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No that doesn't sound right. We have heard them being sponsors of pirates multiple times. First to sabotage Empire ports and later for the canal. So they are not opposed pirates. Infact they probably like pirates as long as said pirates accepts being paid off and don't touch their ships. As that would get rid of the competetion.
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According to this pic Nordland is supposed to rule Marienburg. How canon is that?
Don´t they hire their troops out as mercenaries or is that just Torroar canon?
That was when they were members of the Empire. If they were dumb enough to do that an elector count would "accidentally" get half their military killed, and then its invasion time.
Canon is that the overwhelming majority of their standing army is mercenaries.
Marienburg is still part of the Empire in Freddy's time.
Nordland is stated to have some sort of claim on Marienburg in a number of sources, but I've never seen any history showing them actually owning it.According to this pic Nordland is supposed to rule Marienburg. How canon is that?Military Uniforms of the Empire
Just as the Empire is a highly diverse nation, so too are the many regiments that compose its military. But from the best equipped units in Altdorf to the poorest backwater Free Company Militia, every regiment has some sort of uniform.[1a] Every Imperial Electoral Province and city-state has...
Hm, I *thought* there was a WoG that elf ships were mostly better because of the materials they're made of and the skill of their sailors and that the empire wouldn't be able to get much from studying them but I might be remembering something from drunken dynasty?
Yes that would be part of it. I actually want that for the empire. IF it is wood they are using magic to make better, I want that magic too. Jades can work on it.
I think it's just that they have magic trees that are great for building ships, a prerequisite for which is "living on an intensely magical island". In much the same way that the Empire's potioneering is pretty naff by Asur standards, because we don't have access to Ulthuan's magical reagents.
You joke, but if we could somehow (in the hypothetical scenario where Marienburg is reconquered) keep Middenland from keeping the Westerland away from Nordland's hands, that wouldn't be a terrible outcome. Nordland's where the Second Fleet does its recruiting anyhow, and it's been decades since the First wasn't bound to rivers, so putting the folks who've more or less been it for the Empire's naval doctrine would hardly be the worst idea.Ah, so that is how we solve the conflict between the Eonir and Norland, we give the Norlanders Marienburg
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Honestly the Empire's potioneering is pretty naff by any standard. The mechanics in the RPG are hilariously awful. I don't think there's a single potion that doesn't come with some dire warning or terrible drawback even if it's made perfectly. And they never are, because the Empire's potioneering is pretty naff.
Probably a lot of it is about the personnel as well.
It's probably difficult to drum up support for modernising your blue-water navy when your coastline is so economically insignificant that you could lose it entirely and not even notice. That the Empire has one at all is more a matter of prestige (and, ooc, that GW used to need to sell boxes of Man'o'War and Dreadfleet) than one of military necessity, outside of protecting the routes to its few colonies.
As the reltionship with Eonir progresses we might be able to trade them magic trees. We should take a look at it anyway there is probably more than magic trees only and I would eat my hat nothing can be copied by the Empire even if they are smaller tricks.
With Kislev canal there is going to be more interest in modernizing the fleet. Having Eonir books on hand would ensure that any part that is useful gets added to next upgrade cycle.
I question the assertion that the Asrai have metal.
All their elf units have metal weapons and several of their military forces wear metal armour, including their heavy infantry.
High elves and wood elves don't mine.
