads or tails of it."

But yeah, it was a pretty epic battle. I'm surprised that we, Summerdale, won.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Knave on May 19, 2012, 07:32:42 pm

Quote from: Fanofgaming on May 19, 2012, 06:53:28 pm

Quote from: Sirus on May 19, 2012, 02:16:49 pm

People on Dwilight probably got word of a massive frickin' battle in Nifel. Here's the combat report :D (http://battlemaster.org/ShowScribeNote.php?ID=195857&Hash=7cda871f8187878a)

"You look at the message for a long time, but it is in a language unknown to you and you cannot make heads or tails of it."

But yeah, it was a pretty epic battle. I'm surprised that we, Summerdale, won.

I think we really lucked out that their battle plan was not concrete and 10,000 CV missed the battle. It seems they are having quite a bit of difficulty coordinating between the 2 nations. I doubt they'll let something like that happen again.

Should give us a good opportunity to shift the tide, but the mountain will be a tough nut to crack even with their depleted army. I think the best Summerdale can expect with the numbers they are facing is a stalemate. Morek + Libero is simply too large.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 19, 2012, 11:47:31 pm

Definitely heard about that. Be warned, we can't read the report.

Turn it around, Summerdale! Kick some ass! We're fuckin' BAY12, impossible, certain-death situations are our specialty! ;)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on May 19, 2012, 11:50:25 pm

You can't read it? Darn D:

Copy-pasting would probably hit the character limit here, so suffice to say that Summerdale did pretty damn well. I lost more men hunting for enemies the turn after than I did in the actual fighting.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Rakonas on May 19, 2012, 11:57:44 pm

I actually only had 1 wounded in the battle, and then one killed hunting enemies. The wounded fellow died, damn healers should be fired.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Alkhemia on May 20, 2012, 03:01:21 am

Nice fight Summerdale I like the role-playing after it to, good read

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on May 20, 2012, 07:14:43 am

The reason some people can't read the report is that adventurers (officially) can't read.

Any noble on the same continent the report was created on can read it.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 20, 2012, 07:30:59 am

Weird. I logged into my noblewoman and I still got an error from that report.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on May 20, 2012, 08:01:46 am

Quote from: Ehndras on May 20, 2012, 07:30:59 am

Weird. I logged into my noblewoman and I still got an error from that report.

What sort of error?

Because it is being presented as a link, rather than sent to your character as a scribe note, you have to make sure that you are using the same BattleMaster domain when accessing it. That is, since the link is to battlemaster.org, you have to make sure that when you access it, you are not logged in to www.battlemaster.org.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: vagel7 on May 20, 2012, 01:04:03 pm

I'm in Aurvandil, moving to Madina city to receive an estate. It just took me 2 TL days to get with my 20 infantry from Lawataling to Madina Gardens. The roads here are also terrible.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 20, 2012, 02:55:12 pm

Ouch, its like that in Hammersett because of all the looting. I believe weather and terrain influences travel time immensely.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on May 21, 2012, 03:20:51 pm

Darn it, my noble from Fontan got captured by a Westmoorian ambush!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: stabbymcstabstab on May 21, 2012, 04:38:40 pm

Heard about that, Sucks for you.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on May 21, 2012, 04:57:51 pm

Quote from: stabbymcstabstab on May 21, 2012, 04:38:40 pm

Heard about that, Sucks for you.

How'd you hear about it?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: stabbymcstabstab on May 21, 2012, 05:27:15 pm

I'm a noble in the island and news travels fast, and I had a adventure in the region it took place.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on May 21, 2012, 07:01:33 pm

Why exactly is Terran executing its own adventurers played by new players for no reason at all? :/ (And I am not talking about myself, but about a new player I brought to the game.) Yes, I know, adventurers are scum, but really, do we want to scare new players away from the game like that? And it's not like adventurers didn't have their use for a realm either.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 21, 2012, 07:33:28 pm

Who did that? Odd... And stupid. We've been having monsters ravage the nation constantly because we're lacking in adventurers.

I might need to speak to someone about this, because its getting ridiculous. Is it really necessary to be an asshole and execute every adventurer you find?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on May 21, 2012, 07:51:44 pm

Well, the judge did. After repeatedly torturing not only the adventurer of the player I'm talking about, but also others, because he kept hearing screams of torture in the prison all day long. And I think at least one other was executed while my friend's adventurer was still in prison. Sooo... yeah, I think there's a reason why Terran is lacking adventurers. ;)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on May 21, 2012, 07:54:16 pm

So which continent is this Terran place on, anyway?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on May 21, 2012, 08:02:55 pm

Dwilight, southwest area of the world...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on May 21, 2012, 08:04:35 pm

Note to self: avoid the southwest area of Dwilight...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: stabbymcstabstab on May 21, 2012, 08:12:56 pm

Note to self: Be a suck up to the judge.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 21, 2012, 08:13:55 pm

Quote from: Andira on May 21, 2012, 07:51:44 pm

Well, the judge did. After repeatedly torturing not only the adventurer of the player I'm talking about, but also others, because he kept hearing screams of torture in the prison all day long. And I think at least one other was executed while my friend's adventurer was still in prison. Sooo... yeah, I think there's a reason why Terran is lacking adventurers. ;)

The hell?

Weird. I'm really not liking that... I've raised my voice within the Senate to see what I can find out, simply because I've noticed an IC lack of adventurers and many regions are on near-invasion levels. I will ignore the content of this thread because I will not move by way of unverifiable meta-knowledge.

If anything is occuring, I'll discover it within the bounds of the IC universe... Either that, or my adventurer will get caught and tortured. I'll make sure he has enough gold to get a message to a random noble in case that occurs.

The southwest of Dwilight is great, its just not so great for any adventurers caught in a specific region, apparently. My adventurer is having a blast, traveling all over Terran, through Zuma lands, Asylon, and just seeing what's out there.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on May 21, 2012, 08:16:00 pm

Any EC people want to talk about the Fontan/Westmoor war that I got accidentally caught up in?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on May 21, 2012, 08:22:17 pm

I have pointed ears and cannot make a statement about this war. ;) (Meaning I do play on the East Continent, but as one of the elves of Sirion.)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: stabbymcstabstab on May 21, 2012, 08:25:06 pm

I hate elves, and I can't belive that the obsidian Islands just doesn't wipe you out...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on May 21, 2012, 08:29:25 pm

Wait, what? I heard that there were no non-human races in Battlemaster, or at least none that were playable.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on May 21, 2012, 08:33:14 pm

Stabby: lol, have them try it. I'm sure they have the power to wipe all of us pointy ear persons within a second. ;)

Sirus: The elves of Sirion (well, and the daimons played by gamemasters) are the only exception to this rule.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on May 21, 2012, 08:37:27 pm

Huh. Cool! I'm half-tempted to become a Hero character and move my family there. On the other hand, I like my little revenge plot better :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on May 21, 2012, 08:46:23 pm

Wait, can you have your family ransom you if you're imprisoned? I only have 49 gold on me, but there's more back home.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Rakonas on May 21, 2012, 09:05:32 pm

Quote

You are currently travelling. You successfully take over the wayside inn.

  :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on May 21, 2012, 09:10:53 pm

Huh, Sirus, do you not enjoy playing in Summerdale any longer? You can create a character in Sirion without moving your family home.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on May 21, 2012, 09:12:50 pm

No, I'm having fun in Summerdale! It's just that by starting a new character over there I'd just be a human in Sirion rather than an elf of Sirion. Maybe I'll just make a second account.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on May 21, 2012, 09:14:53 pm

Wait, wait. ;) First, only one account per player is allowed or you'll get banned with both accounts.

Second, from what I was told, every character in Sirion is an elf and no character outside of Sirion is an elf (even if it is an ex-Sirionite leaving his realm to join another one). So... even if your family is human, your Sirionite character would somehow go through a "magical transformation" when becoming a member of Sirion, heh. It doesn't make sense, I know, I was confused about it, too. But it's how it is.

Edit: Wait, that was wrong, I was actually told you CAN be a human in Sirion if you want, just not an elf outside Sirion, sorry.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on May 21, 2012, 09:17:43 pm

So, Andira isn't actually an elf anymore since she left? Never mind then.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Megaman on May 21, 2012, 09:18:18 pm

It appears I joined the wrong realm. I'm in Nivemus  :P.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on May 21, 2012, 09:23:55 pm

Sirus, no, Andira never was an elf. My other character is. Andira has been in Summerdale for all of her life. And that other character has been in Sirion for all of her (so far still short) life.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on May 21, 2012, 09:24:48 pm

Ah, I see. My bad, then.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on May 21, 2012, 09:38:22 pm

No problem. :) I'm here to explain stuff.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: GundamMerc on May 21, 2012, 09:52:05 pm

Heyo, I'm another player of this game, also play Dwarf Fortress. I control the Kuriga family on Battlemaster. If you guys like interesting happenings, I'd recommend either joining Arcaea or Kabrinskia.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 21, 2012, 10:21:55 pm

Naah, Kabrinskia's a no-no for me. Still curious how you Kabrinskians managed to get the Daimons to sort-of help you out, or how you have an orthodox religious nation that magically stopped caring about hating Daimons once you figured a way to blackmail them into serving you via !!SHINY!! artifacts, heh.

Man, I love the politics in BM, they're so ridiculously entertaining.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: GundamMerc on May 22, 2012, 11:41:53 am

Quote from: Ehndras on May 21, 2012, 10:21:55 pm

Naah, Kabrinskia's a no-no for me. Still curious how you Kabrinskians managed to get the Daimons to sort-of help you out, or how you have an orthodox religious nation that magically stopped caring about hating Daimons once you figured a way to blackmail them into serving you via !!SHINY!! artifacts, heh.

Man, I love the politics in BM, they're so ridiculously entertaining.

Sanguis Astroism isn't a heaven/hell religion, and actually is only about worshiping the Bloodstars. Daimons aren't necessarily evil to us. Besides that, Kabrinskia is a Theocracy in name only. Allison got them to help us through real-life months of talks with them. So it wasn't a sudden "Oh, we're just going to help you out of the blue." Also, the said shiny artifact was the Zuma Aegis, meaning it belonged to the Zuma and was something they had been looking for.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Alkhemia on May 22, 2012, 04:17:14 pm

hmmm The queen want something from us adventures must be bad if she has to ask for are help or it could be a trap and I'll get tortured.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: stabbymcstabstab on May 22, 2012, 04:19:24 pm

From my experiance, I would hide some where.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on May 22, 2012, 07:54:04 pm

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Strength 74
Intellect 70
Agility 75
Stamina 63
Size 62
Presence 78
Chi 60

Good enough for a Rage in the long run... or no?  If not, I can always look into War.

EDIT: Hurk, what I get for looking between threads... sorry.

Also, Asylon is on the offensive against Kabrinskia it seems...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on May 22, 2012, 08:05:32 pm

Quote from: Zangi on May 22, 2012, 07:54:04 pm

Strength 74
Intellect 70
Agility 75
Stamina 63
Size 62
Presence 78
Chi 60

Good enough for a Rage in the long run... or no?  If not, I can always look into War.

Wrong thread, dude :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on May 22, 2012, 11:18:04 pm

I don't know if it's bad that I recognize what thread that should be in or not ...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Jimlad11 on May 23, 2012, 09:29:04 am

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Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: stabbymcstabstab on May 24, 2012, 10:39:34 am

Any one from Fontan in the East Continent here.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: ConscriptFive on May 30, 2012, 06:11:46 am

Wow Andira, did you really just ragequit?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on May 30, 2012, 06:24:53 am

I don't think it was rage-quitting so much as just getting completely out of the way. She was just made Marshal, told to take the Breath, then started feeling bad in real life when a lot of people blamed her for everything.

Really, if you're feeling terrible OOC, it stops becoming entertainment (no longer a game). A break is a good idea at that point. I'm not sure that calling her out here is especially useful, though. If that wasn't your intent, I apologize.

As for Summerdale, I think it's safe to say that we are totally screwed at this point. I knew that going in, though; excited to see how long I can survive before being tortured to death. Wonder if I can just keep traveling back and forth between to points using "delay arrival" ... to the laboratory!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: ConscriptFive on May 30, 2012, 07:10:13 am

Quote from: SeaBee on May 30, 2012, 06:24:53 am

I don't think it was rage-quitting so much as just getting completely out of the way. She was just made Marshal, told to take the Breath, then started feeling bad in real life when a lot of people blamed her for everything.

It just sucks that she ended up being the fall guy for Queen "the numbers look good" Charlotte.  Both Aldus and Tancred independently pointed out how we had scout reports 12-24 hours out that said the attack was suicidal.

We might have been able to get a drop on on Torrents Breath had we all moved through Valldir (9 hours), rather than give them a two turn tip off (13 hours).  Instead, all of Morek and Libero got a full day of seeing us head to a position it would take them less than 12 hours to overwhelmingly reinforce.  And then the scout reports started confirming that Morek was onto the attack, and then Owen's detachment crashed early, confirming it wasn't a misdirect.  Tancred protested the math, but posted a bad counter-plan while Charlotte reaffirmed that "the numbers look good."  So instead we just suicided our entire force?

Either the player of Charlotte hasn't learned much about war in the last SIX YEARS they've been playing the game, or they're really a secret Morek agent.

You decide.

Either way, sucks that Andira took the bullet for her.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on May 30, 2012, 07:28:55 am

Oh, you'd be shocked at how truly clueless many people really are about strategy and other military matters in BattleMaster, even some who have been self-proclaimed military geniuses since 2002.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on May 30, 2012, 08:40:45 am

Which is fine, there would be so much more sitting around and doing nothing if it were so...  Though, it could still lead to that, its just better if people think there is a chance to win an attack...  cause ya know, they can still win by luck and what-not.

Belattura (Or however you spell it is actually moving way too fast for me...), the monster island.  Movement just about every turn.  So I'll probably ditch it, despite the cool concept and constant battling.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Geffer on May 30, 2012, 12:05:43 pm

I'd think a bunch of DF players would be more able to accept defeat, that's what I get -every- time I play DF.  You're approaching the situation from the standpoint that there -is- a magical way for Summerdale to win.  There isn't, short of Morek falling apart internally.  You can't just throw a bunch of new players at the war and expect to tip the scales.  I'm curious how you got the impression that Summerdale would be winning a bunch of battles?   It's not like Morek and Libero are played by NPC's that will stand still and expose weaknesses, those players know what they're doing too.

Economically, Morek and Libero have 6 times what Summerdale has.
Military strength, they have at least 4 times more.
They control the key regions complete with Militia.
It's like if there were two 15 year olds in a fight, then one's Pro MMA brother steps in to help.


Every player in Summerdale's military command knew that the last battle would likely be lost.   Not a certainly, but likely.   The alternative is to stand around until Morek and Libero feel like attacking, that doesn't sound fun to me.   Battlemaster is about RP, political intrigue and battles.   Not about whining or losing (misspelling intentional) and -definitely- not about jumping on forums to talk trash about your fellow players (although it happens way too often).  Yes, we're screwed... let's make the most of it and have fun.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 30, 2012, 12:44:55 pm

Aye. Everyone joined Summerdale knowing full well they were going to get f*cked by a two-pronged invasion they're powerless to defend against. :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Empty on May 30, 2012, 12:51:13 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on May 30, 2012, 12:44:55 pm

Aye. Everyone joined Summerdale knowing full well they were going to get f*cked by a two-pronged invasion they're powerless to defend against. :P

Actually if "BUG" didn't happen on Mt Astrond and we had it as a defensible location it would have gone the other way :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on May 30, 2012, 12:53:04 pm

That is the bug where fights didn't happen?  I heard complaints about that for the Asylon v Kabriniska+Astrum fight.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Empty on May 30, 2012, 12:55:51 pm

Quote from: Zangi on May 30, 2012, 12:53:04 pm

That is the bug where fights didn't happen?  I heard complaints about that for the Asylon v Kabriniska+Astrum fight.

Nah. It's the bug where someone from Libero retained ownership of the region while it went to Summerdale.
He promptly seceded it back to Libero with all the militia we just dumped into it.
Fun times...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on May 30, 2012, 12:58:11 pm

Oh, that is nice, a few more bodies in your army instead of theirs probably could have helped tip things.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on May 30, 2012, 12:59:17 pm

Doesn't matter so much now, as Summerdale is losing the war against two(!) empires and has begun infighting. Goooooooooood times.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on May 30, 2012, 02:15:00 pm

Quote from: Geffer on May 30, 2012, 12:05:43 pm

I'd think a bunch of DF players would be more able to accept defeat, that's what I get -every- time I play DF.  You're approaching the situation from the standpoint that there -is- a magical way for Summerdale to win.  There isn't, short of Morek falling apart internally.  You can't just throw a bunch of new players at the war and expect to tip the scales.  I'm curious how you got the impression that Summerdale would be winning a bunch of battles?   It's not like Morek and Libero are played by NPC's that will stand still and expose weaknesses, those players know what they're doing too.

Economically, Morek and Libero have 6 times what Summerdale has.
Military strength, they have at least 4 times more.
They control the key regions complete with Militia.
It's like if there were two 15 year olds in a fight, then one's Pro MMA brother steps in to help.


Every player in Summerdale's military command knew that the last battle would likely be lost.   Not a certainly, but likely.   The alternative is to stand around until Morek and Libero feel like attacking, that doesn't sound fun to me.   Battlemaster is about RP, political intrigue and battles.   Not about whining or losing (misspelling intentional) and -definitely- not about jumping on forums to talk trash about your fellow players (although it happens way too often).  Yes, we're screwed... let's make the most of it and have fun.

Well, the thing is, you play out the losing situation in DF on the slim hope that you can win. And you continue to try. What Summerdale is doing is pointless resignation. Even your post is resigned. Your tactics are resigned. Who is inspired by complete resignation?

Liberorek is afraid to attack Nifel, but travels past it in uncoordinated groups. Stick your army in Odenir and rest up 12 hours, then hit when you have actually scouted and bought a damned calculator. If they move on Nifel, instead... it's just a 6 hour trip back, and you smash them there. Smash, smash, smash, guerrilla-style, never where they want you to be, never where they have two turns to know that you'll be.

When you smash them hard enough? Well, then you have Mount Black for the coup-de-grace, with just 3000 CS of militia guarding it now. Lull them into thinking your game is all about the north, then hit them there.

They're stretched out. They literally have no ability to move north without blobbing up for even the most routine refits, if the Summerdale general has so much as the brain of a goose. And no, standing around for months isn't fun, but you honestly think liberorek would not move north to continue its conquests? Or you think running back and forth from pre-lost battle, to recruitment, to pre-lost battle is fun? It's not fun... not even Fun, because Fun implies that you're still trying. Try. There is no better strategic ground on the map of dwilight, and you pissed it away. I doubt you have enough nobles to execute any strategy now but turtling in Nifel.

The players you got from this board are probably the best single group ever to come in one wave to BF, ever (repetition intentional). Don't come here and pretend that you got a raw deal. And yeah, I'm just a long-time lurker here. This post made me register because its so obtuse. If this were in game? Cairo would kick me now.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Kansa on May 30, 2012, 02:34:19 pm

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If this were in game? Cairo would kick me now.

To be fair to the leaders of Summerdale do you really think that a low ranking noble insulting the ruler and the general of the nation would not get kicked out. As Dwilight is a SMA realm the people have to RP like they were medieval nobles, any person doing what the people who were kicked out were doing would have likely been thrown in the dungeon or executed for doing that.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on May 30, 2012, 02:45:25 pm

King John... also ruler during badly planned wars!

To make this a bit clearer... medieval rulers were human beings, not modern cliches that always acted one way. King John would have quickly executed someone who insulted him, yeah, but when his kingdom was falling apart? Not so bloodthirsty to lose his nobles support.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Geffer on May 30, 2012, 03:05:29 pm

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Oh, you'd be shocked at how truly clueless many people really are about strategy and other military matters in BattleMaster, even some who have been self-proclaimed military geniuses since 2002 two weeks ago.

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Liberorek is afraid to attack Nifel, but travels past it in uncoordinated groups. Stick your army in Odenir and rest up 12 hours, then hit when you have actually scouted and bought a damned calculator. If they move on Nifel, instead... it's just a 6 hour trip back, and you smash them there. Smash, smash, smash, guerrilla-style, never where they want you to be, never where they have two turns to know that you'll be.

When you smash them hard enough? Well, then you have Mount Black for the coup-de-grace, with just 3000 CS of militia guarding it now. Lull them into thinking your game is all about the north, then hit them there.

They're stretched out. They literally have no ability to move north without blobbing up for even the most routine refits, if the Summerdale general has so much as the brain of a goose. And no, standing around for months isn't fun, but you honestly think liberorek would not move north to continue its conquests? Or you think running back and forth from pre-lost battle, to recruitment, to pre-lost battle is fun? It's not fun... not even Fun, because Fun implies that you're still trying. Try. There is no better strategic ground on the map of dwilight, and you pissed it away. I doubt you have enough nobles to execute any strategy now but turtling in Nifel.

Case in point.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on May 30, 2012, 03:11:41 pm

Quote from: Geffer on May 30, 2012, 03:05:29 pm

Case in point.

Try.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Kansa on May 30, 2012, 03:19:16 pm

Quote from: Trollheiming on May 30, 2012, 02:45:25 pm

King John... also ruler during badly planned wars!

To make this a bit clearer... medieval rulers were human beings, not modern cliches that always acted one way. King John would have quickly executed someone who insulted him, yeah, but when his kingdom was falling apart? Not so bloodthirsty to lose his nobles support.

Its not as if they banished them straight after the insult, it was the fact that they continued even after being warned that if they continued there would be consequences that made them get banished in the end

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on May 30, 2012, 03:23:18 pm

Well, whatever. It's not that important. Andira was voluntary, and that was even worse. She could recruit a huge stack. Geefer wanted to know why Summerdale is giving us a different vibe than DF. Question answered.

Try.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Exerosp on May 30, 2012, 03:23:53 pm

So let's see if I got this correctly... (And no, i'm not cutting into any ongoing topic in this thread) there's about 4 players here that's on Far East? Me included.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 30, 2012, 04:22:28 pm

Far East was boring, so I deleted my character there. Dwilight is much more fun, and no, I'm not in Summerdale.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: JPierreD on May 30, 2012, 05:04:53 pm

Well, there are some things you can get away, and there are others you cannot. Issuing orders contradicting your superiors while being a lowly knight? That will certainly get you in trouble, anywhere in BM. But calling the Royal General Duchess "stupid" while being a recently arrived young knight? I cannot think of a single realm that would pardon that, no matter the situation. Medieval times are all about reputation, and if the rulers accept that they may as well turn the crown to that knight.

The only time I called a King incompetent (and I did not dare use stupid) was when I was inciting a revolt. It's a serious break in any relationship, and past that point you have to make sure the person in question won't have strength to bite you back. Machiavelli FTW!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on May 31, 2012, 09:29:23 am

It's definitely worthwhile to stick to the SMA rules on Dwilight. Publicly attacking your liege or your superiors is a good way to get exiled -- moreover, other realms will not be very interested in you. It's an insult to the peerage itself. Private messages, worded tactfully, are the way to go. There were a lot of messages flying around that were, in my opinion, pretty clearly outside the scope of a serious medieval atmosphere.

I've always known Summerdale was going to lose this war, knew it before I signed up. That doesn't mean I won't try to win ... or won't do my best to lose with dignity, but I'm not real thrilled about the insults that were floating around the other day. I guess I didn't expect a tantrum spiral yet, heh.

But that's just my opinion, no need to go spreading it around.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Jelle on May 31, 2012, 10:11:23 am

Looks fun trying this out. Not sure how to get started though  :o

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Fanofgaming on May 31, 2012, 10:13:11 am

Oh, hey, it looks like I'm going to get to be the Lord of Hvergelmir until it gets conquered...

Yay?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Jelle on May 31, 2012, 10:26:13 am

Okay I'm in, need to select a region now. Anywhere I should go hoping to find fellow bay12 players?
Also how strict is the rp on Dwilight, don't want to stir things up being a newby and all.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on May 31, 2012, 10:43:46 am

Quote from: Jelle on May 31, 2012, 10:26:13 am

Okay I'm in, need to select a region now. Anywhere I should go hoping to find fellow bay12 players?
Also how strict is the rp on Dwilight, don't want to stir things up being a newby and all.

Your character should at the least try to act as it is part of the world and lore, well at least keep it to a reasonable extent both ways...  When you 'speak' or write letters, don't use internet speak.

As for region, most of the B12ers are in Summerdale.  We do have a few other people elsewhere.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: ConscriptFive on May 31, 2012, 12:03:16 pm

When people talk about Summerdale being over and done with, they really don't realize how slow warfare in Battlemaster is.  This is especially true for the vast majority of folks who haven't realized that the whole bonds vs. physical gold taxes change made sustained offenses impossible beyond a week or two.  Because of that narrow window, even when we collossaly screw-up, (like we've done several times before) they still don't have enough time to land a truly finishing blow on us.

To explain, your army expects to be paid in physical gold about once a week, or you start getting desertions, morale failure, and honor/prestige losses.  Luckily, you collect taxes about once a week.  Supposedly back in the day, you got those taxes in physical gold.  Now instead you get 'bonds' for taxes, paper IOU's that need to be cashed at your capital's bank.  So unless you've stockpiled a few weeks worth of taxes, every week you need to race your army back to the capital for payday.  Magnify that effect across an entire kingdom, and now you understand why Morek had to pull a complete 180 out of Summerdale the first time we suicided against them at Torrent's Breath about a month ago.

I'm not familar with how capital moving works, but as you can see, unless their capital city advances with the army, they're going to be constantly doing weekly shuttleruns between the increasingly distant frontlines and homeland.  They've been on the frontlines for almost a week now, which means they have to break it off soon or watch their armies wither in the field.  That gives us a chance to rebuild, for a few days until they catch up where they left off.

As long as we stop killing ourselves, we actually have the advantage:

1. Our capital is closer, less time away from the front for banking and recruiting.
2. Militia is much cheaper than an offensive army.
3. Fortifications and defense greatly favor the defender in combat.

Granted, saving Storms End and Storms Keep is off the table for the near future.  But I'm willing to bet Nifelhold will stand thoughout June.  Once that falls, we can relocate the capital to Valkyria (General Amalie's Dutchy.)  Then we can have a nice little slugfest in Western Summerdale for at least a month.  THEN we could go full Alamo at the very appropriately titled Valkria... or swear vassalage to Astrum, doubling their playercount, and creating an epic World War on Dwilight between "The East and The West."  Full Armageddon could be a beautiful thing.

But like I said, we get to see the action unfold for weeks if not months, so we've still got quite awhile before we get to that point.  And in the meantime we gain OOC and IC experience, so there's still plenty of reason to stick around with Summerdale for the next few months.

TL;DR version: Offensives in Battlemaster are the Eastern Front, NOT D-Day.  As long as we don't insist on maintaining a bizarre emphasis on kamikaze attacks  (battle casualties are tremendously one-sided unless its a super-close match,) we can drag this campaign out all damn summer while actually making Morek and Libero bleed worse than we do.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Jelle on May 31, 2012, 12:18:04 pm

Woah this game is even harder to get into then dwarf fortress. I have no idea what to do or even how to do it.

I'm a new noble sitting in a city called Nifelheim, the only actions available to me is to visit  the family, check on the locals and some other stuff I've checked out. What now?  ???

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on May 31, 2012, 12:22:20 pm

You were saying about that Alamo in Valkyrja, C5?  :P

So, yeah, Nifelheim will be a bit of a nut to crack... then we're displaced. Where to next? Terran?

Jelle, uh, bear with it. You need an estate from a lord. Greet everyone and wait, because your realm in pretty chaotic.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on May 31, 2012, 12:36:50 pm

Is anybody taking care of new players in Summerdale?

And Nifelhold is not Nifelheim. Nifelhold actually belongs to Summerdale's enemies.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on May 31, 2012, 12:49:41 pm

Quote from: Andira on May 31, 2012, 12:36:50 pm

Is anybody taking care of new players in Summerdale?

And Nifelhold is not Nifelheim. Nifelhold actually belongs to Summerdale's enemies.

People are taking care of themselves. Valkyrja and Ymer's Fall are now Astrum. Does this mean war between Morek and Astrum? Or does Morek just let Astrum eat the pie that it baked?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Fanofgaming on May 31, 2012, 01:28:31 pm

Morek won't be able to explain their reasoning for a war with Astrum. They're claiming that if we find a new leader, they won't attack us. Well, we're finding a new leader. They had better not attack us.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on May 31, 2012, 01:47:29 pm

Astrum is busy helping Kabrinski(sp?) fight against Asylon right now.  I believe they are on the offensive after the Mech Alb fight.  Moving in over the Northern Provinces of Asylon.
Technically a 2v2 from what I gather.  Terrans are on Asylon's side.

Quote from: Fanofgaming on May 31, 2012, 01:28:31 pm

Morek won't be able to explain their reasoning for a war with Astrum. They're claiming that if we find a new leader, they won't attack us. Well, we're finding a new leader. They had better not attack us.

Who is we?  Astrum?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on May 31, 2012, 02:02:53 pm

Summerdale. It seems to be splitting apart at the seams right now :(

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on May 31, 2012, 02:25:43 pm

Yeah, I'd like to know if we're turning into Astrum or what. It's all just kind of happening. Guess I'll find out eventually, eh?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on May 31, 2012, 02:50:43 pm

Trollheiming, new people are obviously not taking care of themselves if you look at Jelle's post. This game can be hard for beginners to get into.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on May 31, 2012, 02:58:38 pm

Senator of Vassar, Terran, here. Just got wtfpwnd by cavalry in a freak accident in our latest battle, lost all my damn archers and injured to boot. Terran's plenty of fun and we're always taking new members, pleeeeenty of estates available, including Vassar. Currently trying to take care of this ridiculous Kabri-Astrom issue.

The politics of BM are downright ridiculous. Maybe its just me, but Allyson from Kab is the most downright vile, hypocritical bullshit artist I've found in this game. I doubt its even an actual woman. Then again my character is a woman and I'm quite obvious not. I think.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Jimlad11 on May 31, 2012, 03:44:00 pm

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Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Empty on May 31, 2012, 03:45:46 pm

I kind of miss TMP.

Hunting large monster herds was fun!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Kaje on May 31, 2012, 03:48:37 pm

I've just joined up - it's a little bit daunting, no real idea on what to do!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Jimlad11 on May 31, 2012, 04:03:04 pm

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Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Alehkhs on May 31, 2012, 04:15:51 pm

Soo... if my family home is in Nifel (I specified Valkyrja, game!  >:(), and I'm now a member of Astrum via auto-assignment through my estate, does that change the location of my family home somehow?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Empty on May 31, 2012, 04:20:57 pm

Quote from: Alehkhs on May 31, 2012, 04:15:51 pm

Soo... if my family home is in Nifel (I specified Valkyrja, game!  >:(), and I'm now a member of Astrum via auto-assignment through my estate, does that change the location of my family home somehow?

Family home is just for flavor.
It does "almost" nothing. You can only visit your "fake" relatives there or something. Check the wiki.
What you want is an estate.
There's bound to be a free one around. Just ask in the realm group.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Alehkhs on May 31, 2012, 04:22:22 pm

Quote from: Empty on May 31, 2012, 04:20:57 pm

Quote from: Alehkhs on May 31, 2012, 04:15:51 pm

Soo... if my family home is in Nifel (I specified Valkyrja, game!  >:(), and I'm now a member of Astrum via auto-assignment through my estate, does that change the location of my family home somehow?

Family home is just for flavor.
It does "almost" nothing. You can only visit your "fake" relatives there or something. Check the wiki.
What you want is an estate.
There's bound to be a free one around. Just ask in the realm group.

I have an estate. I'm just wondering if I make a second character, where it will spawn them (my family home?). Planning out some RP.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on May 31, 2012, 04:24:31 pm

You can't create a second noble on Dwilight. And even if you could, where they spawn depends on the realm you choose to join, not on which realm the family home is in. If you meant actually creating a new char in Summerdale, then I don't know if having your family home in Nifel would increase the chance of having your character spawn in Nifel.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Alehkhs on May 31, 2012, 04:33:53 pm

Ah... I saw that my character limits said I could have a second noble, so I thought it would be of the same family, on the same continent.  :-\

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on May 31, 2012, 04:37:10 pm

Oh, it is of the same family, all of your characters will share the family name. They just don't have to be in the same realm or even on the same continent. Other continents also allow more than one noble, even inside the same realm. Though actually, I don't like that much. It means it will be harder for new players to advance in their respective realms because all the positions are often held by just a few players, each of them with two characters.

There is one way to get a second noble on Dwilight, I think, but I'm not sure how much you'd like that way. ;) It's playing an adventurer, getting 3 recommendations from nobles and then advancing him to a noble. But he might very well die before even coming close to 3 recommendations.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Alehkhs on May 31, 2012, 05:08:55 pm

Quote from: Andira on May 31, 2012, 04:37:10 pm

Oh, it is of the same family, all of your characters will share the family name. They just don't have to be in the same realm or even on the same continent. Other continents also allow more than one noble, even inside the same realm. Though actually, I don't like that much. It means it will be harder for new players to advance in their respective realms because all the positions are often held by just a few players, each of them with two characters.

There is one way to get a second noble on Dwilight, I think, but I'm not sure how much you'd like that way. ;) It's playing an adventurer, getting 3 recommendations from nobles and then advancing him to a noble. But he might very well die before even coming close to 3 recommendations.

Eh... Possibly I'll try the adventurer route at some point (I have more distant RP arcs in my head), but was thinking of bringing in another family member. I guess I'll just have to continue to include them through RP posts of my one noble.  :(

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: JPierreD on May 31, 2012, 06:39:40 pm

Quote from: Andira on May 31, 2012, 04:37:10 pm

There is one way to get a second noble on Dwilight, I think, but I'm not sure how much you'd like that way. ;) It's playing an adventurer, getting 3 recommendations from nobles and then advancing him to a noble. But he might very well die before even coming close to 3 recommendations.

Not really, you cannot promote him to noble as long as you have another in the continent. Dwilight is one-noble per character, and that is part of what makes it amazing to me.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Alehkhs on May 31, 2012, 06:42:26 pm

Quote from: JPierreD on May 31, 2012, 06:39:40 pm

Quote from: Andira on May 31, 2012, 04:37:10 pm

There is one way to get a second noble on Dwilight, I think, but I'm not sure how much you'd like that way. ;) It's playing an adventurer, getting 3 recommendations from nobles and then advancing him to a noble. But he might very well die before even coming close to 3 recommendations.

Not really, you cannot promote him to noble as long as you have another in the continent. Dwilight is one-noble per character, and that is part of what makes it amazing to me.

Yeah, it definitely makes sense, and certainly provides a great atmosphere. I was mostly wondering for a side-character to advance RP, but it's no biggie.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on May 31, 2012, 06:46:51 pm

Quote from: Alehkhs on May 31, 2012, 06:42:26 pm

Quote from: JPierreD on May 31, 2012, 06:39:40 pm

Quote from: Andira on May 31, 2012, 04:37:10 pm

There is one way to get a second noble on Dwilight, I think, but I'm not sure how much you'd like that way. ;) It's playing an adventurer, getting 3 recommendations from nobles and then advancing him to a noble. But he might very well die before even coming close to 3 recommendations.

Not really, you cannot promote him to noble as long as you have another in the continent. Dwilight is one-noble per character, and that is part of what makes it amazing to me.

Yeah, it definitely makes sense, and certainly provides a great atmosphere. I was mostly wondering for a side-character to advance RP, but it's no biggie.

You can RP whatever characters you want. I sometimes RP conversations between my noble, his sergeant, and his captain.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Alehkhs on May 31, 2012, 06:48:25 pm

Quote from: Sirus on May 31, 2012, 06:46:51 pm

Quote from: Alehkhs on May 31, 2012, 06:42:26 pm

Quote from: JPierreD on May 31, 2012, 06:39:40 pm

Quote from: Andira on May 31, 2012, 04:37:10 pm

There is one way to get a second noble on Dwilight, I think, but I'm not sure how much you'd like that way. ;) It's playing an adventurer, getting 3 recommendations from nobles and then advancing him to a noble. But he might very well die before even coming close to 3 recommendations.

Not really, you cannot promote him to noble as long as you have another in the continent. Dwilight is one-noble per character, and that is part of what makes it amazing to me.

Yeah, it definitely makes sense, and certainly provides a great atmosphere. I was mostly wondering for a side-character to advance RP, but it's no biggie.

You can RP whatever characters you want. I sometimes RP conversations between my noble, his sergeant, and his captain.

Yeah, I already include him in my RP posts, but from the view of my character. We'll see.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on May 31, 2012, 07:07:44 pm

Quote from: Sirus on May 31, 2012, 06:46:51 pm

Quote from: Alehkhs on May 31, 2012, 06:42:26 pm

Quote from: JPierreD on May 31, 2012, 06:39:40 pm

Quote from: Andira on May 31, 2012, 04:37:10 pm

There is one way to get a second noble on Dwilight, I think, but I'm not sure how much you'd like that way. ;) It's playing an adventurer, getting 3 recommendations from nobles and then advancing him to a noble. But he might very well die before even coming close to 3 recommendations.

Not really, you cannot promote him to noble as long as you have another in the continent. Dwilight is one-noble per character, and that is part of what makes it amazing to me.

Yeah, it definitely makes sense, and certainly provides a great atmosphere. I was mostly wondering for a side-character to advance RP, but it's no biggie.

You can RP whatever characters you want. I sometimes RP conversations between my noble, his sergeant, and his captain.

Indeed; I've been writing RPs less in recent years, but when I have done, I've frequently included my characters' aides and other NPCs associated with them. (Including, in one case, a Goddess. Or, depending upon your interpretation, a figment of the character's diseased imagination ;D )

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on May 31, 2012, 07:14:20 pm

I have seen people with more than one noble on Dwilight, so I assumed this was the way it worked. I vaguely recall reading something about the possibility of getting a second noble on Dwilight by having an adventurer promoted somewhere on the forums or in the wiki, too, but it's too long ago for me to find the link. Maybe it was only a bug, though, that has been fixed by now? But I'm pretty sure I have been on the family site of people who had two nobles on Dwilight. danaris, do you know?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on May 31, 2012, 09:04:16 pm

Quote from: Andira on May 31, 2012, 07:14:20 pm

I have seen people with more than one noble on Dwilight, so I assumed this was the way it worked. I vaguely recall reading something about the possibility of getting a second noble on Dwilight by having an adventurer promoted somewhere on the forums or in the wiki, too, but it's too long ago for me to find the link. Maybe it was only a bug, though, that has been fixed by now? But I'm pretty sure I have been on the family site of people who had two nobles on Dwilight. danaris, do you know?

If you've seen people with two nobles on Dwilight, then chances are one of them was paused.

If there is a family with two active characters on Dwilight, it's a serious bug.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on May 31, 2012, 09:20:25 pm

Well, maybe you're right and one was actually paused. I'll take a closer look from now on and post on the bugtracker if I ever see someone with two active nobles on Dwilight then.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on May 31, 2012, 09:31:35 pm

Quote from: Andira on May 31, 2012, 09:20:25 pm

Well, maybe you're right and one was actually paused. I'll take a closer look from now on and post on the bugtracker if I ever see someone with two active nobles on Dwilight then.

Thanks, that'll help.

Can never have enough eyes on the bugs.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 01, 2012, 12:29:24 am

I have a bad feeling that all these random wars are going to turn into one giant clusterfuck.

Also, hilarious shouting match with Kabrinskia in which their nobles appear to be RPing the most ignorant, hypocritical individuals I've yet to meet. One went so far as to say we have to give the entire Duchy of Phantaria (what a damn joke!) to Kabrinskia to keep Kab from destroying Terran with Astrom at their backs once they're done wiping Asylon from the map.

Nice. I go to Terran to avoid the theocratic bullshit and get stuck in the middle of a false crusade in the name of SA for the sake of greedy landgrabs, with some madwoman at the helm.

One thing I'll say, this Allyson is one hell of an RPer. Takes a certain level of skill to RP someone *that* out of touch with reality.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on June 01, 2012, 12:55:44 am

Lol. It's just getting started for you. I see Isashular has essentially declared for your harpy.

Summerdale is winding down. The oldest nobles were more or less the first to leave of their own volition. It looks like the Fun is now all in Asylon and Terran.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 01, 2012, 01:21:06 am

You folks are more than welcome to join me and my fellow B12ers in Terran. I have a feeling the shit will hit the fan soon. Our problem is that we try to be logical and diplomatic, but we're facing the most illogical pair of crazies this side of Dwilight. <_<

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on June 01, 2012, 02:33:52 am

Yeah, at this point my character in Summerdale is completely overwhelmed with conflicting orders and loyalties. Which is interesting and awesome, but also rather paralyzing. It's like every option he has goes completely against his motivations. Great internal conflict! Not so great for actually making a move ...

Summerdale is in total chaos.

Sounds like you're having a lot of Fun down there in Terran. ;) Nothing like working with a few crazies to liven up the atmosphere!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on June 01, 2012, 02:35:26 am

Gah, my adventurer got his ass kicked by monsters and is now seriously wounded. Stupid alpha beasts.

And yeah, Summerdale is a mess right now. Good times, I suppose.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: JPierreD on June 01, 2012, 03:09:19 am

Quote from: Ehndras on June 01, 2012, 01:21:06 am

You folks are more than welcome to join me and my fellow B12ers in Terran. I have a feeling the shit will hit the fan soon. Our problem is that we try to be logical and diplomatic, but we're facing the most illogical pair of crazies this side of Dwilight. <_<

It is certainly a clash of cultures. The 'moot is a enlightened group of Republics filled with law-makers and quasi-philosophers. Kabrinskia is the Theocracy of Allison Kabrinski, a mad religious zealot who drilled a hole in her head to "get better reception from the stars" (those they worship as divinities).

All the North has basically succumbed to the Theocracies, except the Libero Empire who is nominally a Kingdom, but whose Queen is a leader of the Church, and Summerdale, which, well, it is not in the best possible situation, as you probably know.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ghazkull on June 01, 2012, 04:27:44 am

Goddammit you cowards! I will lead a private war against Morek if need be! No but seriously it seems like the rats lieave the sinking ship and i and the Justice are the only ones remaining

Following idea we all join Morek and when finally one of us gets control of Black Nastrond we declare independence again and reclaim our Nation...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Empty on June 01, 2012, 05:38:21 am

Actually.
Summerdale is isolated from Morek now.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ghazkull on June 01, 2012, 08:01:36 am

Bah im taking my leave and traitor my way to Astrum

to say it with the words of a famous German: I take no interest in the shit i said yesterday... :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: JPierreD on June 02, 2012, 08:19:22 pm

Damn, now Astrum is a huge blob...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on June 02, 2012, 09:01:13 pm

Quote from: JPierreD on June 02, 2012, 08:19:22 pm

Damn, now Astrum is a huge blob...

Not a sustainable situation, is it? Even during Summerdale, those regions had re-occurring monster uprisings. Now 7 hops from the capital in Eidhulb to Helhhir, 8 hops to Odenir, it looks like a long way to travel to refit in between clearing the monsters out. Half a week there, half a week back...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: GundamMerc on June 02, 2012, 10:38:05 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on June 01, 2012, 12:29:24 am

I have a bad feeling that all these random wars are going to turn into one giant clusterfuck.

Also, hilarious shouting match with Kabrinskia in which their nobles appear to be RPing the most ignorant, hypocritical individuals I've yet to meet. One went so far as to say we have to give the entire Duchy of Phantaria (what a damn joke!) to Kabrinskia to keep Kab from destroying Terran with Astrom at their backs once they're done wiping Asylon from the map.

Nice. I go to Terran to avoid the theocratic bullshit and get stuck in the middle of a false crusade in the name of SA for the sake of greedy landgrabs, with some madwoman at the helm.

One thing I'll say, this Allyson is one hell of an RPer. Takes a certain level of skill to RP someone *that* out of touch with reality.

*ahem* Please do try to stay civil. It is a game. Chill. For one thing, it is not a crusade. You would know if it was a crusade, because every SA theocracy realm, Morek included, would be invading your regions like we did to Caerwyn and Averoth. (Who declared war on SA first anyways... we've basically been gaining from other people being aggressive against SA. Go figure) Actually, Astrum is fighting Asylon because their leader is tantamount insane and has been waffling back and forth on issues. Such as the two day ceasefire he signed with Kabrinskia before invading Mech Alb and starting a takeover. (which is what expanded the war, by the way. Before then, there was agreement on all sides not to use takeovers.)

Anyways, anyone looking into roleplay should look into joining Sorraine. Yes... it's a theocracy, but don't let that dissuade you. Currently, we had a person who suicided their character to prevent in-fighting between our various nobles.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Jimlad11 on June 03, 2012, 04:02:18 am

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Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on June 03, 2012, 02:34:13 pm

Astrum is basically Morek. I doubt they'd ever go to war. From a certain point of view, that means it's all one giant blob. 60+ nobles at least.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: GundamMerc on June 03, 2012, 02:53:48 pm

Quote from: Trollheiming on June 03, 2012, 02:34:13 pm

Astrum is basically Morek. I doubt they'd ever go to war. From a certain point of view, that means it's all one giant blob. 60+ nobles at least.

Astrum is going to be in the war against Asylon.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: MehMuffin on June 03, 2012, 03:45:15 pm

Apparently we in Morek are negotiating about the Summerdale bits that were ceded to Astrum to stop us from getting them. And by negotiating, I mean one person says they're talking about it and nobody else has a clue of what's going on.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on June 03, 2012, 04:28:37 pm

Quote from: GundamMerc on June 02, 2012, 10:38:05 pm

*snip*
Actually, Astrum is fighting Asylon because their leader is tantamount insane and has been waffling back and forth on issues. Such as the two day ceasefire he signed with Kabrinskia before invading Mech Alb and starting a takeover. (which is what expanded the war, by the way. Before then, there was agreement on all sides not to use takeovers.)
*snip*

This statement has some merit...  (From Asylon)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Fanofgaming on June 03, 2012, 07:19:06 pm

Gah, it's so quiet in Astrum. I used to get 20+ messages per turn in Summerdale, now I'm lucky to get six.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on June 03, 2012, 07:31:18 pm

A great deal of the chatter is likely to take place inside the Sanguis Astroism religion.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 03, 2012, 08:34:26 pm

Eh, I left SA specifically because of all the damn chatter. I'd expect the religious groups to have insightful conversation, maybe some fun IC, even some philosophical/poetic discussions, not a bunch of nutjobs debating various political agendas. I don't much like SA; too reminiscent of the corruption and zealotry of medieval Catholicism.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on June 03, 2012, 08:36:40 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on June 03, 2012, 08:34:26 pm

Eh, I left SA specifically because of all the damn chatter. I'd expect the religious groups to have insightful conversation

That seems naïve and optimistic ;D

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maybe some fun IC, even some philosophical/poetic discussions, not a bunch of nutjobs debating various political agendas. I don't much like SA; too reminiscent of the corruption and zealotry of medieval Catholicism.

Then it's succeeding very well in being SMA. :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: GundamMerc on June 03, 2012, 09:51:09 pm

Quote from: danaris on June 03, 2012, 08:36:40 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on June 03, 2012, 08:34:26 pm

Eh, I left SA specifically because of all the damn chatter. I'd expect the religious groups to have insightful conversation

That seems naïve and optimistic ;D

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maybe some fun IC, even some philosophical/poetic discussions, not a bunch of nutjobs debating various political agendas. I don't much like SA; too reminiscent of the corruption and zealotry of medieval Catholicism.

Then it's succeeding very well in being SMA. :)

This. SMA is Serious Medieval Atmosphere. If you want philosophical agendas that aren't pushed forward based on politics, you came to the wrong continent.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 04, 2012, 01:27:54 am

I quite like the many other religions on Dwilight, actually. I forget the name, but I'm part of some other religion in Terran that I actually like the description/feel of.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on June 04, 2012, 02:01:47 am

Since my character is a bit of a pagan, Summerdale (with it's freedom of religion) was pretty much the only place to go. Now he's stuck between two highly theocratic realms. Rock and a hard place, eh?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 04, 2012, 05:02:21 am

Ok, I'm up for witnessing Summerdale's tragic destruction as I bleed our enemies dry.

Samuel el Gato on board for the little, drunken, bearded nobility of the true house of lords.

Damn, name was taken. So Graham el Gato will be leading the charge for our glorious family name.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on June 04, 2012, 06:47:55 am

Point for Asylon, it is not a theocratic realm... freedom of religion here too...  but yea, having tons of priests come in and incite hate when we tried to Takeover was disconcerting.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 04, 2012, 07:26:49 am

Oh good, the game seems to work fine on my phone as well. Not bad for an old Nokia E63. I had to book mark all the main pages (as I can't get the side navigation bar to appear under Opera), and I'll be jiggered if I know how I'll log out, but geez this will be handy to kill off the odd boring lunch break.

"So how was your day at work Sambo?"
"Verily 'twas shite"
:)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on June 04, 2012, 07:43:15 am

Quote from: sambojin on June 04, 2012, 07:26:49 am

Oh good, the game seems to work fine on my phone as well. Not bad for an old Nokia E63. I had to book mark all the main pages (as I can't get the side navigation bar to appear under Opera), and I'll be jiggered if I know how I'll log out, but geez this will be handy to kill off the odd boring lunch break.

There's a rudimentary mobile version of the site under development, and you can get at it at http://m.battlemaster.org/ (http://m.battlemaster.org/).

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 04, 2012, 08:13:29 am

Quote from: Sirus on June 04, 2012, 02:01:47 am

Since my character is a bit of a pagan, Summerdale (with it's freedom of religion) was pretty much the only place to go. Now he's stuck between two highly theocratic realms. Rock and a hard place, eh?

Nice! There are no other roughly-pagan realms? I roleplay as I am in real life, therefore, a pagan. I don't mind being in Terran because they don't press religion. I'm a member of another religion called Truinism - which sounds pretty damn close to pantheistic/panentheistic paganism - and has a temple in the region I'm lord of. So, I'm happy. :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: ConscriptFive on June 04, 2012, 08:15:21 am

sambojin, by far that was the most epic intro letter I've ever seen.  You totally need to repost that here for posterity's sake.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on June 04, 2012, 08:16:52 am

Quote from: Ehndras on June 04, 2012, 08:13:29 am

Quote from: Sirus on June 04, 2012, 02:01:47 am

Since my character is a bit of a pagan, Summerdale (with it's freedom of religion) was pretty much the only place to go. Now he's stuck between two highly theocratic realms. Rock and a hard place, eh?

Nice! There are no other roughly-pagan realms? I roleplay as I am in real life, therefore, a pagan. I don't mind being in Terran because they don't press religion. I'm a member of another religion called Truinism - which sounds pretty damn close to pantheistic/panentheistic paganism - and has a temple in the region I'm lord of. So, I'm happy. :)

It's important to realize that "Pagan", in BattleMaster, has absolutely nothing to do with the word's modern connotations. It simply means you follow one of the myriad belief systems that does not yet have a formally founded religion in the game.

Indeed, one could found a religion in BattleMaster that closely mimicked many of modern paganism's beliefs, and many BattleMaster characters who are "pagans" actually follow well-structured religions that just don't happen to have an official in-game presence on their continent.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on June 04, 2012, 08:29:25 am

Quote from: danaris on June 04, 2012, 07:43:15 am

There's a rudimentary mobile version of the site under development, and you can get at it at http://m.battlemaster.org/ (http://m.battlemaster.org/).

Oh, very nice.

Quote from: Sirus on June 04, 2012, 02:01:47 am

Since my character is a bit of a pagan, Summerdale (with it's freedom of religion) was pretty much the only place to go. Now he's stuck between two highly theocratic realms. Rock and a hard place, eh?

My pagan character is stuck, too. I know a few of our pagans are in Astrum now, are they tolerating Summerdale's open-religion policies or just ignoring religion in favor of snatching up more territory with as little fuss as possible?

This was a great victory for Astrum, honestly. All they had to do was let Morek destroy Summerdale's army, then they could quietly accept new territories without any effort or obligation (so far as I'm aware), along with more nobles to fight in their wars. They made out like bandits.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 04, 2012, 08:36:16 am

By all means copy/paste it here. That's one thing that this phone really is useless for. I like the RP side of this, even if we get smashed I'll go down using medieval gibberish to the best of my ability. I actually hope people don't think I'm spamming, but with three days of potentially lethal travel to get where I'm going, I thought I might get the ball rolling a bit. I'm stoked that I might get free passage to the capital, but I'm a bit miffed that my poor archers had to disband to do it. Oh well, hopefully plenty more where they came from :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 04, 2012, 08:52:49 am

Thanks danaris, just tried the mobile site and it seemed to work fine. So much easier than jumping between bookmarks (plus I couldn't make new characters via the normal site on my phone). It's quick, efficient and displays all the info required. Plus I can log out properly now.

Cheers

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 04, 2012, 08:58:00 am

Quote from: danaris on June 04, 2012, 08:16:52 am

Quote from: Ehndras on June 04, 2012, 08:13:29 am

Quote from: Sirus on June 04, 2012, 02:01:47 am

Since my character is a bit of a pagan, Summerdale (with it's freedom of religion) was pretty much the only place to go. Now he's stuck between two highly theocratic realms. Rock and a hard place, eh?

Nice! There are no other roughly-pagan realms? I roleplay as I am in real life, therefore, a pagan. I don't mind being in Terran because they don't press religion. I'm a member of another religion called Truinism - which sounds pretty damn close to pantheistic/panentheistic paganism - and has a temple in the region I'm lord of. So, I'm happy. :)

It's important to realize that "Pagan", in BattleMaster, has absolutely nothing to do with the word's modern connotations. It simply means you follow one of the myriad belief systems that does not yet have a formally founded religion in the game.

Indeed, one could found a religion in BattleMaster that closely mimicked many of modern paganism's beliefs, and many BattleMaster characters who are "pagans" actually follow well-structured religions that just don't happen to have an official in-game presence on their continent.

That's the meaning of the modern name as well, unless you're going for Christian connotations in which case it changes meaning completely. :) I'd just lump the non-structured pagans with the more paganistic structured groups because hey, if you want to be part of an organized religion you join it; that and being a part of Truinism is like being a non-aligned pagan because no one bloody says anything and I've yet to see a single Priest around here. <_< Hell, I only joined Truinism so that I could get these peasants to stop complaining that I believed in SA and not Truinism, once I get past the hating-on-SA detail. (from the utilitarian point of view of course, barring my personal beliefs and fondness for Truinism over SA)

Nothing beats the Way of the Hammer though. I may have gotten utterly murdered in battle and then went broke when 3 nations sieged my home region, but damn it all to Valhalla if I didn't utterly adore RPing with a bunch of drunken Nord berserkers defending their homeland and their heathen beliefs! HAIL ODIN!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on June 04, 2012, 09:04:41 am

Quote from: Ehndras on June 04, 2012, 08:58:00 am

Quote from: danaris on June 04, 2012, 08:16:52 am

It's important to realize that "Pagan", in BattleMaster, has absolutely nothing to do with the word's modern connotations. It simply means you follow one of the myriad belief systems that does not yet have a formally founded religion in the game.

Indeed, one could found a religion in BattleMaster that closely mimicked many of modern paganism's beliefs, and many BattleMaster characters who are "pagans" actually follow well-structured religions that just don't happen to have an official in-game presence on their continent.

That's the meaning of the modern name as well, unless you're going for Christian connotations in which case it changes meaning completely. :)

In my experience, these days when people describe themselves as "pagan", they mean that they follow some sort of polytheistic, nature-centric belief system with a vaguely Celtic feel to it.

It's possible that I've just happened to encounter a particular slice of the population :) As always, YMMV.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: ConscriptFive on June 04, 2012, 09:51:18 am

On behalf of sambojin, here's his wonderfully subtle DF intro letter to Summerdale:

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Good day my Good Sirs and Ladies of this fair realm,

My name is Graham el Gato and I stumble into this swirling maelstrom of conflict from a far off region known as Mountainhome. Whilst the people of my homeland tend to be a dour and short people, we have no lack of courage or abilities in battle. Unfortunately we have destroyed all opposition in our homeland, by various noble and chivalric means, so there is a want from people such as myself for the opportunity to serve as our forefather's did, in battle. Whilst not lacking in weapons, armours or the will to use them, we lacked enemies that could stand up to our might without becoming mere sport for us. Our lands are rich, our serfs regularly beaten and our soldiers trained in the highest arts of war. Which brings me to me point, dear nobles.........

I, Graham el Gato, having heard of this great land of your's and the battles and honour to be gained, have travelled here at great expense and no-lack of foot-sore, to swear my fealty to one of the Lords of this land, that I may gain the honour both myself and my family line surely deserve. In swearing fealty to you, I shall forever be your servant, to place my blade as you will. I come with my household guard "The Cat's Arrows", numbering twenty fearless archers of true aim so that we may serve you in battle. For the boon of your friendship and the ability to serve you wilfully, I respectfully ask for lodgings in an estate at your leisure, so that my men may be rested and gather no battle-rust as you survey what may be required of us. I will humbly keep this land good and true, so that it's people and resources might be more useful to your Lordship, in the forms of wealth and land improvements to be garnered from them. Though they be not my kin-folk, I shall look after your peasants well. For after all, useless they may be, but who else will turn the spades and till the earth. Alas, 'tis their position in life, and 'tis mine to merely make sure they turn the earth and tend the crops all the faster...............

I also intend to gather more troops to supplement my current squad and train them so that we may defend your lands for your Lordship's honour. Indeed, if it is you will, we shall drain the battle flagons and charge your enemies, no matter the odds. Such is the way of my people and 'tis our honour to do so.

Should any Lords in this fair realm need a knight to serve them and tend their estates, to raise crops, troops, taxes and bloody hell if required, it would be my pleasure to correspond with ye.

Graham el Gato

Graham el Gato (Noble)

I cracked up laughing at the useless peasants line.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 04, 2012, 10:15:22 am

 :)
Yes, you can have quite a bit of fun in this game. It's amazing how it sets the scene in a game when everyone roleplays their character out. Whilst most nobles can spell, aren't dyslexic, alcoholic, foul-mouthed or short and bearded, Graham el Gato is. He's not a dwarf, but you might be able to mistake him for one on a foggy morn'. He's noble, polite, communicative, but really there's a bleary-eyed psycho hiding an axe, waiting to make his last stand by standing on a pile of enemy bodies. We're fighting a massive seige, half the land is under the heal of the invaders, so it should be fun. I actually think we should be able to cause a hell of a lot of damage if we get a few more sign-ups. Now as long as those villainous scum are good to their word, I can get to my estate and start doing things.
It's a pity there's not more games like this one. The game isn't complex, but by god a simple message system can make it pretty big in scope.

Oh, and the next day starts in about 25mins, so if you sign up now (really quick if you have a gmail account) you can pretty much get back-to-back turns. Disband your troops and run like hell to Nifelheim. For the honour of !Fun! And Bay12.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: ConscriptFive on June 04, 2012, 11:15:00 am

Quote from: sambojin on June 04, 2012, 10:15:22 am

... few more sign-ups ... For the honour of !Fun! And Bay12.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/EvFrB.jpg) (http://imgur.com/EvFrB)

Makes you wonder what happened on April 9th :P
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106998.msg3178434#msg3178434

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on June 04, 2012, 12:09:58 pm

The Queen is dead, long live the ... to be determined.

Mixed feelings on this one.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 04, 2012, 12:38:01 pm

Jesus christ. That Terran upspike is my fault, haha. But the Summerdale upspike, HOLY SHIET.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 04, 2012, 12:45:13 pm

Quote from: danaris on June 04, 2012, 09:04:41 am

Quote from: Ehndras on June 04, 2012, 08:58:00 am

Quote from: danaris on June 04, 2012, 08:16:52 am

It's important to realize that "Pagan", in BattleMaster, has absolutely nothing to do with the word's modern connotations. It simply means you follow one of the myriad belief systems that does not yet have a formally founded religion in the game.

Indeed, one could found a religion in BattleMaster that closely mimicked many of modern paganism's beliefs, and many BattleMaster characters who are "pagans" actually follow well-structured religions that just don't happen to have an official in-game presence on their continent.

That's the meaning of the modern name as well, unless you're going for Christian connotations in which case it changes meaning completely. :)

In my experience, these days when people describe themselves as "pagan", they mean that they follow some sort of polytheistic, nature-centric belief system with a vaguely Celtic feel to it.

It's possible that I've just happened to encounter a particular slice of the population :) As always, YMMV.

Depends really, but yeah. You've probably met some pansy Wiccans, a 'nature-friendly' super-hippyish neo-pagan revivalist religion that tends to be the first-step of many a silly teenager getting into pagan and neo-pagan belief systems. Ah, fresh converts, they are always so fervent... And ridiculous...

I know many Asatru - pretty much a revival of Norse paganism. Odin, Thor, Viking-looking white folk sporting epic beards and all that good stuff, very Bay12ish. Me, I'd be classified as an ecclectic pagan with a primarily pantheistic spiritual system. I actually have my own artificial gods and religious system I created for my Fantasy series which I satirically 'follow'. Satirically because I don't actually believe in or worship any god or gods, but see them as psychological manifestations of universal truths and facets of natural life. Honestly, I feel anyone who 'worships' a god is an utter fool, insisting on being subservient to an artificial construct of the mind. Should said god or gods even be real, I would honor them as equal among the Earth, and not as a superior being as I quiver in my boots. Homeless streetwalker, politician, economic powerhouse, or divine entity, all men and women are equal in my eyes, distinguished only by their actions and attitudes. I would treat a god no differently than a mortal man in his position, giving more or less respect by virtue of their behavior rather than title and power.

tldr; Atheist who things the universe is magical because fuck yeah why not.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 04, 2012, 03:54:06 pm

Religion can be a particularly introverted form of psychosis, but one that can be quite fulfilling and helpful to it's sufferers. Unfortunately it's benefits aren't transferable to those not currently experiencing such pyschological problems at this time. It never seems to matter how much you explain to people that the voices in your head, your maddened smile, the visual hallucinations of a shade of rose covering everything or your disconnectedness and apathy to your current situation in the macro-environment are all simply the work of a diety that loves you, many will still not believe. Even those of polytheistic pagan beliefs have trouble explaining their view on life, as it often boils down to "Of course I believe in one true god of unimaginable power and wisdom. I'm just smart enough to believe in all of them."

Ahh, religion......... I have an omen of this thread slipping into a dark age of tormented souls unless we repent our foolishness and get back to discussing the game at hand.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 04, 2012, 04:35:36 pm

I think I just got a feel for this game.

Queen makes useless mandates on troop manouevers. Bugs make gameplay difficult and sometimes un-winnable. Queen suffers unfortunate accident.

There has so far been no proof put forward that it WASN'T magma that killed her.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on June 04, 2012, 05:11:51 pm

That particular bug did pretty much decide the war. We probably still would have lost, but it would have actually been a contest. We'll never know, though.

I second the motion that magma killed our queen, as I, too, have no evidence to suggest differently.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 04, 2012, 05:41:22 pm

There are, afterall, only so many ways that those of high birth can die a noble death serving their kingdom.

#1. Magma. Always the best.
#2. Atom-smashed into the afterlife, with only their soul remaining.
#3. A curious lever followed by repeated sharp stabs to their nether regions.
#4. Runaway mine carts (for those new-age monarchies).
#5. Impalement by unicorn. Not the Catherine the Great sort of impalement.
#6. Any thing that seems amusing or ironic at the time, as long as it's fatal.

So what is the consensus of the bay12 community for OOC death for our fair queen Charlotte? It was suicide, so perhaps a lever must have been used..........

Damn, it turns out that she officially died in a duel. So, essentially, a training accident. She should have trained up her wrestling skills first or upgraded to 0.34.x. Sheez, royalty and their love of 40d really does kill them sometimes........

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on June 04, 2012, 06:56:57 pm

She got killed by a Giant Cave Spider. In fact, I wrote a book about it called Charlotte's Web.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: GundamMerc on June 04, 2012, 08:30:43 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on June 04, 2012, 12:45:13 pm

Depends really, but yeah. You've probably met some pansy Wiccans, a 'nature-friendly' super-hippyish neo-pagan revivalist religion that tends to be the first-step of many a silly teenager getting into pagan and neo-pagan belief systems. Ah, fresh converts, they are always so fervent... And ridiculous...

I'm an atheist, and I found this offensive. If you don't like people's belief systems, fine. But don't go around being a ignorant bigot who likes to generalize everything, bashing them so that you feel better about yourself. Learn some tolerance.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 04, 2012, 09:02:59 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on June 04, 2012, 12:45:13 pm

Depends really, but yeah. You've probably met some pansy Wiccans,

which is lucky for you. If you'd met the really tough Wiccans, the ones that do weights and wrestle crocodiles and stuff, you'd be fooked.

I'm not an aetheist, yet of no particular religion, and I thought this was hilarious. How many types of Wiccans are there these days?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on June 04, 2012, 09:26:02 pm

I used to do quasi-RP worship of the Roman gods with a bunch of history-loving mad hatters over at Nova Roma, and we'd get the Wiccan types pretty often. Fortunately, this was before Steve Irwin joined the Wiccan ranks.

My impression is that Wicca is a confused mash-up of a lot of obscure sources, like worshipping Cernunnos, who is mentioned only once on a carving in France.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 04, 2012, 09:49:45 pm

Although, Wicca is not really any worse than any other religion, major or minor. If you look into them deeply enough, most religions are a mixture of previous beliefs plagarised, obscure nonsensical references and generalised craziness from either past rulers or holy men. All of them.

I sort of like what Irwinism can teach us. "We should all love and respect all the wonders of mother nature, but never be frightened of them. So I'm going to piss-off this stingray and see what happens........."

Quite deep in some respects. There's surely something to be learned from most viewpoints, religious or not.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Askot Bokbondeler on June 04, 2012, 10:15:18 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on June 04, 2012, 12:45:13 pm

Me, I'd be classified as an ecclectic pagan with a primarily pantheistic spiritual system. I actually have my own artificial gods and religious system I created for my Fantasy series which I satirically 'follow'. Satirically because I don't actually believe in or worship any god or gods, but see them as psychological manifestations of universal truths and facets of natural life. Honestly, I feel anyone who 'worships' a god is an utter fool, insisting on being subservient to an artificial construct of the mind. Should said god or gods even be real, I would honor them as equal among the Earth, and not as a superior being as I quiver in my boots. Homeless streetwalker, politician, economic powerhouse, or divine entity, all men and women are equal in my eyes, distinguished only by their actions and attitudes. I would treat a god no differently than a mortal man in his position, giving more or less respect by virtue of their behavior rather than title and power.

tldr; Atheist who things the universe is magical because fuck yeah why not.

i'm sorry to prolong the derrail but...

you'd probably enjoy, if you hadn't already, reading fernando pessoa. i'm guessing you know a bit about him already, but for the rest of the forum here goes a bit of an introduction. he was a portuguese poet and philosopher from the early 20th century, and possibly the first roleplayer. he'd write under pseudonyms and enact many varied personalities, among which were alberto caeiro, ricardo reis and alvaro de campos, the first, he described as the mentor of the other two, was an abnormally literate yet somewhat naive shepperd with a panteistic philosophy, ricardo reis was a monarchist doctor fascinated with classical greece, who ovethought his mentor's philosophy into a melancholic stoic epicurism, the third, alvaro de campos, was an engineer and a poet who eventually became the first portuguese futurist writer, and wrote poetry glorifying machinery itself in a pantheistic way. pessoa himself was an atheist, but he'd also claim to believe each of his characters beliefs in an almost schizophrenic way. it puzzled the critics, and high-school teachers speak of him as somewhat of a derranged genius, but i'm guessing those people don't know much about roleplaying communities
i find his prose very interesting, letters he wrote to friends explaining his heteronymity describe the way in which he managed to believe things he *knew* were fantasy, and how he felt his fantasies and characters were in some ways real. all this described very analytically, written in a very sane and coherent way, as well as in a beautifully written portuguese

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 04, 2012, 10:35:50 pm

Quote from: GundamMerc on June 04, 2012, 08:30:43 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on June 04, 2012, 12:45:13 pm

Depends really, but yeah. You've probably met some pansy Wiccans, a 'nature-friendly' super-hippyish neo-pagan revivalist religion that tends to be the first-step of many a silly teenager getting into pagan and neo-pagan belief systems. Ah, fresh converts, they are always so fervent... And ridiculous...

I'm an atheist, and I found this offensive. If you don't like people's belief systems, fine. But don't go around being a ignorant bigot who likes to generalize everything, bashing them so that you feel better about yourself. Learn some tolerance.

I'm tolerant, I'm simply making a sound observation held by practically anyone in the pagan community. Wicca is a spiritual stepping-stone for new converts who aren't ready to step away from Judeo-Christian ideals and must place their newfound pagan beliefs within a similar system as the one they just left. Its a midway belief system and always joked about in the pagan community because its NOT supposed to be an actual organized religion - it just sort of became so because people took to it dogmatically. They're often the 'Fundamental Christians' of Paganism. They pretty much take WAY too seriously the things everyone else realizes are best served as guidelines and not a strict system. The whole beauty of paganism is to get away from dogma and righteousness and explore beyond the boundaries of spirituality and belief, not trade one god for another and pretty much continue with the same narrow-minded beliefs.

I don't know, maybe its just that every single Wiccan I've ever met or heard of is a wannabe little goff kid who's way to much into the Wiccan Rede, 'An harm ye none', the thrice-returned powers a-la karma, and all that other fluff that makes paganism look like a massive joke. I am embarrassed to say I once identified as a Wiccan mainly because its the only well-known neo-pagan belief system covered by the United States' protection of religion. I for one think Wicca is too righteous and narrow-minded, as it constantly begets the same kind of people I find irritating in Christianity, considering how most Wiccans tend to come from Christian families and find Wicca to be a pleasant system related to Christianity and 'fluffy' enough to not scare Christians into thinking they're demon worshippers. Essentially, its giving up a sense of individuality in order to not be persecuted. Wicca is the only truly organized neo-pagan belief system... Which, again, goes against the whole point of neo-pagan revival, unless you're of the African or Nord/Icelandic kind, and then they're a TOTALLY different kind of pagan as they're actually reconstructing the Old Faiths and putting them into modern terms.

tldr; Wiccans are usually the fundamentalist/Jehova's Witnesses of paganism, and not taken seriously at all.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 04, 2012, 10:37:22 pm

Quote from: sambojin on June 04, 2012, 09:02:59 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on June 04, 2012, 12:45:13 pm

Depends really, but yeah. You've probably met some pansy Wiccans,

which is lucky for you. If you'd met the really tough Wiccans, the ones that do weights and wrestle crocodiles and stuff, you'd be fooked.

I'm not an aetheist, yet of no particular religion, and I thought this was hilarious. How many types of Wiccans are there these days?

The vast majority of teenie-boppers, and then the few actually serious worshippers of Wicca who don't take Wicca very seriously. Wicca is 'trendy', hence the source of all its woes.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 04, 2012, 10:38:12 pm

Quote from: GundamMerc on June 04, 2012, 08:30:43 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on June 04, 2012, 12:45:13 pm

Depends really, but yeah. You've probably met some pansy Wiccans, a 'nature-friendly' super-hippyish neo-pagan revivalist religion that tends to be the first-step of many a silly teenager getting into pagan and neo-pagan belief systems. Ah, fresh converts, they are always so fervent... And ridiculous...

I'm an atheist, and I found this offensive. If you don't like people's belief systems, fine. But don't go around being a ignorant bigot who likes to generalize everything, bashing them so that you feel better about yourself. Learn some tolerance.

Right, because I'm so much more offensive than the guy who just said anyone who believes anything religious has psychosis. :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 04, 2012, 10:41:23 pm

i'm sorry to prolong the derrail but...

you'd probably enjoy, if you hadn't already, reading fernando pessoa. i'm guessing you know a bit about him already, but for the rest of the forum here goes a bit of an introduction. he was a portuguese poet and philosopher from the early 20th century, and possibly the first roleplayer. he'd write under pseudonyms and enact many varied personalities, among which were alberto caeiro, ricardo reis and alvaro de campos, the first, he described as the mentor of the other two, was an abnormally literate yet somewhat naive shepperd with a panteistic philosophy, ricardo reis was a monarchist doctor fascinated with classical greece, who ovethought his mentor's philosophy into a melancholic stoic epicurism, the third, alvaro de campos, was an engineer and a poet who eventually became the first portuguese futurist writer, and wrote poetry glorifying machinery itself in a pantheistic way. pessoa himself was an atheist, but he'd also claim to believe each of his characters beliefs in an almost schizophrenic way. it puzzled the critics, and high-school teachers speak of him as somewhat of a derranged genius, but i'm guessing those people don't know much about roleplaying communities
i find his prose very interesting, letters he wrote to friends explaining his heteronymity describe the way in which he managed to believe things he *knew* were fantasy, and how he felt his fantasies and characters were in some ways real. all this described very analytically, written in a very sane and coherent way, as well as in a beautifully written portuguese
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Yes, all my +1 are belong to this.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 04, 2012, 10:42:12 pm

ANYWAY, shall we get back on topic?

SO, anyone here on Belluaterra? I'd like to go create some insane religion there for the fun of it, and wage crusade against demonkind. What's it like on Bellua?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on June 05, 2012, 01:00:53 am

Quote from: Ehndras on June 04, 2012, 10:42:12 pm

ANYWAY, shall we get back on topic?

SO, anyone here on Belluaterra? I'd like to go create some insane religion there for the fun of it, and wage crusade against demonkind. What's it like on Bellua?

I have a character in Fronen, all it is is moving from battle to battle.  I cannot keep up with it, so looking to leave the island.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 05, 2012, 08:39:32 am

Huh. Well... Isn't that sort of the point?

I'm online 15-18 hours a day due to work, music composition and production, my writing, and of course entertainment. I'm thinking of going to Bellua so I can get a crash-course intro into BM combat mechanics and squad-based movements. I mean, I know real-world equivalent medieval battle tactics but I'm not sure how the actual game mechanics compensate and function.

I figure its my responsibility to improve my leadership and combat skills as a vice-marshal in Terran. Why not have some fun too? =)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Tidal on June 05, 2012, 10:06:51 am

So, Ehndras. How about that Belluaterra thing? Apparently, we can't make a character on the island itself. Do you already have another character or are we going to make new ones to emigrate to it?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 05, 2012, 12:27:27 pm

I have my Nord berserker... His region got sieged, I'm out of gold, and all my troops are dead, so I'm pretty much useless. If I can't get money somehow I'm killing him off and making a new guy that we can then emigrate over to Belluaterra. I think we need to wait a bit before emigrating though, so let me know and we'll make our 2nd chars together on some random continent. If its nice there, we'll stay. If not, Bellua demon-hunting we go! HOLY INQUISITION TIME!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Tidal on June 05, 2012, 12:34:33 pm

Which continent, then? We should bring Pyro, too.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 05, 2012, 12:39:17 pm

...And Gabe, and Muller, and Astrom, and everyone else who's in Terran now because of me. xD

Yeahhh... That sounds fun. Lets all go hunt demons together. :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Tidal on June 05, 2012, 02:30:43 pm

Who're all these folks, now?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 05, 2012, 03:32:34 pm

Oh right, you've been absent from our Bay12/Haz/Haven&Hearth Skype group for a while.

Effectively, new converts to Gregory's religion of world domination universal peace.

<_<

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: ConscriptFive on June 06, 2012, 02:45:44 am

For those considering Belluterra, there should be some fresh openings up north...

Quote

Netherworld vs. Melhed, Old Grehk, Thalmarkin
Estimated strengths: 300 men vs. 2950 men
The Eagles of Hope (Thalmarkin), sponsored by Dunbor Lorganson, Duke of Unger, Margrave of Unger, were led into battle by Marshal Cataryna Bowker.
The Legion of the Wolf (Thalmarkin), sponsored by Fingolfin Noldorin, King of Thalmarkin, were led into battle by Marshal Yusklin Melphrydd.
Pavel Jeffrey, Count of Ieara is spotted wielding the Ucdauh's Hammer of Doom.
Acaelus Guile (Knight of Unger) is spotted wielding the Valiant Shield of Unger.
Lady Rila Nabarl (Dame of Jedinchel) is spotted wielding the Black Broadsword.
Pavel Jeffrey, Count of Ieara is spotted reading from the Ucdauh's Compendium.
Sir Soren Calanar, Consul of Melhed is spotted wielding the Blessed Scythe of Suffering.
Kay Lefanis of Thalmarkin (Knight of Unger, Thalmarkin) was seriously wounded by Overlord 's unit.
Kay Lefanis of Thalmarkin (Knight of Unger, Thalmarkin) was seriously wounded by Overlord 's unit.
Argante Rivaille of Thalmarkin (Dame of Jedinchel, Thalmarkin) was seriously wounded by Overlord 's unit.
Kay Lefanis of Thalmarkin (Knight of Unger, Thalmarkin) was seriously wounded by Overlord 's unit.
The hero Thistleogre Archeanis of Melhed, Count of Hopidrii was killed by Overlord 's unit.
The heroine Lady Norah Questor of Thalmarkin (Dame of Wailing Wood, Thalmarkin) was killed by Overlord 's unit.
The hero Acaelus Guile of Thalmarkin (Knight of Unger, Thalmarkin) was killed by Overlord 's unit.
Loris Capet of Thalmarkin (Knight of Unger, Thalmarkin) was seriously wounded by Overlord 's unit.
Pavel Jeffrey of Melhed, Count of Ieara was captured by Overlord 's unit.

Attacker Victory!

Demons don't kid around.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: HARD on June 06, 2012, 05:57:42 am

Is it possible for some other player to join my family?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on June 06, 2012, 06:24:48 am

Quote from: HARD on June 06, 2012, 05:57:42 am

Is it possible for some other player to join my family?

No. 1 player == 1 family.

There have been vague ideas kicking around for years about changing that, but nothing solid, and nothing that's ever likely to make it to production on BattleMaster as we know it.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 06, 2012, 05:32:46 pm

Long Live King Cairo!
And long die the various monsterous beasties we need to kill now.

And go Yrik el Gato. The poor bastard (literally) covered over 800 miles in 43 hours to help out with monster hunting. Now he'll sleep for a day and then wake up and stab shit. I'm sort of more impressed with him then I am with Graham. The noble bugger has just been flaunting around the capital, taking his crew to pubs all day and then making them train really hard. That's a bit cruel if you ask me. It should be the other way around

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Tidal on June 07, 2012, 07:05:19 am

Quote from: Ehndras on June 05, 2012, 03:32:34 pm

Oh right, you've been absent from our Bay12/Haz/Haven&Hearth Skype group for a while.

Effectively, new converts to Gregory's religion of world domination universal peace.

<_<

Yours, rather?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 07, 2012, 08:28:30 am

Quote from: Edio on June 07, 2012, 07:05:19 am

Quote from: Ehndras on June 05, 2012, 03:32:34 pm

Oh right, you've been absent from our Bay12/Haz/Haven&Hearth Skype group for a while.

Effectively, new converts to Gregory's religion of world domination universal peace.

<_<

Yours, rather?

My name is Gregory, jackass, and you know that. :P I was referring to myself in 3rd(2nd? o.O) person for the fun of it.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 07, 2012, 05:43:33 pm

Ehndras in the 5th person through the 4th Dimension. Gregory goes through Time!!!!

I have to say, Battlemaster has so far been one of the geekiest yet most fun things I've done in a while. It's rare that you get to use english like a total twit and have it considered a good thing. Best RP experience I've had in ages, and I've only been playing for a few days.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on June 07, 2012, 07:25:57 pm

It's kind of gratifying to see all these positive reactions to BattleMaster. We have periodically had influxes of players from various sources, but generally, we only keep between 10 and 30% of them at most (even from geeky sources like Slashdot).

Apparently, the geekiness of Dwarf Fortress overlaps well with the geekiness of BattleMaster ;D

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 07, 2012, 09:31:47 pm

Yes, yes it does. <3

All the folks I've recruited love BM, the problem is they're all too active for BM. :\ I am too, but I love to RP, love the medieval setting, and have multiple characters. :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 07, 2012, 09:32:56 pm

I quite like the noble/adventurer system as well. Totally different scales of play and a good opportunity to RP different sorts of characters simultaneously. My noble is a pompous, arse-kissing git who longs for battle (once he gets some troops and cash together anyway). My adventurer is a foul-mouthed alcoholic who's life revolves around stabbing stuff and sleeping on the ground (if he ever finds some monsters I'll let him finally sleep on a bed. Probably).

It's nice to be able to use flowery language at one moment and then swear as much as you please the next. In character of course :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on June 08, 2012, 01:40:20 am

Quote from: danaris on June 07, 2012, 07:25:57 pm

It's kind of gratifying to see all these positive reactions to BattleMaster. We have periodically had influxes of players from various sources, but generally, we only keep between 10 and 30% of them at most (even from geeky sources like Slashdot).

Apparently, the geekiness of Dwarf Fortress overlaps well with the geekiness of BattleMaster ;D

It would seem so -- I've played a few other web-based games, but never for long. I always get tired of the grinding ... or maybe I just start thinking of them as gamified spreadsheets. BattleMaster is something special, though. It engages my imagination in ways that only books have done before, probably because of the sharp focus on player interaction and RP. Either way, it tickles an itch I didn't know that I had. And I've learned that I enjoy RP (I've never really done it before).

I get more attached to the game as time goes on, not less. That's an unusual experience for me.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on June 08, 2012, 02:57:25 am

Depends on the kingdom. Some places have very little chatter.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Vonyx on June 08, 2012, 05:12:51 am

My advy found his first unique item!

Doomed arrow of doom! (+3 prestige)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on June 08, 2012, 06:41:57 am

Quote from: Vonyx on June 08, 2012, 05:12:51 am

My advy found his first unique item!

Doomed arrow of doom! (+3 prestige)

That's awesome! Congratulations :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Jimlad11 on June 08, 2012, 07:20:59 am

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Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Rakonas on June 08, 2012, 07:26:22 am

I'm pretty sure that's just a horde of people paused because a lot of people haven't logged in since some specific turn.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on June 08, 2012, 07:33:27 am

It's a known bug, but it used to only happen on the East Island. Now it seems to have infected Dwilight as well that people get spammed with the message of characters pausing who were already paused months ago. :(

Edit: Just to clarify, these characters weren't acutally part of their realms any longer and did not really get paused today, but a long time ago. For some reason, the game has been sending out such messages for long-paused characters repeatedly on the East Island, which started getting really annoying with like ~30 messages about it every day.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 08, 2012, 08:09:41 am

Ah, so that's why I got 46 messages in Arcea <_< I was about to say, holy shiet they have more inactive folks than we have active.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on June 08, 2012, 08:46:20 am

There's a message about the auto-pauses in the news ticker now as well, and we will hopefully be rid of that problem tomorrow. ;)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on June 08, 2012, 12:37:48 pm

Yeah, I saw those and started freaking out a little. Glad that it's just a known bug :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Vel on June 08, 2012, 01:04:14 pm

Hah, yea, I got a little nervous over in Libero too at seeing so many sudden pause messages.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on June 08, 2012, 08:58:35 pm

Took a look at Colonies, my old stomping grounds... the place really has gone to hell. 
Ever so slowly and surely, kingdoms have been wiped out, never to return on that island... now only 4.1 are left.   The ones left intact are those who have allied with Lukon for the past 3-4 years...  I suppose it was inevitable... being a slower paced island, ambition runs in shorter supply, unlike the new world, Dwilight.
The .1 realm is just a single holdout without a capital deep north in the area of the latest destroyed realm, my former home... for some unfathomable reason.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Tidal on June 09, 2012, 01:38:09 pm

Ambition... Yesssss...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 11, 2012, 07:12:52 pm

I seem to have already mastered the art of picking the exact world and realm that can be labelled under the heading "Probably already rooted before you got here". Which is good I guess. I get to either help a bit, fight a bit, or die trying. At least they're not stagnant kingdoms or anything. But just looking at the numbers, I think we're boned.

I hope that the leaders actually just decide "Screw it. Let's die trying."  If they capitulate then they've essentially lost anyway, may as well start a new character (or have a recently imprisoned or cowardly character to play as, which might be fun I guess). Losing is Fun! The secret is to make life really, really difficult for the thing you're losing against.  ;D

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on June 11, 2012, 10:18:41 pm

As long as a character does not have the class "hero", dying is not as easy as you might think. ;)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Megaman on June 11, 2012, 10:20:15 pm

Quote from: Andira on June 11, 2012, 10:18:41 pm

As long as a character does not have the class "hero", dying is not as easy as you might think. ;)

Of course, you could always get your stupid ass executed. Though I'd imagine they'd only do that if you lead a failed rebellion or some such thing.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on June 11, 2012, 10:48:25 pm

I recently started a character in Summerdale too. Only problem is people don't respond and i end up checking my messages 500 times a day with no answers, but i sure am ready to kick some ass and get our country back.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on June 11, 2012, 11:44:29 pm

Huh. So much for the cease-fire.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on June 11, 2012, 11:49:25 pm

To paraphrase Thucydides in the Melian Dialogues, treaties can exist only between equals. The strong do as they will, and the weak suffer as they must.  8)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on June 11, 2012, 11:54:35 pm

If you count game breaking bugs as strength, sure.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Cearnaigh on June 11, 2012, 11:57:01 pm

As said by John Paul Jones, "I have only begun to fight!"

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on June 12, 2012, 07:33:50 am

revo, if you mean me with that, sorry, but I'm having a lot of stress right now and I'm still trying to catch up on replying to messages sent to me about 4 days ago.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on June 12, 2012, 08:46:41 am

@andira not at all I just check to much is my problem. Now the nobles on the world Atamara not even responding does make me mad haha :D

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: guintiger on June 12, 2012, 10:18:45 am

Quote from: Trollheiming on June 11, 2012, 11:49:25 pm

To paraphrase Thucydides in the Melian Dialogues, treaties can exist only between equals. The strong do as they will, and the weak suffer as they must.  8)

I came to Dwilight because I'd been told about the great OOC community.  Seems that doesn't apply to everyone.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on June 12, 2012, 10:35:49 am

Quote from: guintiger on June 12, 2012, 10:18:45 am

Quote from: Trollheiming on June 11, 2012, 11:49:25 pm

To paraphrase Thucydides in the Melian Dialogues, treaties can exist only between equals. The strong do as they will, and the weak suffer as they must.  8)

I came to Dwilight because I'd been told about the great OOC community.  Seems that doesn't apply to everyone.

Lol? I'm a new player from these forums. I'm just ribbing some former comrades here. Be chill.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: guintiger on June 12, 2012, 11:30:12 am

I'd be surprised that Libero is fighting alongside the Undead...but somehow, I'm just not.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on June 12, 2012, 12:07:34 pm

Even the dead know of your crimes and detest your perfidious aggression, Dalian scum.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Cearnaigh on June 12, 2012, 12:08:28 pm

Ooooh, perfidious.

He's using words, he's using words.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on June 12, 2012, 12:19:03 pm

What? Words? That is going too far, too far I say!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: guintiger on June 12, 2012, 12:24:23 pm

Quote from: Trollheiming on June 12, 2012, 12:07:34 pm

Even the dead know of your crimes and detest your perfidious aggression, Dalian scum.

Weren't you sort of part of the original "perfidious aggression"?  How nefarious.  I can't wait to watch those undead turn on you.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on June 12, 2012, 12:36:53 pm

No apologies, SeaBee. War is hell. I didn't want to go this far, but you forced me. Now if I were to haul my thesaurus out and get serious about this, I think I could maybe even cause Norrdir and Valdir to switch allegiance to Astrum in fear!

Guin, I was young and impressionable. Anyway, who's to say that we won't turn on the undead first?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: guintiger on June 12, 2012, 12:41:31 pm

Quote from: Trollheiming on June 12, 2012, 12:36:53 pm

Anyway, who's to say that we won't turn on the undead first?

/popcorn

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 12, 2012, 01:44:16 pm

Quote from: Trollheiming on June 12, 2012, 12:36:53 pm

I was young and impressionable. Anyway, who's to say that we won't turn on the undead

Suddenly, Out-of-context thread gold!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Cearnaigh on June 12, 2012, 03:05:29 pm

No.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 12, 2012, 05:56:26 pm

Don't worry Trollheiming. We've left plenty of monster mines and imperial loving undead for you around the place. You can cavort around the countryside with your normal shows of beastiality and necrophilia that your empires (both of the churchy day-trippers in summerdale) are so well known for. We're actually just looking at you guys as a clean-up crew so our adventurers stop getting ordered around and can get back to stabbing stuff and sleeping properly. Be sure to wipe off the skeletons when you finish, there's only so many things my adventurer wants to touch, even with a sword.

(no, I'm not trying to start an out-of-game flamewar at all. It's in context. Seriously...... :) )

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on June 12, 2012, 08:45:23 pm

Lol. You Summerdalians are such haters. Be careful over there. Hate leads to fear, fear leads to anger, anger leads to... something bad, I think.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: guintiger on June 12, 2012, 10:43:25 pm

Quote from: Trollheiming on June 12, 2012, 08:45:23 pm

Lol. You Summerdalians are such haters. Be careful over there. Hate leads to fear, fear leads to anger, anger leads to... something bad, I think.

Nah.  Hate just leads to more hate.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 14, 2012, 02:10:53 am

But loving undead loving gits leads to all kinds of strange situations and feelings.

So hate it'll have to be...........

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on June 14, 2012, 02:36:47 am

So I guess we'll have to kill you all then love your corpses.

Speaking of getting killed, why are you all sitting around in Niflheim? I'm sure Astrum won't mind if you travel across Odenir.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: ConscriptFive on June 14, 2012, 02:54:57 am

Admiral Ackbar would disagree.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on June 14, 2012, 06:06:39 am

Quote from: ConscriptFive on June 14, 2012, 02:54:57 am

Admiral Ackbar would disagree.

Yeah, but I hear rumours that Admiral Ackbar also likes to dress up and pretend to be a girl. Are you going to trust military advice from a guy like that?

Oh, wait, maybe you guys are that way, too. If so, then no offense, but perhaps that explains all of the inaction. You all stay inside Niflheim, because you spend the entire day in the late Queen Charlotte's old digs, getting into her wardrobes and trying on all of her fashionable dresses and her royal tiaras and giggling to each other about how fabulous you all look in them.  :P

Playing house all day has got to get boring, though, so why not come out and face your enemies head-on... like real men?  :D

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: ConscriptFive on June 14, 2012, 09:45:16 am

It's how we roll bro.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7BQRGXFLJs#t=00m57s

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on June 14, 2012, 09:47:59 am

Tell Mommy Morek to go away and we'll come out to play ;)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: stabbymcstabstab on June 14, 2012, 09:53:39 am

Is any one in the East Continent? If so how about being a friend and rescuing me from the undead horde in Kazan, Pretty Please! :'(

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on June 14, 2012, 10:50:06 am

Yea if Libero grew a pair and actually fought like real men instead of getting their hand held by Morek, all of Summerdale would already be eating crumpets in Springdale

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Jimlad11 on June 14, 2012, 12:08:51 pm

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Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on June 14, 2012, 12:36:03 pm

Fontan is just about to recapture my homeland of Braga from Westmoor! Yay.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on June 14, 2012, 12:41:19 pm

Attention everyone on Dwilight:
Go nuts  8)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on June 14, 2012, 12:45:40 pm

Yep. It's going to be very boring in the north once they finally get up the courage to take out Nifel ([removed because no one else needs to know] CS hiding in the mountain with more probably behind it, hurr). That's why I'm not sticking around the area once Summerdale is gone, I'll probably go to some other part of the island.

I suppose Morek could get tired/bored of Libero in a few months, but I'm not interested in waiting around to find out. Maybe I'll go south, they're having Fun down there and they need nobles!

It would be hilarious if someone attacked Morek from behind. Unlikely, but hilarious.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on June 14, 2012, 12:48:49 pm

I'm just surprised that no-one's done it already. Surely some other kingdoms and empires want a piece of Morek's pie.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on June 14, 2012, 01:12:44 pm

I'll probably end up following my leige lady with whatever she does cause that seems to be the RP thing to do. Other than that i may head south or over to Astrum where ever this young knight can find honor and glory!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on June 14, 2012, 01:30:04 pm

Tempted to go Hero and die gloriously. On the other hand, character is doing pretty awesome so far and would be sad to see it die.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on June 14, 2012, 02:43:44 pm

Quote from: SeaBee on June 14, 2012, 12:45:40 pm

I suppose Morek could get tired/bored of Libero in a few months, but I'm not interested in waiting around to find out. Maybe I'll go south, they're having Fun down there and they need nobles!

It would be hilarious if someone attacked Morek from behind. Unlikely, but hilarious.

Morek is bounded to the east by astroist Consanctum and to south by rogue provinces, and a little bit past those by Solaria, which is also astroist in faith. I'm guessing there's zero chance of any intervention. After the coup-de-grace, the north will be a homogeneous block of hand-holders, sadly. Anyone that has acquired an itch for battle over the past few months will be riding off into the sunset. It's not clear to me where the next big war will happen, though. Or even if.

Quote from: Jimlad11 on June 14, 2012, 12:08:51 pm

I wouldn't go that far.  :) We would have probably been able to take a little territory if we had a few favourable engagements, but Libero pretty much matched Summerdale in military strength. It was Morek that tipped the balance beyond any doubt.

Even after Morek, the war was reasonably level, in my opinion. Morek and Libero have never fielded more than 25k mobile strength together, and Summerdale has had almost 20k strength together at one time. Essentially, the war against Morek was an even fight, but Amalie basically squandered it by tactics reminiscent of the Russians at Stalingrad... only without the key ingredient of overwhelming numerical superiority.

Had Morek not joined, then you're talking 15k strength in Libero versus 20k in Summerdale. And young nobles have a lot more growth potential in their unit sizes than veterans. I'm inclined to think that Revo would have been right. But then Morek joined, and Charlotte died. And thus history was rewitten from crumpets being eaten to strumpets being beaten.  :D

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on June 14, 2012, 03:57:59 pm

I like being told i'm right. even if by a liberate.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Vel on June 14, 2012, 04:55:15 pm

Quote from: Sirus on June 14, 2012, 12:41:19 pm

Attention everyone on Dwilight:

Morek's entire goddamn army is ~~~~~~~
Go nuts  8)

Woah, hey guys, I hope we're all still being pals here.

Let's not start giving out too much in-game positioning information that may or may not be available through regular channels. I don't think the BM GMs would look too kindly on our community if we started driving up tons of metagaming. :(

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on June 14, 2012, 05:18:11 pm

Quote from: Vel on June 14, 2012, 04:55:15 pm

Let's not start giving out too much in-game positioning information that may or may not be available through regular channels. I don't think the BM GMs would look too kindly on our community if we started driving up tons of metagaming. :(

Edited my post to mask the actual CS of Morek's army in the spirit of fair play.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on June 14, 2012, 05:23:15 pm

Quote from: Vel on June 14, 2012, 04:55:15 pm

Quote from: Sirus on June 14, 2012, 12:41:19 pm

Attention everyone on Dwilight:

Go nuts  8)

Woah, hey guys, I hope we're all still being pals here.

Let's not start giving out too much in-game positioning information that may or may not be available through regular channels. I don't think the BM GMs would look too kindly on our community if we started driving up tons of metagaming. :(

Any neighboring realms that haven't been scouting and know that Morek/Libero isn't at home has grown complacent. This is a golden opportunity for the minor realms that could never stand up to them alone and it would really shake up the the island.

But fine. In the spirit of fair play, I will take out the positioning of the enemy armies.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Jimlad11 on June 14, 2012, 05:30:10 pm

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Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on June 14, 2012, 05:32:00 pm

Quote from: Jimlad11 on June 14, 2012, 05:30:10 pm

While this thread is breaching the forum surface like the modest dolphin it is, what exactly is the situation regarding Asylon and everyone else? I have a noble in Astrum, but he's not a member of Sanguis Astroism so he probably misses out on a lot of the political stuff. Is there some kind of stand-off? I'm kinda hoping for a long, drawn out war of some kind to hurl men into :)

Basically, everyone hates Summerdale. Folks in Summerdale aren't too happy about it.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Jimlad11 on June 14, 2012, 05:57:49 pm

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Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 14, 2012, 06:00:47 pm

Ello, Lord, Senator and Marshal of Terran here.

Astrom isn't attacking Asylon outright, they're defending Kabrinskia. Though even that is practically pointless because the King of Asylon decided to lose his marbles and now Asylon is in disrepair. Terran and Kabrinskia have just agreed on a peace treaty, Allison the Mad is stepping down from leadership of Kabrinskia and (get this!) joining Terran (I volunteered my region to host her since no one else wanted her, for teh lulz/!!SCIENCE!!), and going to a life of religious pilgrimage.

So, Terran is back to peace, Allison's going to be chillaxin' in Vassar, and we're allowed to defend Asylon by the terms of our peace treaty.

Everythingwentbetterthanexpected.

The weird thing is, something big is going on. BIG. Something Allison and a few others know about vaguely...

I have a strange feeling something HUGE is happening behind the scenes that will shock Dwilight to its core... Get ready. ;)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on June 14, 2012, 06:36:00 pm

So guys any suggestions on non theocratic realms if and when Summerdale goes belly up?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on June 14, 2012, 08:06:12 pm

Asylon is non-theocratic.  But yes, we do have a king that likes to do stuff.  It makes it interesting.

Also, fun fact:
Astrum is infact outright attacking Asylon, they landed troops in the far north of Wallershire.  One of Asylon's holdings.
I forgot what they are doing there, might be a takeover.  If that isn't outright attacking, I don't know what is.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on June 14, 2012, 09:08:16 pm

Quote from: revo on June 14, 2012, 06:36:00 pm

So guys any suggestions on non theocratic realms if and when Summerdale goes belly up?

My character plans on going anywhere that isn't dominated by Sanguis Astroism. Going to follow my liege, but I'm hoping for someplace way down south. A whole new culture, a whole new beginning and all of that.

The only serious downside is the long travel time to get there. That'll be an experience too, I'm sure.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 14, 2012, 10:08:37 pm

If anything, come to Terran. Truinism is strong here. I've got an opening in my region for a new knight, as well as a number of other regions. :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on June 14, 2012, 10:24:47 pm

Quote from: Zangi on June 14, 2012, 08:06:12 pm

Asylon is non-theocratic.  But yes, we do have a king that likes to do stuff.  It makes it interesting.

How is the player culture in Asylon?

If Asylon has a decent amount of player interaction and roleplay, then I might head that way soon. Any country daring to attack the Astrocracy can't be too bad. Libero is too quiet to remain here long-term, unfortunately.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 14, 2012, 10:26:40 pm

While Summerdale's fall is sort of a given, it will be a fairly bloody given for the attackers. When you have the entire strength of a realm concentrated and turtling, it's probably going to cost a fair few men to take the place apart.

The point of this is, who will take the losses? Morek or Libero? And then what? Two expansionist empires with their main forces beside each other. Who took the losses, who is looking weak now? Well, obviously Summerdale, but who else? Religion is a fine thing, treaties and alliances are based upon it. But I think that the peninsula is still going to be quite an interesting area with the land grab and having three large, strong empires now butting up against each other.

Final stages of WWII in Europe kind of interesting. Peace is great, but so's cold war........

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on June 14, 2012, 11:05:34 pm

Quote from: sambojin on June 14, 2012, 10:26:40 pm

While Summerdale's fall is sort of a given, it will be a fairly bloody given for the attackers. When you have the entire strength of a realm concentrated and turtling, it's probably going to cost a fair few men to take the place apart.

The point of this is, who will take the losses? Morek or Libero? And then what? Two expansionist empires with their main forces beside each other. Who took the losses, who is looking weak now? Well, obviously Summerdale, but who else? Religion is a fine thing, treaties and alliances are based upon it. But I think that the peninsula is still going to be quite an interesting area with the land grab and having three large, strong empires now butting up against each other.

Final stages of WWII in Europe kind of interesting. Peace is great, but so's cold war........

Actually, the expanionist empire was technically Summerdale in this case. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Libero is not really a dynamic place, and Morek is a stodgy blob that probably hasn't had a war since Thulsoma in 2010, in which... they intervened to help out Libero Empire and roflstomp Thulsoma.

If you look on the BM forums, all mentions of Summerdale and Libero Empire are in two small disused threads. This war has been a big deal to us newcomers, but to the wider world, the north is a place where nothing much happens.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on June 14, 2012, 11:05:57 pm

Quote from: Trollheiming on June 14, 2012, 10:24:47 pm

Quote from: Zangi on June 14, 2012, 08:06:12 pm

Asylon is non-theocratic.  But yes, we do have a king that likes to do stuff.  It makes it interesting.

How is the player culture in Asylon?

If Asylon has a decent amount of player interaction and roleplay, then I might head that way soon. Any country daring to attack the Astrocracy can't be too bad. Libero is too quiet to remain here long-term, unfortunately.

Hmm... oh yea...  I suppose that Asylon's interaction and roleplay is mostly sporadic.

You might get more in a more theocratic place I guess...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 14, 2012, 11:34:14 pm

I've read a bit on the BM forums. Regardless of what happens in Summerdale and the astroist empires, I sort of think that it will be a little more interesting than before. There's things happening at least.

Even with Summerdale's current position in-game, there's certainly been some excellent SMA RP'ing going on. Even if my character does get killed off, I sort of think that this will be one of the highlights of my BM experience for some time to come. Thrown into the fire, but enjoying every minute of it. For a bit more than a week it's been worthwhile logging in every time. It's probably the best time to join up really. Peace is boring.

I've got a noble in another world, and while it's been activity since day one, it's not an SMA world. It's moving quickly, but not in the same way. For all Summerdale's flaws, I think a lot of people will miss us if the peninsula stagnates again.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on June 14, 2012, 11:50:40 pm

Winning! versus a small skirmish agianst morek. Bring it morek i'm ready and willing!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on June 15, 2012, 12:06:51 am

I'm still just kind of disappointed in Morek's leaders for the pointless lies and attempts at subterfuge, but that's because I had thought they were trying to roleplay a relatively honorable realm. I know better now :P

Pretty sure this attack was either a feint or a repeat of the last assault against Nifel, where they split their army's attack over two turns on accident. At least I hope it was on accident, because that was a disaster for them.

Nice to get one more victory in there, anyway. Feelsgoodman.jpg

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on June 15, 2012, 12:35:02 am

Grats. How much CS involved? I only see the numbers of men.

I'm surprised Morek moved before Libero could join them. I hope they learnt their lesson. Castles are real bastards to storm. In Storm's Keep, we had over twice the numbers and barely managed a victory. And cavalry is pointless. It just stands outside the gates, soaking up arrows.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on June 15, 2012, 01:01:01 am

Quote from: sambojin on June 14, 2012, 11:34:14 pm

For all Summerdale's flaws, I think a lot of people will miss us if the peninsula stagnates again.

I think it's a case of stone soup, actually. Summerdale was just the average realm until 30 nobles from DF flooded into it. Summerdale was great because it had such a high concetration of Bay12ers. The old vets of Summerdale, except Andira who is awesome, are pretty low on roleplay and were ironically some of the first to panic and flee to other realms. It shows the fortitude of DF players that you're all still there, when Duchess Amalie "old as Summerdale itself" Everland ran to Astrum at the first sign of crisis.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on June 15, 2012, 01:10:51 am

Have you learned nothing about us Bay Watchers? "Losing is fun 8) "
To be honest though, it did piss me off that so many old nobles left. We could really have used their help :/

Quote from: Trollheiming on June 15, 2012, 12:35:02 am

Grats. How much CS involved? I only see the numbers of men.

Morek vs Summerdale
Total combat strengths: 4575 vs. 14065

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on June 15, 2012, 01:24:01 am

I'm still a bit miffed about that whole thing. So many old veterans flipping all those regions to Astrum really broke us. All that farmland, all those awesome Bay 12 nobles ...

Andira has definitely been awesome throughout. Half of the "old guard" of Summerdale wouldn't even reply in the same week, but she made a point of always interacting and helping us figure things out. People like her make the game a lot more interesting and much more fun to play. In the end, it really is something of a political letter simulator. When no one RPs or sends letters, it gets stale fast.

Cavalry in the attacking force is definitely hilarious during a siege. Pretty expensive pincushion if you ask me. No one ever thinks of those poor horses. :(

Looking forward to the next fight. Hoping to inflict some serious damage before going down in a cloud of blood and steel.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 15, 2012, 01:35:22 am

To tell you the truth, I'm suprised more bay12'ers aren't getting in on this. There's donk loads of troops waiting to be hired in the capital. I tend to think we've been under-estimated.

More nobles=more troops to be hired. Cash is available for newbies.

Join in the !fun! everyone. You'll probably start in Nifel or Nifelheim. A ring of deadly steel that menaces with spikes of awesome to make all dwarves everywhere proud. We've got the cash, the troops and the support to win this (or bloody the empires attacking us beyond compare). All we need is more nobles.

Don't be put off with introductory messages or actual roleplaying. Start in Dwilight, start in Summerdale, hire some troops and stand in Nifel. We don't put the drawbridge up. We like the enemies coming into our archer's range.

If you've ever been on the end of a hopeless undead and goblin seige (it's hard to tell which one Morek or Libero are sometimes), then give it a burl for the next week. You won't be sorry starting out a game of Battlemaster in these circumstances. :)

Battlemaster: It ain't boring in Summerdale right now. Losing is Fun! So is winning a hopeless seige. There ain't no tantrum spirals for people that just want to fight.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 15, 2012, 02:24:30 am

Oh, and if you do join, there's exactly one standing order from anyone in Summerdale currently. Travel to Nifelheim, hire troops in Nifelheim, travel to Nifel. Then help us kill shit.

That is all. RP and introductions can happen later. We've got a fair few thousand combat strength of troops awaiting people's commands. That command is: Travel to Nifelheim. Hire troops in Nifelheim. Travel to Nifel. Kick the shit out of some pretty annoying empires. It's us against everyone. It's just like DF, except we're here to fight from the get-go. Plus we'll be able to all hire more troops the more people we kill.

It gets better and better...........

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 15, 2012, 06:34:45 am

Wow, triple post. I'll have to leave this thread be for a while after this.

I just have to say: There is nothing more noble than shooting the marshall of the opposing army in the nuts right after his blokes clobbered a mate of your's in your first battle in the game. Yes, that's how I'm roleplaying it.

Hehehehehe, Summerdale rocks. Sorry Helm, I was aiming for your head.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on June 15, 2012, 11:01:03 am

The battle is about to start. Could be the last ever for Summerdale -- I'd like everyone to bow their heads in a moment of silence for the brave men and women of the Dalian military who will soon vanish in an explosion of steel, blood, and fire. May they inflict severe damage on their way to the gods.

And please, someone wound Orris.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Knave on June 15, 2012, 11:26:38 am

Ouch, looks like it was a very close battle... I think?

unfortunately Corwin took a near-fatal wound and doesn't know what's going on. :(

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on June 15, 2012, 11:32:50 am

At the end, it was like 3 units fighting each other with stones.

Lots of wounded on both sides. I think it's safe to say that Morek paid a heavy price for their victory. But now I'm in prison, so it's all over for me.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Knave on June 15, 2012, 11:36:54 am

Damn,

I took no less than 3 separate wounds, the third one putting me down for good. I can't even get my men to escape to the capital. I imagine I'll be picked up by patrols and arrested sometime soon.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on June 15, 2012, 11:42:33 am

Wish I could see what is happening. I wanted to read the post-battle RP, but it looks like half on both sides are wounded anyway so I'm probably not going to miss too much.

Now for a loooong, boring time in prison.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 15, 2012, 12:02:55 pm

Hmm, Anyone here in Bellua?

I'm starting that priest character and implementing my religion, since the forumites seemed very excited about the idea.

Time to start a bit of hell in Bellua. :P Not sure where to go, though. I'll emigrate as soon as I find a Bay12er on Bellua I can board with.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on June 15, 2012, 02:09:40 pm

Quote from: SeaBee on June 15, 2012, 11:32:50 am

At the end, it was like 3 units fighting each other with stones.

Lots of wounded on both sides. I think it's safe to say that Morek paid a heavy price for their victory. But now I'm in prison, so it's all over for me.

If the surviving Dalians refit quickly enough, can they likely recapture Nifel?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on June 15, 2012, 02:23:33 pm

I can't be certain since I can't see anything while in prison, but that was my first thought. It isn't like we need to go far to refit, while Morek obviously does.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Geffer on June 15, 2012, 02:24:54 pm

Quote

I think it's a case of stone soup, actually. Summerdale was just the average realm until 30 nobles from DF flooded into it. Summerdale was great because it had such a high concetration of Bay12ers. The old vets of Summerdale, except Andira who is awesome, are pretty low on roleplay and were ironically some of the first to panic and flee to other realms. It shows the fortitude of DF players that you're all still there, when Duchess Amalie "old as Summerdale itself" Everland ran to Astrum at the first sign of crisis.

Trollheiming.   You chose a very appropriate name for what you've been doing here.  Glad nobody seems to take you seriously, I might be offended.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 15, 2012, 02:46:30 pm

Woohoo! I made it through the battle unscathed. I didn't do much, just shot peasants really, but still.

Lost 3/4 of my unit (wounded/dead) and the whimps ran off. I mean, come on. We still had 8 guys left. Not to mention the pinpoint testicular aim of Graham himself. Damn whimpy peasants.

Oh well. Now to do it all again tomorrow. Poor Morek, they took a pretty bad kicking in all this. They probably won't get to win this one afterall. Which means we just have to destroy Libero's army in a few turns and we'll all be saved.

Which might be a little harder to do than to say.........

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on June 15, 2012, 03:56:38 pm

Being a little over-optimistic there, sambojin :P

Yeah, we can probably kick Morek out as soon as we refit, but we have a ton of injured and captured nobles. On the bright side, they have tons of injured nobles as well. My unit can personally account for wounding two of them. However, it is unlikely that we'll be able to reach and defeat the Libero forces any time this week.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Knave on June 15, 2012, 04:00:41 pm

It frustrates me to no end that I can see how many unread messages I have, but there is nothing I can do to read them! Damnit healers, fix me already!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 15, 2012, 04:12:27 pm

It turns out I did manage to injure a noble. This one was just an assist, firstly injured in the battle, now seriously injured by me. Still, that's two on my tally as well so far, but split over two battles.

I didn't think I'd ever be able to say this, but yes, I shot her in the vagina. Roleplaying can be fun :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Fanofgaming on June 15, 2012, 09:16:45 pm

To all those who keep saying that Amalie and some others ran like hell;

Amalie asked me (Antierre, viscount of Hvergelmir) to switch my allegiance to her duchy before she switched. The queen was wounded, so I assumed it was for some valid reason. I thought we still had a chance at fighting off Morek. In the next five minutes, I got the message that we defected to Astrum. Near as I can tell, the plan was to switch the allegiance of every territory of Summerdale except Nifelheim so that Summerdale would survive. That didn't go through very well, but you guys seem to be doing well on your own. I just wish we could help you now without starting a war with Astrum. Maybe we will switch back some day, and when that happens, I hope that Amalie can defend her actions as well as my honor.

Good luck, Dalians.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wolflance on June 15, 2012, 09:51:07 pm

Joined as Wulfgar Erhardt to assist the Summerdale, but mistakenly/foolishly pick the wrong place (Storm's Keep) to start my character.

Currently rushing to Nifelheim, I hope I can still help out.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on June 15, 2012, 09:54:01 pm

Quote from: wolflance on June 15, 2012, 09:51:07 pm

Joined as Wulfgar Erhardt to assist the Summerdale, but mistakenly/foolishly pick the wrong place (Storm's Keep) to start my character.

Currently rushing to Nifelheim, I hope I can still help out.

Make sure that you set your unit to evasive under Orders->Unit Settings. That should give you a chance to slip past enemy troops.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wolflance on June 15, 2012, 10:00:07 pm

I disbanded my men after consulting with Sir Bohdan (In game). After several hours of travel (Start playing last night) I am...still at somewhere between Storm's Keep and Storm End.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on June 15, 2012, 10:07:39 pm

Quote from: Fanofgaming on June 15, 2012, 09:16:45 pm

To all those who keep saying that Amalie and some others ran like hell;

Amalie asked me (Antierre, viscount of Hvergelmir) to switch my allegiance to her duchy before she switched. The queen was wounded, so I assumed it was for some valid reason. I thought we still had a chance at fighting off Morek. In the next five minutes, I got the message that we defected to Astrum. Near as I can tell, the plan was to switch the allegiance of every territory of Summerdale except Nifelheim so that Summerdale would survive. That didn't go through very well, but you guys seem to be doing well on your own. I just wish we could help you now without starting a war with Astrum. Maybe we will switch back some day, and when that happens, I hope that Amalie can defend her actions as well as my honor.

Good luck, Dalians.

Thanks for the support :D

I do wish there had been an opportunity for discussion before the sudden and drastic changeover, or some warning, or something. I wonder how keeping Nifelheim as the only Dalian region would save it ... I feel like I'm missing something obvious there.

How are things in Astrum? I can't go there because my religion isn't compatible :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 15, 2012, 10:23:34 pm

Erm, as per the forum discussions between Dalians I was watching when the decision was made to defect, it was my understanding one region would remain for those who didn't want to change over to have the chance to fight til the end, aka Epic RP Tiems a-la Losing is Fun.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on June 15, 2012, 10:24:58 pm

Quote from: SeaBee on June 15, 2012, 10:07:39 pm

Quote from: Fanofgaming on June 15, 2012, 09:16:45 pm

To all those who keep saying that Amalie and some others ran like hell;

Amalie asked me (Antierre, viscount of Hvergelmir) to switch my allegiance to her duchy before she switched. The queen was wounded, so I assumed it was for some valid reason. I thought we still had a chance at fighting off Morek. In the next five minutes, I got the message that we defected to Astrum. Near as I can tell, the plan was to switch the allegiance of every territory of Summerdale except Nifelheim so that Summerdale would survive. That didn't go through very well, but you guys seem to be doing well on your own. I just wish we could help you now without starting a war with Astrum. Maybe we will switch back some day, and when that happens, I hope that Amalie can defend her actions as well as my honor.

Good luck, Dalians.

Thanks for the support :D

I do wish there had been an opportunity for discussion before the sudden and drastic changeover, or some warning, or something. I wonder how keeping Nifelheim as the only Dalian region would save it ... I feel like I'm missing something obvious there.

How are things in Astrum? I can't go there because my religion isn't compatible :P

I don't see how we could possibly keep all the nobles we have now if we're stuck with just Nifelheim.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Rakonas on June 15, 2012, 10:32:36 pm

Not to mention that it seems as if sieges are actually effective. A city can't feed itself.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on June 15, 2012, 10:39:11 pm

Thanks a lot for the praise, I am really glad to hear you enjoyed my RP. :) Though I would very much prefer if we could keep this thread less... hostile towards some other players. Please?

wolflance, if you spent your hours on other things (like training or resting your troops), the hours are gone and you they can't be used any longer to advance your travel at the turn change. But it's still quite a distance from Storms Keep to Nifelheim. I have sent you messages ingame and can send you more explanations about the game mechanics ingame when you feel ready for it. ;)

And I agree, with only Nifelheim left, we can't last long, unless maybe we would have nearby regions selling food to us very cheap. But even then, we would lack the money to give every noble a somewhat decent amount at tax day and it wouldn't feel like an actual realm any longer.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on June 15, 2012, 10:41:26 pm

That's why we will fight to the bitter end. It's the dwarfy thing to do, but it also fits my character :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 15, 2012, 10:56:58 pm

Think yourself lucky. I've been politely asked to NOT roleplay out the things my character does. Or at least not to roleplay it to our enemies. Just assume that if there is a mention of the Cat's Arrows injuring another noble, that I would have tried to fit the word "tonker" into my regards letter to them.

Looking at the numbers, I don't think Morek can actually defeat us, or hold onto Nifel. Between a decent morale boost at the pub, some fresh men, a quick repair and not having to face the seige engines again, I think Morek flupped this one

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on June 15, 2012, 11:01:21 pm

Not to mention that the fortifications in Nifel have been completely wrecked. Yes, it will be a pain in the ass to rebuild, but it also means that a counter-attack will be far more successful.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wolflance on June 15, 2012, 11:09:15 pm

@Andira
Thank you for your (and Sir Bohdan, but I don't know if he is in this forum) welcome and guide. Since this is the first roleplay-heavy game I played, it really makes me feel the unique atmosphere.

My time pool shows that I still have 8 hours at my disposal (I don't even know what it does).

When I started travel to Storm End(last night)the game told me that I should arrive at Storm's End in 3 hours (i.e. next turn). Now it still tell me I should arrive in 3 hours. Am I doing something wrong?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on June 15, 2012, 11:11:43 pm

Travel only happens twice per day, at 9am and pm server time. When the next turn begins, you'll move and use your hours.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wolflance on June 15, 2012, 11:18:51 pm

Oh yesss. Just arrived at Storm's End. The game informs me that there is one hour delay, though.

Now heading to Torrents Breath.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on June 15, 2012, 11:20:24 pm

Quote from: Fanofgaming on June 15, 2012, 09:16:45 pm

To all those who keep saying that Amalie and some others ran like hell;

Amalie asked me (Antierre, viscount of Hvergelmir) to switch my allegiance to her duchy before she switched. The queen was wounded, so I assumed it was for some valid reason ... Near as I can tell, the plan was to switch the allegiance of every territory of Summerdale except Nifelheim so that Summerdale would survive.

I don't think anyone was blaming you, Antierre. You were just following orders from royalty in good faith. It was just a really bad response to the crisis by the old nobility at the top. You don't save something by leaving it. I'm not sure I can even understand that line of reasoning. Seems more like the guys at the top panicked, to be honest.

But that's why the game is so interesting. The human element. Humans sometimes act irrationally and panic. However, I don't think there needs to be a long derailment about something that maps blatantly show. No hostility to Geffer. I'm just pointing out the obvious and giving credit to the guys that stayed behind and are giving the Morekian hordes such a stiff fight right now.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on June 15, 2012, 11:23:48 pm

Quote from: wolflance on June 15, 2012, 11:18:51 pm

Oh yesss. Just arrived at Storm's End. The game informs me that there is one hour delay, though.

Now heading to Torrents Breath.

Yeah, travel times can vary by up to three hours in either direction. All it really means is that your trip took 4 hours instead of 3.

I would avoid Torrent's Breath. That's enemy territory. Try Norrdir or something instead, unless you can see from scout reports that TB is empty.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 15, 2012, 11:32:23 pm

You have to wait until next turn (in about an hour and a half of real-time). You'll get a few extra hours next turn. I think the maximum is 12 hours.

You'll be in Storms End then (it'll be sunrise then). You can then choose your next destination, but it will take another turn (12 real-time hours) to move there. There are two turns a day, in 12 hour intervals.

Battlemaster is slow at the beginning, but it will speed up dramatically when you get to Nifelheim.

(edit: 3x ninja'd. Told you we were helpful :) )

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on June 15, 2012, 11:52:49 pm

Ha, I'll send you the OOC messages about the game mechanics tomorrow, wolflance, that should help against the confusion. ;)

And talking about dwarfiness... Sirus, our chars totally deserve a prize for what they did there, lol.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wolflance on June 15, 2012, 11:53:46 pm

I just stared at the world map, then took the most direct route to Nifelheim. Enemy territories be damned. I know it is not the most brilliant decision, but I think it is dwarfier.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on June 16, 2012, 12:17:25 am

Quote from: wolflance on June 15, 2012, 11:53:46 pm

I just stared at the world map, then took the most direct route to Nifelheim. Enemy territories be damned. I know it is not the most brilliant decision, but I think it is dwarfier.

I like the cut of your jib, sir. Wish I could welcome your character properly wolflance, but I'm sitting in a Morek prison gawking at the ransom demand they've just made me.

Quote from: Sirus on June 15, 2012, 10:24:58 pm

I don't see how we could possibly keep all the nobles we have now if we're stuck with just Nifelheim.

We can't. Which is why I was confused. I probably missed some messages while my character was wounded around that time, that would certainly explain a lot.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on June 16, 2012, 12:20:14 am

Well fear not, we're still fighting 8)

And if my reading of the wiki is correct, every day you have a chance to escape on your own, and after a week you're released. Of course, the wiki is out-of-date in a lot of things, but still. Keep the hope alive, dude!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wolflance on June 16, 2012, 12:57:59 am

"Your King has whipped the people into a frenzy with a passionate speech about the eternal evil manifested as the realm of Morek Empire."

Wow this is awesome. I imagine the entire population of Summerdale goes into martial trance or something.


@SeaBee
Nice to meet you too. Hope you can escape soon.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Vonyx on June 16, 2012, 03:32:17 am

I must be doing something wrong! :D


I'm wounded in every battle. :P
Even the ones Summerdale wins!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wolflance on June 16, 2012, 03:51:00 am

Well did you injure their noble? ;)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Vonyx on June 16, 2012, 05:25:44 am

Quote from: wolflance on June 16, 2012, 03:51:00 am

Well did you injure their noble? ;)

Sadly, I don't think I've wounded anyone :(

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wolflance on June 16, 2012, 05:45:23 am

A victory is still a victory though.Good job.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Jimlad11 on June 16, 2012, 07:37:46 am

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Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 16, 2012, 10:13:45 am

62? o.O Who slaughtered all the peasants? That's a ridiculous number!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wolflance on June 16, 2012, 11:45:08 am

Passing through Torrents Breath, now heading to Odenir. If things go well I should arrive at Nifelheim by this time tomorrow.

I don't know how accurate this info is given that I travel alone (thus no scout), but I didn't find any enemy unit in Storm's End and Torrents Breath (Both controlled by Liberto Empire) when I pass through those places.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on June 16, 2012, 12:08:02 pm

Probably best left for kingdom channels, wolflance. All kinds of disreputable sorts frequent this forum.  ;D

But yeah, we're all in Storm's Keep.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wolflance on June 16, 2012, 12:22:37 pm

Summerdale is in no position to take advantage of these info anyway, and I got to learn some new game mechanics.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on June 16, 2012, 10:04:57 pm

Sambojin, please don't abuse the Titan report functionality to ask random questions or ramble on. That's like calling 911 to ask for ice cream.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 17, 2012, 01:10:34 am

okaley dokely. Sorry. Haven't taken all my men to the pub for the required morale boost, I just scouted ahead to make sure it was all good. My morale is "quite jubilant" and I will refrain from posting again. Probably. Unless I don't mind getting banned during the most interesting bits of the war.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on June 17, 2012, 07:33:44 am

Quote from: danaris on June 16, 2012, 10:04:57 pm

Sambojin, please don't abuse the Titan report functionality to ask random questions or ramble on. That's like calling 911 to ask for ice cream.

... haha, whelp, we know that the Titan report link works. What did you say there, sambojin, if I dare ask? Or is it something best not shared publicly?

I think Morek's judge is asleep, or just ignoring the agreement we had. I'm going to start etching terrible images onto the prison walls, that'll show him!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: guintiger on June 17, 2012, 09:40:03 am

Orris is hunting.  Surprise, surprise.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 17, 2012, 08:21:50 pm

Not much actually. Just some stuff that was vaguely relevant god-alone-knows how many years ago from a character I played on an old account. I'm pretty sure he ended up in Summerdale actually, at about the time the Motte-and-Bailly was being upgraded to a fortress.

It turns out the titan's don't really appreciate you rambling on drunkenly after 4 hours sleep (and 8 hours at the pub). Which is pretty reasonable really. It's kind of scarey just how quickly they responded, and on here no less.

At least we know there won't be any abuse of game mechanics while the battle goes on. Which is a pity. We KNOW Libero is in Storm's Keep. It's going to be hard to not tell you all when they move out. Adventurers are pretty awesome scouts if you happily abuse in-game information they can collect. But I'll be a good little RP'er and not do so..... :(

Erm, it looks like Morek might have us anyway. Damn that's some good reinforcing of CS. They just seem to never lose a pip of it. I thought we'd knocked them down to under 10k, but I was so very, very wrong.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on June 17, 2012, 08:31:51 pm

Heh, I'm not actually a Titan. I just have access to the Titan boards on the forum because I'm a dev, and they often need help from the devs to do their jobs.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on June 17, 2012, 09:39:43 pm

Haha, I bet they were a bit surprised to read that.

Keeping RP and OOC separate is one of the interesting challenges in playing this game. I get some OOC information that would change my character's plans now and then, but I have to keep him cut off from what I, the player, know. It's one of the things that give the game an interesting feel for me (never really RP'd before).

I'm not sure, but I think adventurers could be "hired" as mercenary scouts ... or maybe that would violate one of the rules I don't know about. Hmm. I've never had an adventurer. Might do that after Summerdale falls, I keep putting it off.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 17, 2012, 10:09:25 pm

Yeah, I'm lucky in that my guy is from Iasulder, so can't really be labelled as an enemy by Libero (he just started there as a random thing, it wasn't planned). You don't get much information in the sense of CS or anything, but knowing WHEN armies are moving (or rather, the nobles attached to them, or the other way around) is still very handy information. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to be nice about it.

Even RP'ing it out (my noble and adventurer have been played as half-brothers who keep in contact by carrier pidgeon) it probably would be an abuse to use it. Still, I'll have to look into how serious a breach that it's considered. Not for this noble, but it might be good to know. There's not much info to gained, but what there is happens to be all you really need to know.

Usually when a queen, two marshals and a heap of nobles are in an area, you can be pretty sure that the army is with them. Location is just as handy to know as strength.

But I'll be good and not tell when they move, even if in RP terms I probably should be able to. It could be abused no end. Not to mention en-nobling adventurers, giving them a duchy, just so you could keep troops flowing in from areas that were being taken over. I mentioned it, but it really would be an abuse on the "place-holder lord" abuse of mechanics. So it wasn't done.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 17, 2012, 10:18:35 pm

Oh, and don't worry, none of the potential adventurer abuses will happen (other than the normal jailing, hanging and torture of them). My guy is up north to do the monster hunting thing again. There's some pretty decent bounties posted up there right now,

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Jimlad11 on June 18, 2012, 01:22:59 am

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Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Vel on June 18, 2012, 01:28:57 am

It might be sort of a poor idea in general because it would give nobles even more incentive to just immediately arrest and execute all adventurers.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 18, 2012, 03:24:38 am

This might not sound like much of a milestone to some, but by god, I've done it. My adventurer has finally slept in a bed and got back to zero fatigue. And has just enough silver to do it again. If we ever do re-take Summerdale, can we PLEASE do anything necessary to put some damn beds around the place.

Oh, and it's entirely possible that I managed to piss in both my current and former Lord's drinks through badly thought out RP'ing. P'ing anyway. Which is a milestone of sorts in itself :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wolflance on June 18, 2012, 06:54:23 am

Personally I would like to see feature that let an adventurer to lead a gang of bandits or mercenaries. Since 'Company of adventure' basically means mercenaries during medieval time anyway.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on June 18, 2012, 08:08:16 am

Well, one thing to do is not make your...  information sales too well known.  That way, you won't specifically get cracked down on...  and for the sake of jah... they can see your family name. 
So if I was you, I'd sell information to someone else unrelated to your nobles current realm.  It'll be really hard to separate OOC and IC in that regard...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on June 18, 2012, 10:02:09 am

sambojin, what, you pissed in our drinks?! So that's why you warned us about the "piquant" taste? lol!

edit: Sorry, I must have missed that RP, it was way too late for me yesterday, haha. All I saw was the letter where you were talking about the piquant taste and I was already wondering what that was about.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 18, 2012, 03:37:04 pm

Actually, I grabbed all the booze I could on the way out of Nifel. THEN me and my men pissed in whatever was left. There's no reason that the enemy should actually enjoy their time there.

I just totally forgot that you and Wolfgang were still there. And then you both grabbed a drink to celebrate his and Salus's release. And yeah...... Tasty?

Oops, sorry me Lady.      :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 18, 2012, 03:58:53 pm

When in Nifel, remember these words:

If the colour is yellow and smells like beer,
Then gulp it down, all in good cheer,
If the colour is yellow and smells like a fellow,
Then don't touch that, that's from the Cat.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on June 18, 2012, 11:42:58 pm

Pfff, you people. You poison the wells in the region we're in, you piss in the drinks... you really want to get rid of us, don't you? ;)

Though when did we grab a drink? (Unless you consider blood on a palm as a drink. :p)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wolflance on June 18, 2012, 11:51:39 pm

Noob question: Is it wise to use up all my time pool during a new turn, or I better keep some hours in reserve?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 19, 2012, 01:36:59 am

It kind of depends if you're in Nifelheim or not. You can save up to 4 hours per turn (12 hour real-time block), but big stuff tends to come in 4 hour blocks. Eight hours per turn, with up to four saved, making a max of twelve. Big "thing" done for 8 hours, small "thing" done in 4. It depends. Scouting takes an hour, lots of really little things take an hour or two, but basically right now there's duels, training and the pub. Maybe repairs, maybe civil work, but mostly "fight hard, train hard, drink hard, or entertain yourself". Aim for the largest troop (honour, prestige and cash), that's the best trained (training/battles), with great cohesion (training, battles, random time based) with high morale (entertaining and time) and no damage(repairs). Basically, train/entertain/repair-if-needed. Duel and scout if you can or want to.

We can remove damage easily in Nifelheim, so repairs aren't a problem. Just wait until you think the enemy will move or it gets over 10%. Just train, entertain, and duel a bit. To tell you the truth, rather than the fearing the odd injury, we should duel properly instead of doing training duels. Soldiers are our force right now, we have the best healers possible, so more honour for troop size is a good thing. Civil work is out for now unless otherwise ordered.

If you're anywhere else than Summerdale, then you'd probably better ask your lords/mentors/commanders what they want.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wolflance on June 19, 2012, 01:59:22 am

Thanks for the answer. I've arrived at Nifelheim two days ago. Having no real grasps of the game's combat mechanic, I just hired a bunch of archers based on common sense (Archers + Walls = defense). Those guys have really bad cohesion, but their morale started to improves a bit.

10% Equipment damage count as high? I will keep that in mind.

Train and entertain until further notice. Got it.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on June 19, 2012, 02:03:29 am

Wolflance, what's your in-game name? Do you have an estate yet?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wolflance on June 19, 2012, 02:09:16 am

Quote from: Sirus on June 19, 2012, 02:03:29 am

Wolflance, what's your in-game name? Do you have an estate yet?

My in-game name is Wulfgar Erhardt. I am totally new to this game so no title or estate yet.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on June 19, 2012, 02:15:43 am

Quote from: wolflance on June 19, 2012, 02:09:16 am

Quote from: Sirus on June 19, 2012, 02:03:29 am

Wolflance, what's your in-game name? Do you have an estate yet?

My in-game name is Wulfgar Erhardt. I am totally new to this game so no title or estate yet.

Grab Wulfgar Lodge. It's a small estate, but you'll need the gold.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 19, 2012, 02:17:07 am

Nah, 10% isn't high, but right now it's probably worth repairing. It'll take an hour or two and not much gold (or metal, not your problem there though). We're sort of expecting an attack soon, so less equipment damage is good, but 10-20% isn't bad (unrepairable). Just repair when you think it's too far over 10%.

I've got 32% equipment damage on a noble in another realm, constant small skirmishes, and basically can continue on. Gave my commanders a heads-up, but even that isn't too high.

So yeah, train heaps. Recruit as much as you can. Duel a bit. Repeat. Repair when necessary.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 19, 2012, 02:43:10 am

@Andira. Well, I'll be......... I will admit that I just quick scanned some of all your RPs, and Wolfgang and his desire to re-take Nifel (his belly full of firewater for it) must have made me mis-read it. Thank god. I have not besmirched myself. Missed some of the best RP'ing of the war by just scanning this stuff quickly.

Too many sleepless nights and tired days. More ahead of me. RL sometimes makes some lazy readers of us all (me anyway).

Ps. Don't drink anything that smells funny or tastes funny in Nifel. Or from a certain well. Unless its REALLY funny...........

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wolflance on June 19, 2012, 02:45:33 am

I don't have sufficient time left to move in  :'( , have to wait until next turn calculation. All those waiting does give me ample time to think about what to role-play and swore fealty stuffs though.

Many thanks.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 19, 2012, 02:50:49 am

Ummm, if you're in Nifelheim, cancel that move. Now!

Those standing orders of mine our completely cancelled. We just sort of cruise around Nifelheim training, reading, sparring a bit and going to our choice of entertainment.

It's kind of boring, but stay in Nifelheim. A luxurious death awaits us (it'll take them a few more turns to take over Nifel. With their main army. Don't charge their main army. It doesn't work just yet.)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on June 19, 2012, 02:52:07 am

Dude...it's cool. The estate is in Nifelheim, he's in Nifelheim, no biggie :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 19, 2012, 03:04:56 am

Oh, okay. I didn't realize he meant move in, as in "move into his estate". I didn't want someone new charging off to their unit's (and possibly their own) demise. Nifelheim is a good place to be right now.

All good. Don't listen to me anyone, ever again. At least in BM. I'm better at other stuff, not BM. Listen to me in something else. Or not. I'll probably just be taunting you or winning in something else. So yeah. Don't ever listen to me in BM, because I'm not winning and I'm only taunting our enemies.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wolflance on June 19, 2012, 03:33:51 am

To be honest that is exactly what I was planning to do when I reach Nifelheim two days ago, until the more rational portion of my brain decide against it.

It's not that I want to risk getting myself wounded/captured and miss the epic last stand, Though.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on June 19, 2012, 12:02:13 pm

Your equipment damage could hit the 60-70s before you see the really negative side effects... if I remember correctly...

And yea, there is no glory to be had getting surrounded and being forced to surrenderhaving your troops surrender you to the enemy.  Bards only sing of the big battles anyways.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 19, 2012, 12:21:59 pm

I'm actually hoping that the next few battles give me a few more pips of honour so I can change class. What's the minimum of honour or prestige to do a class change? Especially to the hero class.

I figure that once my ablative armour (IE: my squad) gets destroyed, I might go down fighting as well. Not much hope with next-to-no sword skills, but if I manage to tag one of their nobles on the way out it will be worth it. I've learnt a heap with old Graham, but I sort of wouldn't mind if I "retire" him after all this and start afresh. Who knows, I might let him live (if somewhat unheroically) just so I haven't wasted a fortnight in character development.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on June 19, 2012, 12:32:39 pm

Quote from: sambojin on June 19, 2012, 12:21:59 pm

I'm actually hoping that the next few battles give me a few more pips of honour so I can change class. What's the minimum of honour or prestige to do a class change? Especially to the hero class.

I figure that once my ablative armour (IE: my squad) gets destroyed, I might go down fighting as well. Not much hope with next-to-no sword skills, but if I manage to tag one of their nobles on the way out it will be worth it. I've learnt a heap with old Graham, but I sort of wouldn't mind if I "retire" him after all this and start afresh. Who knows, I might let him live (if somewhat unheroically) just so I haven't wasted a fortnight in character development.

If my perusal of the wiki is accurate, you not only need something like 10 honor, but you also must have been playing for one month, to be a hero.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 19, 2012, 12:41:25 pm

This is just a question, not an accusation of the enemy or anything, but how quickly could you get a pay-chest to an army?

Could you "mass-dump" all your army's weekly bonds to one noble in your army, move that noble back, have them change the bonds into gold at the capital and then run it back to the army? It would let you keep your armies in the field while still getting pay to them.

You'd have to trust that noble, have a bit of paperwork so that the gold gets divvied up correctly, and disasters might occur if the noble gets attacked (or runs to Summerdale and frees us all :) ), but is this a possibility mechanics wise? Not really an exploit or anything, and dangerous as hell, but you could keep on fighting without worrying too much about weekly pay latency or returning to the capital.

Or become the greatest thief around if you got into the position of pay-chest holder, but anyway.....

Is it possible?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on June 19, 2012, 12:46:34 pm

I'm not sure. My understanding is that you can only send bonds to other nobles when you're in a city with a bank, since sending bonds counts as a "financial action".

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wolflance on June 19, 2012, 12:50:17 pm

"Also, money can only be given from player to player if the player who wants to send it is in a city."

At least that is what Andira's tutorial taught me.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on June 19, 2012, 12:51:03 pm

That's my understanding as well. However, there's nothing saying that lords can't hoard up a lot of gold before marching in order to stay for several weeks in the field.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on June 19, 2012, 12:54:51 pm

Bonds can only be cashed and exchanged while you are in a city.  Gold cannot be exchanged in the field.  It should be organized before-hand for nobles to carry at least 2 weeks wages when going abroad/extended outings...

Also, as a hero, death on the battlefield does not come when you want it to... and it may come at the most inopportune times.  Such is the dangers of a hero.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 19, 2012, 12:56:30 pm

Ok, cool. I thought it might be a bit too easy.

It would be fun being an adventurer who's job in life was to track and sell the location of known pay-chest runners to various other factions. Knowing that there was a few thousand gold on it's way back, in this particular region, would have to be worth some cash or favours.

It would bring quite a bit of subtlety to the game, rotating which noble is your war-chest holder so no-one knows who has the cash, having false runners, the glorious deepstrikes into enemy territory where the only concrete gain is a heap of cash and a really ticked off enemy army.....

It would give a reason to stockpile a bit of gold and actually care about it a bit more. Defend it a bit more too. Oh well, I guess stockpiling and staying with the main army will have to do for my future tactics for now.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on June 19, 2012, 12:57:39 pm

The restrictions on money transfers (as has been stated, only bonds can be transferred from noble to noble, and then only at a bank in a city) are specifically designed to prevent the situation you describe, Sambojin.

Why? Because guess who would be picked to be the money-mule otherwise? Some poor newbie, who then wouldn't get the opportunity to participate in the battles; he'd just be shuttling back and forth between the front and the nearest city of your realm.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on June 19, 2012, 01:04:03 pm

"Screw you guys, I'm taking this gold and going elsewhere. That'll learn ya for giving me this cruddy job AND giving me all this gold."

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 19, 2012, 01:04:41 pm

Or changing allegiance and running like hell to the enemies lands holding an entire army's pay in their overworked, newby little hands. You'd REALLY have to trust the person doing it, even if it was a boring job.

Edit: Ninja'd

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: guintiger on June 19, 2012, 01:17:26 pm

So...I'm confused.  I was told by another player that I could have one noble and one adventurer on Dwilight...but when I went to add my newly-created adventurer to Dwilight, it specifically says that there is only one character allowed per family.  Help?  I just wanted an adventurer to play with while Morek is busy boring us all to death up by Nifelheim.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on June 19, 2012, 01:20:14 pm

Quote from: guintiger on June 19, 2012, 01:17:26 pm

So...I'm confused.  I was told by another player that I could have one noble and one adventurer on Dwilight...but when I went to add my newly-created adventurer to Dwilight, it specifically says that there is only one character allowed per family.  Help?  I just wanted an adventurer to play with while Morek is busy boring us all to death up by Nifelheim.

Known bug. Sorry :-\

It's on the list, but things are moving a little slow right now.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 19, 2012, 03:23:43 pm

Weird, new bug? I had no problem making two consecutive Advies on Dwilight even though my Senator/Lord/Marshal is there.

Also, I'm getting upgraded from Vice to full Marshal. :3 Woo!

(Who thought it'd be a good idea to give me command of an entire army? >_> BAHAHAHAH)

I've led armies in strategy-war RP games plenty of times. Been a while though... I miss my Strategy-war RPGs. :(

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 19, 2012, 09:12:05 pm

Anyone involved in BM religions or like Fantasy stuff, Lore, discussing crazy made-up pantheons, etc? I made a forum post asking for helping with ideas for my Fantasy religion revival for BM. Figured I'd put years of development to some use -_-

http://forum.battlemaster.org/index.php/topic,2639.msg60307.html#msg60307 (http://forum.battlemaster.org/index.php/topic,2639.msg60307.html#msg60307)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: guintiger on June 20, 2012, 09:13:57 am

Quote from: danaris on June 19, 2012, 01:20:14 pm

Quote from: guintiger on June 19, 2012, 01:17:26 pm

So...I'm confused.  I was told by another player that I could have one noble and one adventurer on Dwilight...but when I went to add my newly-created adventurer to Dwilight, it specifically says that there is only one character allowed per family.  Help?  I just wanted an adventurer to play with while Morek is busy boring us all to death up by Nifelheim.

Known bug. Sorry :-\

It's on the list, but things are moving a little slow right now.

So...just to be 100% clear...I can roll an adventurer and not get in trouble?  Excuse the noobishness, but I've heard how punishments in this game can come down on you like a ton of bricks, and I'd rather avoid that.  8)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on June 20, 2012, 10:00:45 am

Quote from: guintiger on June 20, 2012, 09:13:57 am

Quote from: danaris on June 19, 2012, 01:20:14 pm

Quote from: guintiger on June 19, 2012, 01:17:26 pm

So...I'm confused.  I was told by another player that I could have one noble and one adventurer on Dwilight...but when I went to add my newly-created adventurer to Dwilight, it specifically says that there is only one character allowed per family.  Help?  I just wanted an adventurer to play with while Morek is busy boring us all to death up by Nifelheim.

Known bug. Sorry :-\

It's on the list, but things are moving a little slow right now.

So...just to be 100% clear...I can roll an adventurer and not get in trouble?  Excuse the noobishness, but I've heard how punishments in this game can come down on you like a ton of bricks, and I'd rather avoid that.  8)

Yes, go ahead. (And while you're right, we do tend to come down like a ton of bricks on people who break the rules, we do try to account for people being new :) )

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on June 20, 2012, 07:14:54 pm

Thanks, Danaris, I was wondering the same thing. Time to roll an adventurer! Hopefully he won't get beheaded before I get a chance to see what all they get to do :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 21, 2012, 04:16:17 am

I'm getting so ready to fight, even my men think we may as well butcher these buggers before the other buggers show up. Otherwise I'm just poncing around, being all noble.

Meh. Hurry up Libero, get your damn act together. We're waiting.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 21, 2012, 05:30:36 am

I'm betting, as a relatively long-term estimate, with no way of knowing exactly what different people will do or what their orders were (and even whether they fulfill those orders or not, how the hell could I know?), that the shit will finally hit the fan in about 4 or 5 or 6 turns. Give or take one turn.

More or less.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on June 21, 2012, 09:04:33 am

And I'm busy beating up our banker. Ahem... sorry for that.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 21, 2012, 10:10:18 am

Anyone here in Bellua or up to join me as I re-forge an empire on the daimon-tainted continent of Belluaterra? :)

Join me in my discussion on the BM forum or PM me here if you're interested. I'm on the fence about which nation to join and introduce my two characters and religion to, but I've gotten plenty of offers and it all rides on whether I'll be alone or with fellow B12ers in tow.

:)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on June 21, 2012, 10:10:22 am

so sambo what youre saying is you pretty much have no idea when it will happen :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 21, 2012, 10:20:39 am

Quote from: revo on June 21, 2012, 10:10:22 am

so sambo what youre saying is you pretty much have no idea when it will happen :P

+1

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wolflance on June 21, 2012, 10:33:18 am

I do hope them attacking sooner rather than later, since it will be the first battle I participate.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: guintiger on June 21, 2012, 11:15:31 am

Here and I thought Morek was supposed to be just brimming with honorable fighters...turns out they'd rather bore us to death.  /yawn

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 21, 2012, 04:13:04 pm

I don't know exactly when it will happen, but I could find out very easily. BUT......I......AM......NOT.......GOING........TO..........

It's a struggle, believe me. Considering the knowledge won't help us at all, we'll still be in Nifelheim sparring and training and drinking, and we'll still get notice when they move into Nifel. But I said I wouldn't abuse my adventurer enhanced battlefield sight, so I won't. My adventurer will know, and will probably follow them around for the fun of it. My noble, if he had any sense, or any of the knowledge that my adventurer has, would get the hell out of there. He's meant to be the smart one. But oh well, he can sit in Nifelheim being bored.

But we won't be bored soon. We'll probably be dead, but not bored.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Celeitia on June 21, 2012, 04:19:52 pm

Sadly Libero Empire got hit by a bug and are stuck trying to takeover Storm's Keep a second time because the first time bugged out. I think Morek is on its own for a while longer. ._.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Fanofgaming on June 21, 2012, 04:21:13 pm

I bet you guys are having some fun. Astrum is just so boring when you're about 12 moves away from the war.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 21, 2012, 04:45:45 pm

Yeah, I was wondering why it said it still belonged to Summerdale when I was scouting around the place. Poor buggers. I hope it doesn't take them too long. They were just starting to look like they might come to the party. Probably gave their poor queen a heart attack when 4 nobles and her moved out and the rest stayed at Storm's Keep.

Note: this isn't relevant information or cheating. Just one of those funny little examples of stuff that happened in this war. People NEED to know stuff like this. So they can laugh.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on June 21, 2012, 04:54:43 pm

Just how frequent are these strange takeover bugs? I've been playing less than three months and I've witnessed several just in my tiny corner of the map, one of which decided the whole war.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on June 21, 2012, 05:26:35 pm

There was the takeover bug that kickstarted Summerdale's war with Libero and later Morek. I'm afraid I don't have the slightest bit of sympathy for Libero's problems right now <_<

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 21, 2012, 05:42:20 pm

I do. I'm running out of gold (again), have no estate any more and just want this epic confrontation to happen. Now.

I'm using my adventurer to break up the boredom of logging in and pressing Train Hard on my noble. Tomorrow my men will be exactly as well trained as they'll ever be, because I decided to pay them (against orders) so they could stick around for the battle. I'm glad I did. We could be waiting another week for Libero to take over Storms Keep again and finally haul their arses to Nifel.

Get a move on Libero. Just take Storms Keep later. We'll "let" you. Due to the fact that we'll probably be in no position to stop you after you and Morek storm Nifelheim.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on June 21, 2012, 05:47:11 pm

Which one's your character again? I can probably put a small estate together for you.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 21, 2012, 06:04:01 pm

Nah, it's all good. I might try and sponge 25 gold off someone when tax time comes if we do the community chest thing again. Graham el Gato anyway.

Actually, with Storm's Keep still in our possesion, we've still got booze. Lovely, roleplayed, booze, smuggled through enemy lines for our noble pleasures. No more Rat's Piss or Grog'ard for any of us.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Cearnaigh on June 22, 2012, 12:15:16 am

And every cup of rat piss has a silver lining too. The filmy, delicious lining.

Or is that poison...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 22, 2012, 12:46:03 am

It depends if you're in Nifel or Nifelheim.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: guintiger on June 22, 2012, 01:09:17 pm

Considering rolling another noble - anyone have a suggestion or a place they're already in that I could send my noble to help out?  I'd actually like to get her to a place that is in need of nobles / active players so that I can do the most good.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 22, 2012, 01:22:34 pm

Terran - Dwilight! I need a loyal, active Knight to help me maintain Vassar, since I'll soon be promoted from Vice to full Marshal of the Phantarian Pride, meaning I will need all the extra firepower and activity I can muster.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: guintiger on June 22, 2012, 01:25:30 pm

Sadly, I already have one noble and one adventurer on Dwilight...and I rather like my noble on Dwilight, so...no can do.  Sorry for the ambiguity of my question - I meant on totally different realms.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 22, 2012, 01:31:48 pm

=(

Come to Belluaterra, I'm starting a religion in Riombarra  most likely :) If I can get 4-5 guys from B12 to join, we can join this one dead-ish nation where we can all take the power positions and restart it for ourselves, I was invited to do so by their leader, bahahaha! B12 colony on Daimon-tainted continent!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on June 22, 2012, 01:35:20 pm

If you're talking about Riombara...it's about as far from dead as Beluaterra gets.

(It would, however, be ecstatic to have more nobles.)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: guintiger on June 22, 2012, 01:37:59 pm

Isn't Belluaterra the one that suggests you bring a more "experienced" noble there?  And don't I have to make a noble on a separate realm, then emigrate?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Megaman on June 22, 2012, 01:38:21 pm

I'm lonely in here in Nivemus(East Continent) :(.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Celeitia on June 22, 2012, 01:47:49 pm

I imagine Libero Empire is always looking for more people, they almost have more land than they have nobles. If you pick that, then you want to start somewhere around Nifelhold.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 22, 2012, 01:49:16 pm

Quote from: danaris on June 22, 2012, 01:35:20 pm

If you're talking about Riombara...it's about as far from dead as Beluaterra gets.

(It would, however, be ecstatic to have more nobles.)

No, for the dead one I was talking about... Foren? Floren? Fo... Something.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on June 22, 2012, 01:52:42 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on June 22, 2012, 01:49:16 pm

Quote from: danaris on June 22, 2012, 01:35:20 pm

If you're talking about Riombara...it's about as far from dead as Beluaterra gets.

(It would, however, be ecstatic to have more nobles.)

No, for the dead one I was talking about... Foren? Floren? Fo... Something.

Fronen. As I understand it, it's only dead in the sense of being inactive. In my experience, nothing wakes up a realm like that faster than a bunch of upstarts coming in to try and take it over.

Also...that kind of behaviour is deeply frowned upon. It's the worst kind of clan-behaviour. BattleMaster is a social, interactive game; taking over a realm so you can play only with your friends from another game is directly against the spirit of the game and the Social Contract.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 22, 2012, 01:57:37 pm

Obviously not only, and it doesn't mean I'm going to agree with them or work with them. I have 8 friends in Dwilight in various nations and we don't discuss internal politics, movements, or anything because Meta is for douchebags.

Point is, from what the nation's leader told me, the nation is practically dead, there's no activity outside of maybe 3-4 people, and he'd welcome me bringing a crew of folks in to rejuvenate the religion and politics of the realm.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 22, 2012, 01:59:07 pm

Hell, of my 5 friends from Bay12 who joined Terran, I didn't allow any of them to even take an estate in Vassar in order to avoid Meta.

That reminds me, I have an estate available, anyone want it? :) We're always looking for more good folks to join us in Terran.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: guintiger on June 22, 2012, 02:10:17 pm

Cele - really REALLY not interested in Libero...and again, I cannot roll any more characters on Dwilight.

I didn't mean to start a crapstorm here - I don't want to metagame or team up and take over an entire realm with bay 12'ers...I just wanted to go somewhere with my new noble where I could be useful...preferably somewhere with at least a few active people that I can hook up with...nothing would be more depressing than starting out in a realm and getting nothing but silence from the people there.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Tidal on June 22, 2012, 02:13:27 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on June 22, 2012, 01:59:07 pm

Hell, of my 5 friends from Bay12 who joined Terran, I didn't allow any of them to even take an estate in Vassar in order to avoid Meta.

That reminds me, I have an estate available, anyone want it? :) We're always looking for more good folks to join us in Terran.

Sure thing!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 22, 2012, 02:14:46 pm

You haven't even been bloody playing, I think. I'm in southern Asylon with my army, and my only Knight in Vassar has been afk for who knows how long.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Jimlad11 on June 22, 2012, 02:21:17 pm

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Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Tidal on June 22, 2012, 02:24:00 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on June 22, 2012, 02:14:46 pm

You haven't even been bloody playing, I think. I'm in southern Asylon with my army, and my only Knight in Vassar has been afk for who knows how long.

I'm playing! Even now, my army trudges towards Asylon after being refit.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 22, 2012, 02:32:39 pm

Ah, good to know :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 22, 2012, 07:03:59 pm

I just recently got sick of my noble in Tucha (or Tara, or somewhere). I couldn't be bothered just running from place to place without no apparent reason to do so.

I know there's a plan. I know that they're doing quite well at it. They even gave me an appreciation of large scale manouvers where the grunts just get told what to do, and then go ahead and do it. But it was boring.

I wish I could have another noble on Dwilight really. I'll probably just jump a new one in somewhere on a random world, do what I want and essentially ignore all orders. Somewhere peaceful. So I can start a war. :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on June 22, 2012, 07:40:11 pm

Quote from: sambojin on June 22, 2012, 07:03:59 pm

I just recently got sick of my noble in Tucha (or Tara, or somewhere). I couldn't be bothered just running from place to place without no apparent reason to do so.

I know there's a plan. I know that they're doing quite well at it. They even gave me an appreciation of large scale manouvers where the grunts just get told what to do, and then go ahead and do it. But it was boring.

This is unfortunately still more common than it should be.

Quote

I wish I could have another noble on Dwilight really. I'll probably just jump a new one in somewhere on a random world, do what I want and essentially ignore all orders. Somewhere peaceful. So I can start a war. :)

That...almost never works. You just get banned, and the peaceful realms stay peaceful.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on June 22, 2012, 07:57:27 pm

I just made a new noble, too, while waiting for things to resolve somehow for Summerdale. Going stir-crazy waiting in that fortress! We'll see if I made a good choice or not.

Quote from: danaris on June 22, 2012, 07:40:11 pm

This is unfortunately still more common than it should be.

It's all too easy for a new player to roll a character in the "wrong" kingdom -- that is, a boring one with no meaningful interaction. You guys have built a great sandbox (one I hope to see continue to grow), the players just need to take advantage of it.

Now, back to staring at the fortress walls and waiting for the attack ...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: guintiger on June 22, 2012, 08:33:54 pm

Morekians are still hunting...do they just have no control over Orris or do they only like to pretend to abide by rules of engagement? :o

As for Storm's Keep - apparently the gods themselves hate you in Libero and don't want you to have it.   8)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on June 22, 2012, 08:43:05 pm

Pretty sure they still have it. It isn't included in the list of regions under Summerdale control.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on June 22, 2012, 08:49:08 pm

But if you look at the continent-wide region list, it's listed as one of Summerdale's regions, strangely enough. In the realm list, Summerdale is also shown as having 5 regions, not 4. I guess nobody really has Storms Keep right now.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on June 22, 2012, 09:34:57 pm

Storms Keep belongs to the ocean, now. Global warming has hit Dwilight.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on June 22, 2012, 10:03:53 pm

lol, that must be it.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: guintiger on June 23, 2012, 02:12:56 am

So...what happens if an adventurer runs out of silver?  I've been trying for hours now to find SOME sort of monsters or treasure or ANYTHING to generate a bit of coin for her sorry behind...but nothing.  The wiki wasn't much help either - the section on Adventurers is rather sparse on details like that...   :'(

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Jimlad11 on June 23, 2012, 03:23:19 am

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Post by: ConscriptFive on June 23, 2012, 03:54:18 am

Quote from: Jimlad11 on June 23, 2012, 03:23:19 am

Quote from: guintiger on June 23, 2012, 02:12:56 am

So...what happens if an adventurer runs out of silver?  I've been trying for hours now to find SOME sort of monsters or treasure or ANYTHING to generate a bit of coin for her sorry behind...but nothing.  The wiki wasn't much help either - the section on Adventurers is rather sparse on details like that...   :'(

I assume you starve. My adventurer is pretty damn wealthy thanks to some bounties on monsters and the undead that some regions have. Heck, he's wealthier than one of my nobles  ::)

I have quite a few times.  Apparently nothing happens.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on June 23, 2012, 08:38:25 am

You don't starve. The only thing that happened when I had been playing my adventurer a long time ago who was constantly running out of gold was that traveling was much harder for her because she couldn't afford to pay the road tolls, but still had hours subtracted every time until I was lucky enough to get an attempt without road tolls.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: guintiger on June 23, 2012, 11:08:59 am

Good to know - my poor adventurer is down to 3 silver - but at least she's got a tent!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on June 23, 2012, 12:00:56 pm

In the worst case... she can eat her tent. ;) Yummy.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on June 23, 2012, 01:02:24 pm

I've got a week on autopilot now.

I decided the north had gotten boring, particularly in Libero Empire with its infinite number of retries at taking Storm's End. So, I've gone south to the Lurias to serve the new king of Luria Nova. Supposedly there's a lot of political intrigue and infighting among the nobility there, and I can imagine myself serving a bit like the Varangian Guard during the Byzantine Empire. Foreign muscle, free of the native's mixed loyalties.

So, I just went from Mimer to Port Nebel, which is 48 hours, and selected continue travel to Giask, which is 76 hours... now I guess I can sit back and relax for five days!  ;D

Quote from: Celeitia on June 22, 2012, 01:47:49 pm

I imagine Libero Empire is always looking for more people, they almost have more land than they have nobles. If you pick that, then you want to start somewhere around Nifelhold.

Meh. I gave it a good try, even worked on the first two takeovers, but the atmosphere is a little subdued. I need more roleplay than that. Not even a potential lordship could induce me to stay in the north. No offense to them. Also, let's keep this on the lowdown, Celeitia.   ;)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 23, 2012, 08:18:03 pm

My adventurer regularly has no money. You just don't have to pay upkeep, so you save 1 silver a turn. You can't pay road-tolls (so waste a bit of time), can't sleep in beds (so fatigue takes ages to get rid of), but that seems to be about it.

I hope like hell I can heal normally. I'm wounded, fatigued and broke. But really, that's pretty normal for my adventurer.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: guintiger on June 23, 2012, 09:21:21 pm

Wounded, fatigued and broke?  I suddenly feel much better about my penniless but uninjured self.  /hugs her tent.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 23, 2012, 10:45:44 pm

My adventurer has 18 gold from clearing monsters in Terran. Since monsters have been raping and pillaging the countryside, many regions are not offering a fuckload of gold. :P I spent most of my time getting items, the little bit of time I've been killing monsters, I've been getting 6-11 silver per monster group killed, bahahaha

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: guintiger on June 23, 2012, 10:54:45 pm

So here's a question - I'm still trying to head South, but don't have enough hours to get there.  One of the moves I'd like to make costs 20 hours to do - but my adventurer maxes out at 16 hours....so is it even possible for me to move to that region?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 23, 2012, 10:59:13 pm

Yes, it'll just take multiple turns

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on June 23, 2012, 11:03:25 pm

Man, I'm learning so much here about Adventurers ... keep it coming, haha, this is great. I'll know what to do when I run into this stuff in the future.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Rakonas on June 24, 2012, 08:01:34 am

I always wondered, how does a tent work? I ended up with a tent on one of my adventurers some time before I paused them both, and I never saw a way to use it.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on June 24, 2012, 08:10:46 am

If you're not in a city, you can rest in it, and it's as good as a common room. Still, I usually opt for the best rest method because time is worth more than money.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 24, 2012, 09:42:24 am

I really want a tent now. Even when I do have money, there tends to only be primitive rooms in half the places I'm at. And that's at best.

Actually, just because I'm a bit retentive about these things, I'm going to put together a bread & breakfast list for as much of Dwilight as I can be bothered. Or find a tent. Whatever happens first.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: guintiger on June 24, 2012, 11:54:10 am

Once I had the tent in my inventory, it showed up as an option on the drop down menu when I rest.  According to the wiki, it removes 2 fatigue per hour that I rest - and best of all (apart from spending time) it's free!  I love my tent - guess I got super lucky in finding one.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on June 24, 2012, 11:58:48 am

Does anyone know how to use the boats? I'm trying to get my adventurer to take a boat, but when I click "Take a boat ..." he just spends the money (a lot of money!) and appears behind the city (in the townslands) that I tried to depart from. In other words, I just go backwards and become more impoverished.

I'd experiment with it some more, but it's expensive for my adventurer. Do I need to use the Travel Advisor instead?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on June 24, 2012, 04:50:42 pm

Often along rivers and coasts, you get local ferries that will transport you only one region away, for example, from a city to the nearby townsland; but in order to really travel long distances, you have to be in a city that has a line drawn across the sea to another port. Mimer to Nebel, etc. Local coaches and ferries reduce the fatigue of traveling, but are pretty hefty in price. I've been ignoring them, personally, and my adventurer has lots of gold.

Oh, yeah, and you should buy upgrades to adventuring and fighting equipment as you gain more gold. It quite helps when tackling the alpha monsters, who give decent treasure. That's where I found my tent.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 24, 2012, 07:22:57 pm

With adventurers, I'm pretty sure you do need the hours available. I could be wrong, but any time I've tried to travel I've always needed the hours in hand already. So maybe any journey over 16 hours is impossible?

Just walk. Adventurers are really quick compared to nobles. I made it from Gaston to Valldir in a bit over 40 hours, and that's over 800 miles away. So yeah, just walk (or run, or take a rocket-powered horse. Whatever it is that adventurers do to do that).

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Megaman on June 25, 2012, 03:30:01 am

I've found playing an adventurer mind-numbingly dull. There's practically no reason to come in contact with anyone else.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Cearnaigh on June 25, 2012, 03:39:55 am

I find it more as an exposition of self. That and you're the only one who can find artifacts/pretty much all of your responsibilities are nil and none and you can spend all your cash just grinding up skills. And you have the capacity to become a noble if you get the recommendations. If you're the type of person who loves building a backstory, forget sitting there for hours trying to pump out a good one and just build one from the ground up during your adventuring career and have an awesome noble character by the end of it.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Vonyx on June 25, 2012, 06:32:17 am

When you donate, you get an extra active char slot. (How long depending on how much you donate.)


What happens when the time runs out?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on June 25, 2012, 06:38:28 am

Quote from: Vonyx on June 25, 2012, 06:32:17 am

When you donate, you get an extra active char slot. (How long depending on how much you donate.)

What happens when the time runs out?

You have to pause a character.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Vonyx on June 25, 2012, 06:47:08 am

Quote from: danaris on June 25, 2012, 06:38:28 am

Quote from: Vonyx on June 25, 2012, 06:32:17 am

When you donate, you get an extra active char slot. (How long depending on how much you donate.)

What happens when the time runs out?

You have to pause a character.

As I suspected then.

Thank you!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: ConscriptFive on June 25, 2012, 11:00:08 am

The War, now through the Fall of Nifel...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/eEEle.gif)

It's hard to see, but there is indeed a steep drop from when Morek's advance party splatted immediately before the main force on June 15th.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 25, 2012, 01:18:55 pm

I actually pledged my adventurer's services to my General and provided him with some very nice goodies, since I knew he'd be more welcoming than the Magistrate who previously said he'll kill any adventurers on sight >_>

Apparently, my activities within Terran may have triggered a new wave of acceptance for outlaws, partially due to the wave of monster attacks in nearly every region of the realm. :P Free experience FTW! So, if anyone wants to adventure it up, there is about to me a massive influx of bounty gold. My adventurer in Terran is absolutely LOADED, and now policy is instated that every region needs to add bounty to prevent so many monster uprisings, so... Voila, adventurer heaven.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 25, 2012, 05:41:18 pm

...BAHAHAHAHA!

I hereby display my attempt at shutting up an utter dumbass and rapist in Arcaea arguing with a purported traitor... Not in private, but in public realmwide letter. (For gods' know what fucking reason they're publicly making asses of themselves.)

"Gentlemen, if you may be called that,

Please spare the realm such bouts of tactless foolishness which serves only to cement an already abysmal perception of what might pass for refinement and nobility in either of your courts. Please, spare us the embarrassment and take such wicked accusations, bestial debate, and ignoble ignorance to private letter rather than display such idiocy for all to see.

Every exchange of this species I am forced to witness does nothing but lower Arcaean nobility to new-found lows befitting of peasantry and uncouth filth. If you consider yourself of higher honor and blood than a stablemaster who shovels feces for a living, then grand us all the boon of your combined silence.

With honor and dignity,
Vvaros Aurea"

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on June 25, 2012, 08:26:46 pm

I do hope they are only acting like idiots IC by playing as dumb nobles than actually like that OOC.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 26, 2012, 04:42:50 am

IC idiots. One is a narcissistic rapist and the other is just argumentative.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on June 28, 2012, 10:51:22 pm

So can someone explain to me the whole zuma thing? Are they an actual realm? Also, Why does everyone hate saxons and where did they come from? ( obviously not the UK)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 28, 2012, 11:08:34 pm

Saxons, as far as I know, are the militaristic douchebag aurvandil from Dwilight who are currently attacking Barca for no reason. Pretty simply, a super-aggressive realm who love to fuck shit up and kill people for who knows what reason. :P

Also, join us in Bellua! I'm about to kick some daimon ass in the final bastion of humanity, huzzah!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on June 29, 2012, 02:47:42 am

Quote from: revo on June 28, 2012, 10:51:22 pm

So can someone explain to me the whole zuma thing? Are they an actual realm? Also, Why does everyone hate saxons and where did they come from? ( obviously not the UK)

Zuma are a realm of overpowered daimon NPCs controlled by a dev down in the ash-covered areas of the SW map. I have literally seen a battle report in which 99 daimons whupped nearly a thousand soldiers. Occasionally the Zuma meddle in diplomacy with player realms, choosing sides, and drawing cries from the negatively affected.

The Saxons that I'm thinking of are actually an extinct realm called Thulsoma that was formerly led by Glaumring of Asylon. Their capital was Storm's Keep. After Glaumring left, the next leader did some cheating, an infinite money exploit in particular, and roleplayed a torture-loving crazy that called out the entirety of Astroism.

At least, that's the victor's history. They certainly did name their Judge the Minister of Torture, however.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Yoink on June 29, 2012, 04:04:51 am

So, I joined this. Trying to figure out what I should be doing!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on June 29, 2012, 06:26:40 am

As a dev who was never involved with the wars against Thulsoma and Averoth, I can confirm that the Saxons of Thulsoma were definitely exploiting loopholes in the code to generate infinite money. Those loopholes have since been patched.

They also believed that Sanguis Astroism was run by devs with Tom's blessing, meaning that anything that threatened SA would have the code changed against it, and that the devs had some kind of grudge against them from before they started exploiting the family gold system. None of that is true. (Though we do kind of have a grudge against them now, for clanning and exploiting bugs...)

It didn't help that they had some prominent members who were still sore over some actions of Tom's in 2005.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Logrin on June 29, 2012, 12:49:30 pm

Hey all, -tried- to join up with this but apparently they think everyone with a yahoo email is a cheater. Ditto goes for making a hotmail account and trying. So, as third time should be the charm, just what email service do they actually accept?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on June 29, 2012, 12:57:48 pm

Quote from: Logrin on June 29, 2012, 12:49:30 pm

Hey all, -tried- to join up with this but apparently they think everyone with a yahoo email is a cheater. Ditto goes for making a hotmail account and trying. So, as third time should be the charm, just what email service do they actually accept?

AFAIK, every one on the planet except those two.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on June 29, 2012, 01:33:00 pm

Asylon seems to be doing poor diplomatically... not that I mind, but it has proved to be inconvenient for me.

Also, Kabrinaski, its funny how the former ruler, who is stepping down and moving to Terran... told everyone to vote for her chosen successor... at their own peril.  Though, that may explain Asylon's poor foreign relations department...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: guintiger on June 29, 2012, 05:49:48 pm

FINALLY got my adventurer out of Morik and rogue lands and into Solaria - then got the message that I was severely injured.  Took me awhile to find out what had happened to her....apparently she was jumped by the local noble and beaten within an inch of her life.  I'm not even sure WHERE she is now, since the injury prevents me from seeing much - do they go to a hospital of some sort, or straight to jail?  And as a relatively newly-rolled adventurer, what are the chances of recovering from a severe injury?  Couldn't find any info on the wiki about it.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Cearnaigh on June 29, 2012, 06:32:49 pm

Yeah...Solaria is not a nice place. Libero isn't much better. Just avoid the North-eastern half of the map right around now.  Terran and Aslyon seem to be adventurer paradise right about now though. Not sure if you want to stick near the battles in the latter though, no telling what people might do if they find suspicious outlaws milling around nearby regions they're initiating takeovers in.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on June 29, 2012, 06:48:45 pm

Holy shit.

I just singlehandedly shut the entire 'Moot up and silenced King Glaumring.

My GOD, the RAGEfest that was going on >_>

I may have had to postpone going our with my girl, but I am now grinning like a son-of-a-bitch, very happy we all decided to get along.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: guintiger on June 29, 2012, 09:35:32 pm

Quote from: Cearnaigh on June 29, 2012, 06:32:49 pm

Yeah...Solaria is not a nice place. Libero isn't much better. Just avoid the North-eastern half of the map right around now.  Terran and Aslyon seem to be adventurer paradise right about now though. Not sure if you want to stick near the battles in the latter though, no telling what people might do if they find suspicious outlaws milling around nearby regions they're initiating takeovers in.

Here and I thought Solaria was far enough South...been running South near every turn since I rolled the character...thought Solaria would at least be an improvement over the Morekians.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Cearnaigh on June 29, 2012, 10:34:11 pm

Solarian nobility is unsavory and uncouth. Just like Libero and Morek.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: guintiger on June 30, 2012, 12:59:48 am

Good to know - I'll start pushing south again as soon as I wake up from my broken ribs, broken arm, and infection.  But the healers say I'm doing great!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on June 30, 2012, 12:49:26 pm

I hope I didn't look like a reverse-lemming too much there. Now to get released. Or not.
I'm actually thinking of having two adventurers going at once, for no real reason. Is it possible on Dwilight? Or is it one noble, one adventurer, only

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: guintiger on June 30, 2012, 01:35:18 pm

Quote from: sambojin on June 30, 2012, 12:49:26 pm

I hope I didn't look like a reverse-lemming too much there.

You did.  Grats on feeding their egos.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Vel on June 30, 2012, 03:53:23 pm

Quote from: Cearnaigh on June 29, 2012, 10:34:11 pm

Solarian nobility is unsavory and uncouth. Just like Libero and Morek.

Hey, I'd like to think I'm at least moderate-to-low couth.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on June 30, 2012, 04:57:19 pm

Apparently something is in the offing with Auranvandil. They seem to be picking a fight with Veinsormoot and also with Astroists.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Yoink on June 30, 2012, 05:17:03 pm

Ahaha, this made me chuckle.

Quote

Your men were defeated and driven from the battlefield. Obviously, that is why you can't go there and pick on the corpses, since most of them are yours.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on June 30, 2012, 05:24:31 pm

I think Auranvandil will be able to handle it's self. they have a crazy strong military.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Cearnaigh on June 30, 2012, 07:53:32 pm

Quote from: Vel on June 30, 2012, 03:53:23 pm

Quote from: Cearnaigh on June 29, 2012, 10:34:11 pm

Solarian nobility is unsavory and uncouth. Just like Libero and Morek.

Hey, I'd like to think I'm at least moderate-to-low couth.

You'd like to think that.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Vel on June 30, 2012, 09:09:36 pm

Quote from: Cearnaigh on June 30, 2012, 07:53:32 pm

Quote from: Vel on June 30, 2012, 03:53:23 pm

Quote from: Cearnaigh on June 29, 2012, 10:34:11 pm

Solarian nobility is unsavory and uncouth. Just like Libero and Morek.

Hey, I'd like to think I'm at least moderate-to-low couth.

You'd like to think that.

Well I find you, sir, to be a brigand and a blaggard.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on June 30, 2012, 10:27:53 pm

Blatherskites, all of you. Goddamn and blast your fingers, sirs.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Cearnaigh on June 30, 2012, 11:42:00 pm

Quote from: Vel on June 30, 2012, 09:09:36 pm

Quote from: Cearnaigh on June 30, 2012, 07:53:32 pm

Quote from: Vel on June 30, 2012, 03:53:23 pm

Quote from: Cearnaigh on June 29, 2012, 10:34:11 pm

Solarian nobility is unsavory and uncouth. Just like Libero and Morek.

Hey, I'd like to think I'm at least moderate-to-low couth.

You'd like to think that.

Well I find you, sir, to be a brigand and a blaggard.

On the contrary, for I believe you to be the contemptible miscreant, and an ill-bred cur at that!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on July 01, 2012, 12:05:11 am

I hope that yelling stuff that is quite IC for my noble isn't considered a breach of the rules. So tempting to spam the hell out of it. At least a couple of times a day.

I'd hate to be those guards delivering the messages to the Lord Justicar :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Cearnaigh on July 01, 2012, 12:07:16 am

kind of reminds me of Jaime Lannister.

"He killed ten men, sire!"

"They were in my way."

"...Hmm. Let him live."

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ghazkull on July 01, 2012, 10:15:42 am

Is anything of Summerdale left? I somehow feel bad for deserting with the General to Astrum... would you take me back in if i came back?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Julius Clonkus on July 01, 2012, 11:44:49 am

Considering that I've received god knows how many messages about small Dalian forces attacking the numerically vastly superior armies of Morek and Libero, I would be surprised if any Dalian nobility exists that is not actually imprisoned or in exile.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on July 01, 2012, 12:30:45 pm

Quote from: Julius Clonkus on July 01, 2012, 11:44:49 am

Considering that I've received god knows how many messages about small Dalian forces attacking the numerically vastly superior armies of Morek and Libero, I would be surprised if any Dalian nobility exists that is not actually imprisoned or in exile.

Alas. Now cracks a noble heart!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on July 01, 2012, 01:10:16 pm

The small Dalian forces were just two people who couldn't wait any longer. ;) The rest of us is still in the capital, but I doubt that this war will last much longer. So if you want to join us, it would mostly be only to travel to a new place with those of us who are left once the last battle is fought.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on July 01, 2012, 02:30:59 pm

Sounds like some potential exodus RP of a bunch of ousted nobles and whatever retainers willing to follow...  either that or ya'll just stay there, under the boots of your new overlords.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ghazkull on July 01, 2012, 02:44:18 pm

Heh sounds fine to me, i'll join you for the last stand and then onwards to the next in Beluaterra XD

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on July 01, 2012, 05:43:44 pm

"I'm going to cut their tonker off" for some reason i have made music in my mind to go with this. It's actually pretty jolly!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on July 01, 2012, 07:53:35 pm

It's a Terry Pratchett reference in one of the Cohen the Barbarian novel arcs (Interesting Times I think). The Silver Horde were discussing psychological warfare and how to apply it to the enemy in an effective manner.

Seems to have worked. They released me. Thanks Mr Pratchett, worked a charm.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on July 01, 2012, 09:24:03 pm

When you guys get done in Dwilight, to be sure to join me in Riombara on Belluaterra, its really starting to heat up and we're even about to start a colony, aka an entirely new realm. Plenty of war, daemonkilling, and intrigue to be had.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on July 01, 2012, 09:25:48 pm

Not sure I'll ever be done on Dwilight; the serious medieval thing is surprisingly addictive. I'm thinking of making a new noble and migrating over there, however.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on July 01, 2012, 10:07:44 pm

The beauty of multiple nobles ;) I've got Ehndras in Riombarra - Bellua, Vvaros in Arcaea - Far East, and Alura in Terran - Dwilight.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on July 01, 2012, 10:19:42 pm

I am certainly not leaving Dwilight with my Summerdale character. And I already have a character on Beluaterra anyway.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Fanofgaming on July 02, 2012, 02:03:29 am

You guys really should come to Astrum when Morek takes Nifelheim.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on July 02, 2012, 03:12:16 am

Astrum and Morek, a.k.a., Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum.  :P

I agree that we should get the band back together and rock out a bit more, but I'd suggest the Lurias. Lots of intrigue, apparently. Luria Vesperi just put down a rebellion, in fact.

Auranvandil is a little interesting now, too. It stands up to Astroism, so it can't be too bad.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Yoink on July 02, 2012, 03:15:06 am

I have one character slot left, so I'd be happy to make another one with a bunch of Bay12'ers. :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on July 02, 2012, 07:34:23 am

Most of us aren't Astroists, so we don't really want to join an SA theocracy. ;)

Yoink, do you already have a noble on Dwilight? If so, you can't create a second noble there. Dwilight is a one-noble-only island.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on July 02, 2012, 08:57:57 am

Quote from: Andira on July 02, 2012, 07:34:23 am

Most of us aren't Astroists, so we don't really want to join an SA theocracy. ;)

Terran's been run by Hireshmont II for a while now. He's a priest of Astroism, so...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on July 02, 2012, 09:05:09 am

Quote from: SealyStar on July 02, 2012, 08:57:57 am

Quote from: Andira on July 02, 2012, 07:34:23 am

Most of us aren't Astroists, so we don't really want to join an SA theocracy. ;)

Terran's been run by Hireshmont II for a while now. He's a priest of Astroism, so...

So what? Terran is distinctly not an SA theocracy.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on July 02, 2012, 09:07:22 am

Quote from: Trollheiming on July 02, 2012, 03:12:16 am

Auranvandil is a little interesting now, too. It stands up to Astroism, so it can't be too bad.

Auranvandil seems to be where most if not all the action is going to be... I hear they plan on wiping out ALL theocracies or some such.  Starting with the smaller ones apparently.

Fun Fact: Asylon's Monarch is trying to revive some Bloodmoon cult/religion... 
Another fun fact: Kabriniski is trying to get the Asylon Monarch to step down with diplomatic/war pressures.  I get the impression that the Kabriniski are raring to crusade the heck out of Auranvandil, but they hate Asylon and its Monarch enough to not turn their back...

Quote from: danaris on July 02, 2012, 09:05:09 am

Quote from: SealyStar on July 02, 2012, 08:57:57 am

Quote from: Andira on July 02, 2012, 07:34:23 am

Most of us aren't Astroists, so we don't really want to join an SA theocracy. ;)

Terran's been run by Hireshmont II for a while now. He's a priest of Astroism, so...

So what? Terran is distinctly not an SA theocracy.

  There is also the fact that...  Queen Allison(?) has stepped down from Kabriniski and moved to Terran... she is the head priest of SA or some such...

So... yea... ?  Expect some changes?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Yoink on July 02, 2012, 10:06:41 am

Quote from: Andira on July 02, 2012, 07:34:23 am

Yoink, do you already have a noble on Dwilight? If so, you can't create a second noble there. Dwilight is a one-noble-only island.

Oh. Drat. Well, I suppose my horribly-unsuccessful adventurer could always come and visit you lot!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on July 02, 2012, 10:31:06 am

Quote from: Zangi on July 02, 2012, 09:07:22 am

Quote from: danaris on July 02, 2012, 09:05:09 am

Quote from: SealyStar on July 02, 2012, 08:57:57 am

Quote from: Andira on July 02, 2012, 07:34:23 am

Most of us aren't Astroists, so we don't really want to join an SA theocracy. ;)

Terran's been run by Hireshmont II for a while now. He's a priest of Astroism, so...

So what? Terran is distinctly not an SA theocracy.

  There is also the fact that...  Queen Allison(?) has stepped down from Kabriniski and moved to Terran... she is the head priest of SA or some such...

So... yea... ?  Expect some changes?

Not those kind of changes.

Trust me, Terran's nobility isn't the type to just suddenly become an SA theocracy, and Hireshmont isn't the type to try to make them.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Fanofgaming on July 02, 2012, 10:55:11 am

I still think your best bet is Astrum. They're allowing complete religious freedom to former Dalians.  :D

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on July 02, 2012, 11:00:58 am

Auranvandil is actually where i'm going when we get done with the summerdale affair. I wanna see if they can bring down SA like they are thinking about. In a short time i have come to hate SA.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on July 02, 2012, 11:26:13 am

Quote from: danaris on July 02, 2012, 10:31:06 am

*snip*

Not those kind of changes.

Trust me, Terran's nobility isn't the type to just suddenly become an SA theocracy, and Hireshmont isn't the type to try to make them.

Well, change takes time... can't expect things to just happen suddenly... so who knows?  Its also not just government type I speak of...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on July 02, 2012, 12:03:42 pm

My character on Dwilight, Alna, is a not-very-devout member of Triunism. There is no real Triunist stance on SA, but I personally see it as a silly little "star-worship cult".

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on July 02, 2012, 01:17:38 pm

If SA is silly is of course subjective, but it is certainly not little. ;) Isn't it the biggest religion in all of BattleMaster? I think I have heard something like that, but I'm not entirely sure if it's true.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on July 02, 2012, 10:45:33 pm

Yeah, I seriously dislike SA.

Also, Aurvandil nobles seem like a bunch of pompous assholes. :| The friggin' Rps they do are downright offensive, these folks are seriously into themselves...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on July 03, 2012, 08:53:19 am

Quote from: Ehndras on July 02, 2012, 10:45:33 pm

Yeah, I seriously dislike SA.

Also, Aurvandil nobles seem like a bunch of pompous assholes. :| The friggin' Rps they do are downright offensive, these folks are seriously into themselves...

Its flavor of the realm...  for example, Outer Tilog in the Colonies, they 'RP'... not in the sense of RP tags... but the way they conduct themselves and the way they relay messages... very unique.  Basically most of em seem to be uneducated nobles with the righteous mandate to trod over peasants as they please, for lack of a better description.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ghazkull on July 03, 2012, 09:52:48 am

started an adventurer on Beluaterra. Mere hours after starting i get a message of a Huge battle:

600 something Humans against 150 daimons and they still lose? Are Daimons that friggin strong or did i miss something about the whole thing?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Jimlad11 on July 03, 2012, 12:02:30 pm

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Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on July 03, 2012, 02:52:12 pm

You should hurry then before no daimons are left for you. ;)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on July 03, 2012, 07:38:24 pm

Yes, the daimons on bellua are EXTREMELY strong, especially with the demon overlords/commanders/Blights/etc, which are super-powerful 'noble/hero' daimons.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wolflance on July 05, 2012, 12:36:39 pm

Oh man, every archers under my command either died in battle or died because of wound. Time to change unit, i guess.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on July 05, 2012, 08:14:15 pm

Goddammit, white-screen-on-clicking-play.
Since it seems to be pretty universal, maybe the devs should just pause the game until it's fixed. No sense letting the game run with no one to run it...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on July 05, 2012, 09:13:21 pm

It's supposed to be fixed in the morning. I hope they go ahead and just run the turn. I've already done all my errands.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on July 05, 2012, 11:00:02 pm

See, the fall of Summerdale WAS the end of the world

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: guintiger on July 06, 2012, 01:05:58 am

I think my character nearly fell off her horse laughing when she got the note from Morek asking to join their forces.  Then she probably cried.   :'(

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on July 06, 2012, 01:08:46 am

Same with my character, except he doesn't have a horse :P

"Sure Morek, I've been battling you with all my heart and soul ever since joining this game...but whatever!"

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on July 06, 2012, 01:27:54 am

They already fixed it. :-)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wolflance on July 06, 2012, 10:32:40 pm

I got captured twice and then set free by the Morek. Never thought travelling to Astrum would be so inconvenience...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on July 06, 2012, 10:59:23 pm

To those who fought in Nifel and then went on straightly to Astrum, it wouldn't have been all that hard. But I have returned to Nifelheim to cash bonds and now I have the same problem that you have because I have to cross Nifel and might be captured and sent back to Nifelheim several times as well.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on July 06, 2012, 11:02:20 pm

Tempted to try and return to Nifelheim. I've got over 150 bonds and I've never been in prison before :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on July 06, 2012, 11:24:27 pm

Oh, seems I was lucky. Nothing happened when I arrived in Nifel, so I could simply travel on. And Andira has actually never been in prison either as far as I remember.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on July 06, 2012, 11:27:56 pm

Nifel is pretty much empty last I checked. Nifelheim will be the hard part :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on July 06, 2012, 11:36:40 pm

Not as long as it's mechanically still ours, I think. So if you do want to cash bonds, do it before the takeover is completed. ;)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on July 06, 2012, 11:37:38 pm

Good point. To Nifelheim!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: guintiger on July 08, 2012, 02:01:07 pm

I swear if I get ONE MORE invitation to join Astrum or Morek...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on July 08, 2012, 02:22:23 pm

Where are you heading?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on July 08, 2012, 06:09:32 pm

Even if Graham manages to get imprisoned again (which sort of gives me a laugh. We get sick of the takeover activity message, but their judge must be getting sick of the release imprisoned noble y/n messages) I'll probably bring my adventurer along for the journey. He's from Astrum anyway, and might be a good scout if there's any trouble ahead. He's around there somewhere anyway.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on July 09, 2012, 09:03:29 am

Considering it... both Astrum and Morek have vast tracks of land in there control... the thing is... do they have enough nobles to fill the estates and maintain their outlying regions?

It is probably worse for Astrum since they are further stretched.  Each region they further control is one less fighting troop... that is if they intend on keeping said region.  Having a knight to fill in each estate would be ideal and allow them more actual combat strength... The regional lords of outlying regions would also not have to go back to spread bonds around as often either.

Tis a matter of efficiency after all...  and that is why you are getting bombarded...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: guintiger on July 09, 2012, 02:39:02 pm

Quote from: Zangi on July 09, 2012, 09:03:29 am

Considering it... both Astrum and Morek have vast tracks of land in there control... the thing is... do they have enough nobles to fill the estates and maintain their outlying regions?

It is probably worse for Astrum since they are further stretched.  Each region they further control is one less fighting troop... that is if they intend on keeping said region.  Having a knight to fill in each estate would be ideal and allow them more actual combat strength... The regional lords of outlying regions would also not have to go back to spread bonds around as often either.

Tis a matter of efficiency after all...  and that is why you are getting bombarded...

Considering how Morek behaved and the fact that Astrum was supposed to be our allies but did nothing to help us, it boggles my mind that they have the balls to even ask us.  If they have vast stretches of land rotting away because they have no nobles to fill them, I have an incredibly hard time feeling sympathy for either of them.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Fanofgaming on July 09, 2012, 03:17:56 pm

Quote from: guintiger on July 09, 2012, 02:39:02 pm

Quote from: Zangi on July 09, 2012, 09:03:29 am

Considering it... both Astrum and Morek have vast tracks of land in there control... the thing is... do they have enough nobles to fill the estates and maintain their outlying regions?

It is probably worse for Astrum since they are further stretched.  Each region they further control is one less fighting troop... that is if they intend on keeping said region.  Having a knight to fill in each estate would be ideal and allow them more actual combat strength... The regional lords of outlying regions would also not have to go back to spread bonds around as often either.

Tis a matter of efficiency after all...  and that is why you are getting bombarded...

Considering how Morek behaved and the fact that Astrum was supposed to be our allies but did nothing to help us, it boggles my mind that they have the balls to even ask us.  If they have vast stretches of land rotting away because they have no nobles to fill them, I have an incredibly hard time feeling sympathy for either of them.

Be fair. Astrum was allied with both Summerdale and Morek, so joining the war for either side would have devalued any other alliances that they have.. Furthermore, they're engaged in a pretty serious war on the opposite side of their realm, so they would have to split their already-weak army between both sides. It would have been extremely difficult for Astrum to contribute at all even if they weren't allied with Morek.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on July 09, 2012, 03:57:01 pm

That's no reason not to hate them. Morek broke their alliance with Astrum by attacking us and Astrum knew we couldn't take on Libero and Morek. In my opinion they are as responsible as Morek is. They just act with a nicer face. Worthless ally

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on July 09, 2012, 04:19:57 pm

Quote from: revo on July 09, 2012, 03:57:01 pm

That's no reason not to hate them. Morek broke their alliance with Astrum by attacking us and Astrum knew we couldn't take on Libero and Morek. In my opinion they are as responsible as Morek is. They just act with a nicer face. Worthless ally

Translation:

"Stop getting your fancy logic in my perfectly good bitter ranting!"

 ;D

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on July 09, 2012, 04:38:47 pm

That is politics for ya... the question is do you break one alliance in favor for another?  Which can have negative effects down the line, like nobles within who would dissent over the decision because of their relations?  Or your realm could be seen as less trustworthy down the line? 

For example:  There was no valid reason to break alliance with Morek, for all I know. 
If say, the head of Morek had inadvertently insulted Astrum's head or some other... they would have valid reason to break alliance and join the war.  Could even be an incident caused by a lower noble of Morek to cause grievance enough for Astrum to latch on as a valid reason to break alliance and join the war... if they were so inclined and diplomacy to make amends fails.

Tis a game of politics which the heads of realms and their diplomancers may play...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on July 09, 2012, 06:03:11 pm

Do you see an alliance between Astrum and Morek on the diplomacy screen? cause I sure don't. Fact is we were their allies and they did next to nothing to help us stay alive. Sure Morek was before the war their allies also but they had to break that in order to declare war. Therefore, Astrum has their ally (Summerdale) fighting in a losing war agianst people they are not in an alliance with and they do nothing at all to help us. Sounds like a pretty crap realm to have as an ally.Yes delvin I am a little bitter because even without giving us troops Astrum could have helped us by asking Morek to stay out of this or by taking a stronger stance as our ally.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Fanofgaming on July 09, 2012, 06:35:23 pm

First off, revo, calm down. It's an RP game and you really shouldn't be so upset about losing a war.

Secondly, I'm pretty sure Astrum did try to stop Morek from entering the war. However, because Morek was only helping their ally, Libero, there was nothing anyone could do. Politically, Morek was completely right to join the war, but not so much so in choosing to take all of Summerdale's lands.

Even if Astrum had taken a stronger stance as an ally, what do you expect them to have done? Like I said, they're already at war, and their army would have no chance of taking on Morek. It was a lost cause, and we all knew it when Morek attacked us. Some of us chose to stand and get their asses kicked, some of us chose to go where we knew we'd be safe while still keeping our land and our ties to each other. I still hope some of you will join us.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on July 09, 2012, 06:37:56 pm

From an IC perspective, it seems like many nobles do indeed see Astrum as having abandoned them. Not all of them by a long shot, but some of the more vocal ones.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: guintiger on July 09, 2012, 07:43:49 pm

Quote from: Fanofgaming on July 09, 2012, 06:35:23 pm

I still hope some of you will join us.

Just based on what I'm seeing in the IC and OOC chat between Summerdale nobles atm, that seems incredibly unlikely.  Those of us who are still active just want to walk through Astrum, then happily show you our backsides as we leave.  The nobles who were previously from Summerdale who defected / left / got flipped to Astrum - well...I'm even less inclined IC to look at them as friends then even the general Astrum nobility.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on July 09, 2012, 09:12:32 pm

I wasn't mad i just don't like Astrum. Sometimes i express things a little bit more emotionally then i mean to.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: guintiger on July 09, 2012, 09:53:40 pm

I agree revo - to qualify, I'm certainly not mad at Astrum - but I don't think very highly of them either.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Vel on July 10, 2012, 01:35:10 am

Unfortunately that's just kind of the game of politics. Few are going to risk heavy consequences just to join a cause they already view as lost. It's quite simple to justify, really -- do you think Morek would've joined Libero if they'd similarly been stretched thin and would be putting themselves in serious risk as a nation if they did?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wolflance on July 10, 2012, 03:14:31 am

Finally I arrived at the H-something something of Astrum. Awaiting further order from my...uh, higher up.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on July 10, 2012, 05:02:47 am

Quote from: Vel on July 10, 2012, 01:35:10 am

Unfortunately that's just kind of the game of politics. Few are going to risk heavy consequences just to join a cause they already view as lost. It's quite simple to justify, really -- do you think Morek would've joined Libero if they'd similarly been stretched thin and would be putting themselves in serious risk as a nation if they did?

Hmm. I think that reasoning ignores the larger issues which were far more relevant. Astrum was founded as a colony of Morek. It was always unrealistic to expect the child to strike the father. I doubt they've ever been at war. It's not really about the current political situation, but more about long-range principles.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on July 10, 2012, 06:01:03 am

Quote from: Trollheiming on July 10, 2012, 05:02:47 am

Astrum was founded as a colony of Morek.

While true, this is misleading.

The Morek that Astrum was founded by no longer exists. Morek Empire is its successor in most ways, but it is not truly the same realm that founded Astrum. IIRC, it used to be called Xinhai until it was able to take over the lands that the original Morek (one of the 4 founding realms of Dwilight, incidentally) had once held.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on July 10, 2012, 06:16:24 am

"Misleading" would depend on if the conclusions were flawed because of the differences. I'm inclined to think the lack of the extra nuance there is actually not very misleading. Morek is still the same general theme of theocracy, and probably many of the same characters and families. Astrum likewise probably views it as related in theme and purpose. The resulting conclusions can't be too misleading. War against their fatherland was never going to happen.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Empty on July 10, 2012, 06:18:43 am

Summerdale only has itself to blame for its defeat.

Our whole plan of flipping the regions was to flip till Nifel.
So Morek would have had to actually wage war on Astrum to take Summerdale's capitol.

Sadly almost everyone except Nifel did it.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Vel on July 10, 2012, 06:23:36 am

Admittedly, that sounds a little iffy of a plan even if it had gone down. Don't you think Astrum would've probably tossed Nifel back to Summerdale lest they be forced into the war? Or worse, to Morek. After all, it'd merely take a quick replacement of the ruling lord.

And then even if things had stalled, do you think Astrum would simply hand back the land after being put at risk? It sounds more like Summerdale would've been reduced to a single province..

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Empty on July 10, 2012, 06:34:15 am

Quote from: Vel on July 10, 2012, 06:23:36 am

Admittedly, that sounds a little iffy of a plan even if it had gone down. Don't you think Astrum would've probably tossed Nifel back to Summerdale lest they be forced into the war? Or worse, to Morek. After all, it'd merely take a quick replacement of the ruling lord.

And then even if things had stalled, do you think Astrum would simply hand back the land after being put at risk? It sounds more like Summerdale would've been reduced to a single province..

Unless the ruler of a realm changes the lord of a region that region can defect to whomever is adjacent.
And it's not like Astrum would want those regions if the nobles did not come with them. Since they already have a lot of monster outbreaks.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on July 10, 2012, 06:49:57 am

Did the ruler of Astrum sign off on this plan?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Rakonas on July 10, 2012, 11:42:55 am

The whole thing sounds as (if not more) gamey as when orris flipped mt. black nastrond to morek. Wouldn't be a part of it personally.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Jimlad11 on July 10, 2012, 12:06:57 pm

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Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on July 10, 2012, 01:41:38 pm

As it is, the influence of Sanguis Astroism is well entrenched in many realms, one way or another...
It may serve you to look south or to the southeast?  Long travel times though...

And yea, flipping regions to force war... is quite meta and probably not in the spirit of the game/Dwilight.  Especially if those flipping intend to return to Summerdale afterwards.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Vel on July 10, 2012, 05:37:24 pm

Quote from: Empty on July 10, 2012, 06:34:15 am

Quote from: Vel on July 10, 2012, 06:23:36 am

Admittedly, that sounds a little iffy of a plan even if it had gone down. Don't you think Astrum would've probably tossed Nifel back to Summerdale lest they be forced into the war? Or worse, to Morek. After all, it'd merely take a quick replacement of the ruling lord.

And then even if things had stalled, do you think Astrum would simply hand back the land after being put at risk? It sounds more like Summerdale would've been reduced to a single province..

Unless the ruler of a realm changes the lord of a region that region can defect to whomever is adjacent.
And it's not like Astrum would want those regions if the nobles did not come with them. Since they already have a lot of monster outbreaks.

Yea, but it's fairly easy to change the lord of a region.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on July 12, 2012, 06:43:30 pm

It's not considered a meta-gaming infraction to have your adventurer travel along with your noble on Dwilight is it? They're RP'd as half-brothers, one called the other to Summerdale during the war, now they've bumped into each other during the exodus.

It's mainly just for RP reasons. There's a long, boring road ahead, press "travel" and wait a day", so it'll give me a bit of a chance to make up some stupid situations for them to get into. Plus, my knowledge of geography in BM is next to none, so I wouldn't mind them being in approximately the same place.

There's also the fact that my adventurer tends to be pretty unsuccessful, so I don't think I could turn it to my advantage if I tried.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on July 13, 2012, 11:39:14 am

Nah, that's alright. I've been told by admins it'd be 'fine' to have my guys together, even to RP together if I want, though that's unnecessary.

I keep my adventurer traveling around the world collecting items and trying to find interesting situations, but he... She, still remains loyal to the family and to Terran. I have a whole backstory on how her grand/great-grandfather/whatever was a noble of Terran but his name was dishonored and that side of the family exiled/cut-off. If I could have 2 chars on Dwilight I'd RP her as attempting to regain nobility, which I am, but it'll never actually happen. I might eventually move her to Belluaterra if my religion gains power, I'm certainly getting some positive feedback on my RP posts :-D

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on July 13, 2012, 01:19:52 pm

Maybe if your main was a hero... and ends up dying in some small skirmish with 5 monsters.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on July 13, 2012, 01:31:10 pm

A truly heroic death.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on July 13, 2012, 01:50:42 pm

Eh. My main is the Marshal of the Pride in Dwilight and Senator of Vassar, with aspirations towards one day being a General (IC aspirations). If she died I'd be SERIOUSLY pissed off and ragequit to be completely honest. Maybe if I curry enough favor and get cozy with some nobles I might be able to work up my adventurer to one day replace her, but I'm not counting on it.

I'm in Dwilight-Terran for the long-run and I'm not risking Alura.

I don't really want to risk Ehndras either, but screw it. He's already a Hero. :-P I'm hoping he'll at least survive long enough to become a Priest of my religion and thus impervious to battle <_<

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Vonyx on July 13, 2012, 01:59:44 pm

I think I'll emigrate to Beluaterra with my noble on Atamara as I'm starting to get bored.

So, which realm should I choose?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on July 13, 2012, 07:58:26 pm

I've actually got some long term plans to set up a bit of an adventurer's guild. Not just for my own adventurer, but just so wherever I end up has a cadre of strong, well funded adventurers to keep the monsters down and to find us juicy items. No real plans for enobling any of the bastards, just making sure the monsters are kept down and they've got enough cash for weapons, equipment and beds.

Considering how good my main is at war (ie: hopeless and suicidal), throwing some weekly taxes into bounties doesn't sound like a bad idea. We probably could RP them as paid scouts then, especially if war was looming. And god-dammit, they will all have tents. Every low-born, common, SOB in my new realm will have a tent eventually. It will be a requirement for the next level of guild access and bounty listings in fact. So help me god, one day, we will all have tents........

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Fanofgaming on July 13, 2012, 11:17:58 pm

Quote from: Battlemaster

Huge Battle Fought   (just in)
Rumours spread and tales are sung about a huge battle in Cjelegy:
Riombara vs. Netherworld
Estimated strengths: 2710 men vs. 320 men
The Storm of the South (Riombara), sponsored by Mithridates Lorganson (Royal), were led into battle by Marshal Thorwald Brynjulvson Galle.
Felicie d'Arricarrère, Great Chamberlain of Riombara is spotted wearing the Coat of the Maiden.
Darnham Kirt (Lord) is spotted wearing the Ancient Belt of Piety.
Folcard Cuvelier, High Treasurer of Riombara, Viscount of Cjelegy is spotted wielding the Ornate Longsword of Daemonslaying.
southern Blight Daimon has been killed by Gellaer's unit.
Folcard Cuvelier of Riombara, High Treasurer of Riombara, Viscount of Cjelegy was captured by southern Blight Daimon 's unit.

Defender Victory!

Those Daimons, man.

Amusingly, the man wielding the sword of Daemonslaying is the only person who got captured.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on July 14, 2012, 12:27:12 am

Quote from: Fanofgaming on July 13, 2012, 11:17:58 pm

Quote from: Battlemaster

Huge Battle Fought   (just in)
Rumours spread and tales are sung about a huge battle in Cjelegy:
Riombara vs. Netherworld
Estimated strengths: 2710 men vs. 320 men
The Storm of the South (Riombara), sponsored by Mithridates Lorganson (Royal), were led into battle by Marshal Thorwald Brynjulvson Galle.
Felicie d'Arricarrère, Great Chamberlain of Riombara is spotted wearing the Coat of the Maiden.
Darnham Kirt (Lord) is spotted wearing the Ancient Belt of Piety.
Folcard Cuvelier, High Treasurer of Riombara, Viscount of Cjelegy is spotted wielding the Ornate Longsword of Daemonslaying.
southern Blight Daimon has been killed by Gellaer's unit.
Folcard Cuvelier of Riombara, High Treasurer of Riombara, Viscount of Cjelegy was captured by southern Blight Daimon 's unit.

Defender Victory!

Those Daimons, man.

Amusingly, the man wielding the sword of Daemonslaying is the only person who got captured.

I thought the Blight in Beluaterra was almost over. Is that true?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Fanofgaming on July 14, 2012, 12:57:27 am

I think so. I don't know too much about Bella, I just have an adventurer there, killing monsters. My main on Dwilight has heard about the Blight ending soon, though.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on July 14, 2012, 06:44:41 am

It's only ending if we can kill enough Daimons within the next week.

After that time, any blight that remains is permanent.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Julius Clonkus on July 14, 2012, 11:53:06 am

I am still amazed how involved I get in this game. When there is something of note happening that concerns my character, I end up typing a two-page letter.

A two-page letter that could result in him being disowned, banished and/or executed for high treason, several cases of heresy and intending to spread dangerous heathen religions amongst the common populace.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on July 14, 2012, 11:48:12 pm

I do the same. :-) My last message in Bellua was 4 posts/pages long >_> It was a RP introducing my religion I'm making. I even got an RP medal for it :3

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on July 16, 2012, 07:59:12 pm

Oh god. Two weeks (in realtime) of travel. And a ship journey. Damn it's going to be boring.

So far I've accumulated a magic training montage stone, an adventurer half brother, an as-yet unstated and unrequited admiration for a duchess, an alcohol problem, and perhaps a perchance for piracy for the journey. I hope the rest of Summerdale is as well provisioned with RP time killers as I am........

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on July 16, 2012, 08:13:14 pm

HAH! Have fun with it :-) Where are you headed to?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on July 16, 2012, 08:48:53 pm

I'm not sure. Although, I've got this uncanny feeling that Graham and our ex-treasurer are probably going to get horribly drunk and have a bit of a Village People "In the Navy" segue at some point on the ship.

Ps: Yrik bagses being the indian guy and Graham can be the gay bikie one.

Oh, and there will be a sea serpent. Even if they don't exist, there will be a sea serpent.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on July 16, 2012, 08:59:14 pm

Lmao! I'd love having you guys down in Terran, we've got plenty of estates open and the folks are very friendly. :-) I'd love some crazy Summerdalians to RP with :-P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: guintiger on July 16, 2012, 09:31:08 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on July 16, 2012, 08:59:14 pm

Lmao! I'd love having you guys down in Terran, we've got plenty of estates open and the folks are very friendly. :-) I'd love some crazy Summerdalians to RP with :-P

Think the majority of us are heading to Luria Nova.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on July 16, 2012, 10:08:30 pm

It's official. It's not wise, but it's official.

I just gave all other Summerdalian's the right to use my noble in any of their roleplays as the pratfall guy. Without having to ask me first. Which I'll then have to RP my way out of (or into) afterwards. That'll get the character development side of things going a bit quicker for Graham.

Now I think about it, I might have made a slight error here.............

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on July 16, 2012, 10:09:27 pm

Well, you won't have to worry about my character. He got stuck behind and isn't even close to the port :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: guintiger on July 16, 2012, 11:20:52 pm

Since my ship is about half a day ahead of yours, perhaps I'll start flinging interesting items overboard for you to discover floating along the route.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on July 16, 2012, 11:35:30 pm

I won't even be at the port for another day. My adventurer is there though.

Actually, do adventurer's have to pay to use a long distance boat? And can he do more than a 16 hour journey a day? I'd hate for him to have to go the long way. I had stuff planned for Yrik.

Ps: The stuff we find thrown overboard from YOUR ship, believe me, it'll be funny. In fact, where do you think Graham's going to get the gay biker outfit from? I'm glad I'm not on that ship....... It's a long time at sea I know, but some things are just ungodly........

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on July 17, 2012, 01:42:06 am

C'mon guys, a little humor is fine but keep to the time period. Bikes and biker outfits don't exist  :-\

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: ConscriptFive on July 17, 2012, 02:34:05 am

Quote from: Sirus on July 17, 2012, 01:42:06 am

C'mon guys, a little humor is fine but keep to the time period. Bikes and biker outfits don't exist  :-\

Sheep... Sheep have many uses.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Vonyx on July 17, 2012, 03:14:55 am

I'm about 60 h from our final destination.


(Decided to move earlier b/c I was going out of town for some days and didn't want to waste my hours)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on July 17, 2012, 09:50:34 am

Tight black leather jerkins exist. So do rather "breezy" short-shorts. In black leather of course, with holed buttocks due to wear whilst rowing, slightly shrunken due to the salt water. Funny hats exist. And by god do handlebar moustaches exist, I'm not even sure if Graham doesn't have one. Although I've always thought of him with a teenagey beard. Not only that, sailors do have some odd habits and customs, especially in foreign lands.

I really hope there's no "annoiting with oil" thing in Pyrism (or any other religion), because otherwise it's in.

I WILL RP it for the time period. Period :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on July 17, 2012, 09:55:26 am

So, after Fontan was finally crushed by Caligus/Westmoor/Sirion, my main character (Rosnan) fled to the coast, and boarded a ship to Beluaterra. I would've chosen Dwilight, but my other noble was already there. Goddamn arbitrary rules.

So I arrived in Beluaterra. Then I remembered... hey, isn't this the continent with all the demons and monsters and shit?
Massive oh crap.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on July 17, 2012, 10:01:23 am

What's adventuring like on that world? Without the threat of daimon attacks, it sounds like they'd have it easier than the nobles in a way. Not that you can do much, but at least your army isn't being wiped out all the time.

And can you emmigrate to another world with an adventurer?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on July 17, 2012, 10:48:08 am

SealyStar, yes, Beluaterra is the continent with the daimon invasion, though it will be over in the next few days.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on July 17, 2012, 07:00:55 pm

Quote from: sambojin on July 17, 2012, 09:50:34 am

Tight black leather jerkins exist. So do rather "breezy" short-shorts. In black leather of course, with holed buttocks due to wear whilst rowing, slightly shrunken due to the salt water. Funny hats exist. And by god do handlebar moustaches exist, I'm not even sure if Graham doesn't have one. Although I've always thought of him with a teenagey beard. Not only that, sailors do have some odd habits and customs, especially in foreign lands.

I really hope there's no "annoiting with oil" thing in Pyrism (or any other religion), because otherwise it's in.

I WILL RP it for the time period. Period :)

On Dwilight, please, absolutely, 100%, do not do this. This is utterly inappropriate for SMA.

You would be welcome to do this on any other continent. In Outer Tilog on the Colonies, you'd be the closest thing they had to a normal person.

On Dwilight, this deserves to get you forcibly deported for violating SMA.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on July 17, 2012, 08:07:21 pm

I'm trying this out, and I just fucked up. I was joining a Duchy in Dwilight and I missed the part about its Oath of Fealty, thinking it was unimportant at the time. Now I don't know what it is and need help right now >.<

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on July 17, 2012, 08:09:02 pm

Oath of Fealty is basically a roleplaying concept. Wait a few hours for someone in your realm to offer you an estate, and when you get there pledge to serve them loyally. There's no real in-game function to it.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on July 18, 2012, 12:56:13 am

I think you guys take the SMA thing either way too seriously, or you must under-estimate my roleplaying skills to make it appropriate for the environment.

I've already done some fairly stupid stuff in Battlemaster, in a relatively appropriate SMA manner. And by jove, I fully plan on doing more stupid shit soon. In a "relatively" appropriate manner.

Good sir, I thumb my teeth at you. Nyuh!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on July 18, 2012, 10:02:46 am

We DO take SMA in Dwilight seriously. If you're not going to roleplay seriously, do not come to Dwilight. There are plenty of continents to roleplay whatever you wish. We have fun on other servers with silly characters but there is no room for that on Dwilight. If you want a mature, interesting RP with good RPers and great folk then by all means join. RPing macho-macho-man in medieval attire isn't going to be taken seriously AT ALL, no matter how much you make it seem within-era. Its not the image, but the action itself that is the problem.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on July 18, 2012, 12:23:54 pm

It's not about roleplaying a medieval biker vs a modern biker.

It's about roleplaying a biker at all.

If you're on Dwilight, you are under an obligation to roleplay as an actual medieval noble would have acted. Not some silly modern archetype stamped onto a medieval background.

There are five other continents where you can roleplay whatever you want: there have been tutu-wearing vikings on Atamara, donut-worshiping cults on the EC, an anime girl riding a wolf on the FEI, and, well, all the various things that go on in Outer Tilog on the Colonies, and they're all fine.

Nothing remotely like that is fine on Dwilight. A character that is designed to look like a biker makes no sense in a medieval context, so don't do that on Dwilight, please.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ghazkull on July 18, 2012, 02:58:16 pm

I just realized that Darfix is under no ones control currently...anybody in for some Kingdom founding in Dwilight? :D

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on July 18, 2012, 03:02:11 pm

Quote from: Ghazkull on July 18, 2012, 02:58:16 pm

I just realized that Darfix is under no ones control currently...anybody in for some Kingdom founding in Dwilight? :D

You're welcome to try, but a) it's been tried before, and failed (badly), and b) Iashalur is planning to take it, and they've got the full might of Sanguis Astroism behind them.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ghazkull on July 18, 2012, 03:05:59 pm

Oh come on there must be at least some remainders from Summerdale around who would like to try and revive it in Darfix...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Vonyx on July 18, 2012, 03:25:55 pm

Even though I like the idea of a second last stand against SA in the NW, alas I do not think it is possible.


But I'm curious... do you have a plan to do this?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on July 18, 2012, 05:29:51 pm

Fair enough. Saying what you think would be funny to do on these forums and doing it in Battlemaster are two different things. Although, to tell you the truth, my "putting up with nerdy tossers" quota has been pretty much filled anyway, so I'll probably just quit the game in a few days to save myself putting up with shit like this again. It'll also save you worrying yourself about any particular style of roleplaying or the abilities to do it with good narrative in the SMA environment. SMA is important on Dwilight, but so are a lot of things.

What's the point of playing Battlemaster if it isn't any fun?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on July 18, 2012, 05:41:06 pm

Sheesh... I wouldn't have made a character on Dwilight if I had known it was run by the RP Nazis authoritarians.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on July 18, 2012, 06:02:18 pm

I'm really not sure if it is actually. I've got a lot of real life stuff to do anyway, so it won't actually be a ragequit because of two SMA freaks attempting to put their vision of roleplaying on Dwilight on to me. They didn't help the idea of staying, but these guys aren't actually in control of anything. And this is a totally unrelated forum, so they're free to say whatever they please. I guess they just stand out due to this being the bay12 forum, I'm not really used to people being serious on here. Especially when they sound like they actually care about the game.

BMs got a pretty good community, especially on Dwilight (and in Summerdale). I just can't be fucked playing any more.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Fanofgaming on July 18, 2012, 07:47:24 pm

If you guys didn't want a serious roleplaying experience, you really shouldn't have joined the Serious Medieval Atmosphere island.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on July 18, 2012, 08:13:48 pm

I never said I didn't want that. I do take offense at being told what I can and can't do with my noble though. So far I've roleplayed quite seriously about even rather comical things. But meh, screw it. I'll just kill them off or deport them myself, so as not to offend any "really-pathetically-serious-medieval-atmosphere" types.

Strangely enough, I haven't done a thing wrong in Dwilight yet, even playing my noble as a bumbling alcoholic that hangs out in bars all day. Whether that fits into your idea of serious medieval roleplaying is pretty much irrelevant. Currently Summerdale is losing nobles at an astounding rate, has two weeks of really boring travel to get where they're going,  very little cohesion in group storylines or movement (not that I helped on that last point). They have a king that did precisely bugger all during the biggest events in the realm's history, a lot of new players, and little background to work with for new players to use for their character development.

Cutting us newbies some slack in the SMA side of things, especially if we're just trying to liven up an incredibly boring time in Summerdale's history, seems fairly reasonable to me. The player base won't exactly be made larger if people feel it necessary to tell new players what they can and can't do, in bold face type. Possibly with exclamation marks!!!!

Anyway, consider Graham and Yrik dead or deported (I'll decide which soon). They will probably die in a massive battle featuring aliens, lasers, cowboys, gay bikies, dinosaurs, nazi's riding pegasi and linux penguins. Just to spite some of the posters here.

Then my new adventurer on belattura can go about his business without this kind of crap. He's probably more succesful than Yrik was already, and I've only had him an hour.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on July 18, 2012, 08:45:34 pm

Danaris is a by-the-books dev, probably steeped in the SMA code, but most actual players on Dwilight are more relaxed from what I see, sambojin.

I've been in Giask for about a month but desperately need a reason to log-in. I haven't even switched to Luria Nova yet, so can't fault them. When I left Summerdale, I seriously lost my steam.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on July 19, 2012, 01:10:31 am

Yeah. I might just make a new noble in Luria Nova once I have enough time to RP stuff properly. Maybe. Summerdale falling to boredom makes this "actual" boring part all the more tedious. Adventurers are quick to play as, nobles (when played correctly), not quite as much.

Anyway, if I do make a new noble on Dwilight down the track, you can be sure he'll have an awesome handlebar moustache, as a mark of disrepect to SMA weirdos everywhere. Well, here mostly. :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on July 19, 2012, 01:56:21 am

Oh, we have plenty of fun in Dwilight, there just isn't any room for anything remotely related to bikers, and every admin and magistrate will agree with this. :-P

Its the SMA island and those in charge want it specifically serious-medieval-atmosphere. Hell, even I've been yelled at (multiple times) for borderline behavior.

You can be a bumbling drunken buffoon and damn right its serious medieval atmosphere, just don't be straight-up ridiculous and break the SMA with macho-macho-man RPs which in no way translate to SMA. Go ahead and have your homo-erotic display of leather, just don't equate anything to real-world religions, politics, or anything modern like the actual song. Nothing related to real-world religions is even allowed on Dwilight, where-as I've noticed other servers actually even HAVE real-world religions as theirs, such as Way of the Hammer for Hammersett. My Asatru friends would love Hammersett, bahaha. ( Asatru is a Norse-Pagan sect. Yes these people exist still, and in the hundreds of thousands. Not everyone has abandoned the old faiths, despite the wholesale genocide, enslavement, and assimilation campaign of a thousand+ years perpetrated by Christianity in the last millennium. As any student of theology or history can tell you, a lot of Christian concepts have merged with typical Norse myths, while modern Christianity also has many beliefs they ironically borrowed from Norse faiths. Hell, the word Hell is derived from Hel, and even our days are all derived from a certain Germanic manner, though the two are very well-known examples of Christian mythological hybridization from the last millennium. There are surprisingly still those who've never given up on the old beliefs, though that's something which isn't spoken of for the most part due to the massive stigma against anything seemingly Pagan in many parts of the world. Last few years have seen a revival in public displays of the more Pagan variety as people around the world become slightly less douchey about respecting others' beliefs.)

Dwilight is THE serious-business server, made for serious RP by serious RPers and rigorously run by those in charge. I would ragequit if some of the idiots on other servers could do in Dwilight what they do in Far East or the Colonies, it simply has no place in Dwilight - not to mention it being against Dwilight's rules. I'm a serious RPer on ALL my characters, but I do have some fun. ;-) Hammersett especially was an absolute fucking BLAST before their leadership fell apart and everyone died. Lol. I've got my cunning, macabre, death-worshiping assassin in the Far East, my divine priest-hero in Belluatera, my ambitious military commander in Dwilight, and I'm bringing a 4th noble (smartass merchant/trader most likely.) into the game sometime in the next 2 weeks, once making my own religion in Belluatera is complete and I get the fame points for Prophet status. :-) But that's just me. Anywhere but Dwilight, that is my choice to be serious or not. In Dwilight, it is expected of you to RP properly, or at least respect the ways. You don't have to post 4-5 pages of RP a day like I sometimes do, but you must respect others' right to RP in a serious environment. If you're to RP a drunken idiot, do so with poise. Don't make him seem like an idiot peasant but instead as a wild (albeit dumbass) nobleman. Embrace the crazy! Do so with honor! (if you're a noble, of course. Adventurers can RP as idiots all they want, but nobles are expected to be the modicum of civility and honor - which doesn't usually happen bahaha)

We're not trying to be pissy or dicks, and we're not a minority. Dwilight is THE SMA server, and you WILL get in trouble for being a retard and going against SMA. You can sport whatever ridiculous moustaches you want, just don't expect to act in a manner that's not medieval and get taken seriously. At best, your fellow nobles think you're a cunt for being another one of 'those' guys who think they'll screw around on the made-to-not-screw-around server when there's other servers you can be an alien-worshipping tin-foil-hat lover who fights their enemies with a giant flaming dong. At worst, you get reported for being a douche, or banned from your nation by a noble who hates you, or executed, or fined, or murdered, or... (if you're a noble. If you're an adventurer, then it all depends on your local nobles. :-P My old Dwilight adventurer got arrested to telling a noble to go f- themselves in a very archaic and "proper medieval" manner by insulting their women and their culture eloquently, but I miscalculated my travel time and was subsequently caught and arrested, LOL. My new Dwilight noble just has fun adventuring and is even doing freelance work for western governments I will not name, which has been quite interesting! Rule is, Noble? ACT LIKE ONE. Adventurer? You're peasant filth so you can do whatever you want.)

Again, just to repeat, you can get away with most actions in Dwilight, just don't stop taking the server seriously because you WILL be reprimanded for breaking SMA. The serious server is the serious server and they're losing nothing at all if you ragequit because you can't follow the rules. I'm only passing on what has been said to me and brought up multiple times, often by Magistrates - those dudes with the power to roflsmack you down.

Have your fun, but remember that the first line of defense are the nobles of Dwilight who mostly take things very seriously, and second, the admins/mods/magistrates who can and will make your life hell if they hear complaints of your behavior. GOD FORBID I RP the way I do in some of these nations, I'd be beheaded for heresy, especially in the Theocracies of Sanguis Astroism >_> Terran is a pretty good place and they're not douchey, but they *do* take their military service and honor seriously. If you're in Terran you bet your ass you'd better respect the Senate and serve your nation in the army. Actually, no. Every nation is like that. We just don't have a supreme leader to be all "If you don't respect me, I'll have you executed!" Like I see all day on bloody Far East. Yeesh, its like people don't realize someone can have a differing opinion in the Far East >_> You don't agree then its war and execution, LOL. I just witnessed 3-4 different examples of "I have power therefore I'm right you're wrong lalalalalalaalala, EXECUTION OR EXILE" on Far East in the last week, bahaha. These people crack me up!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on July 19, 2012, 02:01:40 am

If you're in Summerdale you'll get away with it.

So long as no one complains, you're good. Our warning is simply that other nations won't take it so lightly... :-P They have the power to ban, exile, and execute you for sneezing in the wrong direction, as any powerful noble on other servers do, but some won't hesitate to roflstomp you for breaking the rules of etiquette that nation holds, be it religiously, politically, militarily, or socially. That is their right and they can enforce it as they wish.

I'm not sure how the southern nations are, but the northern ones seem strict-as-fuck to me. I think you'll have a lot of fun in the southern nations though. :-)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on July 19, 2012, 10:37:13 am

What idiot on the dev team decided to make the Colonies the half-speed island? I love everything about it-the lightheartedness (Outer Tilog...), the newness and freedom, etc... EXCEPT the dumbass half-speed code. Why can't there at least be an alternate Colonies without that code?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on July 19, 2012, 11:40:33 am

Quote from: SealyStar on July 19, 2012, 10:37:13 am

What idiot on the dev team decided to make the Colonies the half-speed island? I love everything about it-the lightheartedness (Outer Tilog...), the newness and freedom, etc... EXCEPT the dumbass half-speed code. Why can't there at least be an alternate Colonies without that code?

Most of the islands are pretty old...  years old.  It is specifically made for people with less time.

Also, I've been sitting in Outer Tilog for the last month or so... just watching people talk, as it entertains me.  One of the 'inactive' courtiers.  Not like they are doing much other then picking up land.  Its basically peace everywhere on that island, now that all that is left is the allies of Lukon.  (Which has been for more then 3-4 years actually...)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on July 19, 2012, 12:22:23 pm

The Colonies is one of the 3 original islands. It goes back over a decade to the pre-BattleMaster days, when the game was SpellMaster, and it was mostly freeform RP guided by some pretty simple game mechanics and rules.

It is specifically tailored for people with less time or less regular time for BattleMaster.

And the same thing that goes for Dwilight goes for it: If you don't like it, there's loads of places elsewhere in the game that are clamouring for nobles.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on July 19, 2012, 01:21:57 pm

I don't see why people complain about Colonies or Dwilight.

Dwilight is SMA and Colonies is for slow-play, that predates you and it will never change. There are multiple regular servers so I don't see why people constantly whine because ONE server is different. Don't like it? Don't play on that server. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but its seriously childish to expect the entire game's structure to cater to YOUR needs when all the people who've played for years are perfectly satisfied with what's there and the way it works.

I've always considered playing on the Colonies but 2 turns a day is already slow as absolute f*ck for me, I'd go bat-shit crazy having 1 turn per day. I recently petitioned for a 3-5 turn per day server but Tom said no way, not unless we get a few hundred more players to make it worth the server costs and time to completely redesign the turn system.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on July 19, 2012, 02:08:39 pm

Wasn't there some sort of change for Colonies going in?  Or has it already happened?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: JPierreD on July 21, 2012, 12:19:45 am

So, how does the Great Dalian Trek goes?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on July 21, 2012, 01:14:06 am

Slowly :P

A big group of us are at Eidulb right now, getting ready to take the boats south. That'll take a long time.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: ConscriptFive on July 21, 2012, 02:17:33 am

Actually didn't know we were still waiting and took off a few days ago...  I'm still at sea anyways.

So yeah, seeing as we're going from the former northern-most province to the southern-most, it takes awhile.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Fanofgaming on July 21, 2012, 10:12:57 am

My adventurer in Beluaterra is making

so

much

gold.

Seriously. He's loaded for a commoner.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on July 21, 2012, 05:54:17 pm

From bounties, or just from the nice level of monsters and undead that are around the place?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on July 21, 2012, 08:24:59 pm

Trust me fellow dalians: the days you spend at sea are the most boring of your BM career. i just spend like a week straight on them haha

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: JPierreD on July 21, 2012, 08:32:09 pm

A good reason to be seasick!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on July 21, 2012, 11:47:58 pm

Don't forget to sing sea shanties.

Also, sambojin can ask "Are we there yet?" every tick.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Andira on July 22, 2012, 07:46:13 am

He has deleted his Dwilight chars.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on July 22, 2012, 09:32:51 am

Probably with very good reason. You can see the sort of peer pressure I was under.

(note: all peer pressure was brought upon self and is in no way linked to Dwilight, Summerdale, Battlemaster or their subsidaries).

:)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ghazkull on July 22, 2012, 10:36:15 am

were are the former dalians travelling?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on July 22, 2012, 03:15:21 pm

Oh look, I'm now the senior ranking military officer in Terran. What's that, voting is open for Magistrate of War (aka General) you say?

...Buahahaha!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on July 22, 2012, 06:54:35 pm

I hope you don't end up like yall's last general did enhedras :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Trollheiming on July 23, 2012, 03:32:18 am

Quote from: Ghazkull on July 22, 2012, 10:36:15 am

were are the former dalians travelling?

Luria Nova. I really ought to log in and make my introduction. It's got to be strange to see someone strange encamped in your largest city for a month.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Jimlad11 on July 23, 2012, 01:39:03 pm

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Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on July 23, 2012, 01:51:04 pm

Aurvandil against Terran/D'hara/Barca, Kabrinskia (or at least Allison, with her usual attitude of being the ruler of the free-world with the most experience and friends in high places and her usual) wants in but they're too far.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on July 23, 2012, 02:26:15 pm

Come join aurvandil. Their are some really cool players here. Plus we just merced 3 realms.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on July 23, 2012, 03:42:17 pm

I've yet to meet someone from Aurvandil who isn't a complete flaming asshole. Maybe I've just had bad luck every time.

Also, we lost that battle because Barca's general is MIA/captured and everyone's Marshals won't listen to their god-damned orders. Your infantry broke through our lines easily what with all the idiots who screwed their line settings after a week of preparation.

People just don't listen, this is why multiplayer games piss me off. I miss the days where I'd simply kick the assholes who didn't follow orders, rules, and etiquette. Sadly I don't have that kind of power in BM, nor do we have enough players to be that aggressive about people who seem to enjoy screwing everything up.

/rant

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on July 23, 2012, 03:50:33 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on July 23, 2012, 03:42:17 pm

I've yet to meet someone from Aurvandil who isn't a complete flaming asshole. Maybe I've just had bad luck every time.

Also, we lost that battle because Barca's general is MIA/captured and everyone's Marshals won't listen to their god-damned orders. Your infantry broke through our lines easily what with all the idiots who screwed their line settings after a week of preparation.

People just don't listen, this is why multiplayer games piss me off. I miss the days where I'd simply kick the assholes who didn't follow orders, rules, and etiquette. Sadly I don't have that kind of power in BM, nor do we have enough players to be that aggressive about people who seem to enjoy screwing everything up.

/rant

And, of course, I'd advise against Aurvandil (for added alliterative appeal) simply because my most successful character is from Terran, and, y'know, they're at war. I don't like this idea of more troops for the enemy.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on July 23, 2012, 05:14:32 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on July 23, 2012, 03:42:17 pm

I've yet to meet someone from Aurvandil who isn't a complete flaming asshole. Maybe I've just had bad luck every time.

Also, we lost that battle because Barca's general is MIA/captured and everyone's Marshals won't listen to their god-damned orders. Your infantry broke through our lines easily what with all the idiots who screwed their line settings after a week of preparation.

People just don't listen, this is why multiplayer games piss me off. I miss the days where I'd simply kick the assholes who didn't follow orders, rules, and etiquette. Sadly I don't have that kind of power in BM, nor do we have enough players to be that aggressive about people who seem to enjoy screwing everything up.

/rant

I didn't help that our army was bigger either.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on July 23, 2012, 05:28:25 pm

We actually outnumber you but again, no organization means Barca/D'hara didn't send all the men they should have. Barcans STILL had orders to rally somewhere else after their general bombed out, which means none of them really participated in the battle to defend THEIR borders.

You have no idea how much that sh*t pisses me off.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on July 24, 2012, 09:19:06 am

Oooohhh, gee, I'm glad you don't just have nobles playing non-cookie-cutter styles of roleplaying and them getting bored and suiciding on you.
 ;D

(had to say it)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on July 24, 2012, 09:31:25 am

Ah, yea, the Aurvandil folks seemed to be doing well for themselves from the news.  How long is that going to keep up you figure?

In other news, Astrum and Kabrinski are still pretty much at war with Asylon, they just withdrew to refit after raiding the heck out of one of Asylon's holdings...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on July 25, 2012, 08:27:10 pm

Is having two adventurers on the one account co-operating (ie, in the same area, bouncing monster locations from one to the other) considered cheating? I tend to think no, simply because there is risk involved (I'll die more easily on the higher groups of monsters), potentially less cash (failed hunts with injury take a lot longer than on lesser groups), and I could just as easily do it with other adventurers (in fact, you're encouraged to). I'll be messaging all adventurers, not just a private location swap, so others can have a turn at pest control as well, it just makes everyone's job easier.

But, I figured I'd better ask before my adventurers get booted for doing something bad (no doubt they'd end up on Dwilight where I'd be forced to atone by roleplaying a conventional noble or something.......). I'm happy to keep them seperated slightly if necessary, but would like an adventuring team if possible.

Ps: Beleuterra has so far been so much better for cash for my adventurer than Dwilight was that it's amazing. There's other reasonably active adventurers to pop locations from, and there's always monsters and undead and they're all worth heaps of money for some reason. This place rocks.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on July 26, 2012, 12:18:18 am

Oh god, ship travel is so dull. At least it should get better in a day or two when winter ends.

It doesn't help that no one is sending messages or roleplaying, so there's not even stuff to respond to.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on July 26, 2012, 12:42:51 am

Potential (but not) sea serpent?
Drunkenness on deck?
Hypothermia? As well as possible RP situations.
Pointless segues?
That training montage stone that Graham left on that particular ship before silently imploding?
A simple statement on how beautiful the stars look on a ship at night? And possible reference to leaving SA behind but the bloodstars still being there in the sky?
Poetry?
A random thought dialogue of new lands and kingdoms, what they may be like, your characters hopes and dreams for the future?
Your men gambling? And maybe you winning (or kicking their arse for doing so)?
Whale sighting! Or just a fishing expedition?
A forgotten sea-shanty?
Stuff you saw floating in the water and gaff-hooked aboard?
RPing a certain character's earlier voyage without their previous knowledge through the letter-in-a-bottle-technique (Help! Help! They've got me tied up. They're dancing. Oh god! Help me! They're dancing with each other! I've never seen such things! Help! Oh god! "Oh, hello......").

The possibilities are damn near endless. Except, no handle bar moustaches......... It ends there!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on July 27, 2012, 10:29:39 am

Oh boy. It's clusterfuck, monster-bomb time in Beluaterra. My adventurer now has a reason to live. Stab, stab, kill, kill, rest, rest, search, search.

And just possibly find some Summon Monster/Undead scrolls. For fun and profit.

Actually, can adventurers use them as well? It might be good to keep the cash flowing. Or to use ten of them all at once in any realm that you happen to have a grudge against. Imprison me will ya? Kaboom to your production sirrah!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: guintiger on July 27, 2012, 11:23:12 am

Realm Destroyed   (13 minutes ago)
message to all nobles of Summerdale
Your realm has been destroyed. You must find a new realm, or you will become a rogue soon.

Le sigh.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SeaBee on July 27, 2012, 12:13:16 pm

I get to be a rogue soon, eh? *brandishes cutlass*

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on July 27, 2012, 12:51:00 pm

Ain't all its cracked up to be... you have no protection whatsoever, just a step above a commoner... technically, since you are a potential troublemaker... and other troops will automatically see yours as an enemy and look to engage...
Also, gold income, probably all you can do is loot... and that ain't looked at too kindly.

If I may suggest, make arrangement to temporarily administer an estate for a lord as you head for your destination...

In other news...
I heard tell that in Aurvandil, their religion is actually more along the lines of 'God King'.  Extreme version of Divine Mandate, without the pesky detail of a God you can't see.  So they apparently might tolerate other Monarchies, a bit more then the rest of the types of governments out there, perhaps even befriend em.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on July 27, 2012, 02:25:30 pm

Quote from: SeaBee on July 27, 2012, 12:13:16 pm

I get to be a rogue soon, eh? *brandishes cutlass*

Yep!

Have fun getting captured and executed even though you're not banned!

Rogue status is very deliberately not fun in BattleMaster. You're not supposed to remain rogue for any significant length of time, you're supposed to join a realm and, y'know, participate.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on July 27, 2012, 02:26:02 pm

Quote from: sambojin on July 27, 2012, 10:29:39 am

Actually, can adventurers use them as well?

No.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on July 27, 2012, 02:29:01 pm

How long do we get before rouge status? I'm still around 56 hours travel time away from my destination  :-\

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ai Shizuka on July 27, 2012, 03:41:39 pm

This game looks interesting, but I have a question: is roleplaying mandatory on every island or on Dwilight only?

I just want to be sure before starting.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on July 27, 2012, 03:45:41 pm

Seems like Dwilight is the only serious roleplay island. The rest, from what I hear, are more relaxed about it.

However, even in Dwilight you can send and receive out-of-character messages, though of course your own character can't react to them.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ai Shizuka on July 27, 2012, 03:49:37 pm

Thx, Dwilight was ruled out right from the start.
Nothing against good roleplayers, but I can't stomach all the 'sir' and 'my liege' when the average internet gamer isn't even able to properly spell 'there' and 'their'.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on July 27, 2012, 03:52:07 pm

It's definitely an interesting contrast :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: guintiger on July 27, 2012, 06:25:31 pm

Quote from: Ai Shizuka on July 27, 2012, 03:49:37 pm

Thx, Dwilight was ruled out right from the start.
Nothing against good roleplayers, but I can't stomach all the 'sir' and 'my liege' when the average internet gamer isn't even able to properly spell 'there' and 'their'.

Let me say as someone who has a noble on Dwilight - (and trying very hard not to be too biased here) - I don't see very much of this in the roleplays.  Even the OOC communications are solid.  The ONLY time I've ever seen a slip up is when the player is not a native English speaker -and even then it's so minor as to be barely noticed.  (And really -have to give the player some respect for playing a game that's not in their native language!)

Just saying - if the question of spelling and grammar is your hangup for coming to Dwilight, you're missing out. (Not to be confused with "UR", "your" or "yer", heh.)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on July 27, 2012, 08:35:51 pm

Pity about adventurers not being able to use the scrolls. But another trade item (with strategic use) is a great idea anyway. Plus a little bit of RP application for adventurers can't be bad. Even if being labelled a necromancer isn't necessarily a helpful thing.

Oh, and my Beluaterra adventurer got wounded finally,  just before a shopping expedition. On average he could probably make 60-90 gold a month at the rate he's going, which is pretty good for a "commoner". Assuming he doesn't get injured regularly.

The point of this? I made another one. On Dwilight. That randomly started in Luria Nova. I'm back baby!

Please be nice to Markos. He'll try not to RP anything if you leave him alone

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: guintiger on July 29, 2012, 01:20:09 pm

Can't access my adventurer in Dwilight - other servers having this problem too?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on July 29, 2012, 01:40:32 pm

It's not just Dwilight; adventurers are broken right now.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on July 29, 2012, 04:45:46 pm

Code changes in progress means a lot of things are suddenly not working, that's normal - report the bugs and they'll be fixed real quick. :-)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: guintiger on July 29, 2012, 09:03:58 pm

And we're back - wooo!  Zero fatigue!   :D

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on August 09, 2012, 03:23:53 pm

Has anyone else has problems with the mobile version of the battlemaster site? It's gone kind of wierd on my e63.

Doubles of all major links (actions, travel, items, etc) and a very single column view. I have to scroll down heaps for even the most basic text pages. Plus the "try again" when hunting monsters didn't do anything. Well, it did once, then the second time wouldn't link.

Have they been doing updates on it?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on August 09, 2012, 05:09:40 pm

Quote from: sambojin on August 09, 2012, 03:23:53 pm

Has anyone else has problems with the mobile version of the battlemaster site? It's gone kind of wierd on my e63.

Doubles of all major links (actions, travel, items, etc) and a very single column view. I have to scroll down heaps for even the most basic text pages. Plus the "try again" when hunting monsters didn't do anything. Well, it did once, then the second time wouldn't link.

Have they been doing updates on it?

Yes, there's finally being some active development on the mobile site.

Please post this sort of feedback to the BM forum, where the dev who's working on it can see it and hopefully figure out what's going on.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on August 09, 2012, 09:51:40 pm

Ok, will do.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on August 10, 2012, 10:35:36 am

If my fellow B12ers want to get into another potential Losing Is Fun! impossible situation,

I've just been named acting General of Terran, the Lurias (yes, all of them!) just announced they're going to war with an already severely-weakened D'hara, Barca is in utter ruins and practically non-existent, and Terran is apparently the only realm in the are that hasn't starved into anarchy. We've worked hard to remain united and managed to keep every single region intact, though Aurvandil is 3x as strong as us and has that much more troops. With our two allies Barca/D'hara out of the picture, we're now fighting a 1 vs 1 war against a nation that roflstomped the 3 of us combined.

>_>

I'm not sure how wise it is for them to keep fighting us since they're apparently starving the shit out of their regions, though. Our only saving grace is the fact that we make more gold than they do - which doesn't count for much to be honest.

Fellow Barcans and D'harans or anyone else who wants to join Terran for some kickass fun, do so in style :-) Message me directly under my IGN: Alura Aurea, Senator of Vassar, Marshal of the Pride, and acting General in Lord Perth's absence. (like usual.)

Give it a month and I'll officially be General. I couldn't be this time because I lacked 10 prestige thanks to my damn archer squad. Bah. Now I'm kicking ass with Infantry ;-) I'd just like to have a realm to be General of when all this is said and done... :-P

This will be ROUGH, like Summerdale, but nowhere near as hopeless. In a head-on battle we'd be annihilated but I have many, many tricks up my sleeve... I haven't led armies and nations in these types of games for over a decade without learning anything ;-)

On that note, I need supporters in Riombara in Belluatera <3 New colonies popping up soon possibly, and we're taking over a ridiculous amount of regions, heh. Anyone who wants to take part in my fun religion, shoot me a message here or on the BM forums :D I'm also a death-worshipping bisexual assassin in Arcaea... :-P

Hehehe. I love this game and its ridiculous RP opportunities.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on August 10, 2012, 11:24:52 am

So what you're really saying Ehndras, is that all us fly-in/fly-out nobles that disappeared before/during/after Summerdale fell should join one of the Luria's so we can have a chance to rolfstomp a weak, pissy kingdom? Which will improve the fun and longitivity of our playing experience no end?

Ummmmmm........

Did Summerdale make it to Luria Nova yet?

The no-RP-fuckup-el Gato-protocol may have just come online :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on August 10, 2012, 12:31:53 pm

Y'know, probably shouldn't be going around announcing stuff like upcoming war plans. Someone might take the knowledge OOC and use it IC.

@ sambojin: Yes, we made it. I don't think everyone's joined yet, however.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on August 10, 2012, 01:31:07 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on August 10, 2012, 10:35:36 am

On the other hand.. You could come join Aurvandil and be part of the only army that has a o point turn radius and Roflstomp 3 realms at once. :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on August 10, 2012, 09:05:43 pm

Your capitol is 2 regions (Candiels - Agl - Celtiberia) from the battle-site and we're about 9-10. Barca's army was dead and D'hara was barely there. It doesn't even count as stomping 3 armies if it was 15k of Terrans and then a measly 2-4k of the others for the most part, not to mention half of Barca's already shyte army abandoned us halfway because their General disappeared, their command structure died, and they stopped giving orders.

If Barca and D'hara had raised 15-18k like us, and actually listened to our fucking orders, we wouldn't have lost - sadly a lot of people had head shoved firmly in anus. :-P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on August 10, 2012, 10:03:26 pm

That's aurvandil's strength: everyone follows orders to a tee. Well except rebellious dukes. You're right if yall had all 3 been at your full potential the battle would have been much closer but I don't think Y'all would've easily beat us either. At that time yall and D'hara combined had about the total CS that Aurvandil did.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on August 12, 2012, 03:28:32 am

Droughts, currently, they can kick a lot of arse.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Rakonas on August 12, 2012, 04:56:40 am

I'm just rooting for the Lurias to go in through D'hara and something to spark a war with the astroists.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on August 12, 2012, 12:03:12 pm

Lurias are going to have a hell of a time getting through D'hara in the first place, more likely than not.

Also, the Astroists have their own bones to pick.

I'd totally be interested in an SA vs. Lurias war though. SA would obviously win by a flaming longshot.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: ConscriptFive on August 15, 2012, 04:39:06 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on August 12, 2012, 12:03:12 pm

Lurias are going to have a hell of a time getting through D'hara in the first place, more likely than not.

As one of of the Summerdale refugees currently in Luria Nova, I can confirm that the Lurias are complete basket-cases.

Seeing as they've treatied with Fissoa, Solaria is the only one geographically positioned to expand anywhere.  Solaria could easily profit from nice SA-style gangbang against the D'Hara, but apparently don't have the planning and communications to get the other Lurias to pull-off some complex long-range manuevers.

Not to mention that the way the gold/bond system is, Port Nebel and Port Raviel *have* to be an independent of the mainlands.  No army could regularly make that commute.  Either the Lurias go to war with the intent to found a new Luria (Solaria Nova? Luria Nova Nova?), or the islands will start going rogue again (like they are now).

A smart idea would have been to go to war with the promise of the D'Hara islands as a Summerdale Nova, that would be considered a part of the Luria Empire.  You've got a defined subset of nobles that RPly and OOCly make perfect sense to get their own state.  But hey, that would be *smart*, which politicians in Battlemaster quite frequently prove not to be.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on August 15, 2012, 05:41:06 pm

Quote from: ConscriptFive on August 15, 2012, 04:39:06 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on August 12, 2012, 12:03:12 pm

Lurias are going to have a hell of a time getting through D'hara in the first place, more likely than not.

As one of of the Summerdale refugees currently in Luria Nova, I can confirm that the Lurias are complete basket-cases.

Seeing as they've treatied with Fissoa, Solaria is the only one geographically positioned to expand anywhere.  Solaria could easily profit from nice SA-style gangbang against the D'Hara, but apparently don't have the planning and communications to get the other Lurias to pull-off some complex long-range manuevers.

Not to mention that the way the gold/bond system is, Port Nebel and Port Raviel *have* to be an independent of the mainlands.  No army could regularly make that commute.  Either the Lurias go to war with the intent to found a new Luria (Solaria Nova? Luria Nova Nova?), or the islands will start going rogue again (like they are now).

A smart idea would have been to go to war with the promise of the D'Hara islands as a Summerdale Nova, that would be considered a part of the Luria Empire.  You've got a defined subset of nobles that RPly and OOCly make perfect sense to get their own state.  But hey, that would be *smart*, which politicians in Battlemaster quite frequently prove not to be.

There is, in fact, already a planned colony, that has nothing to do with the Dalians. But there's nothing saying that Dalians couldn't join in; in fact, I have it on good authority that the colonists' philosophy is, at least at present, "The more the merrier!"

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Lorgan on August 16, 2012, 11:39:28 am

Quote from: danaris on August 15, 2012, 05:41:06 pm

in fact, I have it on good authority that the colonists' philosophy is, at least at present, "The more the merrier!"

Sure is. We're going to call it Nova Nova btw.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on August 16, 2012, 11:40:56 am

Quote from: Lorgan on August 16, 2012, 11:39:28 am

Quote from: danaris on August 15, 2012, 05:41:06 pm

in fact, I have it on good authority that the colonists' philosophy is, at least at present, "The more the merrier!"

Sure is. We're going to call it Nova Nova btw.

That is... quite creative.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Lorgan on August 16, 2012, 03:00:27 pm

Well when you translate the smurf-like language that is ours to English that actually means Realm of Pure Badassry Nova.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wolflance on August 17, 2012, 12:45:52 am

Politics, politics everywhere.

Politic of Luria Nova...or I should say Luria Empire, is really a pile of mess.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on August 17, 2012, 12:55:28 am

Quote from: wolflance on August 17, 2012, 12:45:52 am

Politics, politics everywhere.

Politic of Luria Nova...or I should say Luria Empire, is really a pile of mess.

QFT. Jeez, even when a few nobles were banished from Summerdale there was less drama. Everyone pulled together and did their jobs. Now we've got a tiny army sitting in a starving city, constantly losing troops as we prepare for a war that a good number of people apparently do not want. This has the makings of a disaster.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on August 17, 2012, 01:02:10 am

*Quietly wrests control of Terran in order to have much !!FUN!! in the near future*

Also, finally got my Lordship on my Priest in Riombara! Epic, crazy-ass polytheistic religion here I go! My Paladin Chevalier and Death-Worshipping Assassin just met face-to-face in Arcaea, where they'll be fighting side by side (all the while dueling each other constantly and fighting on a regular basis like in their introductory RP :P) until Alekhthaeos eventually leaves for Riombara to server as Paladin, Guardian, and Inquisitor of my religion. <3

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wolflance on August 17, 2012, 01:31:35 am

That mess really quench my desire to start over at Luria Nova. I will spend all my gold to train at the academy until I broke, then I will see what to do.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Rakonas on August 17, 2012, 02:52:42 am

Are the two Lurian guildhalls exclusive in their membership?
The idea of an established refugee for Dalians where D'Hara was is interesting.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wolflance on August 17, 2012, 09:08:49 am

The B12 Dalian refugees are totally uncoordinated right now, it can't be helped. The Lurians are as uncoordinated as us, with all those starvation going around Luria Nova.

D'Hara as a new haven for the ex-Dalians is very interesting indeed, but I wonder the Luria Nova will let us do as our please.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on August 17, 2012, 09:55:01 am

Quote from: wolflance on August 17, 2012, 09:08:49 am

The B12 Dalian refugees are totally uncoordinated right now, it can't be helped. The Lurians are as uncoordinated as us, with all those starvation going around Luria Nova.

D'Hara as a new haven for the ex-Dalians is very interesting indeed, but I wonder the Luria Nova will let us do as our please.

As I said, there's a plan to make a colony in D'Hara, which, once it's fully publicized, the Dalians will be welcome to join, should they choose to do so.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wolflance on August 17, 2012, 10:27:39 am

Ah, that is really a good news to hear. Can't wait for it to be announced, and I will make sure my character participate in it.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on August 17, 2012, 11:13:56 am

So... the leadership is putting your kingdom into a war that has very little popular support from its military?  While it is starving. 

May I suggest... revolution?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on August 17, 2012, 12:33:30 pm

If you're talking about Luria Nova, the war is opposed by the Banker, and the Solarian General is opposed by the Novan General. There isn't really a general animosity toward the war, and the realm is no longer starving.

So...what's this about revolution, again?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on August 17, 2012, 01:01:34 pm

Awww... shucks... maybe somewhere else?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on August 17, 2012, 01:07:18 pm

The realm isn't starving? 5000+ people starved to death in Giask yesterday, which happens to be where the army is stationed and losing soldiers constantly. Now we're being ordered into combat with no chance of resupply on a 60-80 hour voyage. Oh yeah, this will turn out just great  ::)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on August 17, 2012, 02:16:17 pm

Quote from: Sirus on August 17, 2012, 01:07:18 pm

The realm isn't starving? 5000+ people starved to death in Giask yesterday, which happens to be where the army is stationed and losing soldiers constantly. Now we're being ordered into combat with no chance of resupply on a 60-80 hour voyage. Oh yeah, this will turn out just great  ::)

The realm, as a whole, is now in surplus.

And it's not my fault if your Marshal is dumb enough to keep you stationed in a starving city. I know mine isn't doing so.

To be fair to your Marshal, though, the Provisions code is pretty new. I think it'll take a while to get used to the idea of stationing the whole army in a rural region for a week to pick up provisions before going out marching.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Mini on August 17, 2012, 10:29:01 pm

Wow, Terran just got even more interesting.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on August 19, 2012, 01:15:46 pm

Ah, I love democracies and republics in this game. Just like real life. More freedom than other types of government, but so inherently dysfunctional... Fontan, Terran, Enweil... all plagued by nobles quarreling like old polygamist families and banishing each other, elections where no one votes, douchebag rulers who play Putin and are "freely elected" ten times in a row, even though everyone hates them (I'm looking at you, Hireshmont II Vellos...) while the realm is at war with another. And I love it.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on August 19, 2012, 01:41:05 pm

Quote from: SealyStar on August 19, 2012, 01:15:46 pm

Ah, I love democracies and republics in this game. Just like real life. More freedom than other types of government, but so inherently dysfunctional... Fontan, Terran, Enweil... all plagued by nobles quarreling like old polygamist families and banishing each other, elections where no one votes, douchebag rulers who play Putin and are "freely elected" ten times in a row, even though everyone hates them (I'm looking at you, Hireshmont II Vellos...) while the realm is at war with another. And I love it.

Come see Riombara. It was ruled for seven years (off and on) by a just, principled ruler that a lot of the realm respected and liked.

(And I am in no way biased. Nope. Couldn't possibly be saying this because he was my character ;D )

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on August 19, 2012, 04:07:21 pm

Hireshmont II is stepping down, and I'm most likely taking over.

Jesus christ Terran has been CHAOS lately because our ol' Judge Erasmus betrayed everyone, put Hireshmont in jail, declared me and half the Lords traitors and banned us, and pretty much started a flaming shitstorm. Thankfully its all been handled, Terran is fine again, and all he really did was piss everyone off.

Hope he gets executed. :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on August 19, 2012, 04:24:27 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on August 19, 2012, 04:07:21 pm

Hireshmont II is stepping down, and I'm most likely taking over.

Jesus christ Terran has been CHAOS lately because our ol' Judge Erasmus betrayed everyone, put Hireshmont in jail, declared me and half the Lords traitors and banned us, and pretty much started a flaming shitstorm. Thankfully its all been handled, Terran is fine again, and all he really did was piss everyone off.

Hope he gets executed. :P

I was actually kind of amused by Erasmus' douchebaggery. Except for the part where my troops and those of several newly banished "rogues" who had been rallying in Larur got into an auto-initiated battle that ended with half of my troops being killed in a nano civil war. Also, angry peasants played a role.

Silly gameplay.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on August 19, 2012, 07:14:30 pm

See? going agianst Aurvandil causes everyone to go crazy :P jkjk. I'm looking forward to fighting yall some more. It seems like I haven't been in a battle since Nam lol. Come on Ehndras we aren't even that tough anymore :D

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on August 19, 2012, 08:45:28 pm

I got fucked into a mini-civil war too but I took out (injured) 3 Terran nobles in the process LOL. Alura doesn't fuck around :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Mini on August 20, 2012, 12:28:48 am

Actually you only injured two people, you just injured one of them twice.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on August 25, 2012, 03:45:48 pm

Yeah I noticed that later, heh. I've never managed to injure someone twice in a single battle before, I hope they weren't hurt too badly.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on August 27, 2012, 09:40:15 pm

Ooooooh, Bohdan's got a ranger's guild. Which means I can now have a place to go to get drunk (and in theory get missions too). You are the best ex-treasurer an adventurer could want.

Oh, and I got 3 gold, 6 silver off one undead group on Beluttura. Nice :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on September 08, 2012, 08:46:48 pm

I just found my first unique item, in Beluaterra. "The Ebony Club of Parrying", which we all know are the best clubs of parrying available. :-P

Does anyone have any idea what a +5 prestige, 78% condition, no special ability thingo would be worth in gold approximately? I'll go for the recommendation as well if I can get it, but a large chunk of gold would do.

Actually, I just want a large tent for it. I've always wanted a tent.........

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wolflance on September 10, 2012, 05:37:08 am

It's been awfully silence for a while now...anything interesting happening in anywhere on Dwilight?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Mini on September 10, 2012, 07:05:54 am

Terran is at war with Aurvandil down in the SW corner, and apparently Astrum might be joining in soonish. Either way, there's going to be a battle within a few days, most likely.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on September 10, 2012, 02:27:50 pm

SA being nosey and sticking priests where they don't belong -.- apparently a lurian civil war too! oh and GDoF is getting wooped by a fledgling state. That pretty much sums it up.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on September 10, 2012, 04:43:17 pm

Luria's still in a war? Damn, I'm missing out on too much fun running adventurers. I might donate this weekend so I can get another character going. I could just make an adventurer inactive for a while, but they're all going so well right now.

Is it possible too emmigrate to another world with an adventurer? Specifically Beluaterra->Dwilight? Maybe Godnim could kiss enough noble arse to get knighted in time. He was almost on a minor noble's income at one point anyway. Or Vartosh could bring his beating stick and trade it for favours........

Or maybe I should just donate.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on September 10, 2012, 05:00:31 pm

Ha! My adventurer on Dwilight killed an alpha monster and scored a tent. Awesome.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on September 10, 2012, 05:04:14 pm

Quote from: sambojin on September 10, 2012, 04:43:17 pm

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Is it possible too emmigrate to another world with an adventurer? Specifically Beluaterra->Dwilight? Maybe Godnim could kiss enough noble arse to get knighted in time. He was almost on a minor noble's income at one point anyway. Or Vartosh could bring his beating stick and trade it for favours........

Nope. Adventurers can't emigrate.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on September 10, 2012, 06:11:02 pm

Sirus, I hate you. I hate you more than you'll ever know.........

By god I swear that I will one day own a tent :)

Actually, how much would you sell that thing for? Ball-park figure?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on September 11, 2012, 07:11:55 pm

spend your hours searching for rares...youll find one eventually.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on September 11, 2012, 07:20:26 pm

Quote from: sambojin on September 10, 2012, 06:11:02 pm

Sirus, I hate you. I hate you more than you'll ever know.........

By god I swear that I will one day own a tent :)

Actually, how much would you sell that thing for? Ball-park figure?

Mwahahahahahaha.

Ain't selling, pal. Aren't you on Beluaterra anyway? Adventurers can't emigrate.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on September 11, 2012, 08:22:09 pm

 I've got two on Beluaterra, one on Dwilight. I probably have another go at the whole "attempt to not be a noble comedian" thing on Dwilight next week. I figure a $30 donation for half a year of noble annoyance is pretty cheap considering I jump on most days. Cheaper than most MMORPGs anyway, and I actually find BM funner than most of them anyway. Plus it runs on my phone easily when I want to kill off a lunch-break.

Anyway, a tent hunting I will go........

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on September 11, 2012, 10:01:26 pm

Oh, and as an aside.....

Anyone with an adventurer or noble in Luria Nova, join up the Royal Rangers guild in Mellifera. 5 gold might seem like a bit much (it's the minimum), but if necessary you can be comp'd on the entry fee, plus you'll make it back in no time at all.

It's like a world-wide messaging system, a bounty listing and an adventurer team-up board. I've made my money back in 1 turn of hunting off it, so I reckon you will too.

It sort of gives you half of the advantages of a noble, for 1 silver for messaging (free for nobles), that you'll earn back the next time you press the "quests" button. Except you'll be messaging a group of kick-arse, regularly playing adventurers and their noble supporters/commanders. Nobles can also then speak to groups of adventurers at large, without any slight or dishonour for dealing with us commoners. The more people that join, the better the system will get.

If we can do external links, or we can just tell members OOC where to look on sign-up, I'll be doing up a weekly map of monster/undead infestation levels in Luria Nova, as well as bounty listings on the map and also approximate gear pricings for each area.

So any nobles should join as well. The more info we have and the more people joining, the better it is for everyone. Luria Nova will never be in peril from annoying monster armies again, plus there'll be an external scouting availability of other realms if needed should war be an option. Adventurers can scout further and faster for which nobles are in the area than anyone. Behind enemy lines too.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: ConscriptFive on September 13, 2012, 05:08:05 am

The Royal Ranger Guild looks like it could be fun.  I recently acquired the newly purged Santoo.  I've got two free estates (2200 population a piece) just itching to back another Bay12'er Knight.

Just think of how many of those 2200 population are nubile young farmgirls... just needing a knight... "Come Play, My Lord" they sing to me.

Come to Luria Nova.  You can play discreetly in your browser!

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Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on September 13, 2012, 09:06:42 am

I've got a tent in my pants. Or backpack. Somewhere anyway. My life as an adventurer is not yet complete, but I'm feeling good.

Go-go Power Rangers. Or Royal Rangers. Something like that. Whatever. We all join up into one big, extreme, deathy, killy thing when we unite. With better imagination, and if necessary, way better bosoms. Scary, nice bosoms of kick-arseness.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on September 13, 2012, 05:08:39 pm

Y'all should make a guild house in Aurvandil cause that's a long walk over there :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on September 13, 2012, 06:30:56 pm

No doubt we will soon. Mellifera has the advantage currently that there's a just-about-to-happen monster uprising with a zogging big bounty on it. Guild fees payed for much?

It seriously is worth the walk there. To the point that my adventurer has enough gold to comp the next member their joining fee without it being a financial burden. So make the trip on down. It's nice there. There's heaps of shit to stab in the head.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on September 13, 2012, 07:13:49 pm

I'm currently running at about 18 from bounties and level 5 groups here.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on September 13, 2012, 07:15:18 pm

My adventurer had well over 50 gold before he discovered the wonders of upgrading equipment  :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on September 13, 2012, 07:48:33 pm

That's a pretty good bounty. I think I was pulling 12 from Mellifera (with 1-2 gold each group killed at 4th-5th group). Which is nice. Hopefully the lord and/or knights of Mellifera will see fit to dump some more cash our way for all our good work.

Sirus, stop mucking about at the shops and come down and stab some stuff. We've got a guildhouse to protect. Well, you do at least. I kind of got lightly stabbed in the head when I tried. But I'll be up and about in a day or so. Maybe I should have gone shopping more first. I'll air out my funky new tent in the meantime

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on September 23, 2012, 10:09:20 am

Just got 7 gold from defeating an alpha and about 6 common items. Then I hunter the next group for 5 more gold. I now have 27 gold total and that hunt is still available. Monster group 7 here I come.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on September 24, 2012, 08:33:10 am

Wow. I've taken the big step in battlemaster. I'm going to have a female noble.

Hehehehehe.

Boobs.

  :o
  ^^

She is going to spend so much time like this....... Very noble

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on September 24, 2012, 04:42:24 pm

....  I don't see what the special deal is with a female noble...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on September 24, 2012, 08:01:32 pm

Actually, from a roleplaying perspective it should be quite fun. At least very different from any of my adventurers (all male, all eager little hunters, but all with differing personalities). I was going to do a fairly cool concept for another adventurer, but that didn't work out.

I'll probably make her a "fun" noble, just so that there's plenty to do when my adventurers run out of hours. Not Graham-style fun (I've learnt my lesson on that one), but amusing none-the-less. Not sure just where she'll end up. I'm sort of eyeing off the city outskirts in Giask or around Outer Giask, just for convenience sake. Or Mellifera or Cadier, because it's good to spread the bounties (and guildhouses) around liberally. The army building side of things takes a while anyway, so at least we won't need extra troops for internal security. And wiping out monsters, undead and bandits is a fairly hassle-free way of getting a bit of battle experience. A homeguard regiment might be quite fun really. Especially one led by a "fun" female noble. Who knows the favours she'll ask for or bestow for her services.

I'll see how it works out anyway. I just have to put a wall up between her and my adventurer so I don't get accused of meta-gaming. Story-wise, they already look down on each other, for very different reasons, so it shouldn't be too hard. Once the whole "line 35 killed your character before conception" thing gets worked out, she'll be good to roll.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wolflance on September 24, 2012, 09:56:10 pm

Glad  to see you back with us at Luria Nova. I personally found that your (character's) presence always liven things up.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on September 24, 2012, 10:29:08 pm

Let me introduce, Sha'Shanti el Gato, leader of Swish of the Tail.

She's on her way to the top, and if necessary, she will take it laying down. This is going to be fun :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wolflance on September 25, 2012, 10:09:28 am

I imagine a Cersei Lannister-isque person, that will be really fun.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on September 25, 2012, 10:41:51 am

Better be careful, though; LN already has a Queen Bitch, and she may not want you horning in on her territory ;D

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on September 25, 2012, 02:06:15 pm

My main character now is female. I don't RP her any differently than I did my male one, because outside of romantic subplots there's no need to do so.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on September 25, 2012, 05:37:24 pm

I figure her and Alanna will either be bitter rivals or the best of friends. Maybe both, a little bit of female intrigue at court tends to go both ways at once. Possibly in more ways than one. The only way to the top is up. And down. Then repeat.

Right now Sha'shanti fits somewhere between "eager, naive, Disney princess" and "a bit of a slut". Depending on how stuff turns out, she might end up staying this way too. A fairly sheltered life as a noble from Mountainhome will do that to a woman. She may never quite manage to take off the rose-tinted glasses, LN is way better in her opinion due to the freedom of it compared to her previous life. But by the same token, she'll probably never realize that it's unseemly to help commoners or learn to keep her legs shut.

She may get a little bit harder edged eventually. Then we might all be doomed.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on September 25, 2012, 05:54:20 pm

Being a female character is easy in Terran where mine is. My character's former commander in the army is female, as is her lord lady.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: ConscriptFive on September 27, 2012, 03:43:44 am

Sambojin, sorry for ignoring your character's emergence.  Half of Luria Nova is currently on a Death March that just went from shitty to catastrophic.  Trying to roleplay that consistently and playful flirting with the new girl will be a challenge.

Good thing I like challenges.   ;)

Now with better proofreading than the ingame version!

After days of waiting in the desert awaiting supposed Solarian reinforcements, Lord Aldus Thunderwood received his orders.   Recalling his most recent scout reports, he darkly laughed to himself (Scribe Note).  While the simple treachery of turning back now would surely save the Dalian Remnant, he would be dooming many other fine Lurians to an unmarked sandy grave in Sallowwild.

Morale within the unit was already low.  They, like the rest of the Golden Host, spent over a week travelling to spill blood upon this barely inhabited scrap of land.  A more ribald soldier had started the joke that D'Hara would have likely paid us to take Sallowwild from them, it was so utterly worthless.  Having once laughed at a disintegrating invasion force in Summerdale, Lord Aldus had stead-fastly prepared his men for this expedition.  Having left Askileon with full provisions, morale, and repair, the Dalian Remnant stood head and shoulders over many other troops in the Golden Host.  Every morning formation, the Golden Host shrank as the night's desertions became apparent.  Proud that none had deserted him, he couldn't help but wince as gradually began to notice his men and others abandoning torn shoes to walk barefoot.

And now he had to tell them about the battle at dawn.

He looked over their faces as he briefed them their orders.  A few a fought alongside him in Summerdale, but for most this would be their first, and likely, last true battle.  Although eager to test themselves, they couldn't help but notice the lack of Solarian banners within the field camp.  Lord Aldus knew he had to lie, and so he told the one lie everyone tells a dying man, "Everything is going to be okay."

As they took to the battlefield, Lord Aldus Thunderwood took comfort that his long Dalian comrade, Lord Konrad, would be joining his side in providing archer support to the doomed assault.  They'd both survived far worse against the Morek Empire, and surely a could fare no worse against a mere band of pirates.

With a battlecry, forces were met.  The pirates, as foolhardy as they are prone to be, charged forth from their ramparts to meet High Commander Bohdan's assault.  Lord Aldus directed his fire onto them, hoping to soften the clash.  After the dust from the first round had settled.  The D'Hara charge was battered and encircled, with over half of their numbers fallen.  He redirected his fire against the Dame Himeko of Sallowwild's infantry on the ramparts.

Just as he saw the D'hara charge annihilated and Knight Mathias of Port Nebel carried off on a stretcher, he saw Sir Cyrus fall wounded from the ramparts.  Amidst the chaos, he never saw his Dalian comrade emerge.  He steeled his will as he was but one of the many being slaughtered before him.

It was not long before the 120 Archer's under the Prime Minister Rynn, began to counterfire against Lord Aldus and Sir Konrad.  As the broken infantry fled past them, Lord Aldus slipped into a dream.  Lost in the horrific screams of men breathing their last, he remembered simpler, happier times.  Long before the reign of Queen Charlotte Grancourt, he remembers the joys of time spent with a girl from a place called Mountainhome.  She never even told him her name.  He once thought to ask his long lost friend of Mountainhome-origin Sir Graham el Gato, but soon realized he could not find the words to describe her.

Lord Aldus was awoken harshly my an arrow impacting his iron breastplate, and knocking him off his feet.  The pirates had torn apart the Golden Host, and it was but he, Sir Saul, and what was left of the Solarian Riders of Castus still standing.  Tempted to order the retreat, he ordered one final volley to try and clear an escape route for Sir Saul.  Pirate arrows rained down in return, and the Dalian Remnant finally broke.

(Scribe Note)

As he rallied by an oasis, he felt nothing but sorrow as he looked at what was left of his once proud Dalian Remnant.  Of his sixty men, only ten were still standing.  It was a long march back to Giask, and he wouldn't blame them if they deserted him throughout their trek through the Solaria countryside.

His Captain placed his hand on his shoulder, "Sir, we've already seen darker times.  We spent days scattered in the woods of Odenir, evading Libero hunting parties.  We sobbed as the citadel at Storms Keep fell without a fight, screamed as half of Summerdale defected to Astrum, and wept as the fled the collapse of Nifelheim for Luria Nova.  We will be reborn again sir.  We will be reborn."

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wolflance on September 27, 2012, 11:29:47 am

Ewww, so we lose the battle? Been rotting in prison and lost contact with the outside world.

Their judge is questioning me about the purpose of this war.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on September 27, 2012, 03:49:13 pm

When have former Summerdalians ever needed an actual reason to start a pointless and slightly suicidal war? Reason. Bleh! I see your reason and up you a suicide charge and/or death march.

So yeah, it's probably best to vote no on proposition 69. We might actually need some friends around after this. I'm really hoping people got the sarcasm in that. I'm going to laugh so hard if mine is the deciding vote.

On other news, they did a back-burn on all the bush around my house yesterday. I may have inhaled a tiny bit too much smoke and turned Sha'shanti into a complete airhead for the day. More of a complete airhead to be precise. Oh well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. At least the Rangers have a new member. And maybe another soon. I'm afraid Sha'shanti might not actually understand what the Rangers are about and has decided to pimp one of them out to someone. Anyone want to donate their body? It's for the good of the guild..........

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on September 28, 2012, 12:29:27 am

Hmmmmm, has anyone watched the anime "Panty, Stockings and Garterbelt"? This might end up somewhat similar.

Like diplomatically you know?

At least Sha'shanti (pronunciation: Shay Shaanti) is going to hopefully have a new weapon in her arsenal. And she's very flexible, diplomatically. Shit, she might end up as a bargaining chip in D'Hara's whining about being "improperly invaded from behind". Meh.

I love this character. Pick a female Disney character. Assume she's really stupid and horny. She's also from Mountainhome, so she's used to making mandates. She couldn't even work out how to pull the lever.

She's great. I just wish I'd thought of her sooner.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on September 28, 2012, 01:08:38 am

BTW, Sha'Shaanti looks a lot like this. Without the magic stuff, no projected spirit-image protecting her, with light-mousey brunette hair, with a long pony-tail. She shows a hell of a lot more leg too. Because, her legs are a lot nicer. Better belt as well.

Damn. Stupid Opera Mobile and it's shitty clipboard. Ummmmmm, quadruple post much?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on September 28, 2012, 01:10:30 am

 http://sambojin.deviantart.com/art/Lit-silverelf-gilraen-pic-174624464?qo=0&catpath=gallery:sambojin:19916793&order=0&offset=0 (http://sambojin.deviantart.com/art/Lit-silverelf-gilraen-pic-174624464?qo=0&catpath=gallery:sambojin:19916793&order=0&offset=0)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on September 28, 2012, 01:22:59 am

You realize that you can edit your previous posts, right? There's not much of an excuse for double-posting, let alone quadruple-posting <_<;

In regards to the battle, it wasn't supposed to be suicidal. Our "allies" in Solaria decided to run away and refit just a couple turns before Luria Nova showed up. What should have been a cakewalk with two armies against one in a unfortified region turned into a massacre on our side. That's the primary reason for the current referendum, plus the fact that Solaria asked us to come assist in the first place but couldn't bother sticking around for the actual battle.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on September 28, 2012, 01:33:44 am

Vote Yes! on prosposition 69! Yaaayyyyyy!

But yeah, I do most of my bay12 posts and pretty much all of my Battlemaster playing is on an old E63 Nokia phone. I can edit all I want. But the Opera Mobile program on Symbian 3rd edition tends to just over-write anything you posted immediatedly as soon as you decide to paste a copied link, text or anything. So yeah. Sometimes it's necessary.

Plus, I don't even have an inline spell-check. So, if you don't mind, I think I'm doing quite well.

Edit: grammar.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on September 28, 2012, 02:15:34 pm

Oh wow, I haven't been in this thread in ages.

Despite being the Ruler of Terran I've been super-inactive (by my standards), my RL has been ridiculously busy and for the first time ever I find a powerful urge to just abandon the internet, which I've been doing on a regular basis.

Tldr; work, girlfriend, and parties taking up all my damn strategy-war game time. I'm a traitor to my own kind :(

How goes everyone's BM'ing lately?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on September 28, 2012, 02:43:19 pm

I be rolling in the money...  ...  also, Outer Tilog, its just sad to watch some of the nobility just yelling out random stuff that amounts to demanding/telling the rest of the realm to keep to the culture.
Albeit, they just had an OOC altercation with the clashing of OT culture versus outside culture...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on September 28, 2012, 04:33:32 pm

Parties have cut into my BM too. I haven't RPed since nam and this weekend would be a good time to. I've also miraculously been able to keep up with the Aurvandilan army ( oh HEY Ehndras! :D ) and not post any drunk ramblings about my superiors.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on September 28, 2012, 06:47:51 pm

Heheheh, (he says in a deep, throaty voice)

Drunken ramblings. Heheheheh.

Damn. I thought that was what Battlemaster was for. It's like Facebook, but no-one knows you, so you don't piss off your friends.

Just two hours ago I was only hung-over. I fixed that problem and logged in to Battlemaster. Heheheheh.........

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on September 29, 2012, 03:17:04 pm

Quote from: revo on September 28, 2012, 04:33:32 pm

Parties have cut into my BM too. I haven't RPed since nam and this weekend would be a good time to. I've also miraculously been able to keep up with the Aurvandilan army ( oh HEY Ehndras! :D ) and not post any drunk ramblings about my superiors.

Hey! :D

Your army needs to stop accidentally splitting itself up >_> We just massacred 3 of your guys because they got ahead of the main battle group. Also, good job capturing one of our guys, its started a nice RP opportunity in Terran :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Mini on September 29, 2012, 03:58:37 pm

I have no idea if this actually gives a noticeable benefit, but sending one or two guys ahead of the main force might be a worth it to make people who aren't paying attention/don't log in between attacks be not dug in. Since we are a fair distance away from Aurvandil's capitol, I can imaging they would be wanting every reduction in damage and casualties possible. Of course, it was probably an accident. :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on September 29, 2012, 04:37:38 pm

Yea one of your guys sabotaged the roads or somethings and gave people move times of 3 turns so we had to do a 3 turn move and I guess those guys didn't get the memo. It is actually pretty amazing that most of our army did realize that the orders were changed. For most armies that would have been a disaster. Alteas the ones i've seen

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on September 29, 2012, 06:05:26 pm

Yeah, I'm very surprised. Too bad you caught the saboteur :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on September 29, 2012, 08:16:47 pm

Lol i know right? well here's to the upcoming battle. Cheers mate.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: _forgotten on September 30, 2012, 08:02:25 am

That was interesting battle, lots of wounded and captured nobles.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on September 30, 2012, 03:29:39 pm

That was one crazy battle notice. I've seen actual battle reports shorter than that :o

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on September 30, 2012, 07:22:21 pm

I think I might have to make Sha'shanti shutup for a while. Just in case someone violates her SMA'ly. Or like, you know, whatever. :o

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on October 01, 2012, 07:00:14 am

I feel awesome because I captured a knight. BEST DAY EVER

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on October 01, 2012, 10:26:58 am

Quote from: SealyStar on September 25, 2012, 05:54:20 pm

Being a female character is easy in Terran where mine is. My character's former commander in the army is female, as is her lord lady.

Who's your commander/Lady?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: ConscriptFive on October 01, 2012, 12:39:37 pm

Quote from: revo on October 01, 2012, 07:00:14 am

I feel awesome because I captured a knight. BEST DAY EVER

Have you roleplayed weighing them against a duck to determine if they're a warlock?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on October 01, 2012, 01:46:00 pm

I think that might be rather frowned upon on Dwilight. I was gonna RP the battle but i didn't get to because of RL obligations. Oh well their will be more. *looks at Ehndras* unless you would like to submit to the commonwealth and let your future be decided by the high sovereigns mercy....

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on October 01, 2012, 01:52:32 pm

Naw, I'm good. :P Will be missing tonight's turn though, will be too busy getting laid. Might be able to get on if I can figure out how to make the god damn side-bar not to block the view on my iPhone's screen.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on October 01, 2012, 02:09:50 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on October 01, 2012, 01:52:32 pm

Naw, I'm good. :P Will be missing tonight's turn though, will be too busy getting laid. Might be able to get on if I can figure out how to make the god damn side-bar not to block the view on my iPhone's screen.

http://m.battlemaster.org/

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: ConscriptFive on October 03, 2012, 02:11:39 am

Quote from: danaris on October 01, 2012, 02:09:50 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on October 01, 2012, 01:52:32 pm

Naw, I'm good. :P Will be missing tonight's turn though, will be too busy getting laid. Might be able to get on if I can figure out how to make the god damn side-bar not to block the view on my iPhone's screen.

http://m.battlemaster.org/

Now all he needs is a pastrami sandwich and he can get the trifecta!

"I find the pastrami to be the most sensual of all the salted cured meats."

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S449KdjPKrY http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blood_%28Seinfeld%29

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on October 07, 2012, 05:42:08 pm

Bugger, Godnim got critically injured, and will probably die. He just found "The Astonishing Book of Betrayed Heroes", a +1 book with no other function than to kill or injure you shortly after finding it, so his entry gets written in his own blood somewhere in there. "Godnim: Died fighting a really low level group of undead when there was very little undead activity in the area. Betrayed by the odds."

But on the up-side, Vartosh just found a +7 stabby blade of monetary usefulness. Found. While checking the monster/undead activity level. No hunting, no gathering, nothing, just checking to see what was happening there. Talk about the odds evening out in your favour. I didn't even know you could find items that way. Vartosh rocks.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on October 07, 2012, 06:32:51 pm

My advy is just raking in the gold. I rarely drop below 40 much less 30 unless i feel like majorly upgrading equipment. I also have about 30 common items and hopefully I'll find a good sage soon

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on October 07, 2012, 09:21:37 pm

If you're on Beluaterra near Aesh, there'll probably be a free book for you to grab if Godnim doesn't make it. It'd be a nice gift. Especially to someone you don't like

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: _forgotten on October 24, 2012, 12:14:09 am

Damn this topic seems to have died, but it seems there will be one of the biggest?! wars Dwilight have ever seen SA vs Aurvandil. SA have advantage of a much bigger number of troops but will Aurvandil be able to keep up with its impressive coordination that we will have to see...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wolflance on October 24, 2012, 12:40:39 am

I still come here once in a while, but the in-game message system is convenient I think most of the player just chat in-game.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on October 24, 2012, 02:45:41 pm

Aurvandil's time is over. They were warned and spat in everyone's faces countless times. I quite like Aurvandil actually, and was originally tied between joining Terran or Aurvandil, ironically joining Terran because I thought they would be a peaceful buffer nation where I could learn to play without getting involved in combat. PPFFFFT! Kabrinskia vs Terran war as soon as I join. Being the Ruler of Terran doesn't make me like Aurvandil any less - their wholesale air of superiority and constant disrespect for their neighbors has. Me, I'd prefer to end the war peacefully but Mendicant made it clear to me both before and after I became Ruler, and while I was an adventurer in Aurvandil, that he will not broker peace with Terran and seeks to destroy it, then tried to manipulate D'hara into screwing Terran over, apparently conspired with D'hara's enemies, and all these other things that just made me lose the respect I had for Mendicant and Aurvandil. Now, I'm just watching as the walls come tumbling down.

Honestly, I've lost my respect for a number of individuals who once sat high on my list, while others have risen to earn my respect and admiration in these times of hardship. I guess its in conflict that people show their true colors.

Someone page me when Mendicant decides to respect his neighbors at least a tad, because I'm frankly tired of all this.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on October 24, 2012, 02:50:28 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on October 24, 2012, 02:45:41 pm

Aurvandil's time is over. They were warned and spat in everyone's faces countless times. I quite like Aurvandil actually, and was originally tied between joining Terran or Aurvandil, ironically joining Terran because I thought they would be a peaceful buffer nation where I could learn to play without getting involved in combat. PPFFFFT! Kabrinskia vs Terran war as soon as I join. Being the Ruler of Terran doesn't make me like Aurvandil any less - their wholesale air of superiority and constant disrespect for their neighbors has. Me, I'd prefer to end the war peacefully but Mendicant made it clear to me both before and after I became Ruler, and while I was an adventurer in Aurvandil, that he will not broker peace with Terran and seeks to destroy it, then tried to manipulate D'hara into screwing Terran over, apparently conspired with D'hara's enemies, and all these other things that just made me lose the respect I had for Mendicant and Aurvandil. Now, I'm just watching as the walls come tumbling down.

Honestly, I've lost my respect for a number of individuals who once sat high on my list, while others have risen to earn my respect and admiration in these times of hardship. I guess its in conflict that people show their true colors.

Someone page me when Mendicant decides to respect his neighbors at least a tad, because I'm frankly tired of all this.

Sometimes, it's really hard to resist saying "I told you so." Even when I didn't, actually, in so many words...

In general, though, it's somewhat refreshing to see those who had been admiring and supportive of Aurvandil begin to turn away from them for many of the reasons some of us have been against them from the start...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on October 24, 2012, 02:53:20 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on October 24, 2012, 02:45:41 pm

Aurvandil's time is over. They were warned and spat in everyone's faces countless times. I quite like Aurvandil actually, and was originally tied between joining Terran or Aurvandil, ironically joining Terran because I thought they would be a peaceful buffer nation where I could learn to play without getting involved in combat. PPFFFFT! Kabrinskia vs Terran war as soon as I join. Being the Ruler of Terran doesn't make me like Aurvandil any less - their wholesale air of superiority and constant disrespect for their neighbors has. Me, I'd prefer to end the war peacefully but Mendicant made it clear to me both before and after I became Ruler, and while I was an adventurer in Aurvandil, that he will not broker peace with Terran and seeks to destroy it, then tried to manipulate D'hara into screwing Terran over, apparently conspired with D'hara's enemies, and all these other things that just made me lose the respect I had for Mendicant and Aurvandil. Now, I'm just watching as the walls come tumbling down.

Honestly, I've lost my respect for a number of individuals who once sat high on my list, while others have risen to earn my respect and admiration in these times of hardship. I guess its in conflict that people show their true colors.

Someone page me when Mendicant decides to respect his neighbors at least a tad, because I'm frankly tired of all this.

My main character is from Terran. I can't wait until Aurvandil's puffed away. The fighting on the southern border is a mess, compounded by how fabulously terrible the Army of the Lowlands is at commanding people effectively.

I think we've been told to rally in Chesland for maybe six days now...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on October 24, 2012, 03:51:03 pm

Yep! Sealy, who are you?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on October 24, 2012, 04:08:01 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on October 24, 2012, 03:51:03 pm

Yep! Sealy, who are you?

On Dwilight, I play Alna Sarwell, Lord [Lady?] of Gretchew. She just got elected recently, of course. A few days ago.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on October 24, 2012, 04:10:44 pm

Quote from: SealyStar on October 24, 2012, 04:08:01 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on October 24, 2012, 03:51:03 pm

Yep! Sealy, who are you?

On Dwilight, I play Alna Sarwell, Lord [Lady?] of Gretchew. She just got elected recently, of course. A few days ago.

Ah, yes, ^.^ I voted for you :) I am Alura Aurea, Marshal of the Pride of Phantaria and Ruler of Terran, nice to know we've got another B12er in Terran!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on October 24, 2012, 04:23:20 pm

And so we finally move out to Larur.

About damn time.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on October 24, 2012, 04:25:07 pm

Sealy, don't discuss our military movement here please, there are Aurvandil players and members of various nations and, despite how much I'd love to believe everyone on B12 is committed to non-meta fair gameplay, its impossible to be sure who's fucking us over.

So, vagueness from now on please ;)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on October 24, 2012, 04:36:15 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on October 24, 2012, 04:25:07 pm

Sealy, don't discuss our military movement here please, there are Aurvandil players and members of various nations and, despite how much I'd love to believe everyone on B12 is committed to non-meta fair gameplay, its impossible to be sure who's fucking us over.

So, vagueness from now on please ;)

Right. Sorry.

I was a bit worried when I posted that, but figured most people here wouldn't be huge jerks. [And the only people who care about that whole area are close enough to send scouts...]

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on October 24, 2012, 07:06:46 pm

Wow, the amount of stuff going on in Dwilight right now is amazing. And here's me with my favourite adventurer stuck in prison :(

My noble has just been flouting around, doing squat all, while the entire politcal landscape changes around her. Three changes of mind of what I'll do has so far wasted about 5 days of game-time. I've finally decided what I'll do, but meh. It fits the character, but now I feel dumber than her. I'm also a tiny bit scared to post with her, because in-character=bad right now. Or at least "not the most serious thing to do" considering everything that's going on. Why did I make an airhead character????? Why?????

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on October 24, 2012, 07:08:26 pm

Double post, sorry.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on October 24, 2012, 08:41:09 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on October 24, 2012, 04:25:07 pm

Sealy, don't discuss our military movement here please, there are Aurvandil players and members of various nations and, despite how much I'd love to believe everyone on B12 is committed to non-meta fair gameplay, its impossible to be sure who's fucking us over.

So, vagueness from now on please ;)

I would never (really i would never) :P and sealy i don't think we are going to puff away down here :P We have many advantages here that your side doesn't and I could also say I can't wait til terran is puffed away but yall do serve as pretty good bad guys lol. The whole barbarian thing and such. Oh i kid i kid!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on October 31, 2012, 06:55:34 pm

I think we're all starting to realize just how big the sea travel changes are. They might be costly to use, but wow. I mean, holy shit. How hard is it going to be to defend a coastal realm now? Very bloody hard.

Negligible travel times for seaborne attacks as long as you go from land->sea->land without travelling to a different part of the ocean. Can pick and choose which part of a realm to attack. Major CS loss with the invasion, but against milita that's not really a problem. Cat and mouse of main armies and small invasion forces just got serious. Avast! There be pillaging and looting on the horizon for all nobles that dare set foot upon a ship.

And once again, adventurers are the best scouts ever. The best seafarers as well. No morale worries, no food worries, cheap ships and the ability to find out where main armies are (20 nobles in an area means that they're there). Militia on police duty, as well as noble's armies doing police work are now a must, just to stop piratical adventurers giving info on poorly defended attack targets or army locations.


I always wanted a pirate adventurer. There's bugger all to do at sea, it takes ages to travel to another bit of ocean, but the information gained is worth more than gold. It's a pity that nobles can't really pay you properly for your services to the realm.

"Yohoho and a bottle of rum......."

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on November 01, 2012, 03:14:18 am

Sometimes I really wonder why the hell people on Battlemaster are such toss-pots. It's one of those things my character does. She leaves a little sign-off line that vaguely has to do with the post just written with almost every post. Her scribes hate her, and write it exactly as said. It's characterful. It's one of the few things that differentiates her from other "I'm a bloke in a skirt" nobles. It was about navigation, charting sea-routes for the good of an entire empire, one about to be able to be attacked from two other "toss-pot" realms.

How can a simple sign-off line of "Your Noble Ranger of Seaman Introductions" be taken so poorly? She is of the rank of Noble Ranger. She introduced a seaman to the realm. She was attempting to tell them that her Earl (incidently the High Commander of the army and Guildmaster of the guild she's in) had heaps of shit going on, had it covered, and was just generally showing it to a pack of whinging nobles that didn't know how much stuff said High Commander gets done behind the scenes.

One sign-off line, totally in-character, and some dick wants to have the entire family deported from the continent. Hah! Why?

It's exactly what she does as a character. In a SMA context, and is also a very useful noble in her own way. And will be more-so when she get's the hell back home. She stands out from the crowd of two-bit useless nobles because of her poorly thought out letters.

Fuck boring. Is that what Dwilight is about? Shitty, carbon-copy nobles that do precisely nothing?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on November 01, 2012, 09:21:52 am

Quote from: sambojin on November 01, 2012, 03:14:18 am

One sign-off line, totally in-character, and some dick wants to have the entire family deported from the continent. Hah! Why?

I believe it's the character's last name, not the sign-off.

And, as I wrote to you in-game, I don't think it's that bad.

Don't worry about it for now. When said dick comes on IRC, I'll talk to him about it.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: ConscriptFive on November 01, 2012, 10:08:18 am

Like I said, haters gonna hate.

A new noble is ~19 years old.  Unless you've been playing a character for RL years, we're all of the maturity and inclinations of modern day university students.  To have *everybody* roleplaying as either a grim chessmaster or a Roman general is wildy nearsighted.  People read too much into the "serious" part of  SMA.  SMA is just a euphenism for realism.  Sha'Shanti acts like what you'd expect from a 19 year-old girl who just inherited her daddy's empire.

http://wiki.battlemaster.org/wiki/SMA

Off to more substantive matters, not enough people have realized how code changes over the few months have completely upended grand strategy.  The whole Alliance A's doomstack vs. Alliance B's doomstack is really suboptimal now.

First the agriculture system was put in.  Rural provinces produce surplus food which cities need.  Cities provide the megabucks needed to field armies.  Mismanagement and turmoil in previously "filler" provinces now threatens starvation in the cities, which take RL months to recover from.  Irvington went to shit in what, June or so, and still is 5000 population short of max.

Then not long after Danaris and Tom's spat on the forums, sea travel was released.  Since Dwilight was previously a donut with some itty bitty islands in the middle, you were stuck along some obvious beaten paths.  Now with alittle preparation, you can crisscross the donut hole and bypass rough terrain for long journeys.

But quietly last week, a small announcement was made that got surprisingly little fanfare.  The realm adjacency requirement for annex land now extended across water!  Whereas before you had these medieval Maginot Lines and alliances blocking clockwise or counter-clockwise expansion, now you can grab anything with a coastline.  D'Hara had been independent so long only because previous geography stated Luria had to annex them either from right (Sallowtown) to left, or left (Port Nebel) to right in sequence.  Hence they made impenetrable defenses at Sallowtown and Port Nebel and laughed at the world as we were forced to try and get our best doomstack to their city walls.

Combine those three, and now you got some revolutionary opportunities for warfare.  I haven't seen any calculations for amphibious landing penalties, but you'd think a 5+ noble army (respectable but modest by current doomstack standards) would be enough to beat the average rural militia garrison.  Burn the silos and attempt a takeover.  Keep an eye on the scout reports, and escape into the sea before their doomstack clobbers you.  Laugh as their cities starve when winter comes.  Get a warm and fuzzy feeling as you spend the next six months watching the difference between the population on http://battlemaster.org/testing/regionlist.php and its max on the wiki.

Chivalry is a romantic notion and not very SMA beyond the most superficial of levels.  Welcome to total war.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on November 01, 2012, 10:21:12 am

I sort of assumed that the name "el Gato" would have been the least of the problems Sha'shanti would be facing in a SMA world, considering her vocabulary in dealing with both nobles and peasants. Oh well.

Actually, does el Gato translate into anything other than cat? Has it been pseudo-anglo-vulgarized to mean pussy (a female's genitals) as well as cat? I could understand then. It's not meant to mean cat in that context though on BM, I just like the way el Gato sounds. It sort of rolls off the tongue with any first name attached to it. I would have chosen something funnier than cat=pussy if I was trying to slip it by the serious name censor.

Otherwise, I'm stumped. I wonder what Sha'shanti means in all of the many languages I don't speak? Probably something amusing or awful. Oh well.

Cheers for taking the complaint in the context of what it is. A pretty small one I hope. To tell you the truth, if it's completely destroying the game for him, I'll change it. But I'm damn well going to be putting unpronounceable punctuation all the way through it so I can never have the same problem again :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on November 01, 2012, 02:15:12 pm

I don't like Sha'shanti either, but for purely in-character reasons. I had my adventurer complain about her to another adventurer - it might have been yours, sambojin :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on November 01, 2012, 02:38:49 pm

Quote from: sambojin on November 01, 2012, 10:21:12 am

Actually, does el Gato translate into anything other than cat?

It apparently means "servant", but only in Mexican Spanish.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Detrevni|inverteD on November 01, 2012, 05:40:26 pm

I'd like to get in on this game, but it seems a little slow and confusing. I don't have that much time to commit, so I'd much rather help someone's plight on bay12. Any information on where I should join and what I should do if I want to help out my fellow dwarves?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on November 01, 2012, 05:55:59 pm

Ok. It appears my spanish is even worse than I thought. Actually, that does make it somewhate amusing though. It does mean cat as well, and in it's feminine form can even mean female wildcat. Strangely, Shanti, and it's base root Sha means peace or peaceful in Sanskrit. Often used in sutras and meditation, as well as in yoga.

So, putting all that together, I'm going for the very dodgily, double translated meaning of Sha'Shanti el Gato as meaning "The peaceful, flexible, servile, female cat." Which portrays her well as a generally self-possessed character. I'm sure her unstated middle name probably means "dumb as a post".  Perhaps an even closer meaning could be the "peaceful, peaceful servant" or "peaceful sutra of pussy" or any number of combinations, depending on context and inflection. The things you learn off google.

Anyway, I might write up a quick doc for the wiki sometime soon on a few of the advanced adventurer things that have come to mind with the recent changes. Some of them also just a standard part of BM.

Stuff like:
Sea exploration.
Army discovery.
Selling information for favour, not gold.
The importance of guilds to adventurers.
Money running for army resupplies.
Ticking unpayable services off a guild's treasurey, and how to repay them later.
The universal currency of magic items, so gold can change hands from noble->adventurer and advy->advy, for things outside the normal payment system.
The use of non-hunting adventurers for a realm.
The extreme hatred that should be directed at hunt-poachers.

Can anyone think of anything else I should add to the write up? Most people are probably unaware of how flexible advy's have become, and how to actually get payed for doing things other than hunting or magic item finding, nor how effective even a small guild of advy's can be at halting monster invasions in an area. Like everything with BM, co-operation and communication is the only true way to advance any particular cause.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: ConscriptFive on November 02, 2012, 01:56:09 am

Quote from: Detrevni|inverteD on November 01, 2012, 05:40:26 pm

I'd like to get in on this game, but it seems a little slow and confusing. I don't have that much time to commit, so I'd much rather help someone's plight on bay12. Any information on where I should join and what I should do if I want to help out my fellow dwarves?

The best way to think of Battlemaster is to think of it as a Play-By-E-Mail (PBEM) game: you play it once or twice a day for a few minutes, and through teamwork over many days, you get to watch it all play out.  Create a noble, claim an estate, and follow your realm leadership.  Just ease into in gradually.

Alot of us Dwarves are setup in Luria Nova on the Dwilight continent.  Right now, there are some really wealthy estates ready to be given away in Askileon, that I strongly recommend a new noble take.  Giask too has some rather wealthy estates available as well.  Both cities also have very friendly and active Duchesses who am I certain would gladly assist a new player.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on November 02, 2012, 02:23:19 pm

I'd much appreciate it if someone in Dwilight could please tell my men in Terran I've disappeared for the last 5 days because I have no power after the hurricane pounded my town into oblivion. No idea when well get power back, some folks were caught I the sub station as it flooded so they had to undergo a whole rescue op and now, well, pumping water, repairs... Transformers and lines down all over, a friend of the family apparently died, and who knows what else.

I have barely any cell battery left but can anyone tell me how things are going on Dwilight? Oh, almost forgot. I'm Alura Aurea, Ruler of Terran. Please tell General Kale Perth of Terran, and Rynn JeVondair, Ruler of D'hara, I'll be offline for possibly a few more days until power is restored. Wouldn't want everyone to think I bailed in the most crucial part of my invasion, heh.

Cheers folks, and stay safe. It's pretty bad here, just got cell towers back online yesterday. Gas is scarce, some places have no heat, we have no power, and the local sub stations apparently got hit hard.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on November 02, 2012, 02:42:57 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on November 02, 2012, 02:23:19 pm

I'd much appreciate it if someone in Dwilight could please tell my men in Terran I've disappeared for the last 5 days because I have no power after the hurricane pounded my town into oblivion. No idea when well get power back, some folks were caught I the sub station as it flooded so they had to undergo a whole rescue op and now, well, pumping water, repairs... Transformers and lines down all over, a friend of the family apparently died, and who knows what else.

I have barely any cell battery left but can anyone tell me how things are going on Dwilight? Oh, almost forgot. I'm Alura Aurea, Ruler of Terran. Please tell General Kale Perth of Terran, and Rynn JeVondair, Ruler of D'hara, I'll be offline for possibly a few more days until power is restored. Wouldn't want everyone to think I bailed in the most crucial part of my invasion, heh.

Cheers folks, and stay safe. It's pretty bad here, just got cell towers back online yesterday. Gas is scarce, some places have no heat, we have no power, and the local sub stations apparently got hit hard.

I can do it for you, but what exactly should I say? OOC message, obviously, but how could I avoid making it sound suspicious?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on November 02, 2012, 02:51:39 pm

Ah well, Asylon is sitting around prepping for on-coming events.  Might be a few key military members have been swept up in Sandy's embrace.... probably the same for many of the many other realms of Dwilight.

I've sent a message to the D'haran player.  Don't have any means to speak to your general.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on November 02, 2012, 07:19:29 pm

Quote from: SealyStar on November 02, 2012, 02:42:57 pm

I can do it for you, but what exactly should I say? OOC message, obviously, but how could I avoid making it sound suspicious?

I don't think anyone would have a problem with you just copying his post there into an OOC message, with a brief note saying, "Hey, just copying this from Alura's player's post on the Bay12 forums."

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on November 03, 2012, 05:14:23 am

Woo! Power's back! HA! I'm so glad they restored my part of town, I would have gone insane if I had to be in the dark 'til Friday like they figured we'd be.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on November 09, 2012, 12:37:58 pm

Hmm... Colonies, feels like I can sit in a foodless/starving region for 5-8 days, before having to run back to a region with food for 10 days to replenish.  It really needs the buy provisions option in Dwilight or loot allied granary for full replenishment.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Talfryn on November 17, 2012, 01:41:47 am

I admit to finding Dame Gato a little annoying. Just a lot. Still, it's different.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on November 17, 2012, 10:27:25 am

Yeah...the modern colloquial quasi-Valley-speak is just really grating.

Especially on Dwilight. Y'know, where we're supposed to be talking like Medieval nobles would have talked.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on November 17, 2012, 07:21:52 pm

Ignoring RPing, I have a gameplay-mechanic question: why do you have to recruit a minimum of five men? Why can't I round out my 21-man force to its maximum of 24?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on November 17, 2012, 07:41:44 pm

Quote from: SealyStar on November 17, 2012, 07:21:52 pm

Ignoring RPing, I have a gameplay-mechanic question: why do you have to recruit a minimum of five men? Why can't I round out my 21-man force to its maximum of 24?

Hm. Recruiting enough to max yourself out should be possible, regardless of how few men it takes. I'll have to look into that bug.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on November 17, 2012, 08:20:26 pm

Quote from: danaris on November 17, 2012, 07:41:44 pm

Quote from: SealyStar on November 17, 2012, 07:21:52 pm

Ignoring RPing, I have a gameplay-mechanic question: why do you have to recruit a minimum of five men? Why can't I round out my 21-man force to its maximum of 24?

Hm. Recruiting enough to max yourself out should be possible, regardless of how few men it takes. I'll have to look into that bug.

It says "or the maximum possible", but that refers to the number of men available to recruit, not how many your noble can recruit.

For example, let's say there are fifteen men available, the noble can field 32, and has 29. The maximum given refers to the fifteen, not the three.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on November 18, 2012, 12:36:39 pm

Quote from: SealyStar on November 17, 2012, 08:20:26 pm

Quote from: danaris on November 17, 2012, 07:41:44 pm

Quote from: SealyStar on November 17, 2012, 07:21:52 pm

Ignoring RPing, I have a gameplay-mechanic question: why do you have to recruit a minimum of five men? Why can't I round out my 21-man force to its maximum of 24?

Hm. Recruiting enough to max yourself out should be possible, regardless of how few men it takes. I'll have to look into that bug.

It says "or the maximum possible", but that refers to the number of men available to recruit, not how many your noble can recruit.

For example, let's say there are fifteen men available, the noble can field 32, and has 29. The maximum given refers to the fifteen, not the three.

Yeah; it's supposed to work with either.

(I should know; I wrote that code—though it's clearly since been messed with. ;D )

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on November 19, 2012, 05:17:19 pm

Aaaaaaand the rulers of D'hara and Terran are now officially married ^_^

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on November 19, 2012, 06:02:17 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on November 19, 2012, 05:17:19 pm

Aaaaaaand the rulers of D'hara and Terran are now officially married ^_^

Aaaaaaand Chesland is officially rogue.

Damn, we gotta fix that.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Brotato on November 19, 2012, 06:32:29 pm

I figure I'll give this game a whirl, what server are most Bay12er's on?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on November 19, 2012, 06:50:52 pm

Quote from: Brotato on November 19, 2012, 06:32:29 pm

I figure I'll give this game a whirl, what server are most Bay12er's on?

Dwilight, its the serious RP atmosphere server,  you don't really have to RP, just don't be too un-noble-ish(OOC/Meta) and you should be fine.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Brotato on November 19, 2012, 08:29:27 pm

Quote from: Zangi on November 19, 2012, 06:50:52 pm

Quote from: Brotato on November 19, 2012, 06:32:29 pm

I figure I'll give this game a whirl, what server are most Bay12er's on?

Dwilight, its the serious RP atmosphere server,  you don't really have to RP, just don't be too un-noble-ish(OOC/Meta) and you should be fine.

Awesome! Thanks for the heads up, is there any tips you can give me for my first turn or so, that you wished someone had told you?  Or really anything that would be helpful.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on November 19, 2012, 11:31:36 pm

Post a umm...  greeting message of some sort.  Find an estate.  Estates are your primary source of income.  Though, you will technically be serving under the lord of that estate/region.
Prime real estate tends be near the capital/duchy, since they are the most stable...  and you are less likely need to help to maintain it.  Needless to say, a bigger share of the land is ideal, but yea, you gotta look at the regional income too.  I'm probably going over your head with this... but, you'll understand once you see it for yourself, if not sooner or later.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on November 20, 2012, 09:07:12 am

If you need a breakdown on basic continental politics, there are a number of folks you can ask. :) There is no harm in joining a new realm if you don't like your first one, my first realm was some little nation in the middle of nowhere in Far East, I gave a try with my main character on Dwilight and never looked back.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Brotato on November 20, 2012, 11:20:54 am

Alright, I started playing on Dwilight, and I'm a noble of Iashular.  Are any of you guys part of this empire?  I'm guessing not likely since there aren't too many of us, but hey, might as well ask.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on November 20, 2012, 02:06:35 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on November 20, 2012, 09:07:12 am

If you need a breakdown on basic continental politics, there are a number of folks you can ask. :) There is no harm in joining a new realm if you don't like your first one, my first realm was some little nation in the middle of nowhere in Far East, I gave a try with my main character on Dwilight and never looked back.

Heh, my main was originally in Fontan on the EC. I created Alna on Dwilight as a side character.

Then, of course, Fontan collapsed and Rosnan emigrated to Beluaterra. Beluaterra has got to be the worst continent. After that dumbass little blight thing, there's nothing interesting to do, and all the land is too poor for any noble to become wealthy enough to field >10 soldiers. I'm glad I made Ros an infiltrator. He can earn more loot in one raid on some band of rebels than in two weeks of taxes.

So Alna is my main now... and that place has been reaffirmed with her election as lord (lady?).

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on November 20, 2012, 02:39:44 pm

Quote from: SealyStar on November 20, 2012, 02:06:35 pm

Then, of course, Fontan collapsed and Rosnan emigrated to Beluaterra. Beluaterra has got to be the worst continent. After that dumbass little blight thing, there's nothing interesting to do, and all the land is too poor for any noble to become wealthy enough to field >10 soldiers. I'm glad I made Ros an infiltrator. He can earn more loot in one raid on some band of rebels than in two weeks of taxes.

Good grief, where are you on BT?

I'm Lord of a relatively modest rural region in Riombara, and I have a vacant estate that would pay you at least 90 gold/week. Come to Ajitmon; you won't get rich, but at least you'll be better off than wherever you're stuck now...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: ConscriptFive on November 20, 2012, 04:15:59 pm

Yeah, BM is kinda dull unless you're at war or in a group of folk that RP's their asses off.  Every continent except Dwilight and BT is non-RP, so that narrows the choices.

War in BT was recently averted through diplomacy, so it's kinda dull there right now unless you're connected enough to muck around with scrolls.  On the other hand, it's because all the adventurers are off gathering items for those scrolls that undead and monster outbreaks are really common.  My noble in BT has more honor and leadership than my one in Dwilight (a Summerdale/Luria vet!) because I've basically been fighting outbreaks every other turn.  Also alot of the battlefield provinces are still underpopulated from the Blight, so we're also fighting those outbreaks on a shoestring budget in many cases.

It's mainly about knowing which Realm to pick on Dwilight and BT.  The map is full (barring colonizing wasteland provinces), so Realms really can't do anything without going to war with other Realms or themselves.  Hence unless you like !!FUN!! or waiting for !!FUN!! to happen, you'll enjoy BM most if you're in one of the larger Realms on Dwilight.

As for following global politics, the BM Facebook page has been pretty good as of late:

"From Dwilight: Consul Brom Silverfire withdraws from the election for the Regency of Sanguis Astroism following allegations that his wife, Luminary Allison Kabrinski, has attempted to use bribery to convince other Elders to vote for her husband. Guardian Stalwart Mordaunt Lefanis, the sole remaining candidate for the Regency, is proclaimed the victor.

In related news, Duchess Allison Kabrinski is later banished from her namesake realm, which she founded, for conduct unbecoming of such a high-ranking noble. The banishment is proclaimed by her own husband, Prince Brom Silverfire."

https://www.facebook.com/BattleMasterGame

Some Lurians really should start posting there.  We just put down an emerging coup from a high-profile Duke, and are finally ROFLstomping the Vesperi.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Brotato on November 20, 2012, 05:18:55 pm

How do you move characters between continents?  I was thinking of creating another noble in Dwilight, but apperently I can only have two(?) at a time there.  So I was thinking of creating another noble on a different server and moving to Beluaterra.  I hear that's pretty good for some RP-ing goodness.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on November 20, 2012, 06:41:24 pm

Quote from: Brotato on November 20, 2012, 05:18:55 pm

How do you move characters between continents?  I was thinking of creating another noble in Dwilight, but apperently I can only have two(?) at a time there. 

You can only ever have one active noble on Dwilight. You can also create an adventurer there, if you want.

Quote

So I was thinking of creating another noble on a different server and moving to Beluaterra.  I hear that's pretty good for some RP-ing goodness.

Nobles can emigrate from one continent to another from any port.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on November 20, 2012, 08:22:45 pm

Quote from: ConscriptFive on November 20, 2012, 04:15:59 pm

Yeah, BM is kinda dull unless you're at war or in a group of folk that RP's their asses off.  Every continent except Dwilight and BT is non-RP, so that narrows the choices.

Technically, Outer Tilog in the Colonies(half speed server) does RP.  But the island as a whole acts in a pretty meta fashion and given a few months, there will be 2 less realms, where-in the island will become a realm of 3, who have been traditionally allied together for years...  nice place to just build up coin with little effort though.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on November 25, 2012, 11:13:26 pm

Also, if you are going to get a noble going on Dwilight, get an adventurer going too. In a lot of ways, adventurers are more fun. Join an adventuring guild (Royal Rangers in Luria Nova, hint-hint) and have a laugh. You only have to RP a certain amount, and your character develops from what they do and their participation level, not politcally or heavy-RP wise.

I actually like Markos (my adventurer) more than Sha'shanti (my noble), simply due to the ability to light-RP things. You won't be changing the entire realm with an adventurer, but you can certainly assist with good things. It's actually suprising just how much adventurers can do, but joining a guild with a few nobles attached is handy. So many benefits for light-RP for paying a 5 gold membership fee.

I'm actually about to have to educate Sha'shanti, just because it's a flawed character concept in the long-term. Or was that re-Neducate?

Oh god, I just thought of something.......... I swear I won't do it. "Hididdly-ho neighbourin-no!!!!"

Nup. Just doesn't work :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: ConscriptFive on November 26, 2012, 06:40:58 am

Quote from: sambojin on November 25, 2012, 11:13:26 pm

...I'm actually about to have to educate Sha'shanti...

RP'ing out My Fair Lady is surprisingly appropriate.

Wonderful old-world sexism:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Doz5w2W-jAY#t=00m51s

The iconic scene:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVmU3iANbgk#t=00m30s

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: zehive on November 26, 2012, 08:07:49 am

I figured I'd make nobles on less RP-intensive servers. One kingdom I've been trying to get in contact with a duke for 5 days, I'm about to just move into an estate lest I go broke. On the other server pretty much immediately after I joined I got an offer from a Baron for an estate. Moved there, took it up. I might be regretting it tho, as I'm easing into the RP bits pretty well

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on November 27, 2012, 06:57:08 pm

In places where there is less contact from higher ranking nobles, I find it's best to say what you're going to do, rather than ask if you can do it.

Just sort of state it as a question, in the sense that if they give a negative response then you won't do it, otherwise you will. Estate jumping isn't exactly the worst thing in the world either. Just move in, state that they're just your temporary lodgings, then you can RP your staying (it's grown on you) if no-one responds. Or RP your moving to a new estate if they don't want you there, or someone offers somewhere better. It's an easy intro to the game, and it makes sure you have some sort of income straight off the bat. You'll be told if you just nicked an estate that was promised to someone else, but thats a very rare occurance.

There's also usually no reason that a lord wouldn't want an extra knight around the place anyway. It improves efficiency, and they can set the percentages of estates to whatever they feel like anyway. So go squatting in a spare estate until told otherwise I think, especially if there's been no response to your initial messages.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on December 05, 2012, 07:28:48 pm

Has anyone had any experience in being a trader or a courtier? Sha'shanti has just gotten enough honour recently to become either, and I wouldn't mind exploring a few more options in the game. Strangely enough, trader probably fits her better than courtier, just from the shop-a-holic side of things.

It's not that I'm not having fun with her as a warrior, far from it, but it might be fun to do a few other things too. I actually like her having a reasonable unit of archers, it's pretty much her reason for existing, but trader also sounds fun.

So does anyone have any thoughts on the positive/negatives of either of the two career choices?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Brotato on December 05, 2012, 10:52:20 pm

Quote from: sambojin on December 05, 2012, 07:28:48 pm

Has anyone had any experience in being a trader or a courtier? Sha'shanti has just gotten enough honour recently to become either, and I wouldn't mind exploring a few more options in the game. Strangely enough, trader probably fits her better than courtier, just from the shop-a-holic side of things.

It's not that I'm not having fun with her as a warrior, far from it, but it might be fun to do a few other things too. I actually like her having a reasonable unit of archers, it's pretty much her reason for existing, but trader also sounds fun.

So does anyone have any thoughts on the positive/negatives of either of the two career choices?

I've only just started the game and am having quite a blast as part of CE right now, (Was anyone here part of that MASSIVE battle in Nazamroth?  So sad I can't be its marquess anymore) so I wouldn't know about either option.  But what can even be traded in the gaame other than food?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Urist McBeanie on December 05, 2012, 11:31:02 pm

Quote from: Brotato on December 05, 2012, 10:52:20 pm

(Was anyone here part of that MASSIVE battle in Nazamroth?  So sad I can't be its marquess anymore)

Yep, but keep in mind, the province isn't lost yet. With the Cagilan Empire and Talerium's forces combined, it will be possible to retake it.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Brotato on December 06, 2012, 05:15:12 pm

Quote from: Urist McBeanie on December 05, 2012, 11:31:02 pm

Quote from: Brotato on December 05, 2012, 10:52:20 pm

(Was anyone here part of that MASSIVE battle in Nazamroth?  So sad I can't be its marquess anymore)

Yep, but keep in mind, the province isn't lost yet. With the Cagilan Empire and Talerium's forces combined, it will be possible to retake it.

Doesn't bother me if we can't.  I'm running for election in Woodglen, so I'll still have a region to be lord in hopefully.  plus, we were eventually going to give to Talerium anyways, so my time as its lord wouldn't have been forever.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: vagel7 on December 07, 2012, 05:52:39 pm

I was in the battle an Nazamroth, although I was fighting on Eston's side.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Brotato on December 07, 2012, 11:25:08 pm

Quote from: vagel7 on December 07, 2012, 05:52:39 pm

I was in the battle an Nazamroth, although I was fighting on Eston's side.

Damn, I didn't think I'd ever have to call a fellow Bay12er and enemy.  That's a real Shame. :'(  Just remember to tell your bosses to treat my region well kept.  I expect production and morale to be high, the granaries to full, the recruitment centers stocked, you get the idea.  It won't be long before we come rolling back in to take control.

So what realm do you fight for, exactly?  I'd be interested in hearing other Bay12ers' opinions about CE, the current war, and who they think is right and wrong in this fight.  Also, what's your lord's name, home region, class, etc?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on January 04, 2013, 12:42:37 am

My adventurer Godnim just bit the dust, so I've got a character slot free. Any bay12'ers want an extra noble in their particular realm? I'm stocked up on Dwilight, but am happy to chuck someone in on any of the other islands.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Absolute Niro on January 04, 2013, 02:55:27 am

This sounds like an interesting game, thought I'd ask a few questions first though.

Is it still active? By that I mean it actually feels like there are other people around. Roleplaying games just aren't fun when they're unrealistically underpopulated. And is there some specific server Bay12 is playing on, like a guild or something? I haven't actually tried the game yet and I haven't read much on the wiki so I don't know how stuff like that works exactly.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Mini on January 04, 2013, 08:50:13 am

It's quite active yes, it's been a bit quieter than usual in the immediate past due to christmas and all that. Dwilight (the serious island) probably has the most B12ers on it, with people scattered everywhere now that Summerdale (which used to have a large concentration of B12ers) has been wiped out.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: christonian on January 04, 2013, 01:25:06 pm

ok I have a noble and commoner on dwilight and another noble on Atamara

any recommendations for a starting character other then try to get a estate from local lord and move towards your capital for recruiting???

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on January 04, 2013, 05:51:38 pm

That's about it from the start. You might want to join a guild or religion though, it just livens things up a bit if things start to get boring.

Also, ask if there are any armies that need a new knight, or if there's an internal security force that needs more patrols. You might find that there's a large war going on, so grab as many troops as you can and jump into an army. It's a quick way of grasping some of the fundamentals of the game (more-so from what other people do and your orders, not what you'll do) and can boost your noble pretty quickly if your realm is winning.

For the internal security, it's a necessary job that lets you help out your kingdom while you get the lay of the land. Team up with a noble or two and go slaughtering monsters and undead. It's more fun than just sitting around the capital and boosts your noble a bit while you work out what's going on. Don't go in alone at the start though. That message system is there for a reason, and is the core menu of the game. Team hunting will let you appreciate co-ordinated movement on a smaller, more personal scale, and it's a good way of making friends in your realm.

At the beginning I recommend a good archer unit. They're not massively effective, but at least when you win you don't tend to take any losses. This is quite important at the start. If you lose, you may lose a lot, but you'll find that every unit loses a lot when defeated. At least you won't lose half your unit while winning the battle.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: stabbymcstabstab on January 05, 2013, 10:57:57 am

Archers are the best starting unit they, are also perfect when dealing with monster or undead when patroling and faired decently against the rare skrimish agaisnist melee troops.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: christonian on January 05, 2013, 12:15:08 pm

I picked archers for all my characters because I read they would live longer

moving my noble(dwilight) next province over to take over an estate

Atamara has one already

and commoner was maxed fatigued just did bath/rest now 11 fatigue

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: stabbymcstabstab on January 05, 2013, 12:28:07 pm

Hey so you Guys know I got a character on the East Continent Flint Polzin, If any you guys got connections to Caligus please put a good word in for me I'm looking at a 50% estate right now with massive tax revenue.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Azerax on February 03, 2013, 11:58:04 am

Archers are good if you have something in front of them, otherwise they get chewed up fast.  However, in very large battles (like Nazamroth), archers are good because the battlefield gets too crowded and infantry can't get at the enemy.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on February 03, 2013, 06:35:28 pm

Quote from: stabbymcstabstab on January 05, 2013, 12:28:07 pm

Hey so you Guys know I got a character on the East Continent Flint Polzin, If any you guys got connections to Caligus please put a good word in for me I'm looking at a 50% estate right now with massive tax revenue.

Yeah, and if anyone in Terran is looking for a good estate they can come to Gretchew... I got no knights at all there.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Azerax on February 04, 2013, 11:49:25 am

Perhaps one of your realm mates will give you a knight?  You only need 1 per region to run at 100%

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on February 04, 2013, 12:11:26 pm

Quote from: Azerax on February 04, 2013, 11:49:25 am

Perhaps one of your realm mates will give you a knight?  You only need 1 per region to run at 100%

Is it that simple?  To ask for knight of another liege?  (Intentionally reading that sentence wrong.  :P)

Best you can do is ask for a knight from the masses or find a region with more then 1 knight and specifically ask for their fealty/service.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Mini on February 05, 2013, 09:50:02 am

We don't have any spare knights in Terran. Around half of our regions have only the lord in them, the rest only have a single knight.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on February 05, 2013, 03:32:35 pm

Quote from: Mini on February 05, 2013, 09:50:02 am

We don't have any spare knights in Terran. Around half of our regions have only the lord in them, the rest only have a single knight.

Yeah, Terran is spread thin... too many regions, not enough people to fill all of them completely. Add that to the fact that the lords we do have seem to enjoy switching regions every time one gets empty, so there's no constancy.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: rumpel on February 08, 2013, 09:28:21 am

So I've read Summerdale is gone - where's the highest B12 concentration now? I wanna start playing but I don't know what realm to choose...

Edit: I read alot of Terran in the previous posts, so I'll jump in there.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Vonyx on February 08, 2013, 11:04:18 am

Most of the people in Summerdale wen't to Luria Nova AFAIK.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on February 08, 2013, 11:13:45 am

Quote from: rumpel on February 08, 2013, 09:28:21 am

So I've read Summerdale is gone - where's the highest B12 concentration now? I wanna start playing but I don't know what realm to choose...

Edit: I read alot of Terran in the previous posts, so I'll jump in there.

Yeah, I have noticed a lot of us in Terran, although obviously I'm biased.

And Terran needs nobles. We need to be able to kidnap foreigners and force them to run our estates D:

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Freshmaniscoolman on February 08, 2013, 11:19:49 am

Just signed up as a noble in Terran, my name is Ghandour Leeban.
I don't quite get what is supposed to be done here, what is this game about and what do you do in it?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: rumpel on February 08, 2013, 11:27:07 am

Oh, by the way my name is Ferret Mucosolvan from Vassar.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Brotato on February 08, 2013, 12:24:35 pm

Personally I've been playing on Atamara, Dwilight got too boring for me.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Keita on February 08, 2013, 12:40:25 pm

Hi, I've read most of the thread (not all 78 pages because...bleh) but my interest has been caught. I'm on the wiki now trying to learn the basics.

And from glancing at the last few pages Terran is a good place for a Bay12er.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on February 08, 2013, 12:56:38 pm

In other news, BT is as shitty as it's ever been since that whole demon thing happened. I had the misfortune of sending my character there right as it was ending. The rebuilding has been slow, lengthy, and painful...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Daggoth on February 10, 2013, 01:14:33 am

Just started as a knight in Phantaria duchy of Terran...  Seems interesting,  if a bit slow.  My knight Fyldorn Klavain has 17 archers under his command at the moment.  :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on February 13, 2013, 02:02:08 am

How's Terran been? Lady Alura Aurea here, former Ruler of Terran - dethroned by the dreaded breakage of my laptop while on vacation out of the country. Hope you guys don't think I bailed on purpose during the eve of my wedding to the ruler of D'hara!. :) Let everyone know I'm still alive, especially my husband-to-be haha, and that I will be rejoining Terran as soon as I buy a new computer - which should be relatively soon.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Daggoth on February 18, 2013, 11:43:30 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on February 13, 2013, 02:02:08 am

How's Terran been? Lady Alura Aurea here, former Ruler of Terran - dethroned by the dreaded breakage of my laptop while on vacation out of the country. Hope you guys don't think I bailed on purpose during the eve of my wedding to the ruler of D'hara!. :) Let everyone know I'm still alive, especially my husband-to-be haha, and that I will be rejoining Terran as soon as I buy a new computer - which should be relatively soon.

Terran seems to be doing well,  although being new to the realm perhaps I'm not the best judge..  I'm in the same boat as you as far as computers,  my comp got stolen so I've been stuck using my Android phone for my gaming fix.. I would be alot worse off, but I am lucky there is a port of DCSS and Brogue available. Actually you should be able to play Battlemaster with a cheap phone - just need a web browser I think..  Anyhow, hope you rejoin us soon!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on February 26, 2013, 11:59:03 pm

Cor blimey! I've got me an army now.

:)

Sha'shanti el Gato,
Marshal of the Golden Host
Countess of Flying Hongrns

Never say that it can't be done, no matter how your character started out. Fair enough, it's temporary, but does our Queen need to do this sort of stuff? Considering the next step is: go head kicking in Shinnen. And yeah, making us all rich and powerful and stuff. You know, whatever........

I love Luria Nova :P 

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on February 27, 2013, 04:51:17 pm

The drumbeats of war grow ever nearer in my corner of Dwilight.  For better or worse.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Fanofgaming on February 28, 2013, 07:52:09 am

I don't want to say too much, but I'd like to throw out there the fact that there is a reasonable chance that Summerdale will be reformed within a month or two, if anyone's interested.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on March 01, 2013, 06:50:50 pm

in the same spot? aka the center of boring? no thanks mate.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on March 02, 2013, 06:54:36 pm

I'll see just how "outspoken" I've made Sha'shanti around that time. Although, Luria's got some stuff happening right now, and she quite likes it there.

For anyone on Atamara, how good were those battles recently? 40k CS or so a side, with the normal fact that half the army didn't turn up. Not huge, but it's good to see everyone getting along so well. Even if my noble did accidently spark off some friendly-fire against our allies by forward scouting. Oops.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: alamoes on March 03, 2013, 09:49:09 am

I had a board game with the same name. It may be buried somewhere in the basement.  I don't know.  I might go looking for it, but probably not. 

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on March 03, 2013, 07:40:57 pm

It's not the same game. I believe you're thinking of the Games Workshop + MB(?) one based on Warhammer. I used to have it myself until recently.

The Battlemaster of this thread, in very broad terms, is vaguely similar, except you're just one commander of a small force instead of an overarching ruler (well, most of us aren't). Plus there's no orcs, goblins, elves or anything like that. Well, there kind of is, but nothing like the GW version of them. Really, they're not very much alike at all.

Although, both are pretty fun to play. I used to like the battle mat thing from that boardgame.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on March 25, 2013, 01:40:39 pm

Huh... huge changes going on in the southwest of Dwilight. To think that Terran would fall into 3 separate realms after such a short period of fighting... but that may have already been brewing before Asylon and Aurvandil tipped it over.

Hopefully, the monarchies of the south will find itself more reliable friends from this change.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on March 25, 2013, 02:16:08 pm

Quote from: Zangi on March 25, 2013, 01:40:39 pm

Huh... huge changes going on in the southwest of Dwilight. To think that Terran would fall into 3 separate realms after such a short period of fighting... but that may have already been brewing before Asylon and Aurvandil tipped it over.

Hopefully, the monarchies of the south will find itself more reliable friends from this change.

Hory sheet.

Three?

Dammit, who split off now?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on March 25, 2013, 03:21:48 pm

The first was the City of Shokalam, Republic of Phantaria.  The second being the City of Chesney, Saffalore Monarchy.  Quite an odd name...
While the Terran Republic now only holds the City of Chateau Saffalore.

Rest of the details?  *Shrug*  Name of the current rulers and other stuff you can probably look up while in Dwilight.  And the inner happenings of Terran can only be said by a noble hailing from those realms.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on March 25, 2013, 07:19:26 pm

Quote from: Zangi on March 25, 2013, 03:21:48 pm

The first was the City of Shokalam, Republic of Phantaria.  The second being the City of Chesney, Saffalore Monarchy.  Quite an odd name...
While the Terran Republic now only holds the City of Chateau Saffalore.

Rest of the details?  *Shrug*  Name of the current rulers and other stuff you can probably look up while in Dwilight.  And the inner happenings of Terran can only be said by a noble hailing from those realms.

No, I have a character from Terran (she split off to Phantaria now). I was just curious, because I was having trouble logging in and couldn't find out firsthand.

I thought it was funny how there is a realm called Saffalore that does not contain the region called Saffalore.

To be fair, the same thing happened in the last days of Fontan on the east continent. "Fontan" was taken by Caligus or Westmoor (I don't remember which) pretty early in the war...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on March 25, 2013, 10:26:12 pm

Ah... I knew some people here were from Terran, just forgot who they were...  was actually hoping someone would be willing to enlighten as to why ya'll keep splitting apart.

Also, I think the leader of Phantaria did make some appeal to become leader of Terran while Asylon was visiting.  That is all I got.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: ConscriptFive on March 26, 2013, 04:54:41 am

I'm just waiting for Sha'shanti to become known as the Royal Homewrecker.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Something tells me shit is really going to the fan about nine months from now.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: gilmouta on March 26, 2013, 05:30:04 am

Saffalore and the Chateau will be given to the Saffalore Realm as soon as possible from what I understand. Terran split apart because of the war, aggravated by the inner turmoils. ALOT of inner turmoils.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on March 26, 2013, 05:44:12 am

Hey, she was doing it by the queen's orders. She just got drunk and went a bit far is all. Quite a bit too far.

The lad could use a little brother anyway. Half foolish fop, half kick-arse Ranger chick. Then he'll probably get some of Madigan's genetics as well.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on March 26, 2013, 07:31:58 am

Quote from: SealyStar on March 25, 2013, 07:19:26 pm

No, I have a character from Terran (she split off to Phantaria now). I was just curious, because I was having trouble logging in and couldn't find out firsthand.

Found this info from another player:

Quote

If you're having trouble accessing the site it's probably due to a DNS change from what I've been told in other realms.  Personally I haven't had any problems but I didn't try to access the site on my phone, this might work though:

"For those having problems accessing the BM website (but have found another computer to use that will access it), as I was, go to http://use.opendns.com/ and follow the instructions there, but use 8.8.8.8 and 4.2.2.1 instead of the IP addresses it mentions. Worked for me."

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on March 26, 2013, 05:47:04 pm

Quote from: Zangi on March 26, 2013, 07:31:58 am

Quote from: SealyStar on March 25, 2013, 07:19:26 pm

No, I have a character from Terran (she split off to Phantaria now). I was just curious, because I was having trouble logging in and couldn't find out firsthand.

Found this info from another player:

Quote

If you're having trouble accessing the site it's probably due to a DNS change from what I've been told in other realms.  Personally I haven't had any problems but I didn't try to access the site on my phone, this might work though:

"For those having problems accessing the BM website (but have found another computer to use that will access it), as I was, go to http://use.opendns.com/ and follow the instructions there, but use 8.8.8.8 and 4.2.2.1 instead of the IP addresses it mentions. Worked for me."

Well, I've gotten on now. I suppose it was probably an error on my part.

A basic timeline of what happened in Terran:
-War with Aurvandil: Aurvandil is much larger than Terran, and the monarchic government makes it more effective as a unified force. This lasts a long time, and the continued disorder it created caused chaos in the northern regions since they were basically abandoned to fight in the south.
-War with Asylon: Aurvandil's buddy in the north decided to start kicking the dog, too, which meant Terran was fighting a two-front war with two major powers. If real history is any indication (*coughhitlercough*), that doesn't usually end well.
-Allegations of corruption: the four ruling positions all got into a big bitchfest over who started the fire, the judge banned someone, people began protesting the judge, and so on and so forth.
-Phantaria forms: The duchy of Phantaria splits off from Terran because of the Duke's disappointment with how the other guys in charge were handling things, and apparently hoped that Aurvandil wouldn't continue the war on the new realm. For now that remains the case.
-Saffalore forms: I have no idea exactly what happened here, but it was probably similar to Phantaria.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on March 26, 2013, 06:03:58 pm

Huh, I'd have think some of the realms that had responded to Asylon would have been more help to Terran throughout the war with Aurvandil?

D'Hara for one?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on March 26, 2013, 06:22:31 pm

Quote from: Zangi on March 26, 2013, 06:03:58 pm

Huh, I'd have think some of the realms that had responded to Asylon would have been more help to Terran throughout the war with Aurvandil?

D'Hara for one?

All of Terran's allies were pussies and sat the whole thing out, even when Asylon joined in.

At least that's the perspective of a radical Terranese republican.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on March 26, 2013, 06:52:03 pm

Well... Astrum and Morek took the opportunity to harass us in the north...  already turned tail and ran...  Heck, it looks like they did far less damage to us then we did to Terran...

A 3rd realm has actually declared on us, so who knows if they plan on coming too...  D'Hara peaced Asylon already.


Cheers to unreliable allies eh?  Better yet, don't really expect much from far and away allies...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Mini on March 26, 2013, 07:19:42 pm

Quote from: Zangi on March 26, 2013, 06:52:03 pm

Better yet, don't really expect much from far and away allies...

Pretty much.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: ConscriptFive on March 27, 2013, 04:16:26 am

Quote from: Mini on March 26, 2013, 07:19:42 pm

Quote from: Zangi on March 26, 2013, 06:52:03 pm

Better yet, don't really expect much from far and away allies...

Pretty much.

Dreams of world wars collapse once you realize there's no international banking system, and it'll take you at least a week to get to the battlefield.  Unless you can convince all your knights to have two weeks plus of troop pay physically on them, you'll never have enough troops long enough to pull off a sustained campaign.  If they take casualties, which your melee troops inevitably will, they have run all the way back to your capital to replace them.

TL;DR
Long range expeditions tend to fail.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on March 27, 2013, 02:50:02 pm

Quote from: ConscriptFive on March 27, 2013, 04:16:26 am

Quote from: Mini on March 26, 2013, 07:19:42 pm

Quote from: Zangi on March 26, 2013, 06:52:03 pm

Better yet, don't really expect much from far and away allies...

Pretty much.

Dreams of world wars collapse once you realize there's no international banking system, and it'll take you at least a week to get to the battlefield.  Unless you can convince all your knights to have two weeks plus of troop pay physically on them, you'll never have enough troops long enough to pull off a sustained campaign.  If they take casualties, which your melee troops inevitably will, they have run all the way back to your capital to replace them.

TL;DR
Long range expeditions tend to fail.

Which is because of a shitty idea on the part of developers- they're intentionally keeping war at a tiny scale instead of letting it play out like it should.

How long/what does it take to move the capital? It must be pretty hard, otherwise you could just move it up to whatever city was closest to the current battlefield.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on March 27, 2013, 04:01:36 pm

It would have made it too easy for a single organized kingdom to take over the world... or at least subjugate a vast area.  Also, it would mean the battles would have been more 'fast-paced' so players and mechanics would have to adapt closer to that, which is not the whole point of the game.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: stabbymcstabstab on April 05, 2013, 10:55:18 pm

Well, it would of been easy to counter that with rebels and troop quality and additional fees if recruiting from other places like other non captial cities, allied captials, stuff like that make world wars possible if a little costly after a few months or so.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: stabbymcstabstab on April 20, 2013, 12:44:11 pm

Hey is anyone else in the east continent? Perdan just wiped out most of our troops including half my men :'(, I'm just curious what your view of this is?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Arrakis on April 21, 2013, 05:47:49 am

I play in Eponllyn and from what is known both Eponllyn and Armonia are about to join on Caligus' side. I am assuming we will be able to spread those Perdanese thugs wide open!

In my opinion, you've lost the battle because your armies were not synchronized. You had one with infantry wall, the other with fortif. deploy. Plus, Perdan is heavy on infantry, real heavy, although it was their cavalry charge which came in unison and broke your ranks apart. Good luck next time!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Arrakis on April 21, 2013, 06:24:32 am

On another note here is a bit of realm advertising.  :D

I play the ruler of Niselur on Dwilight and we are in big need of active characters. I am assuming that all that read this thread have already tried Dwilight and probably have their characters set in stone somewhere, however, I hope few will be bold enough to taste the cold north!

Niselur once existed in the past (it was formed by my other character) but it was eventually destroyed by monsters. In those days the monster hordes were much more bigger and devastating than what they are nowadays (some packs were 10k high!). Eventually, Iashalur became known as the descendant of Niselur and Iashalur was a realm formed in Gaston city and seceded from Astrum. With my characters (Leopold) arrival to the land of his forefather he sought to reclaim his throne and kick Turin the King out of his chair! This was known as the recent Iashalurian rebellion which, after it ended, made Leopold the King. Soon he renamed what was known as Iashalur to Niselur and thus the legacy of Niselur has been reborn!

The main theme of Niselur is that what could be considered a realm of horselords. Since Niselur spans over huge amount of land and has many green pastures, we found it fitting to make our armies cavalry-heavy. In Niselur the infantry is known as Edreun, archers are called Faseas and our prized riders are the Rinnon. Niselur is also a theocracy of Sanguis Astroism. Since all those who played in Summerdale would probably avoid SA realms, there is much more here than meets the eye, for SA in Niselur is viewed with reservation. What this really means and how will this affect the future of Niselur I'll let you guys find out on your own. ;) I will just say that I plan on having some fun on Dwilight and I won't be content with being stuck in the corner of the map! :D

The current going-ons of the realm are that we are prepping to war Asylon, so you would be able to taste some battles right away.Furthermore, since we have many lands unsettled the chance to become a Lord quickly are pretty decent and rather easy.

Here's a link to Niselur wiki page (which is not yet fully updated so keep that in mind) http://wiki.battlemaster.org/wiki/Niselur, and a link to my own family page http://wiki.battlemaster.org/wiki/Arrakis_Family.

Hope to see some good players and roleplay coming to Niselur!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Dutchling on April 21, 2013, 06:26:04 am

Did whatever realm I (and most of Bay12) seemed to join on the Dwilight server? It had a queen, and was located in the northeast, don't know much more that that ^^.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Arrakis on April 21, 2013, 06:27:21 am

Yeah, it was Summerdale and it got trashed by Morek and Libero Empire. I played in Summerdale in that time, too. But, here's to new beginnings! ;)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Dutchling on April 21, 2013, 06:31:55 am

I just realized I totally fucked up that post. Luckily you still understood what I meant xD

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Arrakis on April 21, 2013, 06:42:08 am

It was a bit messy :P, but I managed to figure it out cause i know the history of Summerdale and Bay12 players relatively well.  :'(

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Chosrau on April 21, 2013, 07:51:01 am

Quote from: Arrakis on April 21, 2013, 06:24:32 am

Niselur is also a theocracy of Sanguis Astroism.

..., for SA in Niselur is viewed with reservation.

That sounds a bit contradictory.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Arrakis on April 21, 2013, 08:02:54 am

And it is a contradiction. It is this way due to many in-game variables, but in my opinion this adds to the intrigues of the realm which will become more evident as the IC events continue to progress and play out as I hope they will. :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: zehive on April 21, 2013, 11:03:16 am

Quote from: stabbymcstabstab on April 20, 2013, 12:44:11 pm

Hey is anyone else in the east continent? Perdan just wiped out most of our troops including half my men :'(, I'm just curious what your view of this is?

Yeah I wasn't expecting that, atleast not for Caligus to lose in such a manner. I mean I imagine you guys have sided with Sirion? I'm in OI, personally I campaigned to join up with Sirion and not Perdan, but the referendum ended in favor of the South rather than North. Funny, we fought one battle, everyone scattered, Caligus threatened war and everyone expecting Perdan to turn tail and run was like 'OMG THEYRE GONNA BETRAY US'.

Meanwhile on Atamara I'm going back and forth against Darka constantly, and my adventurer on Dwilight hasn't left the region he's in for the last maybe two or three months, I'm thinking its been three months he's been there. Endless supply of monsters.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on April 21, 2013, 11:13:55 am

Quote from: Chosrau on April 21, 2013, 07:51:01 am

Quote from: Arrakis on April 21, 2013, 06:24:32 am

Niselur is also a theocracy of Sanguis Astroism.

..., for SA in Niselur is viewed with reservation.

That sounds a bit contradictory.

Ah, I somehow missed the Theocracy part... it does explain why you are also marching on Asylon now.

Asylon has freedom of religion of our own nobility, as long as it is not used as a tool of war.  >.>    Though, the official stance is SA = bad, cause we have bad history in dealing with them on a realm to realm level.
Though, I like how people so far away, like Niselur and Morek are taken the time and effort to visit us.  Morek did a bit of light looting last time, before harmlessly leaving.

EDIT: Ah, just saw the reason for the war.  Force Asylon to renounce its alliance with Aurvandil...  so that they would be isolated.   

Honestly, Asylon really has little choice in the matter.  We have little want to be the lapdogs of the SA alliance, if we had wanted that, well there are many SA aligned realms already out there.  There was another alliance called the Moot or something... we had issues with that and ya'll saw how that turned out with a small push...  And so, we are pretty much as politically isolated as Aurvandil... well, we do have friends among the Zuma, kind of.

(I can't spell Aurvandil without looking it up.)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Arrakis on April 22, 2013, 05:25:58 am

Well, you have to realize that northern realms like Niselur have little space to do much but to follow SA's agenda. These fledgling realms like Niselur and Corsanctum are so far bound to go where the majority go. And since opportunities for war are very few, it is my intention to provide as much fun to those who play in Niselur as I can. War with Asylon is one such thing, however, the way Leopold and Grimrog have set their relations this war shouldn't last forever nor it would mean the death of Asylon. There is not much hatred between the two, for there was no hatred to start with.

Currently, Niselur is a weak realm (why do you think I am advertising a realm in the first place), however, we are not content to always be used as someone's auxiliary troops. But if Niselur manages to grow in numbers and nobles, it is my desire as a player to set a whole different road that will change the north forever.

So, people should come and help us do this! :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Arrakis on April 22, 2013, 05:42:35 am

Quote from: Zangi on April 21, 2013, 11:13:55 am

EDIT: Ah, just saw the reason for the war.  Force Asylon to renounce its alliance with Aurvandil...  so that they would be isolated.   

Honestly, Asylon really has little choice in the matter.  We have little want to be the lapdogs of the SA alliance, if we had wanted that, well there are many SA aligned realms already out there.  There was another alliance called the Moot or something... we had issues with that and ya'll saw how that turned out with a small push...  And so, we are pretty much as politically isolated as Aurvandil... well, we do have friends among the Zuma, kind of.

(I can't spell Aurvandil without looking it up.)

Your alliance with Aurvandil is more trouble than worth, I think. Aurvandil doesn't seem like they can back you up while this alliance has brought the ire of northern realms upon you. I think that Asylon has all the strings in their own hands on how to end this one.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Gervassen on April 22, 2013, 05:44:35 am

If this involves wiping the stain of Libero from the map, I'm down for it. Old grudges die hard. I really don't play BM anymore, but I joined as Kadan Bayar, FWIW.

The map has really changed, but not in any particular way that gives me satisfaction. The Libero dogs remain.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Arrakis on April 22, 2013, 05:49:57 am

Funny thing is that Libero now suffers Morek's tyranny. From what I know Morekians are recruiting Libero lords to change allegiance so that LE can become extinct. This is amusing because Morek and LE were greatest allies in the Dalian war, but now they're turning on each other slowly but surely.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Gervassen on April 22, 2013, 05:59:38 am

To ride the zerg to victory is to ride the razor's edge of losing one's own self, indeed.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on April 22, 2013, 10:34:14 am

Quote from: Arrakis on April 22, 2013, 05:42:35 am

Quote from: Zangi on April 21, 2013, 11:13:55 am

EDIT: Ah, just saw the reason for the war.  Force Asylon to renounce its alliance with Aurvandil...  so that they would be isolated.   

Honestly, Asylon really has little choice in the matter.  We have little want to be the lapdogs of the SA alliance, if we had wanted that, well there are many SA aligned realms already out there.  There was another alliance called the Moot or something... we had issues with that and ya'll saw how that turned out with a small push...  And so, we are pretty much as politically isolated as Aurvandil... well, we do have friends among the Zuma, kind of.

(I can't spell Aurvandil without looking it up.)

Your alliance with Aurvandil is more trouble than worth, I think. Aurvandil doesn't seem like they can back you up while this alliance has brought the ire of northern realms upon you. I think that Asylon has all the strings in their own hands on how to end this one.

We understand the consequences of such I believe, it has been aired by the leadership before we/Asylon went to war with Terran on Aurvandil's side.  We knew we would be a naturally closer and 'easier' target for the northern realms and we knew that 'they'/you would take the opportunity to fight us.  And yea, we also knew that Aurvandil is busy enough down where they are.

What would the island be without Aurvandil?  Where would Asylon turn if Aurvandil is overwhelmed?  We are but one of the few who are not bound to SA politics.  One of the few monarchies left on this island.  The conclusion is, it is only a matter of time that we become what Aurvandil was anyways, a politically isolated realm, public enemy #1.

We may as well do something instead of quietly waiting for our turn...  And hey, so far, the results have been splendid from my perspective.  Another monarchy has popped up and in effect, 2 potentially friendly realms have come from Terran's ashes.  Its not like we could be in any worse of a situation after that...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Arrakis on April 22, 2013, 04:32:35 pm

I hear you, but I only think that Asylon's momentum was not the best time of the year, so to speak. However, no one could've known that Mendicant was gonna end like he did, hence greatly reducing your chances of having a real ally that would stand besides you. With this new government in Aurvandil it seems they're more focused on Fissoa right now. Grimrog already sued for peace with Astrum, but from what I gathered Astrum wants Asylon to first end the alliance with Aurvandil; alliance which doesn't benefit you. Sure, you could continue the war for as long as it suits you (you guys surely are having fun for it is a tense playing experience), or you could cut your ties with Aurvandil and perhaps make some new ties with realms closer to your own borders. This is the direction I want to lead Niselur in, even though our current paths make us at the opposite sides.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on April 22, 2013, 05:55:18 pm

Oh, I see things have changed once again.  You do make the same point as our king.

Will the North back off now?  Or is there a moving goal post that is yet to be reached?

EDIT: Apparently more monarchies out there then I fought. *Shifts it back to not so friendly SA mega-alliance*

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Arrakis on April 23, 2013, 03:03:35 am

I think that north doesn't have any other valid casus belli to continue offensive against Asylon. Corsanctum and Morek are probably already out of the picture, while Astrum will have no other choice either. I think Grimrog made a good choice in cutting off Aurvandil.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Silicoid on April 23, 2013, 07:37:53 pm

Niselur sounds like an interesting place, so I have decided to place my first noble there.  I'm new, but i'll do my best.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Arrakis on April 24, 2013, 03:24:11 am

Welcome! I believe I have already messaged you IC, but should you have any questions about the game I will be quick to address them IC or OOC.

On another note, it seems that war with Asylon is about to end. Leopold is now turning his mind towards solidifying Niselur's political position and simultaneously finding some stuff for his nobles to do. We'll see what will come from it. Libero Empire comes to mind ;)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on April 26, 2013, 08:55:36 pm

Oh hey... the rest of the party is here and it looks like a stand-off...

I must say, your combined arms are formidable.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Arrakis on April 27, 2013, 06:44:34 am

It was a nice little stand-off, yes. I am impressed with how disciplined your troops are with all that digging in.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on April 27, 2013, 08:05:16 am

Quote from: Arrakis on April 27, 2013, 06:44:34 am

It was a nice little stand-off, yes. I am impressed with how disciplined your troops are with all that digging in.

Yea, forgive me for the pessimism... having 3 realms massing on our borders, while peace has not yet been officially brokered does raise red flags among the realm.  And trust is in short supply.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Fanofgaming on April 27, 2013, 02:54:34 pm

General of Astrum here. I must say that I am impressed with how rallied Asylon's army is. Hard as I try, I cannot get more than twelve or so nobles off their asses to fight this damned war. Even worse, our leading council could not find a single decent reason for why we were fighting or what we hoped to accomplish. Astrum's real enemy was apathy, I'm afraid.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on April 27, 2013, 05:11:04 pm

Quote from: Fanofgaming on April 27, 2013, 02:54:34 pm

General of Astrum here. I must say that I am impressed with how rallied Asylon's army is. Hard as I try, I cannot get more than twelve or so nobles off their asses to fight this damned war. Even worse, our leading council could not find a single decent reason for why we were fighting or what we hoped to accomplish. Astrum's real enemy was apathy, I'm afraid.

I suppose that may be from not doing any sort of military exercises?
Asylon has been marching together long before the raid on Terran.  Mostly to tame our southwest holdings and fight off the monsters.  So I guess we have some form of 'readiness' when it got serious... 
Heck, after this peace finally gets signed, we will have to go tend to our southwest holdings once again.  So the drop-off in our 'readiness' won't be too harsh, at least for now.

Long periods of not doing jack tends to = lethargy/apathy.  I know cause it happens to me.
So yea... something to think on. 

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Arrakis on April 28, 2013, 05:12:37 am

I am very happy with how Niselur's army performed in this little drill. Even though we didn't participate in any battle we were quick to gather some 6k to the front, and the other army was left at home. Its not much I know, but under Turin's reign the best we could hope for was 2k :p To top it all, Niselur's arrival in Shuberstone has probably tipped the scales and forced Asylon to give up on Aurvandil; and this is something I think they will benefit from in the long run.

I agree with Zangi's observation that not doing much for a long time is bad for both army readiness but also the player experience. So, Leopold is trying to find ways to strengthen his own place in the north. Having LE become his vassal, or subduing them to such, is probably the course he will take.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Silicoid on April 29, 2013, 07:24:49 pm

I must ask: What is up with all the rouge territories around Niselur?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Arrakis on April 30, 2013, 12:11:50 am

We are about to take two regions, but in general, we're waiting for enough nobles to arrive so we can claim them all. Monster are few to find, so some younger knights have trouble with meeting the demand to become a Lord; which is 3 points of prestige.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on May 13, 2013, 03:16:16 pm

Who was it here who vigorously denounced my belief that Terran would ever become an SA theocracy at the hands of Hireshmont II Vellos?

I'd like to talk to them now...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on May 19, 2013, 08:37:41 pm

Has anything interesting happened in LN recently? I'll probably have time to start playing again in a week or two.
 

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: ConscriptFive on May 20, 2013, 09:20:18 am

Good to have you back.  We're still in a rebuilding mode after we realized the pointlessness of helping our "allies" gangbang Falkirk.  Sevastian Guile quit, so Queen Alice is trying to figure out what to to with Swordfell.  A D'Haran challenged the Queen to a fight-to-the-death, which she won.  Winter is coming, after which we'll probably go to war with somebody again.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on May 20, 2013, 11:49:44 am

Quote from: ConscriptFive on May 20, 2013, 09:20:18 am

Winter is coming, after which we'll probably go to war with somebody again.

Hah, winter is always coming... never enough food to go around, what with the droughts ravaging half of Asylon's breadbaskets on a constant basis lately.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on May 21, 2013, 06:09:33 pm

Bad news: My adventurer bit the dust.

Good news: No excuse not to make another noble now.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: quinnr on May 21, 2013, 07:32:15 pm

Huh, I tried this a while ago (when this thread was first posted, I think), but was really confused and stopped after a day or so. Might try it again now that there is a bigger following. Are there any sort of beginner guides or something?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on May 22, 2013, 08:19:27 am

Quote from: quinnr on May 21, 2013, 07:32:15 pm

Huh, I tried this a while ago (when this thread was first posted, I think), but was really confused and stopped after a day or so. Might try it again now that there is a bigger following. Are there any sort of beginner guides or something?

There are, but I'm afraid they're woefully out of date (as, unfortunately, are significant chunks of the Wiki. We're working on it, but there's only so many of us :-\ ).

I'd be happy to answer any questions you have, both as a longtime player and as a member of the dev team, and I can give you some general advice off the bat:

• There are a lot of realms in BattleMaster, and there is a great deal of variability between them. If you find yourself in one that's not to your taste, chances are, you can find one that is.
• For people more used to other kinds of modern games, BattleMaster is pretty slow. Travel, combat, and other things that only take place at turn changes happen only twice a day (dawn and sunset in Central European time, which works out to noon and midnight US Eastern time). If you post a message asking a question, there's a good chance you won't see a response for several hours. Not because people are ignoring you, but because that's how often people check.
• Each player plays a family of characters, with a limit on how many can be active at one time. You start with a limit of two noble characters and one adventurer (commoner) character. This limit can be raised by various actions, but most of these boil down to playing for a while, and playing well (and at least a little ambitiously!).
• At its core, if you want to do more than just follow orders and participate in battles and the occasional roleplay (which is just fine to do; we need people like that, too!), BattleMaster is a game of politics and intrigue. Knowing the right people can get you a long way in a short time.
• Given the current state of the game, unless you start in one of the few realms that is well-stocked with characters, if you're attentive and seems sensible, you've got a very good chance of being given a regional lordship of your own within a few weeks. (Even if you don't know the right people.)
• There is a BattleMaster forum (http://forum.battlemaster.org/), a Wiki (http://wiki.battlemaster.org/wiki/Main_Page) (though, as I said, some of it is out of date), and a number of (fully OOC) IRC channels (http://battlemaster.org/ircclient.php) (with a webchat client that will, once you have an account, automatically log you in with your family name and join you to the channels pertinent to the realms you are in). Participating in these, if such things interest you, can significantly increase your enjoyment of the game, simply by connecting you to the community.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on May 22, 2013, 02:22:06 pm

Quote from: SealyStar on May 21, 2013, 06:09:33 pm

Bad news: My adventurer bit the dust.

Good news: No excuse not to make another noble now.

And please welcome Julian Sarwell to Strombran in Atamara.

Hopefully I didn't make another bad decision regarding where to put him...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: MoLAoS on May 23, 2013, 07:21:02 am

I've got a noble and an adventurer in Atamara and a noble on the East Continent. The Easty apparently joined a realm in the middle of a war, which wasn't great. Sadly if I delete him I lose the gold the family sent to help him out. So I figure I'll stick around and see what's what. Can my noble interact with my adventurer at all?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on May 23, 2013, 07:33:52 am

Yes, your noble could interact with your adventurer.

And you don't necessarily have to delete your noble, you can easily emigrate or join a realm somewhere else on the continent.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on May 23, 2013, 09:30:18 am

Quote from: MoLAoS on May 23, 2013, 07:21:02 am

I've got a noble and an adventurer in Atamara and a noble on the East Continent. The Easty apparently joined a realm in the middle of a war, which wasn't great. Sadly if I delete him I lose the gold the family sent to help him out. So I figure I'll stick around and see what's what. Can my noble interact with my adventurer at all?

Why is it bad being in a realm at war?

That's most of the action you're likely to get in BattleMaster, as well as the best chances for distinguishing yourself and getting promotions and such.

And yes, nobles can interact with adventurers, but there are limits on what you can do between characters of the same family (though I don't offhand recall what all of those limits are).

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Mookzen on May 23, 2013, 10:06:18 am

How hard would it be to start playing BM for the first time considering I've played M&F religiously during the alpha ?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: MoLAoS on May 23, 2013, 10:09:14 am

Quote from: danaris on May 23, 2013, 09:30:18 am

Quote from: MoLAoS on May 23, 2013, 07:21:02 am

I've got a noble and an adventurer in Atamara and a noble on the East Continent. The Easty apparently joined a realm in the middle of a war, which wasn't great. Sadly if I delete him I lose the gold the family sent to help him out. So I figure I'll stick around and see what's what. Can my noble interact with my adventurer at all?

Why is it bad being in a realm at war?

That's most of the action you're likely to get in BattleMaster, as well as the best chances for distinguishing yourself and getting promotions and such.

And yes, nobles can interact with adventurers, but there are limits on what you can do between characters of the same family (though I don't offhand recall what all of those limits are).

Yeah but its hard since you have no idea what's going on and aren't very powerful. The guy I'm in the war with isn't as good and has no estate and limited paraphernalia and a weak untrained army.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on May 23, 2013, 10:12:51 am

Quote from: Mookzen on May 23, 2013, 10:06:18 am

How hard would it be to start playing BM for the first time considering I've played M&F religiously during the alpha ?

Easier, I suspect, than coming in cold. You'll at least have some of the basic concepts of time-usage and turn-change-resolution down. The concepts are quite similar, in many ways, but M&F breaks it down to a much finer level of granularity. It also allows a lot more player freedom than BattleMaster, for better or for worse.

If you've enjoyed M&F, I suspect you'll probably enjoy BM, and not have as much of a learning curve as if you hadn't played M&F.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on May 23, 2013, 10:14:41 am

Quote from: MoLAoS on May 23, 2013, 10:09:14 am

Yeah but its hard since you have no idea what's going on and aren't very powerful. The guy I'm in the war with isn't as good and has no estate and limited paraphernalia and a weak untrained army.

Yeah, that does make it harder.

Unless the realm you're in is losing the war badly enough that it's significantly shrunken, you should be able to find yourself an estate if you poke around. Looking at the Realm Hierarchy page to see which regions have no knights (or, if all have at least 1 knight, which have especially high ratios of peasants per noble) should give you an idea of whom you should contact about an estate.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on May 23, 2013, 10:41:45 am

I want to stress that you want to be social as in, speak up.  Your peers will take notice.  It is the way to move on up. 
Especially if you show yourself as loyal and active, you may even be considered for a position as duke/duchess, when/if something does happen to a duchy holder.  At the very least, Lordship is a possibility.  It also helps when you are running for one of the 4 offices.

Personally, I became knight of the region I wanted to inherit and then my lord defected with the region. So I ended up with it when we took it back and I said that I am willing to become its Lord and that I'm the best choice since I was a Knight of the region.  (Plus, it helps that I voluntarily choose to defect back to Asylon, since I automatically went with my defector lord.)
Something like that at least...

Quote

New Ruler Elected   (3 days, 11 hours ago)
message to Everyone on Dwilight
The realm of Terran has elected Hireshmont II Vellos as its new Grandmaster.

Government of Terran Reformed   (35 minutes ago)
The government of Terran has been reformed. The realm is now a Theocracy

*Insert laugh track*

EDIT: I also need/want a knight, there is also a region open, but there is a minimum requirement of some honor and stuff before you can be appointed a lord.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on May 23, 2013, 02:59:38 pm

Quote from: Zangi on May 23, 2013, 10:41:45 am

I want to stress that you want to be social as in, speak up.  Your peers will take notice.  It is the way to move on up. 
Especially if you show yourself as loyal and active, you may even be considered for a position as duke/duchess, when/if something does happen to a duchy holder.  At the very least, Lordship is a possibility.  It also helps when you are running for one of the 4 offices.

Personally, I became knight of the region I wanted to inherit and then my lord defected with the region. So I ended up with it when we took it back and I said that I am willing to become its Lord and that I'm the best choice since I was a Knight of the region.  (Plus, it helps that I voluntarily choose to defect back to Asylon, since I automatically went with my defector lord.)
Something like that at least...

Quote

New Ruler Elected   (3 days, 11 hours ago)
message to Everyone on Dwilight
The realm of Terran has elected Hireshmont II Vellos as its new Grandmaster.

Government of Terran Reformed   (35 minutes ago)
The government of Terran has been reformed. The realm is now a Theocracy

*Insert laugh track*

EDIT: I also need/want a knight, there is also a region open, but there is a minimum requirement of some honor and stuff before you can be appointed a lord.

Did you read up the page? I knew this was happening before anyone here! I've been right since page 30 or 40 something!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on May 23, 2013, 03:15:10 pm

Quote from: SealyStar on May 23, 2013, 02:59:38 pm

Did you read up the page? I knew this was happening before anyone here! I've been right since page 30 or 40 something!

I know your plight... and I've actually agreed with you once some prominent Astroit married Hireshmont or some other and moved into Terran.  I think she was the head of the religion or something.

Its been too long, but the groundwork for the path was plain as day.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: quinnr on May 24, 2013, 09:09:35 pm

Alright, joined up again, on the East Continent, I think. What is this "Quickplay" button?
Also, would it be a terrible idea to play a Priest or Infiltrator as my first character? They just look so fun!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Arrakis on May 25, 2013, 05:38:48 am

I don't want to spill the beans, however, things are happening in Niselur and Sanguis Astroism as a whole. All those looking to have some memorable BM experience would want to play there.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on May 25, 2013, 08:58:08 am

Quote from: quinnr on May 24, 2013, 09:09:35 pm

Alright, joined up again, on the East Continent, I think. What is this "Quickplay" button?

While the "Play" button shows you all your unread messages, the "Quickplay" button shows you only personal messages and orders.

Quote

Also, would it be a terrible idea to play a Priest or Infiltrator as my first character? They just look so fun!

You will not be able to play an Infiltrator for a while, as they have relatively high requirements. They can be fun, but also somewhat demanding. If you want to have a good chance of carrying out lots of subversive actions without getting caught, you will need to spend some time (and lots of money!) with that character training at an Academy, till your Infiltration skill (and Swordfighting, if you plan on attempting assassinations) is relatively high.

Priests tend to be a "love it or hate it" kind of class. They tend to have somewhat less to do, mechanically, than the more "normal" classes, at least initially. Their main focus is intended to be the roleplay of the religion they belong to. As they gain in skill, they do gain more options for mechanical actions they can perform (ways to influence the peasantry, primarily).

In general, I would advise playing a standard Warrior as your first character, at least for a while. There's no reason you can't change later, and there's no reason you can't create a second character to experiment with at the same time.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Glloyd on May 25, 2013, 10:23:30 am

I just joined up in Niselur as Alysandyr Turnbull. We'll see how it goes...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Arrakis on May 26, 2013, 06:13:57 am

Welcome. :)

You will notice many letters are popping up, and for someone who just arrived the entire debate might seems very confusing. If you have any questions bring them up IC. Battlemaster is all about interaction.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Silicoid on May 26, 2013, 10:32:06 pm

Holy shit is Niselur becoming a interesting place...  I still can't believe the regent of SA did that-I thought he might win the debate until he did something completely unexpected.
With the other stuff happening, this might change the entire continent.  I hope King Leopold keeps this up, and goes in the direction I think he is going so we don't suffer the fate of the former kingdom-the only memorable thing being losing a kingdom to boredom.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Glloyd on May 26, 2013, 11:43:21 pm

Yeah... Don't go on for 4 hours, come back and find 27 new messages. Interesting is right.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: MoLAoS on May 26, 2013, 11:47:49 pm

Sadly I had to quit. I've had my fill of super slow games where luck totally pisses you off. I had like 16 hours of training and got nothing even though I was low stat. And you have to wait almost a day to respawn the time. The game wasn't interesting enough to continue after that. I dunno, I am not a fan of games with heavily limited actions per day, especially after years of SpaceFed, OGame, Travian, War-Facts, and like 10 other text based browser games.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Glloyd on May 27, 2013, 12:09:54 am

Quote from: MoLAoS on May 26, 2013, 11:47:49 pm

Sadly I had to quit. I've had my fill of super slow games where luck totally pisses you off. I had like 16 hours of training and got nothing even though I was low stat. And you have to wait almost a day to respawn the time. The game wasn't interesting enough to continue after that. I dunno, I am not a fan of games with heavily limited actions per day, especially after years of SpaceFed, OGame, Travian, War-Facts, and like 10 other text based browser games.

Oh god, Travian, I forgot about that game.

But yeah, I see where you're coming from though. This one does seem a bit different so far, at least in terms of interaction with other players.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: MoLAoS on May 27, 2013, 12:23:11 am

Quote from: Glloyd on May 27, 2013, 12:09:54 am

Quote from: MoLAoS on May 26, 2013, 11:47:49 pm

Sadly I had to quit. I've had my fill of super slow games where luck totally pisses you off. I had like 16 hours of training and got nothing even though I was low stat. And you have to wait almost a day to respawn the time. The game wasn't interesting enough to continue after that. I dunno, I am not a fan of games with heavily limited actions per day, especially after years of SpaceFed, OGame, Travian, War-Facts, and like 10 other text based browser games.

Oh god, Travian, I forgot about that game.

But yeah, I see where you're coming from though. This one does seem a bit different so far, at least in terms of interaction with other players.

Probably once you get into it its not a big deal cause you are doing player stuff. And 1 day of hours on an adventurer isn't huge over a several year period. But it just hit me like my second day on my adventurer when I hadn't gotten sucked in yet. That stuff happens sometimes. I really love the IDEA of the game though, compared to all those clones out there.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Glloyd on May 27, 2013, 12:25:09 am

Quote from: MoLAoS on May 27, 2013, 12:23:11 am

Quote from: Glloyd on May 27, 2013, 12:09:54 am

Quote from: MoLAoS on May 26, 2013, 11:47:49 pm

Sadly I had to quit. I've had my fill of super slow games where luck totally pisses you off. I had like 16 hours of training and got nothing even though I was low stat. And you have to wait almost a day to respawn the time. The game wasn't interesting enough to continue after that. I dunno, I am not a fan of games with heavily limited actions per day, especially after years of SpaceFed, OGame, Travian, War-Facts, and like 10 other text based browser games.

Oh god, Travian, I forgot about that game.

But yeah, I see where you're coming from though. This one does seem a bit different so far, at least in terms of interaction with other players.

Probably once you get into it its not a big deal cause you are doing player stuff. And 1 day of hours on an adventurer isn't huge over a several year period. But it just hit me like my second day on my adventurer when I hadn't gotten sucked in yet. That stuff happens sometimes. I really love the IDEA of the game though, compared to all those clones out there.

Yeah. Maybe try playing as a noble then? It seems like the game is geared more towards them, at least, from what I've seen.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on May 27, 2013, 06:46:45 am

Personally, I like this game for the non-time commitment.  I can log on for 5-10 minutes every now and then and my stuff be done.

When I'm looking for multiplayer stuff to do though... I find some random multiplayer/browser game that takes my interest and play that till I'm bored/lack of time to commit becomes a factor and drop it completely.  Admittedly, sometimes lack of time to commit feeds into the 'I'm bored of that game now' factor.

Though, there is so much generic trash/clones these days... I totally avoid a large subset of those.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on May 27, 2013, 01:17:09 pm

Quote from: Glloyd on May 27, 2013, 12:25:09 am

Maybe try playing as a noble then? It seems like the game is geared more towards them, at least, from what I've seen.

It absolutely is. The adventurer game is really just a sidelight.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: quinnr on May 27, 2013, 01:25:58 pm

So, any way to check what day of the week taxes come in? I could really use some cash..

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Vonyx on May 27, 2013, 01:40:15 pm

If you're a lord -> Command. (blue box of info to the right)

If not, Information -> Realm and regions > Tax Collection <-

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: quinnr on May 27, 2013, 03:42:55 pm

Quote from: Vonyx on May 27, 2013, 01:40:15 pm

If you're a lord -> Command. (blue box of info to the right)

If not, Information -> Realm and regions > Tax Collection <-

Thanks.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on June 03, 2013, 08:45:45 pm

In "honor" of the proceedings in the Occidens, some new lingo:

"Hireshment" (hear-esh-MENT) ("Hireshmont" + "cement"), v. : to take over a "republic" that one currently leads by appointing oneself as general and banker. Usage: "He totally hireshmented the realm!"

"Astro" (AS-tro), v.: to force a small realm to surrender to a laughably unbalanced treaty by calling Bloodstar Jihad on them; by extension, to coerce by any means. Usage: "I totally astroed that guy into giving me five bucks."

"Saffalorism" (SA-fuh-lore-ih-zum) (also "Saffalority"), n.: The state of having a realm named after a region it does not control. See also "Fontanism" (also "Fontanity"). Usage: "After the war, Ubekibekistan was forced to sign away its eponymous region, creating a new case of Saffalorism."

"Vijsktrol" (VEESK-troll), v.: To become lord of a region because of a technical bug. Also used as a noun. Usage: "That guy just vijsktrolled, he won't last long."

"Alna" (ALL-nuh), v.: To fortuitously attain a government position through an election immediately before the government system is changed so that that position is appointed. Usage: "Good thing I alna'd that post before the new leader got in, huh?"

"Pertharchy" (PER-thar-key), n.: A system of government characterized by the official terminology of a republic despite maintaining the trappings of a monarchy. Usage: "North Korea is a good example of a real-world Pertharchy."

"Zumafy" (ZOO-muh-fye), v.: Of a region, to revolt and switch allegiance to a realm that has no interest in holding said region but refuses to let it go. Usage: "Zumafication can be disastrous for a small realm."

"Telamon" (TELL-uh-mon), n.: A young hotshot immigrant who is promptly promoted to a high-ranking military position. Usage: "Poor nations are often rife with mercenary Telamons from wealthier ones."

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Seamas on June 04, 2013, 01:05:42 pm

Okay, I've had enough with lurking on this thread and have joined up.  I'm a backwoods noble in the Morek Empire on Dwilight.  Name is Ferrar Rhamnace.  Just moving into my estate in East Odenir right now... clearing out the cobwebs and such....

Well this looks interesting.  Where are all of the B12 kindred located?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Silicoid on June 05, 2013, 04:33:36 pm

In other news in Niselur:

Young knight charges at monsters alone, losing most of his men and killing only one monster sending the rest of the army before its gathered rushing to defend him:

Roleplaying reason:

Knight:"I shouldn't have gone drinking with my men before reading my messages, and charged drunkenly at the monsters."

Response:

King:"Someone promote this man to lord!"

The moral of the story is drunken monster hunting will get you places in Niselur.   

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Vel on June 28, 2013, 08:49:29 am

Looks like it's a world war on Dwilight, huh guys?


Too bad we're about to get Poland'd over in Libero. Well, YOLO!


_{Hopefully the surrender terms won't be too harsh, I think Morek wants us for battle thralls anyway}

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on June 28, 2013, 09:52:15 am

Quote from: Vel on June 28, 2013, 08:49:29 am

Looks like it's a world war on Dwilight, huh guys?


Too bad we're about to get Poland'd over in Libero. Well, YOLO!


_{Hopefully the surrender terms won't be too harsh, I think Morek wants us for battle thralls anyway}

Poland'd. Nice.

In other war news, the combined forces of Phantaria and the Farronite Republic lost their first battle to Terran. Only because two certain Phantarian nobles - who, by the way, made up probably half the army by CS - didn't move on time D:<

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Vel on June 28, 2013, 10:20:13 am

Auk. That's terrible news! We're sort of expecting a one sided curbstomp over here -- our realm is cut in two by an earlier concession to Morek, and a defection cut off our capitol from the rest of our land.  :'(

_{I'm not sure I 'liked' the defection honestly. It seemed rather out-of-the-blue and was well before this stuff happened. Sort of seemed like a player just wanting to stir up trouble, since there didn't seem to be much communication before 'seeya'.}

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on June 28, 2013, 10:26:31 am

Quote from: Vel on June 28, 2013, 10:20:13 am

Auk. That's terrible news! We're sort of expecting a one sided curbstomp over here -- our realm is cut in two by an earlier concession to Morek, and a defection cut off our capitol from the rest of our land.  :'(

_{I'm not sure I 'liked' the defection honestly. It seemed rather out-of-the-blue and was well before this stuff happened. Sort of seemed like a player just wanting to stir up trouble, since there didn't seem to be much communication before 'seeya'.}

It's particularly irritating because as the General of Phantaria my character is supposed to be, along with the Marshal and Vice Marshal of the army, one of the people who keeps these things from happening.

Incidentally said Vice Marshal was two regions away when said Marshal gave the attack order T_T

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Vel on June 28, 2013, 10:30:58 am

Oof. The terrors of miscommunication and misinformation. Libero is small but even we've had some miscommunication issues.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on June 28, 2013, 10:41:12 am

Quote from: Vel on June 28, 2013, 10:30:58 am

Oof. The terrors of miscommunication and misinformation. Libero is small but even we've had some miscommunication issues.

Phantaria's tiny too. Five li'l regions, fighting mainly to get three more back.

The problem is that the oldest, most experienced people there, with the exception of our ruler, are also the least active - and thus the least likely to respond to the orders they're given.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Vel on June 28, 2013, 10:44:58 am

Yikes. That sinks!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on June 28, 2013, 11:17:49 am

Silver linings: When the remainder of your already-damaged unit gets killed by monsters on your way to the capital, but the battle with the monsters give you that last one point of honor you needed to switch subclasses.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on June 28, 2013, 11:37:40 am

Huh, yea, quite a bit of war going on.

Astrum seems to be Asylon's target. 
I'm not sure where Nisalur(sp?) plans to hit, but I know they are at war too... with... I don't even remember.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on June 28, 2013, 12:54:29 pm

Quote from: Zangi on June 28, 2013, 11:37:40 am

Huh, yea, quite a bit of war going on.

Astrum seems to be Asylon's target. 
I'm not sure where Nisalur(sp?) plans to hit, but I know they are at war too... with... I don't even remember.

I think without knowing for sure that the Farronite Republic is mostly aiming at Astrum too, but they're sending some guys south to help us poor folks in Phantaria beat the snot out of Terran :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Arrakis on June 29, 2013, 12:16:31 pm

Quote from: Zangi on June 28, 2013, 11:37:40 am

I'm not sure where Nisalur(sp?) plans to hit, but I know they are at war too... with... I don't even remember.

Ugh, you weren't paying much attention to the political events.  :D Niselur's defiance was the event that triggered this continental war around which the western alliance block was formed. We're hitting Astrum's northern regions and we will probably taste some big battles pretty soon. Looking forward to it, Dwilight has been too stale for too long.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Mini on June 29, 2013, 05:30:14 pm

Quote from: SealyStar on June 28, 2013, 09:52:15 am

Only because two certain Phantarian nobles - who, by the way, made up probably half the army by CS - didn't move on time D:<

I got distracted by non-BM stuff. :-[

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on June 29, 2013, 06:49:27 pm

Quote from: Mini on June 29, 2013, 05:30:14 pm

Quote from: SealyStar on June 28, 2013, 09:52:15 am

Only because two certain Phantarian nobles - who, by the way, made up probably half the army by CS - didn't move on time D:<

I got distracted by non-BM stuff. :-[

I understand, and I obviously can't force anyone to play at a certain time. Real-world obligations ought to supersede the game - it's just a bit of annoyance here. And in this case it's more of a minor liability, really - the proximity of Shokalom and Saffalore means that another chance is coming in the near future.

I also just finished making the wiki page for my family. So... yay? And recruited 50 cavalry. Double treat!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on July 01, 2013, 09:22:26 am

>checks head money listings for Far East
>sees character's name on it

Uh oh.
Who did I even offend? Rosnan was a bit of a jerk on Beluaterra, but he has yet to do anything but traipse back and forth following orders in the Far East. Maybe one of his victims on the northern continent has family there or something.

I wish now that there was a bug that he could stab himself. He could use 250 gold...

EDIT: He must have really pissed someone off, since he's the lowest-ranking non-royal on the list. He's not even a lord or a council member! He also has the dubious honor of being the only listee of his realm.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Silicoid on July 03, 2013, 07:01:17 pm

Quote from: Mini on June 29, 2013, 05:30:14 pm

Quote from: SealyStar on June 28, 2013, 09:52:15 am

Only because two certain Phantarian nobles - who, by the way, made up probably half the army by CS - didn't move on time D:<

I got distracted by non-BM stuff. :-[

I feel your pain.
Those Niselurian nobles left behind in Forguthrie are going to get curbstomped if they don't get back to the captial. There should be a automatically follow orders option.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: zehive on July 05, 2013, 12:08:12 am

So there I am, doing run of the mill stuff with my adventurer on Dwilight. There had been a monster group with an alpha male that had been giving me some serious trouble the last several days, well I finally conquered it and guess what the loot was! A unique item! Sweet!

So I copy all the infos down and notice.. hey I can hunt the next group! So I do. This one had an Alpha Male too. This one also had a unique item. Two in a row.

Holy. Shit.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Glloyd on July 05, 2013, 12:10:50 am

Quote from: zehive on July 05, 2013, 12:08:12 am

So there I am, doing run of the mill stuff with my adventurer on Dwilight. There had been a monster group with an alpha male that had been giving me some serious trouble the last several days, well I finally conquered it and guess what the loot was! A unique item! Sweet!

So I copy all the infos down and notice.. hey I can hunt the next group! So I do. This one had an Alpha Male too. This one also had a unique item. Two in a row.

Holy. Shit.

Wow. That is some damn good luck. I never have such luck as an adventurer.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on July 05, 2013, 12:13:22 am

... Asylon has an adventurers guild... you can probably find a buyer there.  >.> 
Though to join the guild, you need to front 5 gold, (Game mechanic limitation...) but you will have 100g in credit... and many other adventurers to share info with.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: zehive on July 05, 2013, 12:19:04 am

Quote from: Zangi on July 05, 2013, 12:13:22 am

... Asylon has an adventurers guild... you can probably find a buyer there.  >.> 
Though to join the guild, you need to front 5 gold, (Game mechanic limitation...) but you will have 100g in credit... and many other adventurers to share info with.

Dude I have a kings random in gold. And I'm sitting on 60% adventuring gear and combat gear. All I do is I log on, I hunt monster groups and then never leave the region. I left once to upgrade my gear, took me about a week, came back to the exact spot and kept doing the same thing. It's an endless stream. Without me the region would be plagued by monster attacks.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on July 05, 2013, 01:38:14 pm

Quote from: zehive on July 05, 2013, 12:08:12 am

So there I am, doing run of the mill stuff with my adventurer on Dwilight. There had been a monster group with an alpha male that had been giving me some serious trouble the last several days, well I finally conquered it and guess what the loot was! A unique item! Sweet!

So I copy all the infos down and notice.. hey I can hunt the next group! So I do. This one had an Alpha Male too. This one also had a unique item. Two in a row.

Holy. Shit.

...oh, I thought you were going to say that then you hunted again and got yourself killed  :P

Better go sell those unique items, start gaining favour with the local nobility!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Kaje on July 11, 2013, 04:08:35 am

I've just registered with this - does anybody fancy giving me any tips or general help to get me flying!?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on July 11, 2013, 08:24:38 am

Quote from: Kaje on July 11, 2013, 04:08:35 am

I've just registered with this - does anybody fancy giving me any tips or general help to get me flying!?

Sure!

• Don't be surprised if things move a bit slowly—it's not at all unusual to send a message introducing yourself, and not get a reply back for a few hours.
• If you haven't encountered one like it before, the time/turn system can be a bit odd for new players. You have a pool of available hours that your character can use to do stuff in any given turn, with a max of 12 hours in the pool at once. Every turn change (sunrise and sunset, server time, which works out to noon and midnight EST—not sure what your time zone is), 8 hours are added to your time pool. Some actions, such as travel, only resolve at turn changes, as well, which means that if you logged on right now and set your character to travel to the next region, however long it says it will take to get there, as long as that is less than the number of hours remaining in your time pool, you will arrive in 3 hours, when the turn change comes. (You'll get used to it.)
• The new character creation process is somewhat clunky and cumbersome, but it is currently in the process of being replaced, and the new version should be online within a week or two at most. (Much depends on how much time I have, as the current main dev on the game  ;D )
• There is a huge variation in the experience you will get depending on what continent you are on, and what realm you join. Don't be afraid to experiment a little, trying out one realm for a week or two, then moving on to another if it doesn't suit your fancy.
• A number of pages on the Wiki—including official manual pages—are, unfortunately, woefully out of date. We're working on this. Sorry  :-\
• Don't be afraid to ask questions, either here, or on the official BattleMaster forum (http://forum.battlemaster.org/). There's even a newbie board (http://forum.battlemaster.org/index.php/board,32.0.html) that's specifically for asking total noob questions. (There's also an IRC webchat (http://battlemaster.org/ircclient.php) where you can ask questions and get answers in real time. I'm usually on as Delvin_Anaris, Delvin_at_Work, or Delvin_<something else>.)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Kaje on July 11, 2013, 09:14:44 am

Thanks dude!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Kaje on July 11, 2013, 09:48:31 am

Is there an issue with the 'Orders' tab at the moment? When I click it, I get this:

Fatal error: Call to a member function getNumber() on a non-object in /var/battlemaster/live/stable/play-orders.php on line 470

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on July 11, 2013, 11:56:31 am

Quote from: Kaje on July 11, 2013, 09:48:31 am

Is there an issue with the 'Orders' tab at the moment? When I click it, I get this:

Fatal error: Call to a member function getNumber() on a non-object in /var/battlemaster/live/stable/play-orders.php on line 470

Er...yeah. Sorry. That's my bad.

Should be fixed now.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on July 11, 2013, 02:33:41 pm

What's more productive in terms of gold and food, assuming equal productivity levels? Townsland or rural? I'm assuming townslands are better for gold, but aren't rural areas better for food production?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on July 11, 2013, 03:25:05 pm

Quote from: SealyStar on July 11, 2013, 02:33:41 pm

What's more productive in terms of gold and food, assuming equal productivity levels? Townsland or rural? I'm assuming townslands are better for gold, but aren't rural areas better for food production?

Typically, rural provinces are the breadbaskets of the islands.  Townsland tend to favor gold, but some also make a good amount of food.

Also, you can check it yourself:
Information --> World Information --> Region List

The region list shows all the gold/food production at 100% productivity.  It has an awesome filter and sort function too...

Remember, not all regions are created equal.  Don't get caught up too much on the differences...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on July 19, 2013, 12:40:38 am

I just rejoined the game after being MIA since December. Allegedly me disappearing plunged Dwilight into war? Oops. Well, Alura Aurea, former Marshal of the Phantarian Pride and ruler of Terran (the real Terran, mind you) is back in action!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Talfryn on October 28, 2013, 11:43:58 am

Game is still awesome and active, feel free to join Luria Nova in Dwilight, Lord Qebius will take care of ya. :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on October 28, 2013, 12:08:31 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on July 19, 2013, 12:40:38 am

I just rejoined the game after being MIA since December. Allegedly me disappearing plunged Dwilight into war? Oops. Well, Alura Aurea, former Marshal of the Phantarian Pride and ruler of Terran (the real Terran, mind you) is back in action!

Well, your successors were not good friends to the neighbors that moved to decapitate Terran...  It was a pretty short war actually, cause the realm fractured under the military and diplomatic pressure. (Well, from Asylon's view, we stopped bothering with Terran after the fracture.)

The war happening right now is not because of Terran.  I believe it was one waiting to happen for awhile. 
Astrum/Corsanctum/? vs Nisuler/Aslyon/Farronite Republic 

Also, Farronite Republic already dropped out in a separate peace agreements....  One thing of note, the current leader of the Farronite Republic is the same one who led Terran when it was decapitated. 
I don't even know how that player/character wields enough influence to become leader in all the realms he goes to, unless he travels with more then enough other characters who unquestionably votes for him while swaying a small number of others within the realm.  Plus general voter's apathy.

I vaguely remember that Nisuler's leader, the one that started the war also poofed...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Glloyd on October 28, 2013, 12:15:23 pm

Quote from: Zangi on October 28, 2013, 12:08:31 pm

I vaguely remember that Nisuler's leader, the one that started the war also poofed...

Yeah, Leopold (?) Arrakis orchestrated the whole war, then disappeared after Niselur lost a couple battles. Annoyed the hell out of most Niselurians.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Talfryn on October 29, 2013, 09:38:41 am

Quote from: Glloyd on October 28, 2013, 12:15:23 pm

Quote from: Zangi on October 28, 2013, 12:08:31 pm

I vaguely remember that Nisuler's leader, the one that started the war also poofed...

Yeah, Leopold (?) Arrakis orchestrated the whole war, then disappeared after Niselur lost a couple battles. Annoyed the hell out of most Niselurians.

Niselur deserved it IMHO. Especially with a name like that, and their heretical viewpoint.

Down with the heretics!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on October 29, 2013, 09:57:50 am

Quote from: Talfryn on October 29, 2013, 09:38:41 am

Quote from: Glloyd on October 28, 2013, 12:15:23 pm

Quote from: Zangi on October 28, 2013, 12:08:31 pm

I vaguely remember that Nisuler's leader, the one that started the war also poofed...

Yeah, Leopold (?) Arrakis orchestrated the whole war, then disappeared after Niselur lost a couple battles. Annoyed the hell out of most Niselurians.

Niselur deserved it IMHO. Especially with a name like that, and their heretical viewpoint.

Down with the heretics!

See here, this is why we can't be friends.... ever.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Korbac on October 29, 2013, 10:13:26 am

Just signed up in Pharasmia! :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Talfryn on October 29, 2013, 02:06:46 pm

Quote from: Korbac on October 29, 2013, 10:13:26 am

Just signed up in Pharasmia! :)

Sign up for Luria in Dwilight too! We're lots of fun. :D

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Korbac on October 29, 2013, 02:19:57 pm

I've got an adventurer in Luria. :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Talfryn on October 29, 2013, 02:20:28 pm

Quote from: Korbac on October 29, 2013, 02:19:57 pm

I've got an adventurer in Luria. :)

GET A NOBLE! Unless you already have a Dwilight noble.

EDIT: Then be Lord Qebius's vassal because I need more vassals.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on October 29, 2013, 03:24:30 pm

Just so newcomers know.  We have B12ers spread out across Dwilight.  It is for the better anyways, since it is looked down upon for groups of people just joining a single realm and muscling out the old folk who are not part of the social group.

A number of realms are currently at war, as I mentioned earlier.  If you are looking for action now... where there is active fighting, you can join up with:
-Niselur, northwest realm.  Fighting for self-determination from the SA religion or some such.  Currently on the defense against Astrum.

-Astrum, northwest realm. A theocracy.  One of the old established realms, champion of the SA religion.  In a 2 front war against Asylon and Niselur.  They've recently cowed the Farronite Republic in the south, making a separate peace agreement with them.  Currently standing firm against its enemies, even pushing back from the looks of it.

-Asylon, western realm. Monarchy. Joined the call to arms against Astrum.  Has so far destroyed and taken a few regions at Astrum's southern border for what looks to be little effect.

-Corsanctum, mideast realm. Theocracy. Aiding Astrum in its current war.  Has to travel across the sea to aid Astrum.

-Luria Nova, southeastern realm. Recent battle with D'Hara.

-D'Hara, midsouth sea-faring realm.  Recent battle with Luria Nova.


For reference, I am from Asylon.

Mind you, fighting is the fastest way to gain honor and prestige, which is sorta like your experience points.  Having more honor and prestige allows you more troops and opens up in-game options for you.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Korbac on October 29, 2013, 05:05:39 pm

I have a nooble in Pharamsmagoria.

Are there any ways in which your character can get the chop as a noble? :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on October 29, 2013, 06:05:54 pm

Quote from: Korbac on October 29, 2013, 05:05:39 pm

I have a nooble in Pharamsmagoria.

Are there any ways in which your character can get the chop as a noble? :)

If you mean die...  get caught doing something illegal, most likely red-handed as a saboteur, get banned.  Get caught again by same realm.  You will either be deported or executed.
Alternatively, become a Hero.  Die in some small skirmish or a large battle.  Kinda random.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on October 29, 2013, 07:00:12 pm

Where the blue hell is Pharamsmagoria?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Korbac on October 29, 2013, 07:10:20 pm

I remember somebody said it was the smallest province, so I decided to help it out. ^_^

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on October 29, 2013, 07:48:52 pm

Quote from: Korbac on October 29, 2013, 07:10:20 pm

I remember somebody said it was the smallest province, so I decided to help it out. ^_^

Phantaria, you mean?

I saw that there was a new guy there...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on October 29, 2013, 07:49:52 pm

Quote from: Zangi on October 29, 2013, 06:05:54 pm

Quote from: Korbac on October 29, 2013, 05:05:39 pm

I have a nooble in Pharamsmagoria.

Are there any ways in which your character can get the chop as a noble? :)

If you mean die...  get caught doing something illegal, most likely red-handed as a saboteur, get banned.  Get caught again by same realm.  You will either be deported or executed.
Alternatively, become a Hero.  Die in some small skirmish or a large battle.  Kinda random.

It is very, very difficult to die as a noble in BattleMaster unless you make a deliberate choice that leads to it.

Quote from: SealyStar on October 29, 2013, 07:00:12 pm

Where the blue hell is Pharamsmagoria?

He means Phantaria, he just can't read or can't be bothered to respect his realm enough to spell its name right.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Korbac on October 29, 2013, 08:59:09 pm

I can read thank you very much! It's just kind of hard to remember. :P

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: FireCrazy on October 31, 2013, 08:59:04 am

Nice, i just signed up and its quite good.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: HARD on November 06, 2013, 02:33:38 pm

Is there any point in start playing now? or the world is pretty much settled with tons of troops and who knows what else. Maby theres some map resets? how many players are playing right now?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on November 06, 2013, 02:49:59 pm

No such thing as map resets, ever.  What propels the world is politics and diplomacy based on its own history and the ambitions of its players/characters. (At least in Dwilight, screw all the other islands.)
Soldiers starve, desert and die all the time, so in that way there is no 'tons of troops'... but, certain realms do have higher quality troops compared to others.
As for 'moving on up'... certain realms always have a need for more nobles... and lords to reign over some regions.  *cough*Asylon*cough*  Things change every now and then a new lord is needed...   And being active/outspoken and competent, you can probably get elected somewhere.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: HARD on November 06, 2013, 03:13:18 pm

Actually thought about playing as an adventurer, is there much to do for lone adventurer? if i get bored later can i get promoted to noble? or at least knight and swear oath of fealty to someone?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on November 06, 2013, 03:44:28 pm

You can work toward being knighted...  I don't really run an adventurer myself, so I don't know much about it.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on November 06, 2013, 09:46:27 pm

Quote from: HARD on November 06, 2013, 02:33:38 pm

Is there any point in start playing now? or the world is pretty much settled with tons of troops and who knows what else. Maby theres some map resets? how many players are playing right now?

The last time there was a new world to explore and colonize was about 5 1/2 years ago. The point of BattleMaster is not, and has never been, to be one of the first through the gate to grab a top spot. It's all about the ongoing story.

There are around 1000 registered players right now, with about 600 (IIRC) logging in once every 3 days or more.

Quote from: HARD on November 06, 2013, 03:13:18 pm

Actually thought about playing as an adventurer, is there much to do for lone adventurer?

You're more than welcome to do this, but you'll be missing out on most of the game. BattleMaster is primarily a game for nobles; adventurers are more or less a minigame.

Quote

if i get bored later can i get promoted to noble? or at least knight and swear oath of fealty to someone?

Yes; if you can gain three recommendations from nobles, you can prove your own noble heritage and change from adventurer to noble.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on November 22, 2013, 01:20:06 am

Well, I might be going to a luxury island resort for a couple of months. Good points: It's a luxury island resort on the Great Barrier Reef. Bad points: the internet connection probably isn't that great, plus I'll be working there, not kicking back and enjoying it (I will enjoy it, but I'll be working at the same time).

So, I guess I might get into BM again. It might be just the thing to wind down after a hard day of being polite to my betters. Or just an excuse to play games on my phone. Either way, I'll probably sign up again, even as a short-term character.

So, a few questions. What's happening in Luria Nova nowadays? Are the Royal Rangers still existant? (I had just as much fun as an advy, and probably as much fun with my noble through them as anything else). Do we need a monster-hunting noble of extreme recklessness and outspokeness in LN again?

Actually, I'll probably do something a bit different with a noble this time. No more f'ing el Gatos. Maybe, like you know, a real noble? With morals and stuff. Tee-hee!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on November 22, 2013, 08:17:18 am

If you want to be stupid evil and/or eccentric.. best to hit up the Colonies, Outer Tilog.  Though, the island is one of the least active because it is 1 turn a day instead of 2 like everyone else.

Luria Nova is on the opposite end of the continent from Asylon, so no clue about it.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Talfryn on November 22, 2013, 09:42:14 am

Um, Right now we're fighting a war under Emperor Seoras, the Astroists are trying to use conversion magic to make everyone astroist, and I'm looking for a wife. :p

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on November 22, 2013, 10:00:10 am

Oh, so you guys are at war with the religious block too?  Hows it coming along over on the other side of the sea?

Asylon and Niselur has been moderately successful at looting and pillaging the western representative of the Astroits.  Even Corsanctum and I think one of the others occasionaly show up on this side of the sea.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on November 22, 2013, 06:05:04 pm

When I was last playing (about 6-9 months ago), LN was probably a bit over 60% astroist anyway. Actually, we were sort of using it as cover against Morek and Co. so that we could pick on enemies that were easier to win against (LV and D'hara and Swordfell). Fortunately there were far more unfaithful nations than LN at the time.

Now that it actually is Luria again, with an emperor and all, maybe stuff has changed. I actually don't mind those misguided, heretical pyrists. It might be another little thing for my character to do. Plus, who doesn't like annoying Seoras? It'll be far more fun now that he's an emperor :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on April 28, 2014, 09:42:24 pm

Necro.

Does anyone on b12 still play this?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on April 28, 2014, 09:54:50 pm

Quote from: sambojin on April 28, 2014, 09:42:24 pm

Necro.

Does anyone on b12 still play this?

Yes, though I'm a lot less vocal than I used to be.

One character has basically fallen to the rank of grunt in a dying realm. Another has become a successful but perennially poor trooper in a lively but unfortunate realm. And the third is filthy rich and titled, but with really bad prestige/honor and such.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on April 28, 2014, 09:56:49 pm

I'm still around it.  Asylon is facing dark times.  Well... it was to be expected.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: revo on April 29, 2014, 12:27:42 am

I still play too, ASyon and thal

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on April 29, 2014, 12:42:58 pm

I'm still here! (and a good thing, too, since no one else is doing any real development...)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zireael on May 08, 2014, 12:19:50 pm

Really interested in this, but I can't find anything on marriage/children or retirement in the wiki. Help? I'd like to know how it works before I join...

For example, my pipedream is establishing a dynasty of female knights, going for 3 or 4 generations...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on May 08, 2014, 12:32:47 pm

Quote from: Zireael on May 08, 2014, 12:19:50 pm

Really interested in this, but I can't find anything on marriage/children or retirement in the wiki. Help? I'd like to know how it works before I join...

For example, my pipedream is establishing a dynasty of female knights, going for 3 or 4 generations...

There are no formal mechanics for marriage or children in BattleMaster. Basically, if one of your characters meets a character of another player and they hit it off, you can both roleplay them getting married. Then, after a suitable interval, you can create one or more new characters roleplayed as their children.

This is, in fact, something I've done. One of the characters I'm playing now, and a character of another player, are the children of two characters we played several years ago. They fell in love, got married, and later, left the continent (retired). Now their children are back to try to follow in their parents' footsteps.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on May 08, 2014, 04:38:08 pm

I've jumped back into it (back in LN, just so I don't have to memorize any new region names). I actually might end up playing my character as the illegitimate (but still noble) son of my former character if things get boring. Fortunately LN has a fair bit going on, so it won't be for a while, if ever, that the information is revealed.

It's also possible to RP adoptions into a family, but only really used if you're a pretty established player (it's quite a rare occurrence).

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on May 29, 2014, 11:21:27 pm

Poor Luria Nova. Assailed from all sides, the same hopeless leaders and the inability to win any war. Plus, they now have Asylon assuming that the former capital, Giask, is now theirs (due to poor army leadership by the home guard's former marshal, whose sole task is to take back rogue lands or let nobles hunt. Which he didn't do properly).

Now I'm stuck in an army that just sort of sits there. Fair enough, we need mobile troops, but clicking "train troops" every turn is boring.

I hate to say it, but if Luria gets torn apart by their enemies and their allies, they pretty much deserve it. Christ, I ran the home guard at one stage. It's the easiest thing to do. We had 6 nobles "defending the realm", but mostly we went hunting or did a little bit of civil work. And roleplayed annoyingly. But we never just sat there.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on May 30, 2014, 12:00:45 am

Triple post and all, but it's not as though the thread gets used much.

Danaris, does western Dwighlight still exist? Is it just a matter of fighting off hordes of monsters continuously and establishing a kingdom in the wild, wild west?

I pretty sure young Marius could join up to something like that. Plus, he could go hunting. Probably on a daily basis.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Korbac on May 30, 2014, 03:58:42 am

I played this briefly, but could never keep interest long enough.

Any new realms popped up since Phantaria went boom? I remember playing as part of them. :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on May 30, 2014, 09:20:08 am

Quote from: sambojin on May 30, 2014, 12:00:45 am

Danaris, does western Dwighlight still exist? Is it just a matter of fighting off hordes of monsters continuously and establishing a kingdom in the wild, wild west?

Oh, it exists. But I think the "just" in there hides a world of assumptions that may seriously handicap any such expedition.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on May 30, 2014, 09:22:19 am

Quote from: Korbac on May 30, 2014, 03:58:42 am

I played this briefly, but could never keep interest long enough.

Any new realms popped up since Phantaria went boom? I remember playing as part of them. :)

A whole new island has popped up! There is now a War Island once again, for the first time in 6 years.

A small island, with three realms, locked constantly at war with each other, which will be reset when (and if) one of them completely conquers the other two. Every player gets a free character slot there, and it's completely isolated—no characters can move in or out of there, so any character you want to have there will have to be born, live, and die there.

Oh, and characters can, in fact, die there, by all sorts of means. The immortality normal to the other islands has been disabled on the War Island.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on May 30, 2014, 11:36:22 am

Asylonian here, I'm stuck with no troops.  Doing nothing, so meh.

And yea, I hear you Lurians are grumbling about us and the matter of Giask... also the state of Lurian military efficiency.  (Though, the Lurian general is making assertions with Asylon's general over Giask.  What else is the fellow doing?)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: mosshadow on May 30, 2014, 07:30:28 pm

Im playing altmara in Rielston for maybe a month now. I would say its pretty fun, but it needs to have more micromanaging and random stuff to do.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on May 30, 2014, 10:28:49 pm

@Mosshadow. I'm not sure if the trading changes went into Altmara couple of years ago (lords can set auto-trade or give control to the realm's banker), but if they didn't, become a trader if you're still just a warrior. You might make a few gold, you might lose a few, but it's something else to do. Another way to move pieces around the board.

The changes to the trading system on Dwilight pretty much removed any reason for the class (but Luria's oppressive trading laws didn't help).

@Zangi. If you didn't actually become Lurian (you're still Asylonian?), then you won't be able to hire troops in Luria until they (you) take Giask as your new and undeserved capital. Or become Lurian, go to Askileon, scam some troop gold, cry that you're now Lurian. Pray for the takeover of Giask to happen quickly.

@Danaris. So, we're talking like 10-20k CS of monsters in all the regions? Less? More? Still sounds like a good reason to get a heap of bowmen together and start a new kingdom. AI monsters are never as good as their CS looks. You can reliably take out 1 1/2 times your own unit's CS with bowmen, or break their morale, more with a few infantry units in the mix (though they get slaughtered a bit).
So did the advy bomb end up working? Lol.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on May 31, 2014, 01:00:57 pm

I'm probably gonna stay as an Asylonian as long as it is still possible for it to survive...  I also believe Giask fly's Asylon's banner right this moment, but we have not made it a capital yet...
I suppose it is better then the alternative, me joining, grabbing troops then leaving, as some others have done.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on July 06, 2014, 09:07:19 pm

Go Luria Nova! Boo to Asylon and their non-warlike ways.

I knew it'd be interesting. LN is currently at war with: Barca, D'hara, Fissoa, probably Morek, not really Swordfell (but I still want Flying Hongrns back. Useless damn province, but it'd let me RP some stuff for Marius).

Asylon is currently at war with: Swordfell??? Because, ummm, yeah. Reasons. Don't worry about alliances or turn-coats or anythung.
Should be at war with: all-of-the-above-except-LN, but they're pussies and won't commit. May even end up at war with LN, because they're pussies, but LN is kind of sorted for wars right now. I also want Giask back :)

But its finally do-or-die time for Asylon. It'll be interesting to see who you've actually sided with. At least LN is winning its war(s).

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on July 13, 2014, 01:22:35 pm

Its completely possible to move up as a new player. Within 4 months of starting I became commander of the Phantarian Pride and Leader of Terran... Ah, how I miss Lady Alura Aurea. I wish I still had the time to play.

Is Terran still active? Last time I popped in to check things out, we'd been slashed into pieces. I helped stabilize Phantaria a bit and then had to quit due to health and time constraints. Hope my boys are still fighting strong.

What's Dwilight politics look like now? Still the whole Luria-D'hara conflict while the rest of the world bends over for the Blood Stars?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on July 13, 2014, 02:32:39 pm

Many things have changed...  Phantaria is no more.  The western continent is no more.  Corsanctum is no more.  The Luria-D'hara conflict persists.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Glloyd on July 13, 2014, 02:48:48 pm

Yeah... I was solely a Dwilight player, and IMO the game really went downhill after they flooded the western continent with so many monsters you had no chance of staying there. I stopped playing about a month or two after they did that, and by that time there wasn't a single player-held province in the west. To my way of thinking, an enforced mechanic like that kind of went against the whole idea of the game, that being of a player-created history. It didn't breed RP, and shat on everything players on the western continent had been building for years. Unless that's reverted, I can't see myself ever coming back to BM.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on July 13, 2014, 07:12:07 pm

Quote from: Glloyd on July 13, 2014, 02:48:48 pm

Yeah... I was solely a Dwilight player, and IMO the game really went downhill after they flooded the western continent with so many monsters you had no chance of staying there. I stopped playing about a month or two after they did that, and by that time there wasn't a single player-held province in the west. To my way of thinking, an enforced mechanic like that kind of went against the whole idea of the game, that being of a player-created history. It didn't breed RP, and shat on everything players on the western continent had been building for years. Unless that's reverted, I can't see myself ever coming back to BM.

It's not something we did because we wanted to. Player densities game-wide were too low, which was reducing the amount of interaction and fun everywhere.

In general, the only non-player-generated events we run are the Beluaterra invasions. This was an exception we were very reluctant to make, but eventually decided it was more likely to help the game than doing nothing and pretending everything was OK.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Sirus on July 13, 2014, 07:15:54 pm

"Doing nothing and pretending everything was okay" was ultimately why I left in the first place, so good job I guess :/

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on July 14, 2014, 02:20:06 am

It doesn't fundamentally change anything though...  Kinda like throwing on a bandaid, but not disinfecting the wound beforehand.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: danaris on July 14, 2014, 08:17:03 am

Quote from: Zangi on July 14, 2014, 02:20:06 am

It doesn't fundamentally change anything though...  Kinda like throwing on a bandaid, but not disinfecting the wound beforehand.

No, it's more like an emergency amputation.

I'm doing other stuff that I hope will make the game as a whole more fun, though. You can see a list of my current planned changes (http://forum.battlemaster.org/index.php/topic,5596.0.html) on the BattleMaster forum.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on July 14, 2014, 08:44:08 am

I can see how it must be annoying for the old western kingdoms, but it has made it more interesting in my part of Dwilight. It's early days yet, with a lot of time for things to become stable, but having extra enemies to fight with the now limited land resources is a good thing IMHO. Luria used to own rather excessive amounts of land, now it has to fight or negotiate for large tracts of it, along with the normal "outside" pressures. It might end up reclaiming most of it, but that still brings the political side of things to light.

Taking in the refugees has been interesting as well. No-one really knows where any particular character's allegiance lays (did we ever?). I don't like it that much of Dwilight wasn't affected much by the changes, with status quo more-or-less being maintained everywhere else. Even around LN it looks like it might go that way, with the big boys staying big, and the western realms having to fight tooth and nail for simple survival.

So I can see why people are cranky about it still. It might be interesting for me (yay to semi-forced wars without much travel time. LN could be boring as hell in peacetime), but if the roles were reversed I'd probably view it differently.

Was it good for the game? Maybe. Only time will tell. It's actually nice having realms and knights be a little poorer. Jockeying for position, under-hiring, vaguely caring about battle results, etc actually became important and worthwhile now. A constant chance for war or peace is good as well. I'm sure there were a lot of wars that were never fought just because people couldn't be bothered waiting the 3 day travel time to even initiate one. They may have had a legitimate reason for fighting, it was just too much time wasted for half a kingdom's worth of players to want to travel anywhere to fight one. With the other option being: Do nothing, get rich, RP a bit. War was like traveling prison, peace was more interesting but less dramatic, and being a monster/undead hunter could earn you honour and prestige faster than actual fighting. I hope the changes still allow many sorts of players to flourish and be interested, with everyone having their niche in the game. But it is called *Battle*master for a reason, even if wars aren't necessarily won or lost by fighting, or power or wealth gained by use of arms. But it can be, and it's easier and quicker to do now.

Honestly, I don't know how Morek doesn't die of boredom most of the time. SA is purely a creation of that. It gives players something to do when there's nothing else happening. With half of Dwilight mostly unaffected by the changes, this looks set to continue.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Zangi on July 14, 2014, 02:57:33 pm

Considering Asylon, we have always been busy... rebuilding and preparing for the next war.

Well, Asylon did have a good run hitting up Corsanctum. But considering it was essentially 3 versus 1 and Asylon had no real way to recruit more troops till it was too late... while the enemy were able to the whole time... well the result was obvious.

Maybe if our enemies had given us enough time to properly entrench into our foothold or if there was a mechanic allowing us to recruit anywhere else, Asylon probably wouldn't be in Giask now...
But yea, we were essentially a rogue nation at that point, despite the 'advantages' given us, it is not enough to fight a proper war when casualties start mounting and equipment starts to break down... it was just enough to peacefully relocate.

Maybe Asylon should have rushed down to Luria and taken one of the rogue cities while they were still rogue instead.  But yea, there is a lot of non-city space in the middle.  So our options were essentially go south or go north.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Glloyd on July 14, 2014, 04:12:00 pm

Yeah, nothing against you Danaris, I understand that it was more or less necessary. It's just that I was part of Niselur, and we were in our most interesting period of the last couple years, then that happened. I think a quarter left for Luria Nova, half just quit outright, and a quarter tried to keep Niselur together. After about a month of that, it was me and I think 3 or 4 other players, down from 28 or so. After we lost our last territory, and I had lost everything I'd spent my entire time on Battlemaster working on, I saw no point in continuing to play. Frankly, I sincerely doubt I'll ever return.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on July 19, 2014, 09:04:00 pm

The only thing more satisfying than butchering a coalition's army is butchering their tail-end that forgot to move. And watching your new Imperial Marshal get wounded repeatedly in a fairly minor battle. Would you carry an item called "The unremarkable gem of extra ouchies" with an infantry unit to the front lines as a general?

Happy days for LN :)
Happy hunting too I hope.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on August 12, 2014, 07:01:54 pm

Yay, we might have monsters and undead again on Dwilight (and BT). Not the "Consume the entirety of the West" monsters, normal ones. Adventurers rejoice!

Linky to the forum post:
forum.battlemaster.org/index.php/topic,6053.0.html (http://forum.battlemaster.org/index.php/topic,6053.0.html)

Actually, nobles rejoice too. My last character made a bit of a name for herself by slaughtering a few thousand CS of monsters over a couple of days with a troop of archers. And my current noble just so happens to have a reasonable archer contingent. Plus my advy finally got a big score and is "going shopping with avengence". It's nice when everything happens at just the right time.

Sort of sucks for Luria and probably Morek though. Big, widespread kingdoms, that only get really cohesive during a war. Actually, one if them is at war right now, and can't spare the nobles if an outbreak occurs. Hehehehehe, Luria is always fun.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on November 23, 2014, 04:36:23 am

Oh crap. We might actually be winning. Bye-bye Barca, other than those nobles that become Lurian. Quickly.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on January 27, 2015, 12:52:55 am

Update on Luria versus Everyone (except Swordfell).

Umm, we're still winning. Even to the point of almost setting up a Kingdom in enemy lands as promised for those fighting under our banner (everyone from the West and some others). Still one of the funner and more lively realms, even if I do scroll through RP relationship junk a bit.

Oh, and I'm now an Earl. Of a currently backwater little region that's strategically horribly important. So now, it's getting rich time. Or something. Making everyone slightly richer hopefully as well. But mainly me. Because I had more money as a Knight, but my troops got killed a lot more than my current ones will (hopefully).

That's what happens in a world war I guess. At least we're both winning it as the defenders and trying to tell them that we don't want to fight, but shit happens if you fight us.

Slow game, but fun for me.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wereboar on May 22, 2015, 06:54:41 am

Are the servers down? I can't seem to access them.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: rumpel on July 17, 2015, 09:36:08 pm

-oops, just ignore me-

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on July 18, 2015, 01:11:02 am

Hello, folks. Been a long time. The Former Lady Alurien Aurea here, I was leader of somewhere in Dwilight at some point... Can't remember what the damn nation was called... It was on the western side, near D'hara and some other folks. Has anything in the game changed over the last year or so? New mechanics, or some such?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on July 18, 2015, 01:49:58 am

There's been a few little quality of life things for lords (region/estate changes etc).

Looting a region too much often causes a peasant army to form to fight the looters. This was hilarious for a while, then they toned it back so it wasn't a crushing defeat for a 10kCS army.

Regions normalize to "relatively good" without too much input. They can be hard to keep "excellent", but civil work isn't a continuous chore now.

The West of Dwilight essentially doesn't exist now. This is a fairly big change.

That's about all I can think of that's noticeable. Heaps of back end stuff, bug fixes and a server change, but not much gameplay wise.

Kingdom wise, there's been heaps on Dwilight though. No more Western anything, Morek broke up, Fissoa got defeated, Luria is huge (but is shedding regions to new Fissoa), a few alliances have changed, stuff like that.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on July 18, 2015, 04:49:02 am

You're kidding me! Morek finally shattered!?

My entire life's purpose was to shatter the damn blood stars, or whatever they called themselves. :)

Damn... So my nation is gone... That does blow.

Are there any prospects of reclaiming western Dwilight? I'd like to bring my kingdom back.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on July 18, 2015, 09:09:43 am

Quote from: Ehndras on July 18, 2015, 04:49:02 am

You're kidding me! Morek finally shattered!?

My entire life's purpose was to shatter the damn blood stars, or whatever they called themselves. :)

Damn... So my nation is gone... That does blow.

Are there any prospects of reclaiming western Dwilight? I'd like to bring my kingdom back.

What was your nation?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wereboar on July 18, 2015, 02:12:25 pm

Western continent is overrun by hordes of monsters.
There are several projects of reclaiming certain western cities (Madina is hellbent on that) but we'll see where it goes.
At least we know it's feasible on smaller scale, Astrum successfully reclaimaed Libidized and is apparently still holding to it despite constant monster attacks.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on July 18, 2015, 02:44:37 pm

I can't remember the name... The nation broke into two at one point. We were in Central-western Dwilight, and fought a war against those French-esque Pseudo-Imperialist folks down south. There weren't very many of us, and we were allied with D'hara.

If I am to return, and plan on reclaiming the West as my main goal, what would be the best nation to join?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on July 18, 2015, 05:05:57 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on July 18, 2015, 02:44:37 pm

I can't remember the name... The nation broke into two at one point. We were in Central-western Dwilight, and fought a war against those French-esque Pseudo-Imperialist folks down south. There weren't very many of us, and we were allied with D'hara.

If I am to return, and plan on reclaiming the West as my main goal, what would be the best nation to join?

Terran, probably. I was there.

I don't know if any nations have current plans to retake the west; to be honest, I'm not sure if it's mechanically possible or if the monsters are on infinite-respawn.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on July 18, 2015, 05:15:09 pm

Astrum supposedly took a region for a little while (and probably have the military power to do so again).

D'hara vaguely wants to, but probably couldn't. Madina (new Fissoan nation) definitely wants to, half of them are western exiles anyway. Luria wants to, but probably by proxy through Madina. Fissoa could, just due to easy access.

Here's the current map: (dammit, political symbols didn't transfer, but at least I'm not giving away information)

http://sta.sh/0v0l1oswfq5


Pick a nation close to the west. Do any of the regions look familiar?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on July 18, 2015, 05:29:24 pm

Depending on the strengths and groupings of the monsters, it might be possible even on infinite respawn to beat them. Mainly due to how combat mechanics and fleeing work. Throw enough arrows at them and the monsters should flee if they're bunched into 1-2 units.

I vaguely remember a little tidbit update saying monsters are braver now though. I think.

Still, I might send Marius to the west if there's any reasonable push for it. Just need to up my trading skill a tonne and there might be a heap of gold to be made :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on July 18, 2015, 06:24:59 pm

Yes, Terran! My brain kept whispering "Terra..." yet I figured that couldn't be it. I began as lady of Inklen, I believe that was the place, became sub-marshal, then Marshal, then eventually went on to Leader, before health and life (*shakes fist!*) ruined my ability to play coherently. Having switched careers, I no longer work ridiculous 50-70 hour weeks and actually have time to play. :) I think my character was supposed to marry the leader of D'hara and create an alliance that would hopefully change things up a bit.

So I guess its Fissoa or Luria, if D'hara lacks sufficient interest and the resources necessary for such a campaign.

Anyone know where the former Terrans went off to? I'm tempted to bring back Alurien Aurea, if enough people remember me. Otherwise, I'm going with another one of my characters.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: SealyStar on July 18, 2015, 08:20:12 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on July 18, 2015, 06:24:59 pm

Yes, Terran! My brain kept whispering "Terra..." yet I figured that couldn't be it. I began as lady of Inklen, I believe that was the place, became sub-marshal, then Marshal, then eventually went on to Leader, before health and life (*shakes fist!*) ruined my ability to play coherently. Having switched careers, I no longer work ridiculous 50-70 hour weeks and actually have time to play. :) I think my character was supposed to marry the leader of D'hara and create an alliance that would hopefully change things up a bit.

So I guess its Fissoa or Luria, if D'hara lacks sufficient interest and the resources necessary for such a campaign.

Anyone know where the former Terrans went off to? I'm tempted to bring back Alurien Aurea, if enough people remember me. Otherwise, I'm going with another one of my characters.

My former Terranian character is now in D'Hara. I know some of them emigrated (one ended up in the same realm as another of my characters), but I'm not sure about those in other realms.

The successors to Terran actually collapsed long before the monsters were unleashed on the west, actually, so many of them are probably in the realms that took the lands (or those which took those realms in turn).

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: KingofstarrySkies on July 18, 2015, 08:34:25 pm

This seems...Cool, actually.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wereboar on July 18, 2015, 09:29:30 pm

Luria won't go west. Won't tell more because FOIG.
But if you pick Fissoa let me know. I'm actually the Grand Prince there. The place is getting a bit quiet lately, need some new blood.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: High tyrol on July 18, 2015, 09:49:12 pm

Ptw

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on July 18, 2015, 10:34:35 pm

Fissoa it is. I'm still on the fence as to whether I may have any political advantage to bringing Alura back. Though I'm tempted to start clean... It would be somewhat difficult to explain what the hell happened to her...

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: GundamMerc on August 06, 2015, 11:11:00 am

I can provide some detail on the events that lead to the split in Morek, as I was one of the key players, along with Indirik and Lapallanch.

From my point of view, what occurred was a gradual growing discontentment with the war against Luria, as well as a split between what the nobles of the realm wanted, and what the Ruler and General wanted (end of the war and land for the immigrants for the former, continuation of the war for the latter). I can't remember what exactly occurred, but something eventually broke the camel's back, so to speak; my character along with Indirik and Lapallanch's characters began to lead protests against the Grandmistress at the time, Eviera.

After this went on for a couple days, the ruler stepped down and then seceded the Donghaiwei duchy from Morek. This was followed by Helm (the General at the time) seceding the north west part of the realm and forming Arnor, while the Duke of Springdale Duchy seceded as well and formed the realm of Antiqualia. This left Morek with Muspelheim and the immediately surrounding lands, as well as Zhongyuan and Bohai. They soon lost those two regions to the realm of the old ruler.

Any questions I'll answer gladly.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on August 06, 2015, 03:07:35 pm

Alekhsandr Aurea, (IC Lore: brother of Alura Aurea, former Ruler of Terran), has been born into Dwilight under the Fissoan banner. Cheers!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Kot on August 06, 2015, 03:21:37 pm

Hrm, I wanted to start playing this thing but for some reason it accusses me of not being serious. I have a feeling it might be because of that Martian thing, but that would be plain xenofobia, so that's out of question.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on August 06, 2015, 03:54:00 pm

You've got to be kidding me...

I investigated my starting region in Luria Nova with the adventurer I just created*, Johaan Thorbrandr Aurea, and found...

Cold-Forged Arrow of Bloodletting, a weapon that gives +2 prestige.

Name                                           Type      Condition   Prestige
Cold-Forged Arrow of Bloodletting   Weapon  43 %           + 2

Discovered in Irvington, Luria Nova, Late-spring.

I guess this was the right time to come back. :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Urist McScoopbeard on August 06, 2015, 05:25:31 pm

How do people remember to get on everyday for like five minutes to manage their parties and kingdom and then not think about it for the other 23 hours and 55 minutes??? Every time I try to play, I spend like 16 hours on saturday staring at the screen and then am angered for having to wait.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on August 06, 2015, 09:43:52 pm

Quote from: Urist McScoopbeard on August 06, 2015, 05:25:31 pm

How do people remember to get on everyday for like five minutes to manage their parties and kingdom and then not think about it for the other 23 hours and 55 minutes??? Every time I try to play, I spend like 16 hours on saturday staring at the screen and then am angered for having to wait.

I do the same. :) That's what adventurers, alternate characters, and roleplaying. :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on August 07, 2015, 03:20:07 am

Any of you guys on Might&Fealty, Battlemaster's newer game of the same genre? I have the same name there, Alekhsandr Aurea, and I'm somewhere called Sun's Castle in the Southern Bastion area. Hall of Wyverns is the group name, I believe. Still a bit confused on the whole lord/region/kingdom/empire political hierarchy thing.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: GundamMerc on August 12, 2015, 02:43:56 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on August 07, 2015, 03:20:07 am

Any of you guys on Might&Fealty, Battlemaster's newer game of the same genre? I have the same name there, Alekhsandr Aurea, and I'm somewhere called Sun's Castle in the Southern Bastion area. Hall of Wyverns is the group name, I believe. Still a bit confused on the whole lord/region/kingdom/empire political hierarchy thing.

I stopped playing it, that game isn't anywhere near what I would consider playable in my opinion.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Fanofgaming on August 12, 2015, 09:30:52 pm

I played Might & Fealty for a very short while when it first entered open... alpha or beta, whichever one went public first. Wasn't much to see back then; I really liked how the army management worked. Ehndras's post inspired me to check it out again. It doesn't seem to have changed much, but I'm still enjoying it. I've gotten set up in two separate realms on two separate characters with four settlements each. Unfortunately, on one of those characters, the food tax that I am expected to pay is going to starve off around a fifth of my population...  :(

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: GundamMerc on August 15, 2015, 12:33:44 pm

We should get a mod to split off the Might & Fealty posts.

Anyways, Helyg Derwyddon (the old Donghaiwei duchy of Morek Empire before it seceded) has attacked Astrum, claiming Caiyun (a holy region for Astroists) to bring it out from under the heel of the last remaining Theocracy. Our first assault failed to break through the significant militia arrayed behind the walls of the region, but we are taking advantage of our short travel time back to our capital to refit and assault it once again.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on August 15, 2015, 05:29:06 pm

Oh the embarrassment. You were beaten by militia :)

I'm happily keeping tabs on what's happening while Luria does other stuff.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: GundamMerc on August 15, 2015, 11:03:37 pm

Quote from: sambojin on August 15, 2015, 05:29:06 pm

Oh the embarrassment. You were beaten by militia :)

I'm happily keeping tabs on what's happening while Luria does other stuff.

Tis what happens when your realm is mostly populated by northern nobles, who haven't seen a true war in ages. Luckily I have an active and able Marshal to help me as General.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on August 18, 2015, 04:08:45 pm

Consider yourself lucky. My character tends to make managing an army akin to wrangling cats. For no other reason than to annoy the marshal.

Well that, and I realized that I didn't actually have any enemies. Problem solved :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on August 20, 2015, 03:43:50 am

And now, Luria Nova finally has a chance of being the Lurian Empire.

Because we're not totally inward looking now, and we have an Emperor.

Fuck yeah! Luria!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: GundamMerc on August 20, 2015, 11:39:55 am

Currently the northern realms of Dwilight are a complete mess of !!FUN!! and I highly suggest people join them. Morek Empire isn't a threat anymore, and independent duchies have formed and are warring with each other. All of the realms are relatively active, with Arnor at war with Antiqualia while Helyg Derwyddon is taking advantage of the chaos and Luria's attack on Astrum to claim the holy land of Caiyun from Astrum.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: GundamMerc on August 23, 2015, 12:44:51 pm

In slightly more boring but promising news, Cagilan Empire on Atamara has lowered relations with Talerium to Peace from Alliance. This is likely to cause resentment in Talerium.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on August 23, 2015, 03:01:46 pm

Oh, good. Atamara is a bit weird anyway, so the more resentment bordering on hatred, the better. I can understand that sort of stuff.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on August 27, 2015, 04:29:11 pm

Heh. One of the players just paused their character. Talk about a 1-man power vacuum in the making.

He was a King, the head priest of ESA, chief Ambassador, Imperial Marshal, army sponsor, Lord of a townsland, and probably a few other things besides. In one small change, half of Luria's realm council just up and left, along with all kinds of other stuff too.

I can totally understand why he couldn't be buggered playing the character any more. His inbox must have been ridiculous every day.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: GundamMerc on August 27, 2015, 10:00:48 pm

Quote from: sambojin on August 27, 2015, 04:29:11 pm

Heh. One of the players just paused their character. Talk about a 1-man power vacuum in the making.

He was a King, the head priest of ESA, chief Ambassador, Imperial Marshal, army sponsor, Lord of a townsland, and probably a few other things besides. In one small change, half of Luria's realm council just up and left, along with all kinds of other stuff too.

I can totally understand why he couldn't be buggered playing the character any more. His inbox must have been ridiculous every day.

There goes my support up north D:

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: CyberGenesis on August 27, 2015, 10:26:08 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on August 06, 2015, 03:54:00 pm

Cold-Forged Arrow of Bloodletting, a weapon that gives +2 prestige.

Name                                           Type      Condition   Prestige
Cold-Forged Arrow of Bloodletting   Weapon  43 %           + 2

Discovered in Irvington, Luria Nova, Late-spring.

I guess this was the right time to come back. :)

I lost that arrow trying to repair it by getting my ass kicked - then died recently, so all's good

I did not know this topic was here until today...and i've been in b12 for a while

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on August 27, 2015, 10:31:11 pm

It's good to know there's a topic for all good games.

BM ain't for everyone. But it's a bloody glorious game.

Who would have thought a game about messaging, being a toff, and avoiding any responsibility wherever possible, would be fun?

It's like real life, but I'm a toff in BM.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on August 30, 2015, 02:53:09 am

Quote from: CyberGenesis on August 27, 2015, 10:26:08 pm

Quote from: Ehndras on August 06, 2015, 03:54:00 pm

Cold-Forged Arrow of Bloodletting, a weapon that gives +2 prestige.

Name                                           Type      Condition   Prestige
Cold-Forged Arrow of Bloodletting   Weapon  43 %           + 2

Discovered in Irvington, Luria Nova, Late-spring.

I guess this was the right time to come back. :)

I lost that arrow trying to repair it by getting my ass kicked - then died recently, so all's good

I did not know this topic was here until today...and i've been in b12 for a while

I just lost it in Fissoa to some monsters I was fighting. Oh well.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on December 16, 2015, 07:22:15 am

A very scary message was recently sent in this game. We're still not sure if it's RP for a laugh, a hoax or hack, a weird way of closing a game account, or horribly and terribly real.

This is not a way of getting someone into this game. Fuck that. All the players are seriously worried for this person's safety and life.

Ehndras, is there any details available in the backup stuff on BM of anything that can check if this player is ok? Or would you know who to contact to check this? Account is deleted, but there's always something in the database of users. Even an email to check if you're a new-new player or a returning person.

If anyone knows the player of this character in Battlemaster, can you please check if they're alright?

The name is synonymous with riots, etc, in America. But it's a fairly common name as well, I assume. There's more than one person with that name on Earth. It reads as an RP, to show writing skills, but you can never write something like that off, in case it's real and a last message.

The details of the OOC message. Spoilered, because, fuck. It's a worry.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Out-of-Character from Adolphus La Pointe   (5 hours, 28 minutes ago)
Message sent to everyone in your realm (33 recipients)
Battlemaster was his life.

Reginald Denny sat in his makeshift office, casually watching the Arizona sunset through his trailer window. Not more than a folding chair and table of plastic, with a seemingly ancient desktop computer sitting atop, arranged carefully to maximize his available space. He stretched his back and uttered a faint sigh; it had been a long day of work, but now he was done and back home. Reginald switched his computer on, patiently waiting. His monitor began to flicker as the low hum of his pc signaled the time was approaching. He smiled.

Work had been extraordinarily tough today. It seemed a never ending parade of issues, both major and minor, had cropped up in a project long overdue. "Goddammit. Just let me get this damn boat fixed." A small job he took over three weeks ago had turned into a nightmare. Reginald was skilled in boat repair, and really anything with his hands, however a lingering brain trauma made a simple step-by-step process incoherent. Completing crucial steps out of order unknowingly, he turned a minor leak into a half destroyed, half rebuilt monster. He knew his client would be extremely upset, and the fear was starting to paralyze him. He was in debt and this would surely ruin his business. But, that was not a concern for now. Time for Battlemaster.

As the login screen appeared, he excitedly cracked the knuckles of his damaged hands. Boat repair and maintenance was often no easy job, but these injuries were from decades ago. The scars from his hands reached up along his arms to his chest. From there, they spread like AIDS in West Hollywood, completely, across his entire face and body. He could feel the cold stares of people when he went out in public, in the normally upbeat, party/tourist town of Lake Havasu. So, he stopped going out, only for groceries and work. A sad life, but his and his alone, and through Battlemaster he found a small measure of joy in an otherwise empty existence.

Reginald Denny
  [reply to sender] | [ignore] | [userdata unavailable]


Out-of-Character from Adolphus La Pointe   (5 hours, 28 minutes ago)
Message sent to everyone in your realm (33 recipients)
He saw his family page appear and took a deep breath. He had moves to make for his characters that he had planned for the past week; Reggie agonized over strategy and his attention to detail helped make many of his past goals in Battlemaster successful. Now it was time to see his latest plan through. Unfortunately for him, things would not go accordingly.

Aura, it was called by some. Anxiety, cold sweats, and the faint taste of metal. His mind began to float. Reginald knew this feeling well and knew it signaled an oncoming seizure. Epilepsy was another effect of the injuries he sustained long ago. The intersection of Florence and Normandie in Los Angeles flashed back to his vision as he lost control of his body. He saw four men approaching so he stopped his truck. He had no idea a riot was taking place. All Reginald knew was that he had a load to deliver in his dump truck, and he impatiently tapped the steering wheel as they approached. What could they want, he wondered. Maybe they'll explain why pedestrians had been throwing rocks at his truck moments earlier. Ripped from the driver's seat and thrown onto the rough, hot asphalt. One man held his head down with his foot as others took turns kicking him. He vaguely remembered a hammer impacting him repeatedly, but he no longer felt pain. He looked up and saw a man holding a fire extinguisher menacingly over him and he knew his life was finished. As he saw the pressurized metal cylinder fly out of one of his attacker's hands and towards his unprotected face, Reginald Denny was jolted back to present day reality. Aware, but unable to control his muscles, he looked at his computer screen. Dread fills his belly as he sees an unfamiliar page, the delete your family Battlemaster confirmation page. Just another 30 seconds and I'll be fine... He tried with all his might to throw himself to the floor, but to no avail. To his dismay, his flailing arms smashed into his keyboard, again and again. The seizure finished and he surveyed the aftermath. Family Deleted Successfully. He began weeping.

Now, a new reality had taken form, one devoid of Battlemaster. He was scared, crushed, and confused. How would he endure now? Slowly he began to feel a peace and euphoria washing over him. Perhaps there was hope. Perhaps there something more to life than a browser game. He smiled again. He had found his answer. Reginald stood up and walked across his trailer home to a small chest on the floor. Opening it carefully, he pulled out a Smith and Wesson .40 calibre revolver. He loaded a single bullet and put the gun mouth. 

CLICK.

He cocked the hammer, but hesitated. I can always make a new account, right? A new family, a fresh start!
He began hyperventilating.

"Noooooooo!"

BANG.

Reginald Denny

If anyone knows who this person is, and if they're ok, please help. We're all really worried.

It's a game about making up fictional characters and RPing them. This would be the most tragic thing ever, if it were real.

I'm not quite enough of an arsehole yet to not worry, regardless of a long line of hoaxing fuckwits. Sometimes things like this aren't a last message, but shows a slide into that frame of mind. So it's best to help or ask where you can.

Either way, if any on bay12 know the player, could you see if he's alright?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Hanzoku on December 16, 2015, 07:47:33 am

Contact Tom - serverside should have the IP addresses, and those should be traceable back to a geographic region. If the person's not in Arizona, it's a hoax.

Honestly, I'm leaning towards hoax anyway. I had a friend on a forum who pulled that years ago - played the 'I have terminal cancer' card and left, lots of touching tributes from people. He came back a year later under another name and eventually admitted what he had done to me. I forgave him, but it has damaged my trust that when people do something elaborate like this, that there's real truth in it.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on December 16, 2015, 08:31:29 am

Yeah, I'm leaning hoax wise. But still, I've had my hard times in life. Even been told I'd die if I kept doing what I did. And here I am today.

Sometimes because people cared enough to check if I was alive. It made me care enough that they don't ever have to check anymore.

Still, the Devs have been contacted. Hope it's a hoax.

They're a long term player (there's messages about the "La Pointe" family on here from 2012), so yeah. Not a blow-in.

BM's a pretty community orientated game, even when you're RPing a complete an utter arsehole noble scum. It doesn't have levers and bridges like DF. But it's intriguing as a game.

I hope this is a hoax. Regardless of names used. I'm more worried that it's a last little bit of artistic and writing flair, in the third person, from someone who's making their mind up.

Hell, he could just be drunk. You'd be surprised the half readable shite I write in that game, really fucking drunk. It's probably worse, but it's actually in character. And not worrying.

We're a bit worried that this reads like a roleplay, in character, as an out-of-character message. From the player themselves.

The name and location and job may not really matter. Just "someone" in this mindset has stated a potential action.

Someone real.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on December 16, 2015, 05:13:28 pm

I've done as much as I can. Called the Lake Havasu police, was on and off the phone with them til 5 am, emailed them his messages, and just emailed them his IP address as given to me by one of the admins.

I'm going to be really, really honest. I only had to read a single line to know this was a suicide note. I know from experience: I wrote something shockingly similar in a time of my life I'd rather not recall, where I felt there was absolutely no hope. Hell, when Might & Fealty was launched I had a bit of an emotional hiccup and was about to go for my last living drive, but noticed M&F's existence and made Lord Alekhsandr Aurea in Arrakesh. If not for the distraction and calmness M&F gave me, I can't see a single reason why I'd still be alive.

I really, really, really hope its a hoax, but can't possibly dismiss it until I know for sure. Its far, far too personal to share, but if you could read the letter I wrote the night I nearly died, whose scars I look upon every day as I wake up, they sound very similar. I, too, have a habit of going into third-person. There's a particular purpose: emotional detachment. To accept one's fate, the prospect of leaving the world behind, they must put aside their fears and worries. This feels good: in fact, I'd say its often the precursor to the suicidal tactic in and of itself. As we begin to allow hopelessness to flood in, we are strangely give hope... Hope that we can end the pain. We become characters ourselves - actors in our own self-destructive drama, as a method of detachment. A skill we've honed to its apex in games and forums such as these.

So I really don't think this should automatically be dismissed on the grounds that its overly-dramatic or in third-person. As someone whose spent most of his life in therapy and hospitals, let me tell you: when your life sucks and you bottle it all in, all your misery find a way to come out. My mother's best friend: a wonderful, proud, gentle-voiced yet out-spoken intellectual, a proper lady of 69 years old - died of leukemia in 2013. She was quiet til she got stuck in a wheelchair and the fear of immobility, of inaction, of losing control of her own fate, became apparent. She died proud, loud, and in charge - to the last moment. Its not the same situation, but its the same psychological basis for an emotion-based reaction to externally-limiting stimuli that question or endanger one's sense of self-sufficiency, independence, and ability to continue on with the same or similar quality of life.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on December 16, 2015, 05:24:40 pm

Yeah. That's it. If we don't know, we have to take it seriously, no matter what it looks like. Especially in a game that revolves around third-person roleplays of various characters and their reasons and motivations for different things.

Sorry if my posts sound harsh, but I wouldn't have spent my time writing them if I didn't care about the person's wellbeing.

Thanks for going out of your way for them Ehndras. Hopefully they're ok. People like you really restore my faith in humanity, just for caring and going out of your way to help someone that neither of us know.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on December 16, 2015, 10:24:33 pm

"The Lake Havasu City Police Department contacted "the real" Reginald Denny this morning in the Lake Havasu City limits.  It was learned that Reginald Denny who resides in Lake Havasu City does not play these on-line games and was in good health.  It appears that whoever is using the name of "Reginald Denny" is copying information learned from the internet in an effort to use his identity and make up stories in the letter.  The real Reginald Denny is fine and the police investigation has been concluded.  Due to the fact the person writing the letter and posting it on your gaming community could be anywhere in the United States, it makes it extremely difficult to believe the threat is real because the person is using a fake name in the letter.  Thank you again for the information, hope this helps."

Son of a BITCH! I can't believe I took this asshole seriously. This is what I get for being so stupid. I did something I can't take back. I really thought this was legit. :( Fucking fuck... I can't believe someone would be such an inconsiderate douchebag, putting people's emotional stability at risk. Fucking ASSHOLE!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: GundamMerc on December 16, 2015, 11:23:24 pm

Welcome to the internet. Let's just move on, at least the Reginald Denny of real-life knows someone was using his identity and can do something about it.

In other news, Dwilight is getting very interesting. For those of you without an account, feel free to look up the map, you can now look at it from the log-in page. The western island has been reopened, and a realm created for players moving in from the continents that are being sunk (Atamara and Far East). In addition, the war between Luria Nova, Helyg Derwyddon, and Astrum has ended in an Astrumese surrender. The new realm, to be called Westfold, is in the process of being created. Meanwhile the war between Arnor and Antiqualia rages on, with Arnor beginning their assault on Springdale finally. If Antiqualia can hold for a little longer, their fortunes may turn decisively.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Glloyd on December 16, 2015, 11:27:26 pm

I heard Western Dwilight was open, tried to get back on and I remembered my account had been deleted because of inactivity. Bummer.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: GundamMerc on December 17, 2015, 01:49:38 am

Quote from: Glloyd on December 16, 2015, 11:27:26 pm

I heard Western Dwilight was open, tried to get back on and I remembered my account had been deleted because of inactivity. Bummer.

So create a new one! Dwilight isn't the only interesting place. Beluaterra is currently having a new invasion occur, while on East Island Sirion is finally starting to lose the grasp over its vast empire, with the city of Oligarch beginning to assert its independence. The refugee realms in the south of East Island have formed and are eyeing each other, while the refugee realm realm in the city of Gelene on Dwilight holds out against the relentless waves of monsters that still control most of Western Dwilight. (the spawn rate has been returned to normal though, so it isn't impossible anymore to get through them)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on December 17, 2015, 05:34:27 pm

Don't worry Ehndras, you did the right thing. If there were more people like you about, there'd be less of this kind of stuff about. Real or fake.

On other, other news, me and a group of advies are co-opting a guild for our own purposes in Nivemus on EC. We're moving into the Valorian Highguard like rats, and the one noble member of the guild seems fine with it. Yay! Free advy guild!

There's frogs legs for all on Beluaterra, giant frog's legs, and bones to pick your teeth with afterwards too. Nothoi is doing very well in the foreign cuisine department due to Caergoth and Tara turning up from Atamara and helping out. They've got a new realm around Keffa already voted in, so after cooking classes, it'll be interesting to see who goes where.

And Dwilight? Ummm. Normal stuff. Fortunately no one seems to realize how weak Luria probably is right now. Too much going on, with thumbs firmly implanted up bums for some nobles, a frenzy of activity for others. Same old, really.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: GundamMerc on December 17, 2015, 09:54:07 pm

Honestly, people know that Luria's greatest weakness is what happens when Luria has no enemies to fight. I've seen it happen in the past, and I bet it'll happen now that the war is basically over. We're more interested in the fighting up north.

Also, I'm thinking about dragging Swordfell kicking and screaming into a war whether they want one or not. :3

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: GundamMerc on December 19, 2015, 04:50:51 pm

Helyg Derwyddon has declared war on both Morek Empire and Arnor, we expect Swordfell to declare on us but won't help them along in that. We should ally with Antiqualia soon.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on August 26, 2016, 02:01:32 am

Welp, after a couple of years of playing, give-or-take, I'm out.

It's a good game. I just can't be bothered playing it any more. And other concerns on stuff.

It's slow, but it's good for anyone that likes actually role-playing a character. Look into it if you like an pen-and-paper stuff, and love the political machinations of being a Noble in a medieval/low fantasy setting.

Think Game of Thrones, one step removed, with no action-RPG episodes. And incredibly well trained ravens to deliver your messages.

Developer "events" and "interactions as a player, to their player-base" has turned me off it. There's no point in winning small gains and scraping by in situations, if they can snap their fingers and make you lose. Or get overly involved in politics and funding for wars, because they think "it's fun". It removes any wish for me to win or to go ahead and prosper, because it will end up feeling like I didn't. And perhaps big wins were because of them as well. Sort of feels pointless.

It's a good game. But I've got better things to do with my time (and potentially money) than piss about until a developer's whim comes up and turns it all to naught.

You should try it out though. It's good until you get sick of it.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on August 26, 2016, 02:48:31 am

I guess it's the big thing in a game like this.

Who is telling the story?


This isn't D&D, with a game master/DM, ensuring that there is a certain plot to be followed, somewhat haphazardly, and adventure ensues.


A decent multiplayer RPG computer game rarely follows a story-line or plot in the end. Especially if the character you can play is not predetermined, and there is no end "win" point. You simply have to give the players a reasonable game-world, and mechanics to play in it as a character.

It is one a the few times that truly "unexpected interactions" occur in video games. Due to the multiplayer, human nature of it.


Winning, losing, things like that, should never be in the hands of a DM in a contained game like this. I mean, holy shit, you should see some of the player created religions in this game. I *couldn't* have come up with shit like that. Nor did the developers.


So when dev-players get involved, it becomes pretty shite. I'll do my story, not yours. Yours doesn't appeal to me. And I didn't spend weeks and months of my time so that you can tell me that your story is more important than mine.

I don't care what you're roleplaying. To me, you're an arsehole dev on a power-trip that should have stayed out of it. That my story HAS to contain all of the other people playing this game due to the mechanics, but yours arbitrarily DOESN'T unless you want it to (but we will be railroaded into it by a click of your fingers), removes every great thing Battlemaster had for me.

It became pointless.


People making storylines with "satisfying" conclusions for their scenarios, or dev-players arbitrarily wasting my fucking time. I'm not sure if it is one, the other, or both.

Why would I put my time and effort in, if any success could be summed up to "the dev-player decided not to click their fingers", and any loses could be attributed to the same reversed? And as a Noble in Battlemaster, you want to be noticed, but dance to only your tune. Hiding is not half the fun, the reveal always is. So why would I play a game with DMs trying to play out their own stories, that can click their fingers if all is not well on them?

I won't.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wereboar on August 26, 2016, 04:17:19 am

Quote from: sambojin on August 26, 2016, 02:01:32 am

I've got better things to do with my time (and potentially money)

It's a 100% free game. Rant all you want, just don't bullshit people.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on August 26, 2016, 04:27:03 am

I said potentially. I have donated before, and felt it was worthwhile due to the game experience, and the non-p2w bonuses for it (a funkier title more-or-less. Cosmetic bonus only). I wanted to support the game financially to help with development and server costs. Now I don't.

Don't call me a bullshitter.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Glloyd on August 26, 2016, 01:00:32 pm

I quit after playing for about a year and a half for the same reason. I'd spent all that time working on my char in western Dwilight and building up a kingdom, and then out of nowhere they made western Dwilight uninhabitable and in an instant everything I'd done in that time was gone. I had no reason to keep playing after that so I left and didn't look back.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Ehndras on November 07, 2016, 06:45:29 am

Meh. Game got tiring for me and I quit too, a while back. Became a massive pain in the ass and was taking time out of more important things, just so I could log in to a billion messages and argue with idiots. Was seriously not enjoying the game toward the end, more of a stressful chore than entertainment.

So what's going on in the world these days? Did Fissoa (Dwilight) ever implode?

Whatever happened to Xavax?

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wereboar on April 15, 2019, 09:49:07 pm

I wonder if people here still play this.
This is a fun little browser text-based game that needs more players.
What it offers: roleplay, medieval politics simulator and strategic combat.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Glloyd on April 16, 2019, 11:22:05 pm

I quit back when they shut down half of Dwilight, haven't thought about it since you last posted here in 2016. It's fine, but even for browser games, there's better games out there. At this point I think you should stop necroing this thread.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wereboar on April 17, 2019, 08:26:20 am

I do think necroing this thread is better than creating new ones every few years.

Also I'd be really excited to learn about other browser games which are similar but better in your opinion.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Knave on April 17, 2019, 09:06:54 am

Haven't played in a few years, but I don't see the harm in how older games are doing these days, right?


wereboar - Would be interested in how your noble family is doing, or recent changes to the game :)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wereboar on April 17, 2019, 11:41:15 am

There are changes and fixes every few months but nothing super major. The most important was probably infantry and archers being somewhat rebalancedand more RP elements added (heraldry builder, character description page, erecting monuments, etc.)

As to my current noble family, my Lurian infiltrator was executed the other day. Got one upped by my political enemies. It's a long story that spans months of development. Long story short: a while ago she joined an enemy realm as a spy, helped orchestrate a military raid on it, got apprehended by her original realm's soldiers during the campaign, got framed by the judge (we hated each other's guts forever) as a double agent and executed. That sucked. :(
My other character though is a king of Perdan on Eastern Continent. We are fighting a war with the combined host of the northern realms with just Vix Tiramora as our sole ally. Really enjoy that character and that realm too. We have 24 nobles in the realm right now and a really strong military which has allowed us to stay afloat during this insanely one-sided war. Right now we're having a bit of an inside shitstorm, general having entered in a major row with his marshals. So the military is in disarray and we might just start losing the war after all. But hopefully not.
My last character is a mercenary knight on Belauterra continent. He is roaming from one realm to another wherever there is conflict and people are willing to pay. Right now he serves in a theocratic realm in the far south and is mostly fighting against roaming monsters and rogues. But there have been news that in the far north Gotland has attacked Caelint, which will invariably force Thalmarkin, Ar Agyr and other Northern Alliance realms to support Gotland, while Nothoi and Angmar will reinforce Caelint. Maybe Grehkia will also get involved, but that's unlikely given how they hate getting involved with anything. So I'm considering travelling north and offering my sword to the highest bidder. Always more fun to fight a war against other human realms than rogues.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on May 24, 2019, 10:10:55 pm

Well, started playing Battlemaster again. Yet-another-low-RP-character.

Definitely not going to do anything. Or message anyone. Have an estate in a city. Will probably just wander around scouting stuff and have heaps of gold because I have nothing to spend it on.

I hope it ends up like that.

For Westgard!

(it's terrifying how addictive this game is. Sort of like an "old habit" that you totally won't ever touch agin. It's kind of like an old girlfriend that will always take you back. I mean, she's got a shit family, but when you were good together, she made your mind work and let you speak like a gentleman)

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: wereboar on May 25, 2019, 08:27:41 am

No strings attached, mate. So much better than your ex. :P

Jokes aside, consider making a character in Perdan, EC. We are really about to reach the turning point in the war and every knight counts!

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: sambojin on May 27, 2019, 01:15:54 am

Well, I've got one there now. Ishnaf el Gato.

Strangely enough, I just jumbled sounds together for the naming of this character, because I'm getting lazy, but after a quick Google Translate apparently it means "workmanship" in Armenian. Also a vaguely Arabic surname, probably meaning the same (?).

So off to work, I mean war, I go :)

"Workmanship of the Cat". Has a nice ring to it I think. In a slightly "oh dear gods, what the hell is he going to do now? He doesn't seem to understand the concept of orders" kind of way. Lol.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: GundamMerc on August 12, 2020, 03:36:41 am

So is there still any on here interested in this game? There's a couple of realms that could use some new nobles, especially on Dwilight and Beluaterra.

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Cathar on September 20, 2020, 10:55:59 am

Gave it a honest try... The community is twenty years old and doesn't seem to have been breathing that much. Plus, the game advertizes itself as low fantasy, but in effect the community is pretty open to disreguard established rules and to make shit up as they go, resulting in derpiness all accross the board. The strategy side of the game is very slow, so in one week I did mostly experience waiting times and the rp is bonked.

Hard pass for me

Title: Re: Battlemaster a Roleplay medieval low fantasy game
Post by: Knave on September 21, 2020, 08:28:59 am

Been playing consistently for about a year and yeah the map size is currently much larger than the community size. Having some extra space wouldn't normally be too much of an issue in a game, but Battlemaster is built around conflict with others, and there are a large number of rules that prevent kingdoms from having too many provinces. Which leads to groups having no reason to fight each other because they already have too much territory.

I enjoy it casually but to be really interesting I think they'd need to cut down the map size by 50% (speaking about Dwilight, don't have familiarity with other maps, but I assume the same is true), but the long-time runners/players seem very hesitant to change the map instead adding more rules which make it harder to own territory.