Future of the KoW

From: Peter Metcalfe <P.Metcalfe_at_student.canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 16:10:21 +1300


For those who are Loskalmi lovers and and stricken to tears by seeing detailed and lurid descriptions by Sandy on how the Kingdom of War is going to trash the best Loskalm can send against them, do not fret. Not all of Loskalm will fall.

Once (or If) the Kingdom of War conquers Southern Loskalm (by 1630 I reckon unless a miracle happens), the heyday of their easy conquests are over. To get into Northern Loskalm, they would have to cross the Janube. There are only three regions that the KoW can do so. The Sog City which is a choke point. Loskalm can fortify it and hold out indefinitely. The Second is the Chaotic Dilis Swamp; the KoW may be psychotic madmen but they are not stupid.

The only other way into Northern Loskalm is via the Uncoling lands of Tastolar. Here their usual tactics will start to have problems. The Uncolings are not landed peasants and thus the raiding strategy of the KoW is ineffectual. To drive out the Uncolings, the KoW has to colonize the land with peasants and that is alien to them; the peasant simply don't have the wit to do so.

So if they ignore the Uncolings and just raid around the Dilis into Northern Loskalm, they now have the handicap of being raided themselves by the Uncolings as they swagger back with booty. If they send in an army with the intention of seizing a foothold, they get raided all the way there and have severe supply problems. Northern Loskalm should be able to drive them off.

My feeling is that the KoW leaves Northern Losklam as a rump state and go after either Riverjoin (saved by Notslor in 1622 from the KoW) and the other Janube Cities or it goes after Jonatela. If they go up the Janube, eventually they're going to start messing with the Lunar Empire and get bogged down in a stalemate. Jonatela while a juicy target has big strings attached: Congern is a skilled siege expert and the land is rougher than the KoW's usual haunts. Taking it will be a hard undertaking and either the Rathori, the Lunar Empire or Northern Losklam can hamper the Kingdom of War by launching a war whilst they're bogged down in Jonatela.

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