Bandits and Mercenaries

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Quote[/b] (Axeknight @ July 22 2004,15:13)]Nigel, any chance of a small loan (50fl should clear it), to pay my longbows? I hadn't bargained on the support cost markup, sorry.

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Well, Axe, I guess 50 Fl will be ok. Especially since I am thnking of allowing loans a bit more generously this month, what with the trouble on GS and players not beeing able to do their battles without fault of their own.


And Octavian, it appears that there is really no one interested in mission #11. Well, I may be able to hire the city guards for this one again - say Friday 21:00 GMT ? Would that work for you ?

Oh, and Socio, I've been rebalancing the support for you in you mission a bit.
I think it was needed. https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/no...nquisitive.gif

Xiao - in case you didn't get my email - i can be on on weds or fri evenings my time - so from 3pm onwards your time - not sure about sat and sun yet.

Steeleye.

whoohoo! we're back.

Xiahou - give me some times that you can make for this battle, dude - my man is sure to have retreived the stuff from the mill if you don't hurry up.

~:)

Yes, it seems we are back.

The beatiful medieval look is still missing, and so is my favourite avatar, but I am sure that will come with time. Most imporant is that we call all log back in. This may require a reset of password. But it can be changed back to the original one. Well at least it worked for me. Lets hope that all players will be able to make it to this place.

:knight:

Righty. So the game's back in session :knight:

Has payday happened yet?

Yes, payday has happened. I have just updated page 1.
It still needs to be tidied up a bit as formatting on this forums seems to be different from the old one. The links to the missions are currently not working eigther. Well, we will get there eventually.

bit quiet in here...

:scastle:

i'm waiting for a new mission to pop up.

"Sire..."
Sociopsychoactives aid cowered visably before his master.
"Sire I have some good news."
"Well, spit it out man!" Socio snapped back at him.
"Our messenger has finally returned, though we have lost almost all our messengers in the past week, this one has finally brought word that replacements have been found and communication with Lord Longshanks is finally working again!"
"About damn time aswell!" The mercenary leader snarled before storming out of his tent to find the messenger.
The small, skinny man was badly wounded, three arrows protruded from his body, but he was alive and Socio's surgeons were about to begin work.
"Sire..." The man began. "We suspect it was McGregors men, picking off every messenger sent out and even those coming in. I barely made it myself, but Lord Longshanks has promiced a dozen new messengers, and the remaining knights from the battle with McGregor are requested to escort them, we shouldn't have much trouble getting messages back and forth now, but unfotunately there is little news to report. No new raids have been heard of, or attacks on bandits schedualed."

At this Socio snarled and left the man to the healers. FOr a full week they had been cut off from the rest of the world. While having his base of operations in the middle of marshlands had seemed a great idea at the time, and the defensive value was not to be scoffed at, it made messengers vulnerable to ambush, as they had found out. At least now they would hopefully recive word of a new assignment before long, the men were becoming restless.

((My computer died last week, hence the story, but I seem to have it back up and running, ish. If I can't be found for a few days you know it's died again and McGregors men are once again praying on our messengers. It should be fine though.))

Sir Nigel just barely manages to stick his head out of huge piles of paper on his desk (and that is my Real Life desk as well. Work has been crazy over the last 2 weeks, sorry everyone) In his hand he has a couple of letters from his business partners, asking when his next shipments are moving off. "send a quick pidgeon to these gentlemen", he says to his secretary, " tell them how busy I have been with these annoying burocrats, but that I intend to assign new shipments this very evening. My, I really need a holiday".

I really do ~D
And will be going for the next 2 weeks too, leaving this Saturday. I may haev occasional internet access during that time but I promise I will knock up a few more missions before I go. Hopefully that will keep you guys going and help everyone over the next payday. This seems to be a crazy month.

I'm going away as well, not coming back til September. Which means i can't play a game this month. Damn. ~:(

BTW, wasn't the game supposed to end on the release of RTW? Cause that's the 17th of next month. I don't know whether to be delighted about RTW, or sad for the loss of B+M (though it doesn't look like I'd survive much longer). I can't see many people wanting to keep playing MTW when we have RTW. Maybe we could start something like this again? B+M has been great fun.

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wasn't the game supposed to end on the release of RTW? Cause that's the 17th of next month.

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Really, that soon ~:eek: Time flies.....
Still, although I am still full of ideas for this I think I should stick to the timeline and call out winners and wrap up when RTW comes out. I am also looking forward to some good after-game-discussions and perhaps some cool ideas of what could be done with RTW ~:)


But meanwhile, there is still some time to go and (when everyone is back from holidays) a few good battles still to fight. So for now, I present some more missions (and other stuff).

-------------------------------------------------------------- Mission #15 --------------------------------------------

Well, first on my list of waiting shipments are 100 boxes of honey. The Duchess of York is waiting for them for the wedding celebration of her son. The honey is worth 1500 Florins. The Duchess, however will pay well for timely delivery and a mercenary guarding the shipment will recieve 1000 Florins plus an additional 600 upon save delivery.

Signed up as Mercenary : no opponent found, mission closed
Signed up as Bandit : Chimpyang

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Map details :
1v1, hillyinland02.
Summer, Southern European, 60 min, Mercenaries = Attackers

-------------------------------------------------------------- Mission #16 -----------------------------------------------------

The next mission is a shipment of dried fish, 200 boxes to go from the hanseatic city of Hamburg to Berlin.
The boxes are worth 8 Florins each. I am paying a sign up fee of 800 Florins and 400 Florins on delivery.
As I am worried that the fish, although salted and dried, might go bad, I will add another 400 Florins if the mission is completed before 25th August.

Signed up as Mercenary : Hamburg militia
Signed up as Bandit : Octavian

Mission completed
Octavian wins against militia and sailor men

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Map details :
1v1, hillyinland06.
Summer, Southern European, 60 min, Mercenaries = Defenders

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And then there is a load of 100 boxes of white lace, to go from Brussels to Paris.
The hand fashioned lace is worth 16 Florins per box and I will pay a sign up fee of 900 Florins and a delivery bonus of 500 Florins.


Signed up as Mercenary : Guy
Signed up as Bandit : no opponent found, mission closed

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Map details :
1v1, hillyinland11.
Summer, Southern European, 60 min, Mercenaries = Defenders

Finally I have an announcement from the Guildmaster of the Mercenaries Guild.
I will pin it up here for everyone to see.


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Hear ye, Hear ye,

The most honourable guildmaster of the Mercenaries Guild let it be known that the Mercenaries Guild is setting aside funds to instituate grants of money for their members in need of such. The fund is created to aid the forces of law and order and to counter the growing threat of increasingly powerful gangs of bandits roaming the lands.

Any member of the Mercenary Guild is elegible to apply for grant money of up to 3000 Florins .
The sole condition is that the money be used for the purpose of increasing the numbers and improving the equippment of the mercenary armies. The money shall not be used to finance castle enlargements or pay for personal luxury items of festivities.


The money shall be given as a grant, not as a loan, and hence no formal return of the money is required other than the faithful sevice to the Guild and the law of the land. Beneficients of the grant scheme will be listed in the Guilds records and, given a suitable period of time and given a successful development of their carrers, may be invited to make donations to the Guild in support of the Guilds junior members and to increase the glory and splendour of the Guild.

May the glory of the Guild be unsurpassed and know no equal,

Richard de Beauchamp, Master of the Mercenaries Guild


P.S. To supply the funds for the grant scheme, plans to extend and redecorate the Senior Member's Commonroom have been scrapped for the time beeing.

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I'll yttake Mission 15 Bandit

"What? AGAIN???!" Screamed Sociopsychoactive on hearing that another messenger had been killed and the body discovered this morning. "Why there must be a pack of bandits preying on them, but untill we get our messengers running safely again we can't do anything about it! Curse those lawless dogs!"

((As you guessed already, my comp went pop again. It is in the process of being repaired, but this may take some time. Untill further notice I am opting out of any missions.))

Too bad, Socio, to be cut off from all messengers. Well, at least the occasional pidgeon message is getting through, But that is hardly enough to sign up for an escort contract. So I guess, I'll have to wait until you manage to set up camp outside of McGregor's bow-range ~D


Chimyang, I've put you down for mission #15. Good luck without your Turcopoles.


Oh, and Guy emailed me. He is still having problems to login and post here. But told me he wants to sign up for mission #17.

ok, I'll be of on holidays tomorrow (excited.... :jumping: )

Feel free, over the next two weeks to sign up and arrange battles by yourselves if you want to - I guess you will all know how teh game works by now. Post the result here and I will go and sort out the payments when I get back.

Good Luck and have fun (I know I will ~D )

have a good holiday, mate. :scastle:

Greetings bandits and mercenaries,

I just returned from my holiday. Great time. I enjoyed it a lot.
But it is also good to be back to the Guild. ~:)

I see that, while I was away, the demo for RTW came out. Whow, the Colosseum is overflowing with activity.


Here, at B&M, things seem to have been more quiet. Well, I guess everyone is busy playing the demo. Still, some players signed up for missions and if noone opposed them, they shall get their due reward.


Octavian has long been waiting for the shipment of beer. Well, as I could not find a Mercenary to guard it, I wanted to ask the City Guards. But even with them I had no luck. So the brave peasants set off on their own and, not surprisingly, fell easy pray to Octavians men. They saved their lives by handig over the shipment without a fight. 100 barrels of beer go right into Octavian's camp.

Pretty much the same is true for Chimpyang. 100 boxes of honey, worth 1500 Florins, are easily his.

But at least my 100 boxes of white lace went safely from Brussels to Paris. Guy met no opposition and brough the shipment through without a scratch. The promised reward of 1400 Florins shall be his.


Well, a few more missions are open, and a couple more weeks to go.
Mercenaries, don't be shy to take up the grant from the Guildmaster. Any money you recieve from the guild will not be counted as yours when I work out the score in the end, but it should help you to give Octavian and the other bandits a few good battles. Just enjoy the game and have fun.

Sorry about my absence guys. I've had work and other things taking over me. o.o; So I'm back now...school starts tomorrow for me by the way.

Wellcome back Liao,

good to see you return. I can see you are in need for money. Well, we need to support the mercenaries, or else law and order will fall to pieces and those bandits take over the land. I will see if I can get the Guildmaster to help you (and other Mercs) out with a loan to get you over the upcoming payday. And you still got some nice missions lined up, too. ~:)

hey Liao... i think i will be able to play you tomorrow evening. Ang, would you be able to make it online at around 8 GMT -5?

i would also be willing to take a hold of that fish... beer is good, but day after day of beer and deer and more beer, its just too much. ~:)

ok, Octavian, glad you are taking care of this delivery.


hey, wait a minute....

NOOO, it's that bandit again. Looking for some good food to go with that beer he has already stolen from me. Grrrrrr ~:angry:


Well, then, I need a very brave mercenary to take on this mission.
And I recommend accepting the Guildmasters money - you may need it against Octavian's army.

Could I take a grant to the sum of 650 fl please? Not sure if I can play before Sept 17th, so 650fl would keep me out of the dungeon if I can't.

Sure, Axeknight, the Guild is happy to support its members in these times of hardship.


Times are hard indeed for the Mercenaries. But it seems the Bandits have been doing quite well. At this pay day, Shaka and Chimpyang are easily able to pay their men, with money to spare. Octavian still had his store full of beer and his soldiers are happy to accept that in lieu of money (no point selling the beer, giving the money to the troops who then go out and buy the beer again ~;) ). Only Steeleye is short of a few florins, leaving his highlanders somewhat disappointed.

~:cheers: ~:cheers: :tomato: ~:cheers:


In the mercenaries camp, only Guy has managed to earn enough money to pay his troops. Well done Guy ~:cool: . Axeknight will get his grant, but what about the others? Socio is still stuck in the marshlands, cut off from communication (computer probs), Liao has just returned, full of energy, but with empty coffers, and Amatzu too is short of some Florins.

Well, I had a word with the Guildmaster of the Mercenary Guild and we decided to give grants to cover the missing money for all the mercenaries. With the bandits so strong, we just need every lawful fighter in the field, not in the dungeon. And the offer for the bigger grants is still there. Lets hope we can still put an army together to stand up to those bandits.

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Meanwhile, I got note of a mission which could interest bandits and mercenaries on either side.



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Their dispute goes back a long way. The rich merchant cities Arlington and Bramston have been arguing over the toll rights of the bridge between them for many years. Recently however, the King has issued a new law, which effectively means a very significant increase in the profit, which is gained from toll bridges. So all of a sudden there is a lot of money at stake now, and the moderate dispute has grown into a full out conflict. Both cities are now seeking the help of armed fighers to secure the bridge for themselves.

Yes, this is about a lot of money, and in their greed, the two cities care little about where the help comes from that secures their advantage. Each of them is willing to sign up mercenaries or bandits alike. 1200 Florins on sign up and 1000 Florins of victory bonus are offered by Arlington. Bramston offers only 600 Florins on sign up but 1000 Florins for victory. Ownership of the bridge will be granted to the side, whose men hold both sides of the bridge by the end of the day. No money at all will be payed out to anyone whose men are seen merely camping on their side without making any attempt to cross the river.

Signed up for Arlington : Steeleye
Signed up for Bramston : Octavian

Mission completed.
There is a nice writeup here

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Map details :
1v1, flatcoastalriver01.
Summer, Southern European, 35 min, Arlington = attackers side