Imperial Diet III

[Kagemusha]

Message from Jonas Von Mahren.

My congratulations for King Otto for breaking down the horse lords.Im sure your victory will be remembered long after we are all gone. To other matters. I believe now that the threat of the horse lords have passed.We should start discussing the issue of Outremer in the Imperial Diet. My wiewpoint is that Outremer is getting way too much from our resources and we should normalize the forces in there into level that would mirror the levels of troops on the areas of the great houses of the Reich. After all we are Germans and as Germans we should stay, focusing too much to far away lands wont benefit us,when we should be building up the Reich so no other Empire could ever compare with us.

[econ21]

Henry: I rather fear that the Mongols have done your proposed "normalising" of our forces in Outremer for you, Jonas.

Outremer is not yet complete - we must take Damascus and Edessa to fulfill its constitution. However, then by that same constitution, we will switch to a purely defensive stance in the Levant. Nonetheless, I fear we will always require at least two field armies stationed there: one in the south, to guard Jerusalem from Egyptians coming from Gaza and Cairo; the other in the north, to hold off the Turks who are massing north of Adana.

[FactionHeir]

That is pretty much what I had planned as well. To decomission any forces that still lack combat experience and are not crucial to our mission there while keeping two armies at half-strength ready to be expanded when needed.