KOTF OOC Thread

[econ21]

Please excuse my ignorance but is it possible to amend rule 5d to remove the reference to general's bodyguards. This may be too late now but counting bodyguards as heavy cavalry should make the battles more challenging.

I think I proposed this at the time that the rule was drafted but now I would prefer that we leave things as they are. Including BGs would cause problems for the Order fighting as a company - we have been aiming at 4 knights in the Company, so could only fight if the stack exceeded 10. This would be a problem to us acting alone, as we probably will have very little foot. And it would greatly limit our ability to act in support of another player - for example, we could not join a Duc who was already supported by one fellow knight.

This is not a purely self-interested argument - the whole idea of the Order OOC was to create something for our masses of RBGs to do. They don't have land, they don't have armies and they can't run for Seneschal. Stopping them even fighting in other people's battles would be even more constraining.

In terms of keeping the battles challenging, counting BGs would have done nothing to stop Tristan and Ramses stellar victories - they have been kicking the AI often with just one BG and a few scraps. The Order Company has often been unemployed - not participating in the King's battles as Tristan wanted to challenge himself. OK has not been fighting with an excessive number of BGs either.