Round 3 is over and processed and the battle reports are on hold awaiting a journal from the campaign team.
We have a chance to assess our position, and have a think about tactics for the next round.
We seem to have held on to the Uneasy Watchman, and hold a lead there of 7950 points.
It will be interesting to see what tactics the others now employ.Stirland have lost access to Bechafen as Udo's Fall is contested.
They only have
3 places they can post battles - Hohleburg which they have a massive points score on already, the Watchman, and the contested Udo's.
Stirland will need to regain access to Bechafen - I assume they can still play skirmishes there, but that ups the riot factor as well.
Udo's Fall is the best opportunity as they can win back control in Round 4, whereas to get back the Watchman they will need to get it to contested status at the end of round 4 and then it would be the end of round 5 before they could reclaim it.
If I was in the Stirland camp I would be making Udo's Fall a must control situation, and must hold thereafter, so they should attack there very seriously.
However I suspect we will see some attacks at the Watchman.
The Talabeclanders are a harder faction to plan for.
They have fortified Brustenbruck to 9450 points, as we did a bit with Kaltenbach to 7000.
They will probably show some interest in Bechafen, now Stirland cannot post battles there, it is open to a takeover bid.
They also must decide how much they wish to keep control of Udo's Fall.
If they do the latter, that would push Stirland back to only Hohleburg.
I am not sure that the Campaign Team would fancy that happening, so I would expect some helpful modifiers all round for Stirland.
Annoying really as they have posted just over a 100 Battle Reports - have 'Massacre Man' in their ranks, and still cannot run successful tactics.
Talabecland have the lowest number of signed up members and still outposted us by about 10.
Approximately 75 for them, and 65 for us - and we have the most members signed up.
Our active members do not seem to be the ones with time and opportunity to play loads of games - in fact less than half the people signed up have actually contributed a report.
So what are our choices?Do we attack Brustenbruck, or bolster Kaltenbach.
It has been the 'quiet' front and the suspicious attempt to start it up, involving 'Champion of Ulric', was squashed.
Do we make a play for Bechafen.
Do we make sure we hold on to the Watchman? If we knew how many rounds were left, that would help. Having control means that it will take Stirland 2 rounds to be able to use it as a through route.
So if we knew that round 6 would be the last, then we could fight to hang on to it in Round 4, and then forget about it for the last 2 rounds as it would be useless to Stirland [would they realise that I wonder?]
Even if we let it go now, it would give us 2 free rounds to progress elsewhere.
Anyway those are my thoughts - let's hear from the rest of you.
Edit later: How can we get more of our signed up members involved?
Some probably signed up a while back and may not realise it's started?
Any ideas.