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Offer tribute is wining by almost 2.5 times continue war
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Paths of Civilization
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BungieONI
Seven gremlins in a trench coat
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I was actually thinking along these lines.
It's a nifty way to slowly drain them. Won't touch the core much but their colonies should be weak while we grow stronger.
Not to mention that this gives Txolla-chan more chances to fortify and bulk up. Txolla has the potential to be equal to the Thunderhorse on their own, they hold a huge piece of absolutely prime quality land. And next time the Thunderhorse are unlikely to have a heroic martial king.
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What does our General and Adviser think of the Situation?
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- Usa, pittsburgh pennsylvania
He's probably dead, considering he was probably fighting.
Note this was snark, I'm just bitter over how many died, not trying to be a dick
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Omegahugger
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Ah, how nice of this thread to be sensible. That allows me to fully follow my delusions to the end~<3
Sure, let them back off and rest up. I don't mind waiting for our second dance~
Sure, let them back off and rest up. I don't mind waiting for our second dance~
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Integrate then propagate then. If we don't do it now we never will.
The thread has demonstrated an extraordinary ability to procrastinate on this issue.
Besides we already have another march, we went through most of history with only one.
BungieONI
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*looks up from food*
Oh that's actually a good point.
Really my thoughts on this whole thing. If the HK weren't around, we'd have been able to win earlier. So I say take them, subjugate them, and absorb them.
Then kill the fuck out of the Khem if they come back, which is reduced in likelyhood if we trade with them and we have significant reasons to do so. Shafting the Trelli, interacting with the Khem in a way that promotes peace.
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3.3% in this battle alone.
I would not be surprised if we lost tenth of our population in the overall war. I am pretty sure this is the bloodiest war in the history up to this moment.
(To be fair, a lot of those may be 'only' wounded enough to stop fighting, but that's still insane)
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If you want to sacrifice lives in the future when they come back for round two because you lack any spinal cord be my guest, but at least be honest about it.
This keeps getting more hilarious! XD
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Know what would be fun? Turning the irrigation systems of Txolla into a trap for them.
Once we see them coming, we open a few specific floodgates and turn the whole area into nice swamp they all can go die in.
The one big advantage these guys have is their mobility and that they regularily manage to smash through our garrisons and surround the cities. If we can bog them down by turning the terrain against them, it will become much easier to defend the lowlands.
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[X] Offer tribute (-5 Prestige, -10 Wealth, keeps King of the Hill, chance of +1 Stability)
BungieONI
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Looking at our med tech I'd say a statistically significant fraction of our people are probably only injured casualties.
Might create some interesting social consequences.
The Bronze Age just ended with a very bloody bang.
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According to List of battles by casualties - Wikipedia (which, unfortunately, only lists battles with >50k casualties and thus doesn't really give a full picture of the trend over time), the Roman Seige of Jerusalem AD 70 had something like 65k casualties (not deaths, just casualties) and the Seige of Constantinople in the 700s had roughly 150k (again, casualties, not deaths).
You have my vote.
Somehow you misspelled "while we arm all our forces with steel"
I agree HK are next step. Why a march specifically? (forgive me, not super familiar with the mechanics of vassals)
So will we
We'll have steel
They aren't susceptible to it now. AN said a little while ago they could tank stab hits like nobody's business.
They didn't win, we paid them to acknowledge our superiority and overthrow the king who started the war, plus the prince wants to enshrine our badassitude in monument form. Yes we will have to fight them eventually, but we have at least five turns' worth of actions to prepare (minus some for putting out fires and stomping HK).
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The Great One
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I'm actually curious about their values. We'll probably go into a proper infrastructure rush pretty soon, and the Khem must have pretty useful values related to those.
Or even if they have a Divine Mandate value that turns the king into an avatar or voice of the gods may be interesting to play with.
keenscythe
No longer NEET
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Dick-Waving? I want the Khemetri dead or broken in collapse. All other Choices lead to them fighting us again as they now have Take the Crown CB at all times. Our people will always Die, but let us not make their sacrifice both insulting and Pointless.
Also glad to hear you consider the Lives of Fictional beings so important that they shouldn't be risked, but are equally unable to conceive that they Deserve to be avenged and not have their Killers rewarded for the deed.
If you want to sacrifice (Future) lives over pointless dick-waving (About Ideals), be my guest, but at least be honest about it.
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*LEWD ALERT*
No, it really doesn't, because paying the prince to assassinate his dad removes KotH from the Khemetri and thereby allows us to build in trade ties AND AN has confirmed it'll be at least a century before they're willing to even consider taking another shot at us. I really like our odds with another century of prep.
If we try to do so into their lands, yes. We have lots of other directions we can grow.
AN confirmed they won't be willing to try to attack us again for at least a century.
It's not tribute, it's a really expensive assassination of the king who started all this. Remember, proportionate justice! The common people of Khem don't need to keep bleeding to appease their arrogant overlords if we end the war here.
Exactly
Pft. Weaklings.
It says tribute in the vote. If they want Peace from me all they need to do is go home. I will not compromise with evil.
Gavoon
Genuine Gangplank
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- USA
Actually you know what
[X] Continue the war
Either we'll conquer or we'll be destroyed by our own hubris. Either way is fine with me
Certainly there have been no cases of polities suffering devastating setbacks at the hands of a third party after exhausting all their resources and manpower in a prior struggle.
There also totally never has been a case of polities appeasing an aggressive foreign power and then being absolutely dismantled after that either.
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[X] Offer tribute (-5 Prestige, -10 Wealth, keeps King of the Hill, chance of +1 Stability)