[Discuss] An observation

[Lyman Stone]

>
> I don't know about anyone else, but other than the battle part,  
> it's not
> fun. I don't mind some region maintenance and it's a good aspect of  
> the
> game. But the peasants in BM are now so influential, that, assuming  
> a 3:1
> IC:RL time ratio:
I dunno... I sort of enjoy the region upkeep... but, a tip. If you  
want to fight more, fightmore. You can do it every seven days.  
Recruit a unit and hurl yourself into the enemy lines. No, you won't  
achieve anything meaningful.... but it is fun! It's sort of our  
weekend excursion in Irombrozia. Recruit, go out for a picnic, get  
mauled by Riombara, come home again.

>
> - After two weeks of having a large army in a region (after  
> defeating the
> garrison), you can actually raise your banner over the region. It  
> only takes
> two hours to kill or rout all the enemy soldiers in a battle, but  
> it takes
> two weeks to kill or rout or bribe the local bureaucrat
When was the last time you tried to come in and force 5000 uneducated  
rural folk to give you money? If you can do it in 2 weeks (or at all)  
I'm shocked. Now, of course, with an army at your disposal, it's  
doable. But there will always be those freaks who go and hide in  
forests and raid your supply trains who you have to root out, and  
those mobs of disgruntled-testosterone-ladden-teenagers with a grudge  
against the occupier. They're actually a substantial problem. It's  
not an issue of just kicking out the government, it's forcing the  
people to accept your government.

> - After that two weeks, there are still enough peasants willing to  
> oppose
> you that they will happily interrupt your attempts to hold court
Maybe this should be changed so that the more troops you have the  
easier it is to hold court?

> - They'll also steal and embezzle money -- that is, assuming they make
> anything to steal, since production will have stopped
When you get a new harvest every 9 days (that means the wheat is  
growing at, what... 30 times the rate of normal wheat?) production  
NEVER stops. (not sure I've ever actually seen 0% production, but  
maybe I'm just forgetting)

>
> The way BM is now, the local peasantry is far more powerful than an  
> army of
> two thousand and a hundred nobles.
Yup. It's called militant popular sovereignty. It's always existed in  
violent decentralized cultures, just sometimes was a bit suppressed.