Fanaglia wrote:The Holy Dominion of Inesea wrote:
1.) At 67 Degrees North, there wouldn't be a month of Darkness. Barely a day or two.
2.)I did order a strafing and A persuit
You are partially right about the sunrise thing; that was my mistake. When I started talking about the long nights before, that was before we actually had longitude/latitude lines, so I was basing my assumptions on the superimposition of the RL map, which, as we've discussed, was not actually lined up by latitude. I looked up sunrise/sunset data for RL towns at a similar latitude (at 67°N, it would be a bit north of Fort Yukon, Alaska) and saw that it would have only maybe an hour of daylight on December 27th.
That was my mistake there, I admit, but still, it's only an hour of very poor light with the sun hanging just above the horizon (if above it at all, depending on whether there are mountains or high hills on the horizon). It also won't come until around noon. So you're telling me that your ships just hung out for eleven hours while their men get killed down below in the big, well-lit compound that should not be that hard to see, even at a distance? And also that this is in temperatures that average -15°F and can get as low as -60°F, where they magically have enough fuel to keep the ships in controlled flight and the cabins heated? There is also the danger posed to the ships' envelopes by the heavy ice that would accumulate on their skins, especially considering the relative low temperatures resulting from a depressurized gas. To sustain flight for that long, the gas would have to be heated to prevent this, which would greatly increase the risk of fire. Note the difficulty I mentioned with my own few airships that have been to V-Land and the fact that your ships are, essentially, the same.
No, in those eleven hours, your men would have landed had they been there. They would have been on the ground and securing the camp before the VPG forces even arrived. But you didn't RP it that way; you didn't even make a fuss about it until I mentioned my guys (well, Gratia's VPG characters) moving in. And no, your post about strafing the camp was not sufficient to establish the long-lingering presence you now claim to have had. They could just as easily have followed the other Inesean ships to pursue the Gratians once their attack was finished or have been brought down by the poison or the fireball.
Quit being a sore loser and fucking get over it. If you want to RP that a small handful of men was left behind to stand watch over the camp and has gone undetected by the VPG until now while their comrades returned to Onheath to report, I could be all right with that, but don't give me that bullshit that "Oh, well, you can't take over because my guys were still there because I want them to be, ex post facto."
So much fuss. I'll take your suggestion in the last paragraph and leave an FTC behind while the rest return to Onheath.
