Inside a Division Inside a Kingdom
Organizationally I'm a firm believer in council. Each division will have 1 member of council. The central division will include the monarch. In our case the monarch is not the primary theater strategist but a player with strong leadership ability. Council discussions can be regarded as short and long term navigation of the kingdom.
In division the council member can be the strategic leader, but I'm not about absolutes. Division business includes daily summary of snatched news, diplomacy, kingdom engagements, stance, meter, recruitment and schedules. Council members can pursue ambassador duties to help determine the environment surrounding the kingdom. This isn't about taking lots of time but to make all parties aware of key points.
Within the division there will be ways to look at your world, both peaceful and in war.
Tactically we can look at our enemies in nw, subjective strengths and a combination of both. To envision how a division works is to look at how, for instance, a football defense functions.
1- zone defense: In this case we are covering net worth zones and both dictating and reacting to the nw environment.
2- subjective strength/man-to-man: Here we're looking at the enemy threat level and addressing it with discrimination.
3- both: This blends threat recognition with nw perception to yield an efficient use of force within the scope of the division.
If you'll note, there are places where the nw scope may intersect to impose concentrated pressure on enemy forces in a particular zone. One example is the northern division avian warrior and western division undead warrior. If you recall, the avian warrior runs interference for the anti-rogue spearhead and the undead warrior for higher nw enemy grunts. The avian may make the initial hit to force the enemy into a western cross-chain. We'd like to avoid friendly plague spread wherever possible and conserve the avian warrior offense to carry out the mission of running interference.
Let's say the western division has it's hands full and can't pick up after the avian warrior. In this instance we can call upon the central division avian tactician and cross-chain the enemy in question. We can't forget we also have a northern division human sage who can also participate if additional support is necessary.
Both eastern and western divisions are designed to be able to engage undead without suffering plague by the attackers. The western division is a harder hitting version backed by faery ops damage to quickly force enemies out of nw range. The eastern division is more about sustain and handling the slog of high offense/low defense enemies. The eastern division elf heretic can continue to land offensive spells against enemy provinces with higher wpa concentrations due to relative chain effect.
Originally Posted by Bishop
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