> I dealt with something similar in my campign, only more about the time
> taken to reduce a holding one level. Basically what I said was that it
> would take a while (up to a week or one war move) to reduce a holding
> level. This means that it would not be possible to run into a province,
> destory the holdings and the withdraw, without the defenders in other
> provinces being given the opportunity to come after you.
> Anyway basically I said something similar.
> Law holdings represnt city watch, rangers etc and simply buring down
> their watchhouse or killing off the chief guy would not be enough. For
> example if some guy went down the road today and burned down the police
> headquarters in the city here and then went off and killed the police
> chief it would not mean and end to the law in the city, the other police
> stations would still operate and the law and police would still be
> there.
> Temple holding represent more the faith of the people in the regent and
> what he preaches than the the temple itself. Kill the temple and a
> couple of high priests and that does not stop the temple from operating.
> The priests would still preach and the religion would still have its
> followers (very angry and annoyed followers).
> Much the same with Guild Holdings, question mark over sources holdings
> though.
> I would say to reduce a holding you would have to declare war on the
> provinces and reduce the holding by running around with your soldiers
> and arresting or driving away all the law officers, priests or guild
> officials.

In Chris's PbeM my first action as ruler of Taeghas following a
massive popular uprising against the Avanese 'occupation' was to
coordinate my armed forces to storm and sieze all of Darien Avan and
Aeric Boeruine's law holdings and arrest all those within. My men
then took over the running of those holdings. Perfect
storm-and-capture stuff which was over within a day. Of course, it
takes time to plan and organise that kind of action so I'd go along
with a timescale of at least a week, possibly more if it's something
really big that needs doing.

John "We will fight them in the watch-houses" Rickards


"Once I was a lamb, playing in a green field. Then
the wolves came. Now I am an eagle and I fly in a
different universe."
"And now you kill the lambs," whispered Dardalion.
"No, priest. No one pays for lambs."
- David Gemmel, Waylander