Any PBEMs going on at the moment?

[Raesene Andu]

Ghoere is a great power in the d20 Atlas of Cerilia, very powerful indeed now. I'm going to put in some strategies for running Ghoere as an enemy as well, a few hints on how to keep up with the PCs. There should be no way Roesone can compete with Ghoere on a one to one basic, Ghoere is the most populous nation in Anuire and has a hell of a lot of wealth and military power. Even Ghoere vs. Roesone, Ilien, Medoere, and say Mhoried, I'd back Ghoere to win. Any more nations than that and it might get a little more troublesome.

According to my calculations, Ghoere is the third most powerful nation in Anuire behind The Gorgon and Avanil, and it is very close to Avanil, it just has fewer friends, which is Tael's main problem.

[CMonkey]

It was Ghoere vs. Roesone, Aerenwe, Elinie, the LPA and the Osoerdean Partisans in Osoerde after Ghoere's invasion of Osoerde.

The allies used significant magic in order to basically teleport an entire army into Osoerde and catch Ghoere's Expeditionary Force by surprise and still Aerenwe's and Elinie's forces were utterly destroyed while Roesone suffered over 50% casualties.

All the allies committed pretty much their entire military force (after securing defence agreements with the Mhor (amongst others)) while Ghoere's expeditionary force was by no means their entire army (Ghoere has other priorities too).

The battle was bloody challenging, weakening the allies considerably and only really, really annoying Tael. Ghoere is THE major threat to the security of Anuire, even after that battle.

There was no one-to-one battle and Ghoere has not been "defeated" in any significant, long term, way. Try to assume you've not got the whole story before tearing anecdotes apart guys.

[Hrandal]

That's true - and I apologise for not describing the entire situation.

BUT

Roesone's army, as listed by the player, was frankly comparable to the Ghoere army list given in Ruins of Empire (before raising of mercenaries). Also, Ghoere had high level magic help as well, and a unit of undead, and the good guys were coming on piecemeal.

In fairness, I should attribute a big chunk of Roesone's success to one of the Ghoere generals' misguided attempts to cavalry-charge Roesone's pike-hedge. (Not the GM's decision, I might add.)

It was more the fact that Roesone could have such a huge army, while Ghoere, which is frequently described as a military powerhouse, didn't seem to have much of an edge in terms of numbers or quality. As it was both countries expeditionary forces (I guess, whatever they'd consider they thought they had surplus after seeing to their own defence) I thought it seemed a reasonably good example.