Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
The thing is, fighting in itself is awesome, fighting to protect? For sport? To preserve your life or honor? All that's swell. Even fighting for an Objective is fine, as long as you keep it relatively clean.
Fighting for the sake of bloodshed and killing alone though puts a bad taste in my mouth, personally. And Halla's been feeling the same way too, given the narrative we have going on. She likes fighting, not killing, though she's not against killing at need either.
Character Development is important! It's good to be strong, it's good to be respected, but it's also good to identify that your culture's own bloodthirst is going to lead to it dying as well. It's a good step towards overall reform, and I can see it producing some very interesting events going forward!
But yeah, been thinking on this whole business here with the vote. It seems to me that Barbed-Tongue is "All-or-Nothing", where we either get a surrender or nothing at all. Silver-Tongue is more graduated, where we require a much higher degree to produce a total surrender, but allows for Technical Victories of increasing value as the results go up.
Mind you though, a Technical Victory attacking a Knight's Manor at the permanent loss of only one fighter when you only took a small ship and crew in the first place is still worth a significant amount of reputation, because you're supposed to run at a Knight with overwhelming numbers, not what amounted to being close to battle parity. It also helps that we are going to win if he decides to reject the offer, the only question is how expensive it's going to be for us, this is exactly the time you offer Quarter in warfare, when the outcome is decided but for the cost (In other words, he's in Checkmate, the question is if someone decides to flip the board). If his Squire held another round, it might have been a different story, but they didn't, and so here we are.
Of course, the question is "How badly does Folkmarr want a Total Victory, and how many bodies is he willing to shove into the meat grinder to get it." I hope that answer is not "Very" and "As many as it takes." We've been getting Ambitious hammered in several times by now, but there's a difference between "Ambitious" and "Zapp Brannagan".
So yeah, I'll admit, I'm worried. I don't see this hurting us--as I said, this is exactly the time you offer a worthy opponent quarter in any society that knows war, and everyone should know that. I'll admit I'm worried that our dice are going to be cool though and we do have to pay the butcher's bill, since there's no way to tell who's going to get the sharp side of it.
Fighting for the sake of bloodshed and killing alone though puts a bad taste in my mouth, personally. And Halla's been feeling the same way too, given the narrative we have going on. She likes fighting, not killing, though she's not against killing at need either.
Character Development is important! It's good to be strong, it's good to be respected, but it's also good to identify that your culture's own bloodthirst is going to lead to it dying as well. It's a good step towards overall reform, and I can see it producing some very interesting events going forward!
But yeah, been thinking on this whole business here with the vote. It seems to me that Barbed-Tongue is "All-or-Nothing", where we either get a surrender or nothing at all. Silver-Tongue is more graduated, where we require a much higher degree to produce a total surrender, but allows for Technical Victories of increasing value as the results go up.
Mind you though, a Technical Victory attacking a Knight's Manor at the permanent loss of only one fighter when you only took a small ship and crew in the first place is still worth a significant amount of reputation, because you're supposed to run at a Knight with overwhelming numbers, not what amounted to being close to battle parity. It also helps that we are going to win if he decides to reject the offer, the only question is how expensive it's going to be for us, this is exactly the time you offer Quarter in warfare, when the outcome is decided but for the cost (In other words, he's in Checkmate, the question is if someone decides to flip the board). If his Squire held another round, it might have been a different story, but they didn't, and so here we are.
Of course, the question is "How badly does Folkmarr want a Total Victory, and how many bodies is he willing to shove into the meat grinder to get it." I hope that answer is not "Very" and "As many as it takes." We've been getting Ambitious hammered in several times by now, but there's a difference between "Ambitious" and "Zapp Brannagan".
So yeah, I'll admit, I'm worried. I don't see this hurting us--as I said, this is exactly the time you offer a worthy opponent quarter in any society that knows war, and everyone should know that. I'll admit I'm worried that our dice are going to be cool though and we do have to pay the butcher's bill, since there's no way to tell who's going to get the sharp side of it.
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