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I just wonder though. Knowing all that good stuff that happened, although hard to take, would make any commander happy. Hell if that happened in my games I would be yelling Oh Yeah as if I were Kool-Aid himself.
Does he know what is supposed to happen after this plan that will negate everything? It was a plan he formulated before he was summoned as he himself stated. So would an outside the box plan have an outside the box consequence?
Or better yet does he just know that this was supposed to happen and realizes how much of erfworld is really his own?Last edited by Kholdstare; 2009-04-22 at 03:35 PM.
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It had a turn distinct from the RCC, but whether it was Transylvito's turn or Jillian's turn is unknown.
Remember, at that point TV et al were not part of the RCC.
Either there is some way of determining which turn an alliance will act on before it is formed or TV, Jillian, and Charlie all happen to have their turns before GK. The former is far more likely.
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Actually, that is a good point. The rule seems to be that you can only take 1 turn per day and alliances take their turn together.
Travsylvito has a turn that occurs before GK, and so if the alliance was dissolved before nightfall (which seems reasonable), then the current day's ordering should be based on each sides natural position.
However, Travsylvito seem to be more interested in finding Faq, than in going to GK, so even if they move before Stanley, they are unlikely to chase him. Jillian, OTOH, would want to.
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What I'm driving at is that we have little information that would help us draw clear-cut distinctions between a "side" and a coalition or alliance. Take barbarians: why wouldn't a barbarian be able to take a city? They certainly seem to have their own turns and their own purses. I think that suggesting that the RCC couldn't take a city in the name of the RCC itself is overreaching.
Quo vadis?
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Wouldn't it be just awesome if the tardy elves showed up Gobwin Knob right now for the win?
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The Transylvito/Jillian alliance was distinct from the RCC, so the RCC disolving has no effect on them. They are still acting in concert prior to Gobwin Knob's turn.
My (potentially flawed) understanding, based on how the words are typically used, and mapped onto the game-based nature of Erf:
A side is a group of units ruled by a single overlord.
An alliance is between two sides (note that Charlie allied with Jetstone, not with the RCC).
A coalition is a collection of mutually-allied sides acting towards a common goal.
Barbarians, it would seem to me, are sides that do not have a city (this could include groups like Gobwins, Marbits, etc.) and as such would be able to claim a city (what did I say that implied otherwise?).
Also, as I said earlier, from a game-mechanics perspective it seems far more likely that coalitions (or alliances, for that matter) cannot hold cities jointly.Last edited by fendrin; 2009-04-22 at 05:12 PM. Reason: trimmed the fat
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I suspected earlier in the thread that this may be why things are suddenly so rosy - yeah GK is trashed but the RCC army was wiped out, GK is now rich, Parson survived the Magic Kingdom, the Trimancer was broken apart safely, Wanda got the pliers (although that may not turn out so rosy, as many here speculate - speculation I agree with at this time), and the Tool is coming home with some dwagons and a foolamancer (again, maybe not so rosy!). Outside of the box plan, carrying in outside of the box risks, should come with outside of the box rewards. And since the gambit worked, the rewards are significant.
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The crucial point to remember is that Erfworld runs according to game rules not real life. Game rules are an abstraction of real life, designed to make the game playable, and are not necessarily realistic.
If you want sausages and fried eggs for breakfast in real life, someone has to keep chickens and pigs, wait for them to lay eggs or be slaughtered, and so on. In the game, the breakfast simply pops out of mid-air in front of you at dawn.
Similarly, dead bodies disappear during the nightly maintenance phase, and new units also pop at dawn.
It's quite possible the rules allow a city to exist as a special designation of a hex, without any structures or garrison. In one ruleset, the city could be levelled up overnight by payment of the build cost. It's also possible that the building rules to assign costs and build times to units and structures, and building a city would take days.
In other rules, an alliance or coalition is obviously a collection of separate sides who are able to move in the same turn and stack their units together without a fight occuring.
However, non-allied sides can co-operate outside the rules, which is exactly what the Transylvito-Jillian battlegroup was doing when Ansom broke the alliance with Transylvito and sent them on the Faq raid. He did this specifically to gain the advantage of Transylvito as a separate side having an earlier turn than Stanley.
Going further, barbarians are obviously sides that have a ruler or warlord but do not have a city. They pay maintenance from a warchest filled up by loot and mercenary pay rather than regular income from cities. There may be a class of side which does not have cities but has some other kind of home region -- elves and gobwins could fall into this class.
It's not clear what the encumbrance rules are governing the carriage of the warchest. Early on, Wanda warned Stanley that he could not carry away the GW 500,000 schmuckers warchest if Anson conquered the city, however Wanda was able to carry 350,000 schmuckers to pay for the summoning spell. There is probably a kind of clearing bank system and she actually carried a bearer's bond rather than physical money. When GK captured Jillian, they did not take her warchest off her, which implies it was not physically carried by her.
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not necessarily - Jillian was always off on mercenary missions. It may have happened recently, may not have been public knowledge, etc.
but keep in mind these arent' 'real' people - just characters in a story. We will have to wait for Rob and Jamie to fill in the backstory on FAQ. It could all just be a minor plot device for them to tell the story of Parson at the Battle of Gobwin Knob and we are reading too much into it.Last edited by joosy; 2009-04-22 at 11:03 PM.
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A side needs a Ruler. Seen one for RCC?
If RCC could claim a city, what happens whent he side dissolves? At that point, any units in the city that are unlead are required to autoattack any non-allied sides. Taking the city and holding it as a Coalition is dangeruos and unnecessary. It also implies a kindliness between sides that we have very little evidence of. Erfworld is a place of war, not kinder-gentlerness.
I assumed that GK could still be taken over easily by Parson and company (under Stanley).
I guess money isn't an issue for them at the moment, but I wonder if the treasury survived as such...
I still don't know if the action in this strip is occurring at dawn or dusk.
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I didn't even know that there was such a thing as a ruler. We've seen overlords and chief warlords. (And I must have missed the exact point at which a "side" was defined.)
Presumably units can somehow interact without being part of an alliance. Actually, the existence of the RCC shows that diplomacy and some form of non-battle interaction is possible in some form. Anyway, I'm sure that a non-violent way of handing over control of a a city could be devised.
It was an assumption based on no one having taken over GK in the interim.
Mostly I wonder about what a treasure is, and how much of it is magical/virtual vs. physical.
Just curiosity.Quo vadis?
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Tardy Elves already won.
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I can't help but wonder...
In wargames, if one side achieves a unique goal, all the sides get a system message informing them of it.
Someone builds a world wonder, everyone knows it next turn.
Someone discovers an artifiact, everyone knows it next turn.
So I wonder if everyone just got a system message that Wanda attuned to the pliers."If I could just interrupt your stunningly dysfunctional group dynamic for a moment to interject." -- Erfworld
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Some one-shot character (clearly a caster not affiliated with Stanley's side) uses a portal just before Wanda and Sizemore do (and after Wanda states that their turn has begun). So, the fact that Magic Kingdom portals can be used off-turn is established from their first introduction.
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Sides are ruled by a single Overlord. And a side doesn't need to have a capital. We also know that Ruler is synonymous with Overlord. And before you doubt that, you better read that Klog thoroughly.
So what do we know about a Side? They require a Ruler, but not a capital. Ruler sets production orders. Sides ruled by Royals can pop Noble and Royal units. Royal Sides can split off and form new Royal empires. A Ruler can choose an heir, which does not need to be Royal if ruled by a Royal. Sides that ally take the Turn of whoever is the last in the Alliance to normally take Turn.
Really, what more could we want to know?
Dan, you should know all of this already. Haven't you been paying attention?
Presumably units can somehow interact without being part of an alliance.
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It was said somewhere (Facebook?) by one of the authors that it is now morning, and that the night was spent in MK - thus the campfire scene.
I don't think "city" is a terrain type - typically a "terrain" is plain, hills, mountain, volcano, sea, grassland, forest, lake, river, etc.
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We know that a leader of one faction can lead troops from another faction if theyre allied with that other faction. Evidence- Ansom applying his bonus to the courtyard dancefight and the donut of doom assault, Webinars comment to Ansom about "Why me? There are warlords with much higher ratings in the alliance.", and Ceasar applying his (chief warlord) bonus to Jillian in the fight at the pass.
Barbarians can take cities- this was explicitly Stanleys plan in heading to Faq.\'Twas brillig, and the slithey toves....
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1) He wasn't a barbarian yet, and may have reached Faq before he got there.
2) Faq may not be destroyed. Jillian has never been there since it fell.
3) If destroyed, Faq may have already been rebuilt. This would explain why the otehrs are still on Side: the side didn't die with GK because Stanley had his pet bubble city in reserve, which no one knew about for the same reason no one knew about it before.
We can't trust Jillian's statements about Faq. She may have been lying about what was on the other side of the Pass. And her knowledge of its current state is woefully unreliable.
But Ansom tells us that Jillian could have gone to Faq and started a Side. So, yes, a Barbarian can start a Side and become a Ruler.
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I think with the amount of detail put into the comic, they would have had non-FAQ units other than Parson with actual pupils. Jamie goes out of his way to color in Ansom's eyes even in large close-ups. Same for other non-FAQ units. This detail is not just one time. Every time a FAQ unit is displayed, they have pupils. Every time a non-FAQ unit (with the exception of Parson) they are shown with oval eyes with no pupils. Yes, it could just be artistic choice, but given the detail and pre-planning that went into this graphic novel I highly doubt it is unintentional.
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Since I enjoy defending the viability of unlikely theories... Wanda could be a barbarian allied with Stanley. It would explain why she doesn't have to laugh at his jokes. I believe Stanley has only threatened to end her life, not specifically to disband her. He could have meant he'd do it the hard way.
A sillier explanation for why she doesn't normally laugh - which I know doesn't really need to be explained - is that Duty usually compels her not to frighten the bejesus out of every friendly unit within earshot. Her present laughing is evidence that her Ruler is now herself / the Arkenpliers / the Titans and she is no longer on the same side as Parson, Maggie and Sizemore, so she is free to terrorize them.
Seriously, if I were Parson, I would order the golems to be summoned, for Maggie to order the uncroaked to separate from each other and stay away from Wanda (I don't know if she can control them at a distance), and for Maggie to surreptitiously examine whether Wanda is still loyal. And I'd draw my sword before Wanda showed up, so she wouldn't see it as a reaction to her. Better safe than sorry, as long as Wanda doesn't catch on that you're suspicious of her. I doubt she'd pick up subtle clues in her ecstatic state.
Jillian first saw Ansom with the pliers long before we joined the story. He could have said he got them from one of Stanley's warlords - though then I would have expected her to cite it as evidence of Stanley's connection to the destruction of Faq, in addition to the dwagon overflight message.
A wilder theory is that Jillian's sword is a better weapon than non-attuned pliers, and Jillian sold the pliers to him. In fact, Wanda might be assuming Jillian gave them to him as a gift, such that she didn't even distinguish between losing Jillian to Ansom and losing the pliers to Ansom when she berated him.
For example, the Gobwins briefly taking over Gobwin Knob.
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I had forgotten that ruler is used interchangeably with overlord. As for the rest, your generosity in pointing out the tangential is notable. All I'm suggesting is that we certainly don't know at which points the RCC was different from a regular "side" (or the significance of those differences which we believe we've identified). Why couldn't the RCC's leader function as a de facto overlord/ruler?
What you so lovingly detail are the functions of an overlord. How that helps us answer the question of what happened to the cities that Stanley lost is a bit beyond me.
You asked what happens when the RCC dissolves if it's claimed a city: All I'm suggesting is that I'm sure they can figure out a way to handle that without bloodshed. That would include the presence of leaders: I didn't think that I needed to point out something that obvious.Last edited by DevilDan; 2009-04-23 at 01:56 AM.
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