The problem appears to be the same as the mobile artillery question I posed back in Alterac 11 when Stormpikes gave us their cannons. How do we keep them in the army and retain the mobility of the raiding force?
As far as keeping up on foot is concerned, Humans have the potential to be very potent long distance trekkers, though admittedly it requires years of training to be noteworthy if one didn't grow up doing it. For the priests in question, having good physical conditioning isn't necessarily out of the question, but perhaps there are ways for them to improve their stamina using the light. Chants, prayers, and benedictions echoing outward from a clerical detachment, fasting for days and appearing utterly indefatigable would at the least be very cool. There are examples of aura effects in WC3 and WoW anyway.
Just floating some ideas here, both conventional and magical.
While these are indeed good ideas, one thing I also want to demonstrate is the relatively primitive technology, both social and actual technological, among the peoples of Azeroth.
For example, the institution of paladins, and indeed of priests using battle magic is relatively new. Paladins have been around for a decade or so not, but almost all of them are former knights or other military people.
In some fantasy settings you have ranged paladins for example like in Pathfinder you've got the Divine Hunter. That isn't something that the Azerothian paladins would think of because it's just outside their range of reference, same for the DnD Eldrich Knight, that would be most unusual to the mages of Dalaran.
You see more technological development in the games, for example Death Knights themselves are also a technological development, or so is the Elemental Ascendency for shaman.
But for the moment I'd note that most of the communities are late feudal at best, and a lot of them have degraded due to the Scourging of Lordaeron for example. Stormwind is slightly more advanced with a more advanced state bureacracy, while Dathrohan is running a sort of teutonic state on a permanant crusade footing.
One aspect of this is that there's not a very well developed science of logistics. I imagine a cart, for example would probably be quite crude. Certainly though Grok is concerned about this issue.
A presence can still be kept at Alterac but as the steward has mentioned too many influx of new visitors.
Key point, according to Gregor's views and the current infrastructure of Alterac. Gregor is an able administrator and managed to get the Syndicate people on side, but he's also a conservative, he wants to preserve the previous order, he doesn't want to rock the boat, he's aiming for a small, stable Alterac which isn't doing anything special really. He doesn't mind corruption etc, and works partly by selling off some assets like mining rights to the dwarves or whatever.
1) we stop waffling so much on the Warchief question and either declare that we aren't a warchief ( something our people will dislike and that will actively hunt our efforts) or we put on the mantle. I wouldn't be opposed to continuing to act as a waechief but defacto waiting for Thrall to bow or mess up, so long as it stops occupying so much of the word count.
2) we desperately need to be more proactive INSIDE Alterac, we lost most of our momentum and now we need to work around a bureaucracy that we could have made to be loyal to us, and we are stuck on the back foot. NO MORE EXCURSIONS OUTSIDE OF THE BORDER UNTIL WE FIX OUR HOUSE.
Both fair, wanted to check though whether this is a writing issue too though. I can imagine that it might be frustrating to read the same stuff happening again and again, so wanted to check whether that was an issue with the writing, or a frustration with the voting.
C) Figuring out and or formalizing our logistics, every time it comes up it sounds like we are barely ahead of the next meal, foraging and lowkey stealing from people. We need to fix that soon or we are going to gain massive bad will and eventually run out of food.
I'd note on this specific point the same points as above, the logistics are pretty poor in a lot of places, in the Wetlands for example it's a swamp, there's not supply depots all over the place so yes you have to use hunting and foraging. This is common in the medieval period, it's only later that you start to get a better system rather than armies just confiscating food.
Alterac is becoming quite the disaster: a hodgepodge of a territory that hates us.
I wouldn't say they hate you. The nobles probably do, but the peasants would prefer the rule of Gregor and Grok than that of the Syndicate. Grok wouldn't tolerate corruption and Gregor minimises it, people aren't getting shook down anymore etc, the roads are safe, and people can actually take pride in their country rather than being international pariahs. This doesn't necessarily solve the matter of the Demonsword clan piling peasants up and burning them, nor does it resolve the disenfranchisement by existing power structures by foreign rule, but it's a complex matter.
What, precisely. Do we get from calling ourself Warchief?
Like that's the expectation, what are we, with all this power and might, if not a Warchief?
This is a very complicated matter. I can do an infopost at some point, but I would say essentially it's a thing about having a greater acknoledged authority over the clans and structures of the orcs. It would be an upgrade in terms of legality and legitimacy vs just being a war leader. Grok could the right to oversee certain rituals or processes, for example he might be able to convene a Circle of Elders which would serve a sort of parliamentary function.
He fought the Dragonmaw. He displaced them. He did not Break them, he was beaten and forced to retreat. It was a measured loss, but a loss.
So then, are we Warchief? No, because if we were acting along the terms we have set, we should have joined the Dragonmaw, for they beat us in battle.
thats not how warcheifs work warchief is techqeually the title of the leader of several clans (which we are cause we got, frostwolves, blackrock, warsong, deamonsword, and new clan) we didn't fight the dragonmaw clan for dominance or to make them follow us. we got hired by the dwarves to push the dragonmaw out of the area which we did thats all after all dragonmaw are allied to rends horde so they most likely see rend as the true warcheif if they see any cause they could jusy not reconise one or could just go I don't care which of you 3 is just figure it out already.
also for the following dragonmaw we didn't do a makagora so their was no terms of either side doing anything like with the deamonsword clan)
Indeed this isn't necesarily what happened. Grok proposed Mak'gora, Angerfang refused because he knew he'd lose. Therefore Mak'gora isn't in play and there's no transfer of power. Also, Grok did indeed win, both tactically and strategically. It wasn't as great a victory as he might have wanted, but its still a victory. He went there to displace the Dragonmaw from that area, he acheived that. Even in the second battle at Dun Algaz where he was forced to retreat, he still managed to push the Dragonmaw out of their stronghold through negociation, so he still acheived what he was trying to do.
This is not merely a symbolic gesture, though. Declaring ourselves the Warchief of the Eastern Kingdoms by extension means declaring Rend an imposter. This shifts the smoldering conflict straight into a direct phase. I am not saying not to do it, but the moment must be carefully considered; it's not an internal matter.
Indeed, but the motivations Grok has currently are mostly internal. He's anticipating issues with the administration and legitimacy, those are internal issues. He's not an especially ambitious guy, he's not schemeing to become warchief etc.
You are right however to say that the results aren't internal, no, they would be intensely external because of the way they'll develop. Thrall would indeed be forced to act against you to preserve his own legitimacy.
In some ways, declaring the Eastern Horde can be a good thing, but in other ways its also is the worst of both worlds potentially.