[Discuss] Oaths of fealty and their confliction with other orders

[Boštjan Pajntar]

> Just to re-emphasize: Even if the knights are still in the army, the  
> orders of the liege *always* override those of the Marshal, ...
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I completly disagree. In my mind it is simple:
- Knights have to follow both orders. Can and should be punished if they 
are not following even one of them. So in this case they are a bit 
screwed yes.
- It is most important to acknowledge it is for each knight to decide 
whose orders will be followed, not this discussion list.

Lords have the possibility to remove their knigts from the army, which 
in turn can have bad consequences for them, or just order his knights 
and let them take the punishement. In my opinion this is very realistic 
and offeres a myriad of possible politics. So again, the answer whose 
orders should knigts follow? Both! Since they can not, it is for the 
knigts to decidede what to do.

One of my characters would for shure write a nasty letter to his liege, 
informing him to go stuck his head into his... and he would search for 
another liege. I mean come on his liege put him into this position, he 
could sign him to another army you know. My other character would follow 
his liege's order and take any punishment with good grace as long as he 
can further his liege's plan.

This cases are what is most interesting in Battlemaster. Don't go and 
make a rule what is the right course of action. Or we can just ask Tom 
to make a checkbox beside each character saying "Do what I'm supposed to 
do." and there won't even be need to log in any more.