Mm. I agree with it being positive for the East for the reasons you give, although I do think a monarch who more effectively rallied the troops would have made it that much better. I certainly hope that we will take away lessons on tactics from it, the most basic being that it would be nice for us to have some. Perhaps the esprit de corps we feel now will motivate us to actually work on it for next year.
As for the Midrealm, I would guess you were talking to an entirely different crowd of them than I was, but most of them seemed to feel like it was good for a reason you didn't list, i.e. they got to feel victorious, but bad because as previously stated they just didn't get that much fighting in. So good for the overall feeling of the average Midrealmer, but bad for the actual experience of fighting. With luck they will see that more kings should follow in Alaric's footsteps than Felix's... but I think that comes as no real surprise to most people. I'm dubious that they will take any tactical lessons from it, beyond More = Better.
So, from on the field, it actually felt like the ratio was better for us than for them, though it feels like the morale off the field is the reverse. Then again, if we come to fight, and they come to win...
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Date: 2005-08-31 12:46 am (UTC)As for the Midrealm, I would guess you were talking to an entirely different crowd of them than I was, but most of them seemed to feel like it was good for a reason you didn't list, i.e. they got to feel victorious, but bad because as previously stated they just didn't get that much fighting in. So good for the overall feeling of the average Midrealmer, but bad for the actual experience of fighting. With luck they will see that more kings should follow in Alaric's footsteps than Felix's... but I think that comes as no real surprise to most people. I'm dubious that they will take any tactical lessons from it, beyond More = Better.
So, from on the field, it actually felt like the ratio was better for us than for them, though it feels like the morale off the field is the reverse. Then again, if we come to fight, and they come to win...