>>5798896>>5798937>>5799116>>5799177>>5799714Et pour que vive la France, vive le Roy ! Montjoie Saint Denis !
>>5799862Normally we offer the ennemy leader a chance to surrender to spare his men. (It generally works when you are far more numerous than the enemy on the field or on a fortress after a long siege right before you order the assault the defending commander will agree to surrender if you spare his men). But once in battle every peasant will be killed, knights can be spared if they raise their gauntlet and ask for mercy, they then surrender to one of the victorious knights (not always the commander of the army) and pay a ransom to him to be freed. If you are between gentlemen you can authorise him, if he swears on his honour to pay back, to go back to his holdings to assemble the sum.
Your political analysis is very wise by the way, unfortunately your apple trees will not grow some years even if the boat will probably be finished by the end of the year. The only unknown factor is the relationship between the Neutral Lord and Count Careless, maybe he is appreciated too. But you have really made the best political analysis of the situation and the only thing that I can say is that you deserve 10xp to be as wise as King Philippe IV.
>>5800006Your decision was clear, you shall proceed as in France. If before the fight the enemy surrendered, all will be spared, if they try to resist only the knights and noblemen shall be kept alive for ransom, of course by the knights whom they would have surrendered to. It is what you told to your men and most of them agreed. Only Captain Crumbling was grumbling.
You continued until you saw the forest and if at the beginning the woods seemed not so different than those in France, because you were, after all, not far from civilization, you even saw some trees felled by lumberjacks, the more you advanced the more the woods were dense. Only the river guided you and you saw that it was one of the rare lit places of the land. Fortunately many leaves had already fallen and you could see through the branches but still, the woods were dark. And sometimes strange, you saw markings clearly made by intelligent hands in it, and then a human skull, hung from a tree. You made the sign of the cross and seeing your men hesitating you ordered them to advance. But if they spoke between themselves while in the plains they were now occupied to look around them and spoke in whispers, before falling completely silent when they heard some kind of screech that almost made your horse panic. What kind of beast was that. You decided that it was nothing that could stop a knight from saving a damsel in distress and continued. It was almost exciting, you were like Lancelot, Galahad or other valiant knights of the Arthurian Cicle seeking danger in an old forest. But if your knights seemed motivated by such danger, like true french noblemen it was not the case of everyone in your company.
