Unless someone else has a conflict, might I suggest that Black remains with House Silverswift as Sgt at Arms?
Has anyone else thought of such a position? The military aspect is an important one.

In reply to Orange (msg # 24):

I'm fine with everyone having input

In reply to Purple (msg # 26):

We need a commander, indeed.

I had been considering that, if I play the uncle to the kids, that he could have been a knight and veteran of the war and probably now acting as master-at-arms for the House. I am still avoiding making a solid character choice though till we actually finish writing up the House and fleshing out their story.
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In reply to Gray (msg # 28):

Oh, that works well! And I could listen to your war stories.

As the discussion seems to have moved on from the banner house, I assume that we have no more input on the matter.


So I'm going to rule that players have input on one or the other.

So, since White and me contributed to House rolls, are they redoing it?
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I'm fine with the rolls remaining where they are. We'd have to redo the assignments from the beginning if we did that.

Ok, I already pitched in on most of house's resources. If my vote is deciding anywhere, feel free to disregard it.

A superior castle requires at least 200 men to man the walls, that’s how much Winterfell required.

2 trained garrison units 5 each - 10
1 trained Mountain Guerilla - 5
1 trained archers - 6
Aforementioned banner house - 20

Three rules doesn't have that requirement.

 An archer garrison might be a good thing to have with our normal garrison.  There is your 200 soldiers to hold the castle.

In reply to Red (msg # 34):

I'd prefer knights to Guerillas, because while I see the usefulness of Guerillas in mountain warfare, knights are more suited to the Westerosi way of war, and cavalry are easier to command (-3 instead of +3).

Not all Superior Castles are alike. The Eyrie is one, and requires a much smaller garrison than Winterfell, and so is Harrenhal, requiring a much larger garrison. I think we can assume ours doesn't require a 200 man garrison; in general castles are designed to be held with a small a number of men as possible.

Doesn't mountain terrain cause problems for cavalry?

EDIT: Mechanically, that is.
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Gold:
Banner house: 20

Trained Garrison- 5
Trained Archers- 6
Green Infantry- 4
Green Personal Guard- 6

I like the diversity Gold suggests.

It seems the three of us agree on one unit of trained garrison and one unit of trained archers.

So that's 11 power, a banner house is 20, if everyone else agrees to this then we can focus on the 11 power which we still can use.

I like the idea of a personal guard since it would align with the idea of our house having fought in the rebellion and gained fame through some great deed.

In reply to Purple (msg # 40):

Thanks, though originally I wanted to take 2 units of trained archers.. sadly we don't have enough power to afford them and the personal guard

In reply to Gold (msg # 39):

Green soldiers only have 20 XP, so it's not really worth the huge investment it takes to get Personal Guards if they're going to be Green. Ironic coming from me, Green, but there it is. We could afford Trained Personal Guard, Green Garrison, Trained Garrison and Trained Archers if we wanted (We could go for Green Guerillas or Scouts instead, but only if our Commander is reaaaaaly something special)

Seconded.
I just read up on Mountain Guerillas... if there is a way we could afford more of them or to make them elite, I would... they are so cool!!!

I also agree that all of our units be a minimum of “trained.” A house of our influence and recent glory should be in the process of training their troops to be elite, not babysitting noobs on the walls of our superior castle.

I'm very sorry for going off topic but I just read "Mountain Gorillas" and it brought a smile to my face imagining our house to be guarded by gorillas.. The Narrator would have to bring Dragons to fight us.


If we keep our trained garrison and trained archers... we indeed could get two trained Guerilla fighters, one melee and another archery (Yes I like archery)

Those Guerilla armies could totally be trained to fight in mountains... I guess with those we don't really need a personal guard.

No Gorillas. I don't want King Kong taking me to the top of Storm's End and swatting at Dragons.

In reply to Gold (msg # 45):

Guerillas can fight both ranged and melee. We'd need a good commander, though. They are harder to command.

Depending on what Wealth holdings we choose, we may have to move Brown's +1 to Defense so that we can afford it and still have a superior castle.

So, who is our banner house?

Black, Orange, and White are in the banner house. They are working on creating it for us.

White,Orange and Black