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I guess I will make a nation as well.

Osgalethe (it's an Island)

Defensive army strength: 82,000
Offensive Army: 20,000
Outposts and forts: 20
Navy ships (frigates): 42

Percentage of army
Human percentage: 42%
Dwarven Percentage: 38%
Elven percentage 1%
Armored Ogres 1%

Support: Terrigian Hashmeets ( Master Assassins & saboteurs) 3,100
Malcon Draconis: (Shadow Army) literally translated as "Sleeping Dragon" in Osgalethan) estimated at 2,100. Total numbers unknown

Barrier Islands: 80,000 surrounding Osgalethe covered in a blindingly thick fog cloud that has engulfed all the Barrier Islands and Osgalethe for the past 200 years. Just your friendly neighborhood gay boy! =)

02-Sep-2015 20:43:41 - Last edited on 02-Sep-2015 20:53:02 by Pink 4 Twink

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Advantages:. Strong defensive army
. very defensible
. Near even distribution of Dwarves to Humans in army
. very nimble ships
. robust, but small navy
. . An unknown Shadow Army

Disadvantages:. Offensive Army is disproportionately smaller than its defensive army
Supply lines are slow moving and virtually non-existent, as Osgalethe prefers Isolation from all nations.
. The Eldrancy, Osgalethe's ruling body is in complete deadlock, nothing gets done
. Completely isolated from the rest of the world
. A robust, but small navy

Current diplomatic standing: Neutral, but watching the world through it's spies. Just your friendly neighborhood gay boy! =)

02-Sep-2015 21:03:54 - Last edited on 02-Sep-2015 21:04:47 by Pink 4 Twink

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Corbonyo said :
You know that 106° will melt your brain and last night I reached 104 almost 105 i was in the hospital for a good time before they said it was good for me to leave and so I'm stuck in bed on here so I should finish my characters inferi.


Sounds pretty rough mate. Hope ya get well soon.


NotFishing said :
400,000 men may seem like a lot, but consider the empire. All conquered territory on the mainland is occupied, and the people don't want them there. Those 400,000 are spread all over the empire, and many have to be garrisoned in cities and forts miles behind the borders just so people don't revolt. To withdraw men from an area is to either give that area up completely or put it at severe risk of being overrun. Additionally, many of those men are also conscripts.


Even if Sorus can't field all their soldiers, we can't either. And we're still relying on everyone banding together and committing fully to the war effort, when there could be plenty of reasons not to go to war with the Empire.

Not to say we shouldn't try. What the hell am I saying, we're definitely gonna try.

Pink 4 Twink said :
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You should probably submit your Nation bio on Lasky's actual thread, [RP* Kingdoms of Karrus. And use the bio format that Lasky has on there.




In other Roleplaying and Story Forum news, I have one bio done for Inferi's thread and the other will be finished as soon as I'm done eating this tub of ice cream. And my medieval dinosaur thread might be up by the end of the week. Ramsay Bolton is the king we deserve.

02-Sep-2015 21:14:31

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Ok, I’ll keep in mind of espionage and second nations, maybe an entire tribe of Grays ventured somewhere beyond their homeland and settled somewhere else.

Oh my, death has come again in this forum? In the past years, the Stories Forum has lost real people, actually users, family members, and friends. At times, I wonder if this place is cursed. But I am glad to know you survived, narrowly escaping death. The difference between life and death was literally lower than 1%!

Emo, I think that information should be posted in the according RP thread :)

Nice to see activity buzzing about, so well done everyone.

02-Sep-2015 22:49:37

NotFishing

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Venom1383 said :
NotFishing said :
400,000 men may seem like a lot, but consider the empire. All conquered territory on the mainland is occupied, and the people don't want them there. Those 400,000 are spread all over the empire, and many have to be garrisoned in cities and forts miles behind the borders just so people don't revolt. To withdraw men from an area is to either give that area up completely or put it at severe risk of being overrun. Additionally, many of those men are also conscripts.


Even if Sorus can't field all their soldiers, we can't either. And we're still relying on everyone banding together and committing fully to the war effort, when there could be plenty of reasons not to go to war with the Empire.

Not to say we shouldn't try. What the hell am I saying, we're definitely gonna try.

The important thing is that we can field more men than they can. They only have 80,000 men to either use for a dedicated assault or to add additional support to certain areas. Once those men die, in order for the Empire to take any offensive action they will either have to withdraw men from other areas or conscript/recruit more soldiers, who will be given little training and have zero experience.

Also just take a look at any Greek/Persian conflict ever. Numbers aren't everything. Beneath the gold, the Bitter Steel.

02-Sep-2015 23:16:51 - Last edited on 02-Sep-2015 23:17:20 by NotFishing

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Annie1227 said :
Lasky can Sorusian Empire have a spying on the meeting with the other countries?

It would be incredibly difficult to get a spy in there. You won't be let in unless you represent a nation, as I have already said. Dwarven guards and servants aren't easily paid off, valuing honor above wealth. No one can sneak in and observe, because there's nowhere in that room to hide and the palace is heavily guarded.

So the only way to get any intel of what's going on in there is if one of the delegations have a secret wish to help Sorus and are willing to act as informants.

I feel like you're trying to join as an individual character (the only alternative would be you wanting to control the empire, which isn't allowed), which I never really planned for or made a format for. Also your traditional format of little girls acting as spies just wouldn't work. Finally (and no offense), but you don't really play the spying part very well.

Individual characters may add an interesting spin to the story, but ultimately you won't get much done. For example, roleplaying a general in another player's army would just slow posting times and that general would still have to follow orders, which makes controlling him a bit redundant unless you plan to go against or question their orders. And in that case you're only complicating things for the other roleplayer. Beneath the gold, the Bitter Steel.

02-Sep-2015 23:34:54

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