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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3648826" data-attributes="member: 3448">Sorry about the missed update.  Back on schedule:----After the Chief Archivist left, Dame Brionna looked at Alistair.  “Your grace, we need to get those field armies operational as quickly as possible.”“Agreed.  Recruiting the troops will not be too difficult, but we will have to be careful about the officers.  With green troops, it will be all the more important to have able leaders who can train them into an effective army.  Perhaps we could get the various knightly orders to assign some of their knights with command experience to serve as officers?”“I’m certain that they would be happy to provide the field army with officers, your grace.  We could also ask the Church for additional officers; between the church knights and the more militant priests, we should be able to fill in much of the command.”“We’ll need a fourth field marshal as well.  I’m not sure how to fill that one-- there aren’t any obvious candidates among our current generals.  I suppose we could choose from among the nominees from the knightly orders,” mused Alistair.  “They would all want the honor of having their member placed in command.”“We could, although that might also cause resentment among the other orders, and I’m not certain that we could rely on finding an officer of superlative ability that way.  Perhaps a servitor of Lord Glor’diadel, your grace?  We could ask the Archbishop to summon a solar.  We would have to convince it that the cause was just, but I’m sure we could manage it.”“Huh.  That’s a possibility I hadn’t thought of.  Or what about Lord Davion?  I know he’s commanded troops, including Gateways’s field army.  If he has the strategic ability, he might be an easier choice.  That would also let us call on Glor’diadel more easily to deal with a specific crisis.”“Since we’re already going to be meeting him about the drow assassin, we can ask him about his command experience then,” noted Kit.“Good.  Let’s ask the knightly orders to nominate their suggestions as officers, and then we can figure out who to make our field marshal after we speak with Lord Davion.”</blockquote>

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