I usually go with the lowest for both (I play several Marshall’s). Contralto is awesome and bass, well, check out Geoff Castellucci above… For his range, check out his latest cover, I See Fire. Yes, it’s all him. Mind-blowing. (My favourite, however, is Far Over the Misty Mountains Cold, because Tolkien and the sheer calmness of the song.)
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Will the Usurper MC be helped by having warned the nobles as well as the other paths? I’d expect the effect to be mostly wiped out by the usurpation, but maybe some nobles decide to at least stay home rather than side against the Usurper?
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There are two that personally pledge fealty to the Marshal (and Elya, but one specifically pledges to the Marshal and another pledges to them both) if they announce the King’s death at the ball. I suspect that the Marshal’s act saving their/their family’s lives might make them side with an Ending 3 Marshal, but they are two. Some might also side with the Marshal because they are the one who commands the troops in immediate vicinity…for now. Others might try to sit it out rather than side with Rade or break Elya out of prison and spirit her out of Wrido.
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My Kveta is a contralto. I made her a mezzo first, but decided to throw something from myself into her and give her the contralto. I think it fits her character more, too.
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Arkuja
1790
G2 to B5 is my comfortable range. I can struggle out a few notes lower and higher. With falsetto I get to A7. Honestly I could never choose not a singer. Singing is such a great coping mechanism.
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It really is a great coping mechanism, and you can lose yourself in the singing so easily. Like you, I couldn’t choose not to be a singer. The only problem is that it kills me not to sing along when I hear music I love, and sometimes it’s just inappropriate to do it.
My range is E3 to F5. I can’t hit G5, but it hurts. My falsetto is really weak sounding, so I try to avoid it. A good idea of my perfect range for singing is Criminal by Fiona Apple. I can belt the hell out of that song.
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Crysta
1792
I skipped the singing on my first playthrough because it felt out of character/out of place for my Marshall but I went for it in my follow-up playthrough out of curiosity and determined it was actually perfect lol
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Sancho
1794
The scene with Lada and Darin watching the Marshal sing is the reason why i always pick singing, it’s just such a powerful scene and put into perspective how Darin and Lada feels towards the Marshal, with Darin saying he’s the Marshal’s father to Lada and Lada wanting to greet the Marshal but instead refrain from doing it and savor the moment, it’s also funny and sweet to see how protective Darin is when he sees just how down bad Lada is towards the Marshal. The Marshal singing will always be a permanent headcanon to me
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Sancho
1795
No respect for bass singers too, while i do love baritones and voted for baritones bass is just perfect for the Marshal imo. Bass is just on another level of smoothness lol
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The Elya scene with the musical Marshal does a good job of showing their close relationship. While Milon’s scene is fantastic, Elya’s is so…sisterly. I can’t not pick it.
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Sancho
1797
All of them are equally great that i can’t really decide which is best lol, it wouldn’t be fair to say Lada scene is the best but seeing Darin openly admits he love the Marshal unconditionally like a son definitely makes it my favorite
Sorry for the radio silence! I’ve been on vacation with very spotty access to my laptop, but I’m home again and have set back to work at finishing up Whiskey.
I don’t have the time ATM to respond to every comment, but I have read all of them. I’ll try and push another patch to fix bugs and typos by tonight.
That was why I didn’t incorporate anything like that.
Father Miljneko will absolutely return.
This is me trying to code this damn game lol
This will be elaborated on further. I had an idea for an extended flashback between chapters as an interlude, but I’ll have to see how it feels first before I go ahead with it.
She is. There’s no secret nobility shenanigans going on.
I have zero artistic ability. I’d have to commission it from somebody.
Did you mod the romantic stat variables or are using a modded copy? It is literally impossible to get milon romantic moments as a gay male. I’m not exaggerating. Unless you have edited the save file, the options that increase Milon’s affection variable are locked behind being a straight woman.
Should be fixed now lol.
Yup.
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How do the effective ranges of a longbow and a horse archer’s bow compare?
Trying to figure out how effectively foot archers behind spear armed infantry could counter Rade’s allies.
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Depends largely on the bow being used as well as the conditions and arrows being employed.
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Typically an English Longbowmen could reliably hit a target using flight arrows at ~220 yd with the range becoming less with heavier arrows, but there are reports of some professional archers shooting arrows as far as 400 yd.
The bow the mongol’s used for most of their time fighting was a version of the typical recurve Manchu Bow refined by techniques and styles used by the mongol peoples. It’s difficult to tell how far these bows could be used effectively as there is little actual relevant data about it that was recorded. However there is an account of Esungge (Genghis Khan’s nephew) shooting a target at 586 yd. But the general consensus is that the average soldier using that bow will shoot at a reliable ~300 yd consistently.
However their uses were also completely different, the english longbow was a warbow designed to shoot through medium armor infantry using light arrows at a relatively low resource cost for both bows and arrows. The Mongolian/Manchu Bow was largely used for general skirmishing and useful against faster/lighter targets but was absolutely useless if the climate was too humid or got wet in some way as the glue holding the bow together would dissolve and break the bow.
Typically the way to fight horse archers was to set up infantry in a square formation with pikes and shields to funnel and direct the cavalry towards your archers which would be in a defensive formation with large shields/spike fortifications to try and shoot as many of the enemy as they could. Or the other option being that you would use your lighter cavalry to chase down the archers when they would go to skirmish your infantry, however if your horses were slower this is a futile effort.
TLDR: Typically Eastern Horse Archers (Mongols/Turks) used recurve bows that could shoot farther but weren’t that great at penetrating tough armor targets. They could, just not very effectively. The English Longbow was used by infantry and was meant to kill infantry, so it’s effective range was shorter in comparison but could more easily shoot through armored targets.
Edit: Before someone tries to outnerd me. I am aware that the Manchu bow was generally better at fighting against armored targets than the English longbow due to the way that recurve bows store and release energy. But the Mongol/Turkish bow that evolved from the Manchu bow (Specifically those wielded on horseback) were meant to be lighter and easier to draw thus reducing some of the punching power of the arrows making it (Theoretically) harder to punch into plate. However we don’t really know because the Mongols never fought largely armored armies/soldier like the English typically did.
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GEPGUN
1801
While archers are certainly going to continue to be the main form of skirmishers for the foreseeable future in the setting (especially in places like Krorid, where the gunpowder would have a high risk of going damp if not properly sealed with technology i am not certain they possess), i was surprised at the total lack of presence of handgonnes. I believe some of the earliest records of gunpowder use record a far greater number of handcannons than of usual guns.
Of course, this begs the question of what stage of gunpowder weaponry we are exactly. If the stuff i’ve read is correct, early gunpowder had a bit of a up and down where they started out as much lighter weaponry before turning into true gigantic siege weapons of the likes we see in the dardanelles gun, at which point they basically tore down existing medieval castles like paper tissue (which is what caused the birth of the start fortress). While the walls of Wrido were able to resist the fire, i can’t say of whether that’s because we are still in the earliest phases of cannons, or because the walls of Wrido were just really strong. This matters more so because if we’re in the early stages (lighter cannons) that means light, cheap handgonnes, whereas if you go further into the territory of fourteenth century technology - which seems to be more fitting given the commonality and effectivenes of plate armor - you start to get into the territory of early Arquebus guns.
Of course, this all depends on how exactly Rade acquired those cannons in the first place, and their exact type.
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Could just be that in setting there hasn’t been the right set of circumstances to serve as a motive for people to develop different iterations of gunpowder weapons as far as had been done at a comparable level of armor tech in our world. There’s no necessary law about how technology has to progress I would think.
Good point.
GEPGUN
1803
While technology isn’t an linear thing, it would seem improbable to me that seemingly effective cannons/bombards could exist without smaller arms also being invented. Furthermore, the fact that Rade’s cannons seem to have some advances - being able to be dragged away during battlle and repositioned, as opposed to the earlier rudimentary siegework cannons that were simply put into wooden pedestals, implies some manner of experience with the art of gunwpoder weaponry.
In the end, they are both, to put it rudely, a metal tube with gunpowder and a projectile in it.
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If I had to take a guess the weapon that Rade likely carries around is likely something he bought from a foreign merchant of some kind rather than a produced one. From the descriptions of the weapon I imagine it was similar to an early bombard like the “thousand ball thunder cannon” which could explain the lack of early handguns as it’s easier to be convinced to buy a cannon than a handgun, especially if you don’t know what either really are.
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GEPGUN
1805
While it could be an possible reason, it seems unlikely that a merchant able to sell fully prepared gunpowder weaponry would have siege artillery and not light arms such as handgonnes, given that the latter would be much, much more easy to transport. Unless Rade acquired the cannons from some sort of unspoken power who was actively supporting his coup but does not wish to share the full extent of gunpowder weaponry, rather than merely selling firearms, a merchant willing and able to sell such new weapons is most certainly looking for profit on a serious level - as all merchants do - and as such would be able to gain much, much more by selling a large number of cheap, easily transportable firearms.
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