I'm 100% a "turtle and crush them with an infinite wave of elite troops" guy.
Our character, however, is an honor-bound nomad who accretes power through glorious victory.
So both of us will adapt.
Or, we mix things.
[OMAKE]
Title: The Fallen King (I'm open to other names, should someone thing this name is not good.)
When the game started, I soon became a king. The king of our little coastal City. On the same day I let Theodore - a supposedly genius guy - to become my prince, my second hand, my Right Hand even!
Things were going well, I trained and used city resources to war-related things, Theodore used his limited control of the city to economic-related things, and all was well. We were developing both economically and we were strong.
In our first fight, with the city just next to us - that didn't even have time to decide upon a name, as they were a democracy and there was no agreement what the name should be, we curb stomped them. There's no other way to define how things happened.
Every time something that was important to the whole city was called a vote upon, all the city needed to stop their training, hunting, and research to go vote. Such constant disruptions - as there were a lot of important matters to any city at the start of a government and here, in a new, unknown world, even more - kept their citizens from reaching their full potential in all areas.
Then, only a month into the game, we attacked. They were totally blindsided. Only a few of them was capable of fighting at the same level as our general population - level 5 - and our elite teams were unstoppable.
At the end of the day, a new city was under our - my - thumb.
Then things started to go wrong.
We then thought that we were the strongest at this stage of the game, and should take advantage and keep conquering cities as soon as possible. Problem is, 2 weeks later, when we attacked the next closest city to us, we were met with warriors as mighty as us, with technology and magic just slightly worse than ours.
If it was all, we would have a hard, bloody, war and we would - probably - be able to manage a win in the end. It was not all.
Our enemies were well informed, they had inside information from my Kingdom. Knowing us, they had two cities collaborate to eliminate a dangerous foe - us. One city concentrated their all training their warriors. The other, on support - research and spying my Kingdom. When the time came for battle, they knew our formations, our plans, and when we would attack.
And they prepared accordingly. Our vanguard, with their high defenses, was met with traps and guerrilla tactics before we even came close to them. But still, even with our vanguard in disarray, we kept advancing. After all, we were supposed to be the strongest around here.
Then, as we came close to the city, a shower of arrows came from the walls. Without the vanguard to water the damage, our warrior troops - that was focused on swordsmanship - suffered damage. Not enough damage for us to give up, but enough to make us take time destroying the gate.
Having little success destroying the gate with our warriors, we called upon our mages.
Then, we discovered that they were holding up their archers. That they only did not exterminate our warriors because they wanted to exterminate our mages. And so they did at this point in the battle.
While all of this was happening, a second army came from our back and cut our escape route. Then the impenetrable gate opened and from it came another army. And, without a vanguard, and without an organized mage troop, our warriors became easy pickings and soon we were exterminated.
Only me and Theodore survived. Me, because they wanted to humiliate me even more. Theodore because he was their spy from the beginning. It seems he was it from the start.
The leaders of both their 2 cities and Theodore came from the same clan from the real world. They, with another 1000 of their clan, planned to enter this game, become the leaders of all their villages, and should they fail, become a spy.
Their plan was to conquer the world between themselves, and THEN fight between each other. A guaranteed Win to the clan as a whole.
And I was utterly blindsided by their plot. And paid the price.
If only I had made spies of my own, I would be at least a little more informed. And, perhaps, win this battle. Or at least, not lose as badly.
If only we took our time to keep strengthening ourselves, and SLOWLY conquer whoever was in our path, like a well-shelled turtle.
If only...
In the center of the city we just tried to attack, my head rolls at the screams of joy of its inhabitants.
@GilcuruLend
Do we gain anything from omakes? Such as training/research bonuses?
Also, how they work? Dice Roll based?
