[Discuss] Peasants kick out duke.

[Josiah Allen]

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Samuel Knowlton <sam at iamsam.org> wrote:

> I've recently seen two revolts, one in a city, in which peasants kicked out
> their lord and demanded that he be replaced with someone more competent.
> One
> on Dwilight.
>
> This seems to fly in the face of SMA. Nothing like this ever happened in
> the
> Middle Ages. Not even close.
>
> On top of that, in both cases, the lord had been there for a day and a half
> (the city) and half a day (a rural region on FEI that had just been taken
> over). Not exactly enough time for the peasants to even know who he was,
> much less blame him for things that have obviously been bad for a while.
>
> I appreciate that BM peasant revolts are an order of magnitude more serious
> than real peasant revolts were, but at the end of the day they're still
> revolts and it seems like it should have something to do with military
> units, since armies were parked in both regions. If we want to accept that
> peasants can kick out a lord, okay, but why are all our paid soldiers going
> to sit around and let it happen? Why can peasants accomplish what the
> entire
> nobility and ruler cannot (see recent posts about 'the lord -is- the
> region')?
>
>
>
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Um, rebellions were quite common, so it's good SMA.  I don't know why you're
assuming this stuff never happened, in RL they'd have probably executed the
Lord.  No less SMA than the region going rogue.  Perhaps Tom could write
code to say this only occurs if a peasant army wins the region though, so
that our soldiers can prevent it though.


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