Talk:Red Star Courier

Old comments/discussions removed to make future ones less confusing. --Aeillien 21:44, 17 July 2006 (CEST)

Nice work!

I like it! But I do have one point I would like to question:

"Perdan recouped some of its loses while the northern allies recouped"

Maybe I just don't understand it, but I think that should be Perdan recovered and the north regrouped? --The1exile 19:44, 1 August 2006 (CEST)

Doh. Thanks Alex. I proofread that thing twice and that sentance still flew by. Amazing. Glad you liked it, I'm planning on making it a regular feature at the beggening of the month. So what do you think of my editorial? <evil grin> --Aeillien 20:00, 1 August 2006 (CEST)

Seriosuly, it's great work, and you should keep it up. Mind if I offer a few suggestions though? It's vey minor, but there are things like you've linked to the II but written it like [[II|Itorunt Informer]] which isn't really neccessary; simply lnking to the Itorunt Informer by doing this: [[Itorunt Informer]] will work out fine and save you a bit of time.

Unless of course you are deliberateltly looking to beat the april edition of the II as one of the longest pages on the wiki, in which case, good luck with that. --The1exile 20:24, 1 August 2006 (CEST)

I do silly things like that sometimes. For some reasons pipe style links have become a hard to break habit of mine for no apparaent reason other than the fact that I use them over and over for links to region pages. <chuckles> As far as your april issue, that's pretty impressive, but in a mere two months I've gotten a page that's #51 on the longest page list (my july issue), and only 10k bytes smaller than your April page. (granted 10k bytes is alot of text. :P). I think I'll beat you yet, and without the help of little things like that.--Aeillien 20:56, 1 August 2006 (CEST)

Well,with the amount of coding that goes into the layout, I think if I put some hard work in I can get this one to beat the april edition.

But I'm lazy... so probably not... I just wish people wouldn't put up these huge battle reprots which aren't really that useful but use 00's of KB. --The1exile 21:08, 1 August 2006 (CEST)

I agree, a very nice article. I was going to post a rather long comment, but I think it turned out too well to waste it on a talk page. I'll post it a bit later as a commentary item on The Rampant Lion. --Indirik 21:51, 1 August 2006 (CEST)

P.S. - Your choice of words on the enemy army crashing through Partora is quite accurate. While the troops of Sirion and Fontan did manage to sucessfully attack Partora, the capital city of Perdan, it was a rather Pyrrhic victory. Of the 88 attacking nobles, a mere 17 survived through the second attack and were able to loot in Partora. Of the 40,000 CS of enemy troops that attacked the city, nearly 30,000 are already dead, and many of the remaining troops will not live to return home. It was, indeed a crash, of massive proportions. --Indirik 22:19, 1 August 2006 (CEST)

Yeah, attacking a well fortified city will do that. I'm actually coming to the opinion that a variation of Sun Tzu's method of dealing with cities holds for battlemaster: ignore them and take control of the sorrounding area instead.--Aeillien 22:47, 1 August 2006 (CEST)

That's actually the strategy that Tom advises when dealing with cities: Starve them out. Lay siege to the cities and take all the surrounding regions. The city will starve, and the enemy will eventually start to succumb to starvation, population loss, disease, etc. They did this rather effectively against Oligarch. --Indirik 23:00, 1 August 2006 (CEST)

Some people have realms that are lucky enough to be immune to such tactics, and if you don't completely surround then then it is possible for the realm to get food through backdoors and traders. ubent, for example; every region of theirs fed itself and more. 200+ food was produced by the stringhold per week, but they only ate just over 20 a day. Ibladesh City, on the other hand, eats only 11 less bushels per day that the whole realm of Itorunt. Go figure how easy it would be to siege each of them. --The1exile 23:18, 1 August 2006 (CEST)

No argument there. Not all situations allow for the same tactics. You need to adapt and use whatever best fits the situation. As for Ibladesh, well, that's the price you pay for having the largest city on the island: It also has the highest food consumption. Taking the enemy's ancillary regions is a valid tactic in many situation, though. Deny them recruiting centers, gold, and food. Eventually, they may just realize that they can't win, and will offer to surrender. Which is exactly what happened to Ubent. --Indirik 23:35, 1 August 2006 (CEST)

New article

Well, Aeillien, Perdan and Itorunt may have signedp eace, but reading some of Indiriks claims in TRL, I felt justified in writing my own response article in defense of my views and Yssarias. Please take a look and feel free to comment. AFter all, it's onl;y neutrality, and we're allowded to aid allies, right? --The1exile 00:03, 2 August 2006 (CEST)

Comentary

As the days went on, Yssaria entered what can only be referred to as an odd dance with Caligus to confirm if they were in the process of going through the peace agreement. First we pretended to move towards Domus, presumably to see if they would withdraw, and then moved into Aestus to see if they would withdraw from that province in preparation for handing the region over. Seeing as two battles occurred there, the ceasefire already had its first drops of bloodshed on its promise of peace.

Ok, this is just simple lies...
Yssria never agreed with Region exchanges, they wished to TO it in the brutal ways they are used too. Vlad proposed giving Aestus as part of the peace terms, and Eleran rejected because he thought it was 'allready his' .
You can taunt or tease any realm in your news paper, as long as your not twisiting the complete story around. I request you to edit that part of your article for I think it will only lead to a new paper battle again, wich will only lead to false news from both sides...

Ok?
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