>>5711844He was right, not about everything, these assassins were not good soldiers in your opinion, and in general Indians accorded too much faith to the "ranks" of those armed vagrants, but about the fact that 47 men could not effectively besiege a castle and blockade it, even if it was small or storm it.
If the ennemy had enough ressources in his castle to outlast your troops you will be beset by famine and, worse, if one of those assassins managed to enter into your camp and poison your food as easily as this girl managed to enter in your fortress it would be terrible. You answered Oldfossil.
-I do not think that we will attack when Baron Crook still rules Someplace, and even if we attack we should leave some soldiers behind. But once the new baron will be here we will have all the proofs that we need of his involvement in an attempted assassination and it will be a good Casus Belli.
You smiled at your use of Latin, one of the rare words that you knew and even more when Oldfossil asked you what it meant and you had to explain. Haha, it was not everyday that you got to teach the old man something. You ordered a servant to bring you both some wine and you suggested.
>We shall raise the peasantry, if we raise one or two hundred of them we will be able to overwhelm anything with pure numbers. >We shall call for help in our letter to Lord Neutral, he is the most powerful vassal of the Baron, surely he has far more soldiers than us and could help. >A military expedition, especially near winter, is perilous, we should find a better way to avenge ourselves.>Maybe a simple chevauchée with a small number of men, burning the villages and the crops will be enough.>What if we force some of his men to move from his castle and attack by surprise ?>Other (write in) 