Came across an interesting article on Empires and the importance of frontiers. Kinda relevant to the current situation, especially vis-a-vas the Successor States and the dynamics between House Lords and their direct subordinates on the borders, plus the growth of empires.
http://isteve.blogspot.com/2006/11/foundation-of-empire.html
The concept of 'asabiya' is of most interest, especially to die-hard supporters of any House or clan. In the jihad, it could conceivably be argued that the Free Worlds League completely lost it. And once lost, it's poof. So no more FWL. For some reason or other, the minor differences between the Mariks, the Regulans, the Orientes, and the myriad factions that make up the FWL suddenly became too magnified for the FWL to unite in the face of an external enemy.
As a Wobblie strategist, this is of paramount interest. So how then, to promote divisions within each and every enemy state/nation/organization, in order to splinter them and render them more digestible piecemeal?
Simple. Lay low, build up forces, deprive enemy states of their natural external enemies(okay, maybe not so simply done). Internal pressure will build, and hasten the process along with some good ole rabble-rousing. Then when they start to split, wedge them apart.
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cant seem to access the site you have there...
on an offtopic, the official .pdf for the Black Ghosts, White Death poster is up. JT wanna check it out?
JT: That event is march 2007, would u be running it?
By the way, Historicals: Brush War is out in PI.
Anyway interested in playing a campagin on Ronin War or Andurerian Secession or Anton's Revolt
mebbe its time to start planning for this one. more lead time means more publicity!
i was actually wondering if we could get posters up in PI and Serene about this. if they have preludes it would be a good chance to publicise demo games. and with the lead time we might actually be able to work up a decent mini battlegroup with half-way decent paint. if we split the work up and do a mini every... 3 days or so, can cover at least 2 lvlIIs and a coy right?
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