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Who Needs Harmony?: An MLP Empire Quest

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Stylph said:
How bad were our loses?
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Speak of the devil just got done.

Right so here is the first troop numbers list we were given are only losing a few troops in the initial clash:
Imperial Knightly Orders

The Knights Lion

1 Grandmaster Konrad Hardbeak, "The Kingslayer"
30 Knights of the Inner Circle
200 Imperial Knights
300 Squires
600 Griffons-at-Arms
The Knights Talon

1 Grandmaster Colombroni Pigeonio
20 Knights of the Inner Circle
200 Imperial Knights
300 Squires
600 Griffons-at-Arms
The Knights Panther

1 Grandmaster Adrian Dawnquill
20 Knights of the Inner Circle
200 Imperial Knights
300 Squires
600 Griffons-at-Arms

Mercenaries

The War Wolves

495 Diamond Dogs
The Wood Stalkers

190 Warriors, 300 Archers
The Black Pikes

450 Pikes
The Crimson Company

475 Gryphon Berserkers
The Troll Busters

4 Static Flamethrowers

Auxiliaries/Allies

14,950 Imperial Militia
9,980 Yak Chargers



And here is this one:
Imperial Army of Gryphus

5840 Warriors
1960 Polearms
3800 Archers
490 Diamond Dogs
5 Mobile Ballistae
4 Cannons
2 Flame Projectors

Imperial Knightly Orders

The Knights Lion

1 Grandmaster Konrad Hardbeak, "The Kingslayer"
18 Knights of the Inner Circle
90 Imperial Knights
120 Squires
245 Griffons-at-Arms
The Knights Talon

1 Grandmaster Colombroni Pigeonio
12 Knights of the Inner Circle
105 Imperial Knights
155 Squires
290 Griffons-at-Arms
The Knights Panther

1 Grandmaster Adrian Dawnquill
14 Knights of the Inner Circle
120 Imperial Knights
210 Squires
350 Griffons-at-Arms

Mercenaries

The War Wolves

245 Diamond Dogs
The Wood Stalkers

32 Warriors, 225 Archers
The Black Pikes

95 Pikes
The Crimson Company

26 Gryphon Berserkers
The Troll Busters

4 Static Flamethrowers

Auxiliaries/Allies

8,465 Imperial Militia
7,610 Yak Chargers
For the Imperial army:
Warriors are at 58%​
Polearms at 39%
Archers at 76%

As for auxiliaries:
Militia are at 56%
The Yaks are at 76%​

Overall the main body of our force it absolutely ravaged. Our main line of fighters is at half strength and while the archers and Yaks are still intact you have to remember that this is the full strength of the Yaks we are talking about they won't be replenishing for a generation.

I'll do the knights in a later post.​
 
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Questor said:
You grit your beak and sigh explosively. No...of course it wouldn't be that easy.
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Right, next step: acquire enough flamethrowers and fuel for said devises to burn the entire Crystal Empire down to the bedrock.

Though in regards to the 'liquid fire' in future conflicts we could give bottles of the stuff to high flying griffins to rain down on enemy formations.
 
Well yeah a setback for Sombra is good... now we really need to try and contact those strangers we saw as we may need their magic to put an end to him for good.

Also the merchant king taking the field of battle, that will be inspiring.
 
We Went big and now we go home and rebuild. We cannot go to the Dark King's land just yet. Even properly equipped expeditions can barely survive the terrain. An army will not make it any more than the Germans could against Russia in Deep Winter
 
Well we survived Sombra is wounded but will return honestly this is a Phyric victory but against a MLP-Sauron/daemon Prince that is pretty much as good admit possible we must shore up our defenses on the border but we won't be able be able to make my invasions for years after this and neither will Sombra seems his physical form was killed but since he is a Umbran he can just stay as a mist or make a new form.
 
maximorph said:
We Went big and now we go home and rebuild. We cannot go to the Dark King's land just yet. Even properly equipped expeditions can barely survive the terrain. An army will not make it any more than the Germans could against Russia in Deep Winter
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I get where you are getting at, but I should point out that with Sombra weakened, the artificial Hellscape around the Crystal Capital will likely be lessened in size or aggressiveness.
 
Questor said:
Oh no, you burned that damn thing to ashes the first chance you got, Garrick is taking no chances.
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Just just about to say "time to consecrate a brazier and bless some fuel to properly exorcise that piece of solid evil"

Glad that was a automatic action and that we didn't need to roll on it since we probably burned through a LOT of our luck on this battle.

Oh well, All hail this alliance of the righteous! The Battle of Redstone pass shall go down in history as the battle where Evil learned that the north shall never again suffer an evil tyrant
 
Revan4221X said:
Well we survived Sombra is wounded but will return honestly this is a Phyric victory but against a MLP-Sauron/daemon Prince that is pretty much as good admit possible we must shore up our defenses on the border but we won't be able be able to make my invasions for years after this and neither will Sombra seems his physical form was killed but since he is a Umbran he can just stay as a mist or make a new form.
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No, this wasn't a phyrric victory. It was a costly one, but it's clear the enemy lost more than we did.
 
Better than I feared, way better.

It was a hell of a gamble, but congrats ladies and gents, it paid off.

Somebodynobody10 said:
Jeebus, the mercenaries bar the Troll Busters and the dogs have been absolutely gutted.
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They deserve a bonus if we can afford it. Their sacrifice saved our kingdom, they deserve some recognition for that fact. Same for everyone that fought in this shitshow really, cause they went above and fucking beyond what anyone could have reasonably asked of them.
 
Somebodynobody10 said:
I get where you are getting at, but I should point out that with Sombra weakened, the artificial Hellscape around the Crystal Capital will likely be lessened in size or aggressiveness.
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Maybe. We definitely need to send out some more expeditions for information. I would ask the Yaks due to their natural abilities, but they have now suffered a considerable depopulation crisis. The poor bastards are going to need our help to just survive.

On an unrelated note, Our Kingslayer has added another notch to his belt. Keep this up and he might upgrade to Doom Slayer
 
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Somebodynobody10 said:
No, this wasn't a phyrric victory. It was a costly one, but it's clear the enemy lost more than we did.
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A Phyrric victory is also based on what a army can recover from this was our entire military and same was probably for Sombra but unlike him we don't have giant magical powers or a entire civilization under mind control who can just breed them. We both will have trouble recovering from this Sombra will have more trouble since it ALL died but we still lost ALOT but it all comes down to interpretation.
 
maximorph said:
Maybe. We definitely need to send out some more expeditions for information. I would ask the Yaks due to their natural abilities, but they have now suffered a considerable depopulation crisis. The poor bastards are going to need our help to just survive.

On an unrelated note, Our Kingslayer has added another notch to his belt. Keep this up and he might upgrade to Doom Slayer
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I dunno, while losing two tenths of their pop is notable, it isn't exactly on the level of a disease pandemics that civilizations normally survived.
Their nomadic/semi-nomadic living actually helps them with this, as their lives are not kept up by rigid, easily damaged social systems or a chain of crafting classes that breaks if one part of the "machinery" breaks.

The yaks will be fine. They won't likely be able to contribute that much to an offensive, but maybe a few thousand will still volunteer to come finish things as long as they are picked from among all the tribes so their further loss won't cause critical damage.
 
Revan4221X said:
A Phyrric victory is also based on what a army can recover from this was our entire military and same was probably for Sombra but unlike him we don't have giant magical powers or a entire civilization under mind control who can just breed them. We both will have trouble recovering from this Sombra will have more trouble since it ALL died but we still lost ALOT but it all comes down to interpretation.
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NO, he actually will have trouble with recovering from this:

Many of his abominations have been destroyed.

The shadow creatures are almost certainly that of a finite number, made out of cannibalizing the remaining essence of umbrum.

It's easy to say "he will breed more," but de facto those babies will have to grow up to become adults if they are to be any use in battle. He wouldn't have just spammed population numbers insanely with the idea that he is going to lose everything, so his current pop numbers will not be so massively prepared for this defeat - after all, he has to keep his people fed and even now he had his unarmored fodder heavily malnourished.

His personal power is weakened, which makes the rest of this more difficult - more chances to slip up somewhere, some things will take longer, etc.

So no. This was not a Pyrrhic victory.
 
Somebodynobody10 said:
NO, he actually will have trouble with recovering from this:

Many of his abominations have been destroyed.

The shadow creatures are almost certainly that of a finite number, made out of cannibalizing the remaining essence of umbrum.

It's easy to say "he will breed more," but de facto those babies will have to grow up to become adults if they are to be any use in battle. He wouldn't have just spammed population numbers insanely with the idea that he is going to lose everything, so his current pop numbers will not be so massively prepared for this defeat - after all, he has to keep his people fed and even now he had his unarmored fodder heavily malnourished.

His personal power is weakened, which makes the rest of this more difficult - more chances to slip up somewhere, some things will take longer, etc.

So no. This was not a Pyrrhic victory.
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Ok it's just a opinion
 
The gamble paid off by the skin of our beak. A glorious victory but it would be been a crushing defeat and the possible death of the emperor had the rolls been slightly less favorable to us. Now is the time to develop more faith, fuel, steel, and gunpowder for next time so we can rely less on luck for the next invasion. Glory to the Emperor and the Empire! Glory to our noble allies! Glory to the honored dead!
 
Somebodynobody10 said:
NO, he actually will have trouble with recovering from this:

Many of his abominations have been destroyed.

The shadow creatures are almost certainly that of a finite number, made out of cannibalizing the remaining essence of umbrum.

It's easy to say "he will breed more," but de facto those babies will have to grow up to become adults if they are to be any use in battle. He wouldn't have just spammed population numbers insanely with the idea that he is going to lose everything, so his current pop numbers will not be so massively prepared for this defeat - after all, he has to keep his people fed and even now he had his unarmored fodder heavily malnourished.

His personal power is weakened, which makes the rest of this more difficult - more chances to slip up somewhere, some things will take longer, etc.

So no. This was not a Pyrrhic victory.
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Also what if he took every able bodied male in the kingdom for this invasion? He could be the only stallion in his little kingdom now.
 
Alright does anyone have any plans on what we need to do for the next turn, cause I'm hoping we can spend some time with our family after the invasion.
 
Somebodynobody10 said:
I doubt Sombra was that ludicrously certain of victory. =I

Besides, I see no reason why he would only take males for his army?
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Well mares are weaker, sure they are horses, but in the end of the day, testosterone would have the stallions bulk up... under favorable conditions tho I do agree after a point slave armies both male and female would be both equally weak. Who knows Sombra is a product of his age and may had thought that more stallions was needed because he was sure he would win, in the eyes of a magical we are muggles and as such underestimated he wont be like that next time around.
 
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