Mattiverse Next - Session 12: Difference between revisions

** <blockquote style="background-color: #efefef">Before the Ubrekti-Halfling war, the Halfling economy was fairly robust. Nomads are raiders and traders both by nature, and much halfling tribal wealth came from the position as intermediaries between the various human kingdoms of the Far West, the Elven lands of the Costal North, and the Dwarven and Gnomish lands of the far West. It is likely that the legendary halfling fortress (thought to be in the [[Crogbon]]) was based on one (or several) real locations where halflings would store their wealth and protect passages into their "Midland Empire." Halflings war was a skirmish and retreat model, as holding territory long term was not their jam.</blockquote>

** <blockquote style="background-color: #efefef">The first halfling and Ubrekti warriors clashed during the Third Ponic War. As Ubrekt and the Dogriders warred in the wake of that conflict, halflings had an early advantage against the heavy infantry and light infantry based army of the time. Dogriders could easily harass the slow moving Ubrekti legions and retreat suffering minimal damage themselves. The early phase of the war was basically this stalemate: the halflings could not successfully assail the fortresses the Ubrekti built around the Stormchalice ("Our Lake") while the legions of the Ubrekti were hopeless against the dogriders, even as the dogriders themselves were outnumbered. Hadrian began to invest heavily in importing Petaran and Odessan horses and developing light and heavy cavalry wings to support the legions. The developing Ubrekti light cavalry wasn't terrific or anything, but it was enough to protect Legion flanks and supply lines and to give chase to the dogriders. Heavy Cavalry developed more slowly, but the overall trend of mixed unit tactics developed by Hadrian (The demigod or his descendants depending on the historian) over the course of his war with the Halflings not only - inevitably - carried the day, but also was the same basic model used by the successor Ubrekti Republic to expand across almost all of the mainland.</blockquote>

** They stock up for the road, and pick up dogs for traveling.

** [[Wydmoor Free City]] is their next destination. Finally ready, they depart.