[Discuss] Strategic secessions (was:Re: Life without a Judge)

[Andrew Asche]

By the
>  time that fight is over, the Duke will have solidified his position
>  relative to the parent realm such that the parent realm may be forced
>  to accept the loss.

Yes, that is what I was trying to say about the appeasement and such.
Good way of putting it.

Further, comparing BM to history is not comparing apples to apples on
things like this.

In BM, a secession happens.  One moment it is a duchy, the next it is
a realm.  As such, it is possible and likely to directly react to it,
because at that moment, there is something to react to.

In reality, it would not happen like that....A Duke would move slowly
from apparently loyal to not sending soldiers, on to not sending any
aid at all, even gold, then starting to build his own army, then
sending that army on to his own agenda, and so on and so forth.  That
would support the "appeasement" concept again, because it is so much
easier to justify not responding to something that occurs gradually,
in contrast to BM's necessary problem of having to "secede" as a
single action.