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--- conquest [2019/12/18 13:30] – katie
+++ conquest [2024/03/05 15:11] (current) – katie
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+====== Conquest ======
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 Conquest represents the tides of war, as realms seize control and do battle across the Hundred Realms. Land is one of the most valuable assets that can be controlled, allowing resources to be gathered to fund a realm, borders to be secured, and treasures to be uncovered.
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 =====Conquest Table=====
+[{{ ::AelariaExample.png?300|Example: The Realm of Aelaria comprises of the Territories of Southaven, White Forest and Woodpig.  There is a Force in Southaven and a Stronghold in White Forest.  Therefore, the Strength of White Forest is 1, of Southaven is 1, and of Woodpig is 0}}]
   * The conquest table shows the map of the Hundred Realms, who controls which areas, and where key assets are located.
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     * **Strongholds:** major fortifications that exist within a territory. These provide additional defense for anyone who controls the territory.
     * **Forces:** Large armies that are at the bidding of realms. These are used to conquer new lands, and defend borders.
-    * **Other things:** There may be a host of other things that appear on the conquest table. Often these will be things you may want to find out more about, but you will require the blessing of whoever controls the territory before you may Quest in those lands to discover more.  You may also ask the Conquest Refs for more information about these.
+    * **Improvements:** These are [[Territory Improvements]] that provide non-combat bonuses to the owning Realm.  These can be purchased by anyone from that Realm and are added to the map immediately rather than during Conquest resolution.
+    * **Other things:** There may be a host of other things that appear on the conquest table. Often these will be things you may want to find out more about. You may also ask the Conquest Refs for more information about these.
 ====Conquest Phases====
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   * Each Phase, a Monarch may collect Resources generated by the Territories in their Realm by presenting their crest (or sending someone to do so in their stead) to One of the Conquest Refs . These do not accumulate if not collected. If a Realm has no Monarch or nobody to go in their stead then its Resources cannot be collected. Resources will be collected in Strongholds for the realm, so if a realm does not control a Stronghold then that realm will not be able to collect supplies.
   * When the Conquest table is open, anyone may cast a Spell on the Conquest table by handing the Spell to one of the Conquest Refs. This Spells will only be activated and resolved after the phase has ended, before the rest of the orders are resolved.
-  * There are 5 Phases per event, [[Events#Schedule|times listed here]].  These Phases are 2 hours long.
+  * There are 5 Phases per event, [[Events#Schedule|times listed here]].  These Phases are roughly 2 hours long.
 Orders will not last between phases. Once an order has been submitted, it cannot be taken back
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 Though Resources will persist between Phases (and between Events), Realms should endeavour to ensure someone is sent to collect the Resources every Phase. Resources can be collected at any point in each Phase as long as the Conquest table is open.
+==== Improvements ====
+Anyone from a Realm may pay to have non-Combat [[Territory Improvements]] added that improve the Realm they're part of as detailed on that page.  As these do not contribute to Conquest Combat they are added to the table when they're paid for rather than during the Order Resolution.
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 =====Controlling the World=====
 The Hundred Realms has always been a place of war, and with no clear leader, many Realms attempt seize whatever lands they can. To do so, forces from each Realm roam about under control of their generals, to both defend their own Realms, and to conquer new territories.
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   * **Fortify** the current Territory to increase its Strength by 1 for the rest of the Phase (note the unit already has a passive increase to the strength of the territory by being in it).
   * **Attack** a specified adjacent Territory to reduce its Strength by 1 for the rest of the Phase. The attacking Force does not move.
+    * A Force that chooses to Attack the Territory it is currently occupying will destroy any Improvement present, reduce all outputs to 0 and yield the destroyed output of that Territory to the Force's owner.
 ===Movement:===
-If a Territory is friendly, or has strength is at 0 or less after Attacks, Fortifies, and Spells have been resolved, then a Territory may be moved into. Depending on the type of movement a force does, may or may change the ownership of the Territory it has moved into. If multiple Realms are attempting to move into a territory, the total number of Move, Invade, and Support orders for each realm will be combined, and the Realm with the highest total successfully moves into the territory, with other competing orders failing.
+If a Territory is friendly, or has strength is at 0 or less after Attacks, Fortifies, and Spells have been resolved, then a Territory may be moved into. Depending on the type of movement a force does, may or may change the ownership of the Territory it has moved into. If multiple Realms are attempting to move into a territory, the total number of Move, Invade, and Support orders for each realm will be combined, and the Realm with the highest total successfully moves into the territory, with other competing orders failing.  Forces that have been upgraded magically to have a higher "Invasion Strength" count as multiple Forces for the purposes of calculating the highest number of moves.
   * **Move** into a specified adjacent Territory with Strength 0 or lower, or belonging to the same Realm as the Force. This does not claim the Territory.
   * **Invade** into a specified adjacent Territory with Strength 0 or lower. If successful, this claims the Territory for the attacking Realm.
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 There are a number of special moves that require additional resources to perform. Often these moves are non-standard, and might not be orders given to an existing force. There are many special Orders that might exist, but only some of them are known. In order to submit special Order, you need to pay the cost to one of the Conquest Refs, and say which special Order that you want. You will be given a card for the special Order that can be submitted in the same way as a normal order a normal order. Note that once you have the special Order card it is your responsibility to look after it, and it will only take effect if you submit it.
+===Known Special Orders:===
+  * **Build Stronghold (1 Defining Moment, 90 Coins)** Create a new Stronghold on a Territory.
+  * **Raise force (45 x [number of forces controlled by a realm + 1] coins)** Create a new force on Territory (this new force will be under the control of whichever realm controls the specified territory during that step in the resolution phase)
+  * **Cede Territory (30 coins + 2 x [current output of the Territory being ceded])** This order can be made by Monarchs to cede ownership of a Territory to a specified Realm.  This will occur after Magic is resolved but before Force movement.
+Only things that exist during the submission phase can be given Orders. This means that if a Force comes into existence (whether it be being raised using an Order, magic scroll, or anything else), it cannot be given another order until the next phase.
+====Submitting Orders====
+Submitting orders is a simple process. Around the Conquest table there will be slips for each of the free orders. You may freely take these slips to give your units orders, by specifying the unit and what you want it to do.
+You then need to hand these orders to the Conquest refs. Once an Order has been handed to the ref, you cannot take it back. Only the General for a Realm may submit Conquest orders to the refs, this will be checked when you submit an Order. If multiple Orders are submitted for the same Force, they will be resolved in the Order described below, with only the first Order for a Force being selected. If there are two Orders that would be resolved simultaneously for the same Force, one will be selected at random for the Force. It is thus up to the General of each Realm to ensure that the correct Orders are submitted.
+Orders that are deemed ambiguous, or do not specify which Force is being ordered, will be considered void and discarded.
+If no Orders are received by any Force for a Realm, it will be assumed that all Forces have been given the Fortify Order.  If one Force receives orders and the others do not, this assumption will not be made.
+===Spells===
+Some spells can work on the Conquest table, though like all scrolls you may not know exactly what it does. When Conquest spells are created, you will be asked to give the target of the spell. Once the scroll is created you may not change the target of the spell.
+Anyone can cast a spell on the Conquest table. This may be done by handing a scroll to a Conquest Ref when the table is open.
+Spells will be cast at the start of the resolution of the Conquest table, though any spells giving Orders will happen during the resolution step of the same type of Order (see “Resolution”). Any non-Conquest spell will have no effect if it is cast on the Conquest table.
+====Resolution====
+After the table closes, all orders and spells will be resolved. This happens in the following order:
+  * Spells are cast
+  * Territories ceded by "Cede Territory" are ceded
+  * Forces and Strongholds are created or disbanded
+  * Strength of a Territory is calculated
+  * Moves and invasions are calculated
+  * Control of each Territory is calculated
+  * Forces may be destroyed (If there are units in a territory that is successfully invaded (i.e. there are Forces on a Territory which then changes control to a different Realm) then they will be destroyed. If a force is destroyed in this way then the Realm will not receive any Resources)
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+===== Observations =====
+Some useful observations:
+  * A Territory with no occupying Force or Stronghold requires only 1 Force to claim
+  * A Territory with 1 occupying Force or Stronghold requires at least 2 Forces to claim (1 to attack, 1 to invade)
+  * A Territory with 1 occupying Force taking the Fortify order requires at least 3 Forces to claim (2 to attack, 1 to invade)
+  * The number of Forces needed to attack can be reduced or increased using publicly known Spells.  The number needed to successfully invade cannot be.
+==== Examples ====
+Example plays for Conquest can be found on [[Conquest Examples|this page]].  The sheer number of combinations of Orders, and the unpredictable influence of Magic, means that we couldn't possibly cover everything that may occur, but hopefully the examples found there will shed some light on how some interactions will work.
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+===== Alliances =====
+  * Certain Realms have bound themselves together under the terms of a magical alliance.
+  * Under the terms of such Alliances, Forces from those Realms may move freely through the Territories of their Allies even if they are occupied by another Force (provided that Force is also allied to them).
+  * Territories and Forces from Allied Realms are not considered to be Hostile to one another.
+  * Certain Alliances may have more specific conditions.