The one wherein Elya dies and Marshal ends up as Regent of Kanton?
You need to lose the Chapter 9 big battle (so no guerilla route. It’s best to only get a slim victory at the Battle of the Atiming and generally use crappy strategy. I imagine that letting Rade keep the cannons in Chapter 8 will help you lose the big battle), not act as a distraction to cover the fleeing army (that gets you Ending 1), and make sure Elya has Strength less than 4 when it happens, so she freezes up and gets stabbed in the abdomen by an enemy during the retreat/rout, develops sepsis, and dies on what would have been her coronation day.
@Bacondoneright While looking at the code for chapters five and six, I found something that I have a question about. If you take captives in chapter 5, you can recruit them into your army, but there’s a check for whether you specialized in leadership to get more troops. The problem is that the only way to get captives in the first place is if you do the fifth strategy for a complete victory. This requires you to have specialized in tactics. Is this an oversight or is there something that I’ve overlooked?
Don’t invest any points into archers in chapter 4 and then choose to use your archers in any situation that comes up after that, especially in the main battle in chapter 9
Hey Bacon, I’ve already sent you through a private message but you didn’t replied so I’ll ask it here, I was wondering about a perhaps small but at the same time crucial aspect of I the forgotten one, why Rade never bothers to try to protest against Sobik’s lack of recognition for what his troops did at Krorid during The War before actually assasinating him and attempting to take the crown? I’ve been wondering about this and I’d really like a response from you about it.
I was also wondering about something else. Will you eventually make drawings of how places like Kanton and its regions look like and maybe about other things related to the way different countries look like?
Aside from that, I like how you add lore pieces as the story progress! I hope to see more of that in the second book!
You can actually confront him about that during your parley in chapter 3, tell him to surrender, that your sister is in charge, and you can try and work this out, but his reaction basically tells you everything you need to know, the soldiers were always an excuse for him, he Was just plotting his moment to take the throne.
Plus, even if he had protested earlier, who exactly would’ve believed him? Unless he had actual proof, it wouldn’t amount up to much and we don’t know how much political reach he had
I mean, he could’ve convinced veterans to protest alongside him and if he’s able to assasinate a king and levy a good part of his duchy, then I believe he does have enough political power, but yeah, he just wanted the throne, if he didn, then he wouldn’t assasinate Sobik to begin with.
I’ll still await the answer from the creator in regards to my other questions btw.
Even if he only aims to take the throne kidnapping Sobik in order to force an arranged marriage with Elya would have been the quickest, most effective way of securing his ambition. Then he can actually kill the king and claim the throne without provoking a massive, counter-productive civil war.
Point being, Rade isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed.
I think it would’ve been much harder to pull off a kidnapping vs. what actually happened before the story starts (they’re ambushed and Sobik is killed instantly, hence “it happened before any could react”). Don’t forget that the Marshal is with him at the time and is unlikely to just… let some guy on a horse run off with the king.
As well, don’t forget Belos and Vedran are still alive and next in succession at that point. It just doesn’t make sense to just let Rade walk into the castle to potentially kill everyone including the next two princes in succession, especially once he’s showed his hand as hostile to the kingdom by kidnapping the king. I also highly doubt Rade could pull off a “I really just want to marry Elya and that’ll be all the compensation I want”; his real intentions would be clear from the moment he opens his mouth.
More realistically, I think it’d just result in another ch 3 scene where they try to negotiate for the king and Rade refuses to cooperate, leading to the whole thing being viewed as a declaration of war anyways.
Even in that scenario, the bargaining power Rade would have with Sobik at hand would make any potential negotiation or even outright warfare far easier to handle. Compelling Sobik to disinherit his two eldest sons, for example, as flimsy as it would be from the pov of the nobility, would nevertheless bring a veneer of legitimacy to his cause that simply killing the king and trying to rush for the capital just don’t.
It matters little whatever his intentions are when the issue is as much about negotiations as it is about optics: Gathering support of other veterans behind his cause and convincing noblemen to join him is all much, much more simple to do with Sobik alive and under his power. Alone the moral hit of having your king in the hands of your own enemy would make the two princes claim and cause harder to kickstart.
