Written by the Victors (Warhammer Fantasy)

I would suggest we get a unit of Black Knights, cavalry would be very useful both for scouting and for combat. Also, I imagine us eventually having skeletal horse couriers.

is it possible to automate skeletons?
 
Uuugh, so many things that are competing with our farming for attention.

@Aranfan
How much have the skeleton-plantations reduced the proportion of our population who are subsistence farmers? Or are the skeleton-plantations focused on growing cash-crops so that we avoid the potential for dhar contamination of the food supply?
 
Uuugh, so many things that are competing with our farming for attention.

@Aranfan
How much have the skeleton-plantations reduced the proportion of our population who are subsistence farmers? Or are the skeleton-plantations focused on growing cash-crops so that we avoid the potential for dhar contamination of the food supply?

The skeleton plantations almost exclusively grow food of various sorts for your grain ration. Many of the people who no longer need to farm, have chosen to instead plant various cash crops, rather than give up their land. A bunch of peeps have also turned their hands to various other pursuits... but y'all are a tiny agrarian state in bumfuck nowhere so the going is slow. And you have a small class of idlers who mostly socialize with people now that they don't have to work. The vast majority however want to find something to keep themselves busy.
 
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Keep in mind that most books written in this milieu won't actually be useful for trying to learn a trade. The flip-side of literacy being rare is that the things that illiterate people know and care about aren't really written about. At best, we'll get books that could be helpful for people who already know what they're doing, to help them learn some particular new approach. If we want to cultivate a skilled labor force, we need to either start off being shit and build the knowledge base from near-scratch, or somehow convince existing experts to immigrate.

Sadly, there's a reason why literacy was so uncommon for most of history, and that's because without cheap paper, cheap ink, and mass-printing, it wasn't actually anywhere near as useful as it is today (and drastically less necessary).
 
[X]Plan: A Show Of Good Faith
-[X] Who is the Newcomer? (1 die)
-[X] Court Independent villages

-[X] Build Temple to Ranald and Shallya(2 dice)
-[X] Dhar Countermeasures?

-[X] Help a nearby prince defend their land.
-Issac

[X] Plan Diplomacy by Varied Means
 
Yes, but paper probably still isn't cheap, plus the border princes aren't very well built up like bits of The Empire, Cathay, Karaz Ankor or maybe even Tilea are.

Tech levels and manufacturing bases are nowhere near equal globally.
 
I mean, couldn't we just have the skeletons do the book making for us? It couldn't be that hard to have the undead mass produce volumes.
 
Skeleton Labour is cheating. Slayvaine maybe some of the most dumbest People alive, seriously wasting Undead on Campaign instead of Out producing the empire.
 
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Yes, but paper probably still isn't cheap, plus the border princes aren't very well built up like bits of The Empire, Cathay, Karaz Ankor or maybe even Tilea are.

Tech levels and manufacturing bases are nowhere near equal globally.

While true, you do in fact have a printing press. Just one. It was part of your starting infrastructure, since Moti planned on making a textbook for necromancy and planned to have a bunch of them.


I mean, couldn't we just have the skeletons do the book making for us? It couldn't be that hard to have the undead mass produce volumes.

While true, there is in fact a finite supply of skeletons. Most of them are used on farming and military defense.

Skeleton Labour is cheating. Slayvaine may some of the most dumbest People alive, seriously wasting Undead on Campaign instead of Out producing the empire.

Its less stupidity and more about perspective and worldview. This is a world that hasn't invented capitalism yet, dominated by warrior aristocracy. Dhar tends towards making people into power hungry assholes, and people before capitalism did not concieve of power in terms of "makes the most stuff" but in terms of "has the biggest army".
 
The printing press has been invented.
Which is good! Certainly better than not having it, especially for making certain cornerstone works widely available. But sadly, that's not the scale that I was talking about, which is industrial scale printing. The issue is that you need to have truly mass availability and the ability to sustain a quick turn around to iterate on improving your instruction manuals in order to be able to develop them to the point where they can be genuinely useful for guiding novices into the development of a skill (and even then, it's still of strictly limited utility for physical labor skills). Even mass printing is mainly useful for supporting education, and primarily for purely intellectual labor skills, rather than being the sole means of education or providing much benefit to education for physical labor skills.

Speaking from experience, books can't teach you how to forge a sword if you don't already know how to hold and swing the hammer properly. :p

(TL;DR: Modern society drastically overvalues the impact of literacy on pre-industrial agrarian societies because of how much of modern society is built around record-keeping for bureaucratic purposes and absurdly cheap written media.)
 
Vote closed.

Edit: The plan isn't finished... fuck.
Adhoc vote count started by Aranfan on Jun 18, 2022 at 4:14 PM, finished with 30 posts and 4 votes.

  • [X] Plan Diplomacy by Varied Means
    [X] Court Independent villages
    [X] Who is the Newcomer?
    [X] Buy technical manuals for libraries
    -[x] Crafts
    -[x] Science
    [X] Outfit Black Knights
    [X] Raid Blue Tooth Goblins
    [X] Improve Walls around Halomik Town
    [X] Court Independent villages 1 die
    [X] Who is the Newcomer? 2 dice
    [X] Raid Blue Tooth Goblins 1 die
    [X]Plan: A Show Of Good Faith
    -[X] Who is the Newcomer? (1 die)
    -[X] Court Independent villages
    -[X] Build Temple to Ranald and Shallya(2 dice)
    -[X] Dhar Countermeasures?
    -[X] Help a nearby prince defend their land.
 
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Vote closed.

Edit: The plan isn't finished... fuck.
Adhoc vote count started by Aranfan on Jun 18, 2022 at 4:14 PM, finished with 30 posts and 4 votes.

  • [X] Plan Diplomacy by Varied Means
    [X] Court Independent villages
    [X] Who is the Newcomer?
    [X] Buy technical manuals for libraries
    -[x] Crafts
    -[x] Science
    [X] Outfit Black Knights
    [X] Raid Blue Tooth Goblins
    [X] Improve Walls around Halomik Town
    [X] Court Independent villages 1 die
    [X] Who is the Newcomer? 2 dice
    [X] Raid Blue Tooth Goblins 1 die
    [X]Plan: A Show Of Good Faith
    -[X] Who is the Newcomer? (1 die)
    -[X] Court Independent villages
    -[X] Build Temple to Ranald and Shallya(2 dice)
    -[X] Dhar Countermeasures?
    -[X] Help a nearby prince defend their land.
Well... it's my plan, so I say just make a Skeleton Legion. With how many raids we're being hit by, we could use more bodies, and we have a convenient surplus of goblin bones.
 
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This is interesting.

I'm worried about a potential Lahmian Vampire nearby though.

The Lahmians tend to fuck over any attempts by the Strigany to settle an area and get a stable powerbase going.
 
Would it be possible for our Strigoi Vampire lord to take down the Lahmian? I recall Strigoi tend to end up feral if they don't keep self control.
 
Would it be possible for our Strigoi Vampire lord to take down the Lahmian? I recall Strigoi tend to end up feral if they don't keep self control.

It's more like most Strigoi don't see the point in pretending to still be human in the first place.

They willingly give themselves over to the thirst and become feral because it's the culture of their bloodline. Kind of like how Most Lahmians go full Seductress or how Most Necrarchs go full Archmage.

Our guys are actually extremely odd for Strigoi. Enough so that we might not even register as Strigoi to the Lahmian at first.

Establishing a stable polity among the Mortals is actually a Von Carstein thing. Not a Strigoi thing. . .
 
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