OOC II

I think that was the point with this event and one of the reasons why A Dornish victory gave some extra rewards.

Ya rules defiantly should be tweaked for when real battles starts. I think the number of orders and taking them all at once are fine so long as it takes multiple DoS to send a unit into disorganized and initiative is rolled each turn.

With this setup there is no rotation of units. Any unit could attack any unit. Also, most knights wouldn't be defeated by a 3 DoS hit, either.

Increasing how many hits it takes to disorganize only slows the problem down - instead of disorganizing/defeating X units a round, it's X/2 or whatever. Sure, slower, but whoever loses initiative is going to be losing units in the first round - either mitigating a numbers difference or exacerbating it.

When we changed the Warfare in my live game, we did it very simply and it seemed to work well. We simply lumped units into companies and gave them the commensurate hit points.

So if an infantry company has 2000 men (and being by the rules 20 units) we considered them one unit with 1200 HP. Similarly a group of 300 Knights would not be 15 separate units, but one unit with 135 HPs. You could split companies with orders if you wish, but there was often little reason to do so unless you wanted to do a pincer maneuver.

Damage and all other stats remained the same. We playtested a couple fairly large battles and found high damage mobile units were very effective against substantially larger numbers, but were extremely vulnerable to attrition. Large companies were slow and not very maneuverable, but were extremely difficult to disorganize. (Compensated by the fact you could only reorganize a unit at a time. When a large unit disorganizes it takes a great deal to get them back into line again.)

As you can imagine, Knights and mobile units dominated due to their high armor and mobility, but due to their comparatively low hit points they were not invulnerable. Massive infantry companies had much lower damage but often had the advantage of HPs and could disorganize cavalry fairly reliably if they could manage to catch them in an vulnerable position.

The largest battle we fought was about 8 companies on a side and about 35,000 men on a side. Using RAW otherwise, it took about six hours to resolve the battle but it went fairly smoothly despite the enormous scale.

P.S.

I really want Laena and Parmen to meet. Two attractive lascivious people walk into a room.

I have no reason to send Parmen to her, but it would be awesome to play through the fall out (if something should happen)

Well, if you ever need an 'in' to House Levalle there is always Malyk.

I think it would be an interesting meeting as the two characters seem to be polar opposites. Someone who is cooly pragmatic vs someone who is warmly idealistic. Someone who has many agendas and schemes vs someone who has almost none. Someone who masks their true emotions and feelings vs someone who practically flaunts them.

Of course Malyk *is* capital-A Attractive although I doubt he is very much aware of that since he can generally find beauty in everyone he meets. (Admittedly he's never met Lord Eldon Merryweather. I suppose there are exceptions to every rule.)