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Eggs in a Basket
Post by dwileye13   » Tue Aug 05, 2014 12:35 pm

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The Military situation in The Border States, Dohlar and Desnair is more tenuous than it appears, The TextEv is that the arsenals of those states have been depleted of secondary weapons to supply the Harchong contingent. All available rifles in the Border states have been given to the AoG as well as arbalasts and bows. The armories of Desnair and Dohlar were stripped of those same A&B’s and some of their rifle production went to the Harchongese. Desnair lost an Army’s worth of rifles in Southmarch and Dohlar escaped with only a portion of their resources (but will meet up with Hanth before long). The Army of Sylmahn is in dire straits and is about to get hammered.

While the 1.3 Million AoG contingent in The Border States is a BIG egg, everything is dependent on them. Westmarch, Cliff Peak and the Hildermoss Mountains will be their main Battleground of HFQ. Logistics will still play an integral part of the Campaign and is not on the side of the Harchong portion of the AoG. When the Allies break that assault, which they must, the CoGA will be broken and without options, weapons or forces to apply to anything. This will be obvious to all of Safehold.

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Re: Eggs in a Basket
Post by evilauthor   » Wed Aug 06, 2014 1:34 am

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dwileye13 wrote:Time for a Divine appearance or an insurrection within the Church?


Defending forces defeated. Enemy on the doorstep and about to invade. No hope for military victory in sight.

Would it be a good thing or a bad thing (storywise) if Duchairn pulled a Theisman?
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Re: Eggs in a Basket
Post by dwileye13   » Wed Aug 06, 2014 10:48 am

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evilauthor wrote:
dwileye13 wrote:Time for a Divine appearance or an insurrection within the Church?


Defending forces defeated. Enemy on the doorstep and about to invade. No hope for military victory in sight.

Would it be a good thing or a bad thing (storywise) if Duchairn pulled a Theisman?


Good Question,
Obviously Duchairn is up to something, what - that is a quandry. RFC is taking us to the unleashing of the Harchong Army, but onto whom?

Clyntahn is not happy with Denair or Dohlar to a great extent. The 1st conflict in the Temple is who orders the Army where.

From TextEv it seems the Harchong Army has a good idea that Duchairn and Magwhahr are their benefactors in removing the previous bad leaders and giving them some respect and consideration as humans.

How about Duchairn ordering the arrest of Inquisitors and moving against Clyntahn?
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Post by n7axw   » Wed Aug 06, 2014 11:03 am

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[quote="dwileye13]

Good Question,
Obviously Duchairn is up to something, what - that is a quandry. RFC is taking us to the unleashing of the Harchong Army, but onto whom?

Clyntahn is not happy with Denair or Dohlar to a great extent. The 1st conflict in the Temple is who orders the Army where.

From TextEv it seems the Harchong Army has a good idea that Duchairn and Magwhahr are their benefactors in removing the previous bad leaders and giving them some respect and consideration as humans.

How about Duchairn ordering the arrest of Inquisitors and moving against Clyntahn?[/quote]

I agree. But this could get really dicey. Who is going to do the arresting? The inquisition has a monopoly on force in the Zion...

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Re: Eggs in a Basket
Post by Annachie   » Wed Aug 06, 2014 9:15 pm

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No, the inquistion don't control the temple guards. That's Magwhahr isn't it.
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Re: Eggs in a Basket
Post by DrakBibliophile   » Thu Aug 07, 2014 10:52 am

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IIRC the forces in Zion answering to Clyntahn out-number the forces answering to Magwair (this was from the thoughts of Vicar Magwair).

Our favorite Grand Inquisitor may be crazy but he's not stupid. :twisted: :twisted:

Annachie wrote:No, the inquistion don't control the temple guards. That's Magwhahr isn't it.
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Re: Eggs in a Basket
Post by dwileye13   » Thu Aug 07, 2014 12:33 pm

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DrakBibliophile wrote:IIRC the forces in Zion answering to Clyntahn out-number the forces answering to Magwair (this was from the thoughts of Vicar Magwair).

Our favorite Grand Inquisitor may be crazy but he's not stupid. :twisted: :twisted:
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True . . . but Duchairn is not dumb himself and is planning something! He has been redirecting weapons, scheming with Magwair and chafing at Clyntahns tyranny. IMO Aviah understands from her agents/network that something is afoot and wants to be there when it happens.

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Re: Eggs in a Basket
Post by Annachie   » Thu Aug 07, 2014 9:25 pm

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Must admit that I'm rereading the series due to forgetting too much.
But if we're talking forces in Zion then it has to be the guard. There may be more inquisitors, but they aren't as effective force as the guard.
(Assuming of course that large elements of the guard haven't gone over to the inquisiton outright.)
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Post by n7axw   » Thu Aug 07, 2014 11:24 pm

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Annachie wrote:No, the inquistion don't control the temple guards. That's Magwhahr isn't it.


Yes Maigwair controls the temple guard. However we have textev in LAMA that the inquisition is the only significant force in and around Zion because Clyntahn has arranged it that way.

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Re: Eggs in a Basket
Post by SWM   » Fri Aug 08, 2014 4:00 pm

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Annachie wrote:Must admit that I'm rereading the series due to forgetting too much.
But if we're talking forces in Zion then it has to be the guard. There may be more inquisitors, but they aren't as effective force as the guard.
(Assuming of course that large elements of the guard haven't gone over to the inquisiton outright.)

I believe the Inquisitors have their own enforcement units, so there are indeed elements of the Inquisition with military-type training. And as others have stated, they form the largest body of combat-effectives in the Temple.
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