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Plergoth has already made use of this window of opportunity, attacking rebel recruiting centers and food stores in Yokk and Haffemet and doing the same to Khthonian assets in Weghie. It is believed that the rebels and bandits have largely exhausted their family resources during earlier stages of this war, and now, with their regions in chaos, their smallfolk put to the sword, and their coffers empty, they lack the coin to mount a serious challenge on the field of battle in the forseeable future. | Plergoth has already made use of this window of opportunity, attacking rebel recruiting centers and food stores in Yokk and Haffemet and doing the same to Khthonian assets in Weghie. It is believed that the rebels and bandits have largely exhausted their family resources during earlier stages of this war, and now, with their regions in chaos, their smallfolk put to the sword, and their coffers empty, they lack the coin to mount a serious challenge on the field of battle in the forseeable future. | ||
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| + | ==Stirring Words from the Field== | ||
| + | ''June 3, 1007 | By: [[De Succio Family|Mendrugo]]'' | ||
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| + | From Marcus Antonus | ||
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| + | ''I don't say very much anymore, life hasn't been the kindest thing to me lately, but there has definitely been a major turn of events recently.'' | ||
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| + | ''In the beginning of this war I have to say I thought we had it all wrapped up. Vlaanderen alone is no match for our might. Then Kthon got into the fray and things got alot more complicated.'' | ||
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| + | ''Honestly, I didn't think Kthon would matter too much in the big picture, but I've been proven wrong more than once. I am still amazed at how they've even managed to gain so much of OUR land throughout this war. for a long time Weghie was our stronghold. I would never have thought that we could lose it to those "heroes". We went back and forth with it for about 3 weeks with no side gaining an advantage. I just knew if we could get a good hold on it we could win. Then we lost it.'' | ||
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| + | ''So we move back, the rebels move down and take Yokk and the rebels help Vlaanderen fight for Worvobaen. They had it for a while their too. Thank Daishi we have great generals or we would be fighting from the walls of Creasur.'' | ||
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| + | ''It is our generals, and esteemed council members, that got us through all that we've lost. From Weghie to Yokk to Worvo. they have found a way to beat back the rebels.We, as nobles of Plergoth, have come back to reclaim what is rightfully ours. And not once, but thrice our generals have taken us to the walls of both Reeds and Dyomoque. Thrice we have taken the fight to the rebels very own doorstep in the past month. Thrice we have done it! Thrice we will do it again! And by the holy name of all that is good I will go to those walls and fight until EVERY REBEL IS HANGING FROM A TREE!'' | ||
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| + | ''I have seen a great change in how we do things, in how we work, in how we fight. We will be the rebels undoing, and we will not stop until the job is done!'' | ||
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| + | ''Lo, there do we see our fathers.'' | ||
| + | |||
| + | ''Lo, there do we see our mothers.'' | ||
| + | |||
| + | ''Lo, there do we see our sisters and our brothers.'' | ||
| + | |||
| + | ''The line of our people back to the beginning.'' | ||
| + | |||
| + | ''They do call to us to take our places.'' | ||
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| + | ''Where the brave live forever'' | ||
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| + | ''Marcus Antonus (Royal)'' | ||
| + | |||
| + | And from Sir Regstav | ||
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| + | ''We have three times marched on the chief capitals of our enemies.'' | ||
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| + | ''Since the moment that the rebels first started the rebellion, waiting until most of the army was away from the capital and performing region maintenance, the rebels have only attacked Creasur once. That signaled the beginning of their war with us.'' | ||
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| + | ''They have never marched on Creasur since. Since their defeat there and the secession or Reeds now rebel force has been able to march on Creasur herself.'' | ||
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| + | ''This is not because of the generals are good, though I would be a fool to dispute that, in more than on reason. ;-) It is because all of you, all of us, have followed the orders of the generals and our armies have moved with a precision and a timing that most considered impossible. Even in our darkest times, our knights and our bureaucrats and our traders and our priests have followed their orders, hoping to save this realm.'' | ||
| + | |||
| + | ''And in doing so, they have done so. Even outnumbered in nations standing against us, in men standing against us, and in money standing against us, we have marched out from Creasur again and again, and even when we knew we could not hope to win a battle all of you have marched in the pure hope of bleeding our enemies so badly they could not follow us back.'' | ||
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| + | And now both the rebels and Khthon lay huddling in their capitals, or fighting desperately to keep the regions directly around their capitals. When was the last time the rebels marched on us? When was the last time a great Khthonian army marched out to meet us in battle? When was the last time that the rebels and Khthon stood side by side against us in battle in Haffemet or in Weghie or in any other region of our fair realm? | ||
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| + | ''Even in losing battles, we have wounded them. And now, the money they have spent trying to kill us running out. And now the men they are sending against us are becoming discouraged. And now the nations they brought in to fight us are losing interest. They are standing against us alone now, alone or with only half-hearted support.'' | ||
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| + | ''We have lost many brave men, as my province will attest to. Ypsilanti has sent hundreds of men and women to die against them, but volunteers are always willing to come to sign on the X. They follow us because they know that we will do everything we can to help the realm. And even should they die, they know that it is not without reason, and that Daishi himself will honor them after they pass the veil into the next world.'' | ||
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| + | ''We are united, in ways that few other realms are, and THAT is why we survive to this day. And THAT is why both the rebels and Khthon are fading. We stand, looking around us at the wreckage their war has brought. But I say to you now that I see a new dawn, and that dawn signals the end of their rules! As we stand fast, they splinter and drive away those they should be able to trust the most! We trust! They quarrel!'' | ||
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| + | ''And THAT my friends and countrymen and countrywomen is why PLERGOTH lives this day!'' | ||
| + | |||
| + | ''We are PLERGOTH! And UNITED we will STAND against them!'' | ||
| + | |||
| + | ''FOR PLERGOTH!'' | ||
| + | |||
| + | ''Sir Regstav'' | ||
| + | ''Count of Ypsilanti'' | ||
Revision as of 12:12, 3 June 2007
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| Bring in Valhalla's head, get a lifetime subscription! | Editor: Mendrugo | Issue Five, June |
The Scoreboard
June 1, 1007 | By: Mendrugo
A running count of damage inflicted by each side in the ongoing Plergothian Civil War in the month of June.
Plergoth:
Khthonian brigands killed or wounded: 52
Vlaanderen rebels killed or wounded: 43
Khthon:
Plergothian solders killed or wounded: 2
Vlaanderen:
Plergothian soldiers killed or wounded: 0
Number of battles included in the above tally (victory count): 5
Weghie: 1 (Plergoth: 1, Khthon: 0)
Yokk: 2 (Plergoth: 2, Vlaanderen: 0)
Haffemet: 1 (Plergoth: 1, Vlaanderen: 0)
Tindle: 1 (Plergoth: 0, Khthon: 1)
June Off to a Good Start
June 1, 1007 | By: Mendrugo
The dawning of the month of June finds Plergoth in an excellent strategic position. The rebel army of Vlaanderen is busily attempting to restore the ruined region of Bajit to some sort of productive use while it continues to battle the army of our staunch ally, Mesh.
The shattered Khthonian field army has just returned to Dyomoque and should spend the next few days rebuilding and refitting, leaving the Army of Plergoth free to maneuver.
Plergoth has already made use of this window of opportunity, attacking rebel recruiting centers and food stores in Yokk and Haffemet and doing the same to Khthonian assets in Weghie. It is believed that the rebels and bandits have largely exhausted their family resources during earlier stages of this war, and now, with their regions in chaos, their smallfolk put to the sword, and their coffers empty, they lack the coin to mount a serious challenge on the field of battle in the forseeable future.
Stirring Words from the Field
June 3, 1007 | By: Mendrugo
From Marcus Antonus
I don't say very much anymore, life hasn't been the kindest thing to me lately, but there has definitely been a major turn of events recently.
In the beginning of this war I have to say I thought we had it all wrapped up. Vlaanderen alone is no match for our might. Then Kthon got into the fray and things got alot more complicated.
Honestly, I didn't think Kthon would matter too much in the big picture, but I've been proven wrong more than once. I am still amazed at how they've even managed to gain so much of OUR land throughout this war. for a long time Weghie was our stronghold. I would never have thought that we could lose it to those "heroes". We went back and forth with it for about 3 weeks with no side gaining an advantage. I just knew if we could get a good hold on it we could win. Then we lost it.
So we move back, the rebels move down and take Yokk and the rebels help Vlaanderen fight for Worvobaen. They had it for a while their too. Thank Daishi we have great generals or we would be fighting from the walls of Creasur.
It is our generals, and esteemed council members, that got us through all that we've lost. From Weghie to Yokk to Worvo. they have found a way to beat back the rebels.We, as nobles of Plergoth, have come back to reclaim what is rightfully ours. And not once, but thrice our generals have taken us to the walls of both Reeds and Dyomoque. Thrice we have taken the fight to the rebels very own doorstep in the past month. Thrice we have done it! Thrice we will do it again! And by the holy name of all that is good I will go to those walls and fight until EVERY REBEL IS HANGING FROM A TREE!
I have seen a great change in how we do things, in how we work, in how we fight. We will be the rebels undoing, and we will not stop until the job is done!
Lo, there do we see our fathers.
Lo, there do we see our mothers.
Lo, there do we see our sisters and our brothers.
The line of our people back to the beginning.
They do call to us to take our places.
Where the brave live forever
Marcus Antonus (Royal)
And from Sir Regstav
We have three times marched on the chief capitals of our enemies.
Since the moment that the rebels first started the rebellion, waiting until most of the army was away from the capital and performing region maintenance, the rebels have only attacked Creasur once. That signaled the beginning of their war with us.
They have never marched on Creasur since. Since their defeat there and the secession or Reeds now rebel force has been able to march on Creasur herself.
This is not because of the generals are good, though I would be a fool to dispute that, in more than on reason. ;-) It is because all of you, all of us, have followed the orders of the generals and our armies have moved with a precision and a timing that most considered impossible. Even in our darkest times, our knights and our bureaucrats and our traders and our priests have followed their orders, hoping to save this realm.
And in doing so, they have done so. Even outnumbered in nations standing against us, in men standing against us, and in money standing against us, we have marched out from Creasur again and again, and even when we knew we could not hope to win a battle all of you have marched in the pure hope of bleeding our enemies so badly they could not follow us back.
And now both the rebels and Khthon lay huddling in their capitals, or fighting desperately to keep the regions directly around their capitals. When was the last time the rebels marched on us? When was the last time a great Khthonian army marched out to meet us in battle? When was the last time that the rebels and Khthon stood side by side against us in battle in Haffemet or in Weghie or in any other region of our fair realm?
Even in losing battles, we have wounded them. And now, the money they have spent trying to kill us running out. And now the men they are sending against us are becoming discouraged. And now the nations they brought in to fight us are losing interest. They are standing against us alone now, alone or with only half-hearted support.
We have lost many brave men, as my province will attest to. Ypsilanti has sent hundreds of men and women to die against them, but volunteers are always willing to come to sign on the X. They follow us because they know that we will do everything we can to help the realm. And even should they die, they know that it is not without reason, and that Daishi himself will honor them after they pass the veil into the next world.
We are united, in ways that few other realms are, and THAT is why we survive to this day. And THAT is why both the rebels and Khthon are fading. We stand, looking around us at the wreckage their war has brought. But I say to you now that I see a new dawn, and that dawn signals the end of their rules! As we stand fast, they splinter and drive away those they should be able to trust the most! We trust! They quarrel!
And THAT my friends and countrymen and countrywomen is why PLERGOTH lives this day!
We are PLERGOTH! And UNITED we will STAND against them!
FOR PLERGOTH!
Sir Regstav Count of Ypsilanti
