> Morg wrote:
> > Do you only allow war to occur during the 'war season' (i.e. summer?)<
>
> Yes, the summer is the most common season for war - that's when a lot of
> the farming entails waiting for the fields to grow, so this is when most
> of the 'free' time of common men would come. Thus, I typically allow
> only war to occur during the summer domain turn. If regents want to war
> at other times, they must pay extra in maintainence/war move costs if
> they want to fight in the spring/fall turns as well. Winter has almost
> never seen war (IMC, only once has a regent paid the penalty to fight in
> the last domain round of the fall, and his little campaign into the five
> peaks got trapped there, barely surviving the first snow ... with the
> help of the war priests, they made it through the winter. Boy, the
> regent never did that again!)

This is actually the case in the BR novel _The Iron Throne_. Micheal
Roele and Lord Arwyn of Boeruine fought thier war during the war season
(summer and autumn). During other seasons, the weather is too bad to
conduct war. However, I agree that if a regent really wants to conduct a
war, the cost should be much higher. It's difficult to move troops and
war machines through the snow and mud.

Regards,
Noah