Tenderfoot Thahd Irate Canadian Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 Alright - so after the Avernite/Empire War and the various atrocities committed by the Empire I say screw making Peace with Empress Prazac, helping the Empire, and settling peacefully. The monster plagues put Avernum in a perfect situation to get some REAL vengeance - so for starters the new Avernum III should have the option to wage war against the Empire as an alternate story path - various things I would donate half my liver to see put into the game: 1. Ability to engage and eventually defeat the Empire Third Army through a long battle of attrition. 2. Alien Beasts escape Quarantine - eventually ravaging Blackcrag and evoking a military response after two years into the campaign. 3. Monster Plagues Evolve to become more Vicious: ie Alien Slimes roving around - Troglo/Giant War Bands that invade and occupy whole towns 4. Ability to Raze Towns: If a towns population is wiped out by force the eradication of the town can be completed with Move Mountains or occupied by Avernite forces/civilians 5. Dark Wyrms Hunt: Eventually the Dark Wyrms and Drakes/Dragons will emerge to hunt for food and treasure - which they might find on your collective corpses if you're not ready 6. Negative reputation: Killing Empire Soldiers and Civilians earns negative reputation that will eventually illicit attacks from the Empire. 7. Initially your party and Avernite forces are attacked on sight - situation can escalate to Empire Invasion of Fort Emergence Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk Zaego Posted November 7, 2017 Share Posted November 7, 2017 An interesting point of view. Alas, I don't think a large-scale war against the Empire could be feasible since the Empire outnumbers Avernum with a ratio of 288,888... : 1. (Ridiculous number, I know. Empire: 135,000,000. Avernum: 450,000.) Hence, the Empire would slaughter the opposition with pure numbers, without even taking into account the home-quarter advantage and ability to reinforce the front lines much faster. The situation, as you describe, might be different if Avernum's government decided to ally with Rentar-Ihrno and made surgical strikes into vital ports, supply-lines and forts while the magical plagues did the dirty work, basically swarming the Imperial Army. This would have to happen in a rapid succession, though, before the Empire could bolster their hold of Blackcrag Fortress and the western ports, where reinforcements could be streamed in to Valorim from other continents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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