Imperial Diet & Rules

[phonicsmonkey]

The Prinz.

Von Essen I admire your foresight but what would you have us do beyond what we currently strive to achieve?

Osterreich will be the Duchy which will face the first assault if these heathens choose to attack us and we move to strengthen our hand by consolidating our hold on the region. By eliminating the Milanese and conquering the western Hungarian provinces we should gain a position of power which will give us the means to resist them.

What more should we do to prepare?

[Zim]

Mein Prinz,

I was thinking of anything at all rather than not discussing them and acting as if they are not an upcoming threat, as seems to have been our strategy up to this point.

By what seems happy chance our current plans will indeed help us prepare to deal with the Turks, but then so would any that involved eliminating some of our many enemies and consolidating our territory.

As an example, I think we should discuss possibly trying to improve our castles so that we may arm peasant fodder with crossbows,a potent weapon when dealing with the Muslims, who favor mounted archers. This requires no edict, just something for current owners of the Reich's castles to keep in mind.

We could also see about sending some kind of envoy to the Turkish court, in order to ascertain their intentions.