Bay 12 Games Forum

Market Days also get extra percent depending on level of your Palace ;v

How do you have problems with Elven Treachery? Just get couple Paladins rolling: they have high defences, speed to catch elfs/rogues, and they will often seek out and destroy enemy buildings on their own.

It was the very first unlockable mission that I encountered and I remember passing it on first try :v

PTW.

"So be it."

1to2

Unfortunate report came from the southern hill-placed city. The governor's men has managed to mine out little of ores last year as well. He writes that if this will continue for another year, he will be forced to close these unproductive mines.


As your wife goes into labor, you and the advisor pace about in front of her bedroom, waiting with fear in your heart.

After a while, one of the maidens who accompanied the healers leaves the room with a sad face. "I'm so sorry, my liege..."

Next day, rightfully angry about this, you gather your courtiers. You announce that there will be taxation of the temples if they do not apologize for their botched ritual.

Then, you also decide to...

A) Send an envoy to the lands far in the west, in hopes of contacting the dwarves and to plead that they lift the curse.
B) Advertise across the Kingdom for services of a traveling wizard; they do show up from time to time, and are known to be able to deal with even most powerful of harmful magic.

Upon your orders, the Army marches out to assault the bandit horde's hideouts.

5

The bandits are flushed out easily and attempt a counter-attack, but the Luathbas infantry, disciplined and trained, makes short work of them, leaving only a handful of survivors who fled into the woods. Dagdar, along with several other prominent criminals, are sentenced to death and executed.


The advisor brings you the Scrolls of the Kingdom Status, upon which you see:

Happiness: 4
Population: 5
Economy: 2
Army: 5

Well, a slight improvement for sure.

"My liege," the advisor intrudes into your reading, "Now that the peasants are again made docile, how about we tax them a little bit harder? Unless, of course, disbanding of part of the Army is what you wish for..."

A) Aye, let's squeeze some extra coin out of the commoners now that they are a bit more content.
B) Hmm, alright, let's disband part of the Army and recover some of supplies and coinage.
C) No to both of these ideas!

The advisor just rolls his eyes and returns to work.

1to2

The governor of that city from the south reports that the miners had little success in procuring large amounts of ore; what was mined was used for local industries.


Your wife goes into labor once more.

The child is born dead.

Few days later, you talk with your wife about this.

"No, it is not so difficult for elfs and humans to have children... stillborns do happen, but it is infrequent. I am sorry if I continue to dissappoint you, my liege." You reassure her that it is not her fault.

You and advisor spend the rest of the afternoon pacing about the library - you worrying if perhaps your seed is the cause, and the advisor reading books on procreation of humans with elfs - the amount of such books could be counted on fingers of one hand.

This goes on till late evening.

Suddenly the advisor stops in his tracks as if he was suddenly enlightened.

"MY GOOD LIEGE!" He shouts, unnerved by his potential discovery. "It is not the problem with the differences of anatomy, sire! It's the dwarves!!" You ask him to explain at once.

"Remember, my liege, when you were on the campaign in Augas, we and your Queen Mother wrote to you that the dwarves, who came to visit the tomb in the south, returned to our castle angry and demanding compensation for the tomb's defilement. Alas, we had nothing to give, so they 'cursed' us. Now, both your elven wife and the folk tales say that the dwarves are plague-bearers, friends of death, fungus, darkness, and all that. What if that dwarven curse was to make your family unable to have children? A disease - plague - of seed and womb?"

You can't help but think his logic is a little bit far-fetched, yet on the other hand - the dwarves did put down a curse, and your wife had three still births in three years in a row. This surely must be more than just coincidence.

Next day, during a meeting with courtiers and scholars, you decide to...

A) Ask the priests of the gods of life, fertility, family (and similar departments) to purify and clean your family from the dwarven curse.
B) Send an envoy to the lands far in the west, in hopes of contacting the dwarves and to plead that they lift the curse.
C) Advertise across the Kingdom for services of a traveling wizard; they do show up from time to time, and are known to be able to deal with even most powerful of harmful magic.

You declare that there will be no further disbanding of the army, and the advisor notes that in his scrolls.


Somewhat fortunate news arrive from the governor of a city in the southwest. His prospectors have determined that the hills upon which the fortified settlement is built, are rich in ores of copper and silver! This would be quite a boon if not the fact that most of the deposits seem to be laying under the houses and homesteads of the people, with some families living there for several decades already.

He is unwilling to proceed out of his own accord, and therefore asks the Crown for guidance in this matter. You decide that...

A) The peasants are to be relocated and the mining of precious metals is to commence at once!
B) Riches are not worth dismantling homes and lives of your subjects; no mining will be done in those hills.
C) Have the miners dig out in the hills surrounding the city, but the city itself is to be undisturbed.

EDIT: Added an obvious option, durr.