Sunday, January 6, 2008

Newsflash - War Approaches!

The scottish nation marshalls itself for war! If you are already in the Royal Scottish Army (RSA) you should contact your local town band leader and ask for orders (check on the forum for the Regiment if you don't know who your local leader is). If you want to join the RSA, you should contact the RSA by posting on the forum for the royal scottish army at the Highland Hall (or contact your local leader if you know who it is).

For those who will be marching to the muster (gathering of the army), you should ideally take a weapon (shaft or sword), shield, 6 days food and some spare money. If you will need to manage your fields while you are gone, you should take enough money to do that as well. We don't know how long we will need to stand to arms or march around the countryside. Also, we don't know if we will actually have to fight. If we fight and die, we come back. If this happens, won't be able to fight again for another 45 days though.

If we have to fight, you get a bonus for every 50 points of strength or charisma you have. you also get one point bonus for having a shaft, and either 2 or 3 bonus points for having a sword. A shield will help defend you. If you go into battle as part of a (mounted) 'retinue' you will get another bonus for being mounted (even if you are not an ingame lord). At least, that's how I understand the IG rules about war.

If you stay behind, we will need the economy going at full speed. The army will need food and other supplies if this goes on for a long time, as well as people to carry the supplies to the front.

If this gets heavy, it will require maximum effort from all of us!

I have posted this on the forum also...

1 comment:

Adelaide Gamer said...

There appear to be serious attempts to defuse the present situation before it might come to blows. The situation is 'fluid', with English armies still heading towards our borders, and the RSA is still on a high state of alert.

I still urge clan members to consider either joining the RSA or planning towards supporting those of us that do if we have to go marching around.

If things settle down (pray Jah that they do) the experience will still have been highly valuable as an opportunity to practice our muster (gathering of our army together). It's not as easy as it might look!