Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-27200931-20160922045543/@comment-27200931-20160923143455

AlteOgre wrote: Sure, nice and all, but the proposal to add barracks as such is so obvious, albeit less obvious for Dorwinion as for more militaristic factions. Remember the many threads on the military of Dorwinion? Yeah, and I remember that, there was quite the fuss about the lack of a mounted unit. To tell the truth, I agree with them. Silver flows like wine in Dorwinion and don't forget that King Bladorthin would've spent a fortune on those spears he ordered for his armies (if he went through that length to equip his army...), and I see no reason why the Dorwinion military should be lagging behind other factions.

"Oh, but the Easterlings aren't their enemies! They just want to trade!" Of course, they just want to trade. How naive can the Dorwinrim be to believe that bullshit? Perhaps for a time they wanted to trade, yes, but it would be way easier to conquer the place and turn the Dorwinrim into your wine-making slaves. The Easterlings aren't the only one threat, don't forget banditry and other factions interested in that sweet sweet wine.

But if the people of Dorwinion don't want to fight, that's ok, it's understandable (I'd love to drink wine all day too), but being rich as they are, they should at least rely on mercenary forces. Let's take the Easterlings again, there could be a cataphract unit, payed and equiped by the Dorwinrim, to defend the wine land. Those guys from the east are skilled horsemen, and would make a great, albeit expensive, addition to the Dorwinion military.