Council of Britain and Ireland

[Privateerkev]

King Alexander sits looking bored,

I see the Norse need a geography lesson as well. The Highlands are clearly south of Inverness. Therefore, if you are at Inverness, then you can not be in the Highlands. If your King wishes, I can write that out so he can sit and study it. I understand he seems to be slow in realizing things.

Such as realizing that besieging Inverness was not some great coup. I left it undefended as a sign of peace towards the Norwegian people. A mistake I know, but one that, at the time, seemed reasonable.

During my next campaign season, if I can not relieve the siege, I will simply make the Castle useless to Norway. I will raze every building to the ground. And I will disband the unit of peasants in the castle. Since there will be no opposition, your troops will peacefully occupy the castle when you do not command them. (OOC: by forcing you to take an empty castle outside of your turn, you will not be given the option to sack.)

So, you will peacefully occupy an empty castle full of angry Scottish citizens. This will cost you far more money than it will gain you. I can then retake the castle at my leisure.

In the meantime, I will mobilize my reserves and march on your lands. All you've done is attack a lone general, 2 empty (or almost empty) ships, and besiege, what will be, a useless castle.

Seeing as Scotland is not really threatened, I will remain here in order to keep pointing out your faulty logic.

As for how the Norse "handle" Scottish women, the Scots remember all too well what has happened in previous viking raids. Unable to convince a woman to bed him, a viking then resorts to rape.

I am confident our women would be able to give you quite a fight. I'd let them at you if I wasn't afraid of what our women would do to the men after we capture them. While I will not weep for any dead Norse, castration is a nasty way to go...