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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: You Are a Mercenary Commander
« on: May 05, 2014, 06:16:14 am »
So we total 18 crossbows, us and 7 spearmen fighting plus 1 wounded who will fight again given a little time to heal.
The enemy has 16 fighting 2 wounded 2 dead assuming a full 20 enemies.
I suggest we fight defensively, put 5 crossbows on each flank of the spearmen to prevent the enemy from flanking them and us and the other 5 pick off the enemy bowmen. Just hold our line and wait it out we have the advantage so holding for a couple minutes should pose no problem. When our men arrive they surround the enemy and we demand the surrender again. I doubt they'll resist us then but if they do then we just shoot them down and make sure to leave a few of them wounded but alive.
We need the information they have unless we want to spend who knows how long trying to track down another group of bandits.
Question here is are we honorable or not? If we aren't we can torture survivors for information but it will cause fear amongst everyone we meet afterwards as we develop a reputation for cruelty. If we are we can use persuasion and bribery. I'd expect offering them 1 crown and the chance to live to have them spilling everything they know in short order saving us a lot of time and effort.
Also we need to change our rations and maybe hire a couple of cooks and get a wagon so we can carry more supplies and have proper meals for the men.
Start adding vegetables, dried fruit, cheese, coffee, chocolate, porridge, fish and so on to our rations. A diet of bread and dried meat may last a long time but it's not healthy at all and will cause malnutrition if maintained for more then a month or two. If we want the men healthy they need a better diet plus a healthy diet will make them feel happier since it gives variety and is a lot tastier then dried meat and bread and it will make them stronger and fitter.
More adaptable as well, in cold weather you can make broths and stews that are filling and give them warmth, when on the march they have a wider selection of food, in the morning they can have porridge and coffee to give them plenty of energy and get them up and going for the day. It'll cost more but the benefits far outweigh the costs especially in morale and fitness.
As long as we need to head back into town we can look into hiring more men and getting supplies and a small group of camp staff to handle these jobs so the men are free to hunt, train and rest.
The enemy has 16 fighting 2 wounded 2 dead assuming a full 20 enemies.
I suggest we fight defensively, put 5 crossbows on each flank of the spearmen to prevent the enemy from flanking them and us and the other 5 pick off the enemy bowmen. Just hold our line and wait it out we have the advantage so holding for a couple minutes should pose no problem. When our men arrive they surround the enemy and we demand the surrender again. I doubt they'll resist us then but if they do then we just shoot them down and make sure to leave a few of them wounded but alive.
We need the information they have unless we want to spend who knows how long trying to track down another group of bandits.
Question here is are we honorable or not? If we aren't we can torture survivors for information but it will cause fear amongst everyone we meet afterwards as we develop a reputation for cruelty. If we are we can use persuasion and bribery. I'd expect offering them 1 crown and the chance to live to have them spilling everything they know in short order saving us a lot of time and effort.
Also we need to change our rations and maybe hire a couple of cooks and get a wagon so we can carry more supplies and have proper meals for the men.
Start adding vegetables, dried fruit, cheese, coffee, chocolate, porridge, fish and so on to our rations. A diet of bread and dried meat may last a long time but it's not healthy at all and will cause malnutrition if maintained for more then a month or two. If we want the men healthy they need a better diet plus a healthy diet will make them feel happier since it gives variety and is a lot tastier then dried meat and bread and it will make them stronger and fitter.
More adaptable as well, in cold weather you can make broths and stews that are filling and give them warmth, when on the march they have a wider selection of food, in the morning they can have porridge and coffee to give them plenty of energy and get them up and going for the day. It'll cost more but the benefits far outweigh the costs especially in morale and fitness.
As long as we need to head back into town we can look into hiring more men and getting supplies and a small group of camp staff to handle these jobs so the men are free to hunt, train and rest.