>>5546999They absolutely can "settle". Maybe not maintain the siege under our walls while doing so, but you are acting as if their equipment will magically erode at hundreds of times the normal speed when not in use. What the quoted section from the other anon is talking about is the possibility of the enemy dispersing throughout the island and the settlements they've already taken and simply forcibly taking the women and living off the land and the stockpiled food from our citizens. The governor Armentarius is talking to directly says so.
Sure, they may not making progress taking the town, but nor are we any closer to rooting them out. Eventually if we truly controlled the seas then we could land additional troops and simply wipe them out, but in the relative short term they are not gonna starve or be wiped out with any degree of certainty unless we make it happen. But that is the issue, we seem to lost track of how many of the enemy ships we've destroyed. We may control the local area and thus be able to move safely by ship around the island, but functionally the war is still ongoing and several islands are either contested or completely controlled by the enemy.
If the war were to suddenly magically stop and the present situation become the status quo, the enemy would not starve without resupply - though the horses may - as they control the hinterland, which should be enough to feed them. In such a scenario the islands would essentially be contested as they would be divided by two different polities. If anything, it is our towns that have to worry about shipping in food rather than the other way around, at least long term, though at least we can do so securely. Armentarius is on the eastern most island of the campaign area (pic related) if I recall correctly, one of the two largest islands and the district capital, except now the enemy has control of most of the isle except the capital city. The big western island is Acaea, where Armentarius was previously.
>>5546979>They don't have anything for building or farmingwtf are you talking about. The situation being discussed is the enemy simply taking over the hinterland of this island and taking stuff from the locals. Our citizens have tools for farming and building, so they will simply use those. This is a large island, one of the largest in the campaign area and one of the largest seven islands in the greater sea region the war is taking place in, I checked the maps. The denizens of this island are in all likelihood not dependent on the outside world for basic necessities and tools.
