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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 762000" data-attributes="member: 6533">Curses, I was anticipated by the story line.From the Ta'jinn perspective the Auselen are bad news.  The whole purpose of their skirmishes in Stempa has been to prepare for an invasion of Cressia by:a.) Strengthening their position in Stempa to prevent aid coming to the Cressians from that quarterb.) Gather intelligence on Cressian tactics and capabilities.c.) tie up and destroy Cressian resourcesNow they have suffered heavy losses and are faced with a new faction that appears to be making both goals impossible as they are increasing instability in Stempa and adding new factors to the Cressian scenario.That's the larger view of the Ta'jinn.On a smaller scale, they are delighted by the new toys and the potential to learn new tactics that the Auselen have introduced.  So they enter into negotiations with them and try to learn as much as they can.This aids them in coming closer to goal B.  And gives them an advantage in working towards goal A.While the Ta'jinn do use their new toys in combat as frequently as possible,  they do not push the Cressians as hard as they could.   Instead they use demonstrations of the effectiveness of their new might to impress their local allies.   Ta'jinn agents move throughout Stempa and saturate Tarthus.   They argue that it is time that the Stempa brought out their own forces to aid the Ta'jinn in finally pushing out the Cressians with their fanatical foriegn religion and that the time to commit that aid is now while the Ta'jinn are winning but before they have totally beaten the Cressians.  The Stempans surely would not wish to appear weak or be forced to allow the Ta'jinn to occupy the lands of the Cressian allies when the Stempans might do so on their own would they?The Ta'jinn realize that they need a more faithful ally than the Auselen and stronger than simply the Tarthusians alone.  They are pushing for Stempa to go to war.At the same time, they make certain to prepare for a retreat.  They litter their campaign route with outposts of their infantry and thouroughly scout the routes by which the Centaurs might move easily, quickly, and deftly across the land.  They suspect the Auselen will betray them and they intend to be well prepared.  They do, however, hope that the Auselen will let them use the earth elementals on the walls of one of Cressia's Stempan allies.At present they actually cede control of the skies to the Cressians.  They still use their griffin scouts, but make certain that they are able to avoid the Cressian units by moving at night and taking advantage of the vastly superior range of their weapons.   They have decided to leave the question of the eagles up to the god-blooded, to do otherwise would be to impinge on their honor, and simply adapt their ground tactics to the presence of enemy aerial force.  Something they are not too bad at doing given their own knowledge of the implications of aerial power and a combination of Cressian inexperience and concern with simple air superiority.</blockquote>

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