Quotes from Actual Commanders' Meetings

QUOTES FROM ACTUAL COMMANDERS’ MEETINGS

“That's a pretty good plan...have you actually seen the battlefield?"

• H.L. Nazir

“This is a weenie plan!”

• Conde Fernando, describing a plan that called for protecting a target representing a fortress tower from destruction by siege engines, by having fighters dedicated to throwing themselves in the way of the giant siege rocks.

“The Ninjas have arrived.”

• Sir Siridean, when an Atenveldt “spy” dressed in black came into that same commander’s meeting to tell us how he had ‘cleverly’ penetrated the security of a Caidan commanders’ meeting.

“He was chosen as allied commander for his military experience, after all, he was a special forces medicfor four years."

• King of Caid

“Oh, that makes sense...”

• H.L. Nazir, responding to the King of Caid"

"See that blue rock? That's our Kalos unit... and it can wipe out the whole reserve of the Eastern Army!"

• Used by Master Pavel and Count Valens after a yellow rock, designated as being able to handle the entire left flank of the Eastern Army, was revealed to indicate a unit of only 15 fighters. Kalos was of course only one man. “

“We may only have twenty guys, but they are crack troops.”

• An Tir commander at Estrella, uttered at least ten times as he fought to be given a job that the overall commander wanted to assign to Calontir’s 85 man army.

"OK. At lay on, ignore the enemy army in front of you, and turn to your right. We're going to attack those bad guys instead..."

• Allied Forces Commander at Estrella, with a battle plan that resulted in us stretching out and exposing our flank to the significantly closer, and significantly larger enemy force which was left with nothing to do but come and get Calontir

“After we ‘decimate’ them, who is going to kill the remaining 90% of the enemy?”

• Conde Fernando, when a greatly detailed battle plan went through multiple complicated steps to get to attack position, then simply ended with, “then we will decimate them utterly.”

“Okay, when the enemy decides not to do what your clever plan calls for them to do, will you be the one calling hold in the middle of the battle and asking them to start over and do it right?”

• Sir Clef, commenting on a battle plan, which in order to succeed, required the enemy to take a very particular, and very unlikely, action.

“Okay, all this planning is fine, but we all know it’s going to come down to what me and my dozen guys do over here.”

• Allied unit commander at Pennsic who honestly thought his twelve guys would have a larger impact on the battle than the other 900 plus fighters.

“If it's a job too big for Calontir, it's a job too big to do."

• King of Artemisia