The 9th (or anyone else) have not sent us more archers yet, but it is still late and we may still march towards the pass as instructed.
The old survey maps can be studied for some use. Though, you all remember the pass, right? Dry, long week manning the old river-carved rock. It's a good solid choke-point, erupting out of the mountainous rock around before it becomes vast montain and harder to pass, more of a long twisty set of stone that was once a mighty river and is now a slow trickle.
The air is dry, and then, in the shadows, clean, drinkable water, like a life-giving arterial vein.
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We have our force disposition. We have our march orders. Koras has provided suspected confirmation of at least some hostile movement, east of where there should be any at all.
It is likely we will encounter some difficulties on the way to the pass, so let us plan for it. . .
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>The old maps seem workable, so go by that intelligence. >Command a formation to deploy to a location. Conflicting deployment orders are resolved via authority rolls, but the formation may be somewhat dazed by the uncertainty of the action.--
<span class="mu-s">Command Posts</span>
Officers - such as yourselves! - principally operate out of defined Command Posts, where couriers and dispatch runners can find you and keep you up to do ate on information. It's also where supplies are stored and the quartermasters operate.
Posts have a rating, dictating the ease of operations there. An Officer can send as many dispatches/orders as the Post has Command Rating every phase. So, naturally, higher Command Rating makes managing vast forces much easier.
However, some Command Posts have easier access to information and being stationed there increases responsiveness of orders sent elsewhere, as the couriers get to where they need to be faster and you can recieve information back the other way. When seconds count, this can be the difference between victory and defeat.
You should assign yourself a Command Post, as that is where you will be found until you head... elsewhere. But we'll cover that when it comes up.
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>[Deployment is now active]--
>>5999403>>5999415You sure? You're absoluely sure? Well, no bones to them, they'll . . . be around. You get the distinct feeling the nearby bushes have suddenly aquired Pathfinder tenants, politely making sure your gaggle of contract-bound professionals don't develop *ideas* worth reporting on.
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