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by EdThomas » Wed Jun 18, 2014 11:12 am | |
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BGV's about to publish the first Safeholdian manual on winter operations. Where might he end up? Will he run into some of the new Harchong army?
Will Symkins go north to eliminate Kaitswyrth? Will he try to pass mounted infantry by K to block the canal retreat route? If so, hopefully things will work out differently than our last blocking efforts. Will Eastshare drive through to Dairnyth? Where will he run into the new model Harchongese Army? Will Hanth be pulled back after turning things over to EastShare and then be used to bring Silkiah into the fold? And there's our boy Alverez? How will he manage to feed his already lean troops? Will he be able to break through and possibly hurt Hanth's spread out forces? How will RFC get him back and linked up (fed?)with Dohlaran forces? Will the good guys be able to avoid having to attack fortified positions packed with the new St Khylman's (sp?)? Will Thirsk surrender the fleet when he meets the new players? Hope we've got the plan ready to pull his family out by then. What deviltry will Captain (Commodore?) Bahrnes be put up to? Sorry guys but this Geography major's steam-engined-out. |
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by PeterZ » Wed Jun 18, 2014 1:08 pm | |
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Spoilers!
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by USMA74 » Wed Jun 18, 2014 1:53 pm | |
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I think all of the above speculations are reasonable extrapolations of the military situation as it exists at the end of LAMA. I was introduced to RFC when I read Short Victorious War many years ago. In all that time I have learned, as a result of my lousy percentage for accurately predicting what is going to happened, that RFC will introduce the demon Murphy to keep things interesting for his devoted readers in HFQ.
As a petulant child of 62 I merely want regular snippets of HFQ to start yesterday if I can’t have the book tomorrow. |
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by SYED » Wed Jun 18, 2014 7:42 pm | |
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We guess the harchong army will be sent to those lakes to stop the republic from marching into the border states. The issue is can that army be supplied.
Also, the army could be used to reinforce the dohlar positions, that port city linked by canal to thesmar. And the church position nearest to them. Also, that army might be used to enforce the church will in dohlar, so thirsk can not surrender and the king cant act in a manor that preserves his kingdom or people. The thing is the inquisition does not care if they all die so long as they die harming charis. |
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by Thucydides » Wed Jun 18, 2014 11:41 pm | |
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Advancing in winter in mountainous terrain against a million man army...
Anyone thinking "Chosin Reservoir" or "Changjin Lake Campaign"? |
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by EdThomas » Thu Jun 19, 2014 1:06 am | |
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Please consider this a respectful request for some clarification on the term "Spoiler". If information is known to be in the book, the "Spoiler" warning must be present in such a manner as to prevent the reader from accidentally learning what happens in the book. A SWAG, no matter how august the SWAGger, is not a spoiler. So, are the words in blue, spoilers, or swags?
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by Tonto Silerheels » Thu Jun 19, 2014 8:42 am | |
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EdThomas wrote: If information is known to be in the book, the "Spoiler" warning must be present in such a manner as to prevent the reader from accidentally learning what happens in the book.
That's my understanding as well. I did want to add that spoiler warnings have been prescribed for the purposes of this forum to extend one month past the date of publication. With the exception of Hell's Foundations Quiver all of the Safehold books have passed this date, so there should be no spoiler warnings from anyone except runsforcelery and anyone else who may have gotten an advanced glimpse of the text (I'm looking at you, Drak). However, I'm also aware of some requests to extend the spoiler warnings for Like A Mighty Army due to the delayed release dates in some countries. ~Tonto |
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by EdThomas » Thu Jun 19, 2014 1:28 pm | |
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The St Khylman's rifle may not turn out to be as bad as some of us thought.
Defensively it improves the bad guys situation tremendously. Offensively, I'm not so sure. Open order formations and movements will make it more effective on the attack. I'd be surprised if the Harchongese will use anything but massed formations. The impact of the veteran ncos on them will not be great enough to allow them to operate platoons and squads independently. It's gonna take a while to develop the ncos to that level, if it's even possible with their culture. Are the bad guys really trained to aim a rifle? My question here is does the shooter close his eyes before firing a black powwder weapon? |
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by larrywiding » Thu Jun 19, 2014 3:11 pm | |
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Personally, I am wondering how long it will be before the first machine guns show up, which would go a long way towards balancing the numbers from Harchong. And, while they have better training, how willing will they be to hold formation against heavy fire? Somehow, I don't see their moral being equal to the AoG's.
Of course, that could cause problems as well, 10s of thousands of PoWs needing to be fed and housed? Perhaps artillery rockets? |
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by dan92677 » Fri Jun 20, 2014 10:23 pm | |
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[quote="larrywiding"]Personally, snip
Of course, that could cause problems as well, 10s of thousands of PoWs needing to be fed and housed? snip Wouldn't that be multiple 100,000's ??? |
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