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How big is each city's naval force? I want some hard numbers here for Kholingen - Wiltun - Luskan - Cordor - other small cities.

Much as I hate the trite, unhelpful answer, intel on military capabilities should definitely be scouted out IC.

NinjaClarinet wrote:

...intel on military capabilities should definitely be scouted out IC.

This.

lol svensk dat initiative.

you can't just ask for classified numbers like that OOC, are you serious?

I wasn't even aware he was asking. Looked more like he was demanding to me. Hence why I didn't respond.

Well unless they're hiding these massive boats under huge sneaky tarps, determining naval power is as easy as watching the docks for a month or two. But yeah, you should do it IC.

Yossarin wrote:

I wasn't even aware he was asking. Looked more like he was demanding to me. Hence why I didn't respond.

If i read your response with Morgan freemans voice, it sounds like you are narrating a story. The downside of text based communication. Do you understand?

Can't believe i need to explain myself. You could just have overseen the wording. Now i sound weird trying to elaborate. Or like a bully - if i read my topic with arnold swarteneggers voice.

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Found the topic! Oh, and look how many serious numbers there are tormy!

If you read through the topic, you'd also have learned those (estimated) numbers are common knowledge. The Ostland Navy would easily be numerable compared to Cordor or Kohlingens Navy.

Yeah but what are the REAL numbers?

This entire topic stems from a discussion i had ig, where a friend wanted to overthrow kholingen, because they just had 2 ships. And at the attack on the banite keep, they only had 3 ships.

I was like...0.0. It's a city state - they have dozens, if not hundreds of ships. Kholingen has a population of 10-20.000

He replied - no. There are like 20 houses in game.

........

Well, your "friend" is very, very wrong. Use your imagination. That is the point of playing a roleplay server, after all.

Friend is perhaps a misinterpreted term. "Random guy/girl off the Internet who i need to prove wrong" sounds more correct.

I meant nothing by it, it was a misplaced emphasis.

Yeah look... I think it's okay to get estimates but you can't ask for (and especially not demand) hard numbers in this forum. For one, the number is not likely to stay constant. For another, DMs might not want to set a number in stone OOCly because it can restrict them unnecessarily. An estimate is the sort of stuff "everyone knows" and therefore should be posted (as it has). But exact numbers is definitely a find out IC thing.

Getting precise numbers on naval strength is actually quite difficult, mind. Camping the docks, if you can actually do that without getting arrested, can only go so far - you'll likely only get a better round estimate, because of ship movements, dock sizes and whatnot. The best way to do it would be to steal top-secret military documents. Good luck with that I guess.

Why set it in stone? Just update it whenever it feels proper. What's the big deal.

Keeping a running tally of every city's boats for the sake of... there's actually no good reason to be freely given an exact number, whatsoever. In fact, it's detrimental to anyone who actually wants to get involved in military espionage, if people just freely metagame the figures.

You have an estimate. That's more than sufficient for your purposes.

Find out IC.

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