Quote Originally Posted by econ21 View Post
I vote we back up before OKs move and delete the archer recruit.

BTW, I think by the rules Staufen is the King's unless OK refused to hand it over at the time of conquest. The timing matters here - we debated it and although there was disagreement, I think the rules as written reflect the onus on a "rebel" noble to come out and openly defy the King at the time of conquest rather play a waiting game.
The first part is hardly doable as it would mean going back to the final save of 1092 and have most of us re-do our moves, including Ramses' fight against Mandorf (which would be shame, with those cool pics). Better to move Ok back and make a sally with the Staufen garrison, sally which is doomed to fail on auto-resolve thus handing Staufen on a platter to te Germans.


As to the second part, that is how I read the rules at first but Zim seemed to consider that the hand-over should be handled at the next council session and that until that time the province belonged to the conquering noble. Then it was either ratified and went to the King or became the start of a civil war, or was handed back to its rightful owner through lack of ratification.

Also, the way the sally situation was played (regardless of Staufen's ownership) is that I don't think we should allow the players to play battles initiated by captain-led stacks even if their avatars are brought in as reinforcements. Let them initiate those battles... Different from when an avatar is brought in as reinforcement through an AI assault on a captain-led stack... Then we should (and we did) allow for the avatar to play the battle...