General le Duc Alain de Mylcandonai, Officer Commanding the 1st Army, to General le Vicomte Soire de Success, Officer Commanding the 1st Division Greetings!
PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL General de Success, Congratulations upon your brevet. On the subject of General Tishton I can but concur that the sooner he is removed from the command of the Third Army, the better the Army will be for it. His performance on the Spanish Frontier was far less than was hoped for - and would undoubtedly have been worse had he been forced to suffer the questionable services of the incompetent aide which (through various string-pullings at Army Headquarters) he managed to foist on _me_! As you will appreciate, merely holding the Spaniards on the southern frontier will not suffice. They must be convincingly repulsed if we are to ensure that the Spanish Netherlands receive no reinforcements. The Commander of the Third Army must pin down far more troops than General Tishton seems currently able to do, so please be assured that I will use all possible influence to ensure his removal from this important command. Major Zilvain was, as you may know, to have been my aide for the forthcoming campaign. Unfortunately, it appears that his application to Army HQ was 'mislaid', with the result that I have been saddled with a military and administrative incompetent having absolutely _no_ command experience whatsoever (courtesy of General Tishton). Under normal circumstances, the post would have remained vacant for a month until I could personally find a suitable replacement [OOC: "If a post becomes vacant unexpectedly (either by death, resignation or the incumbent being offered a better post) then unless a PC has applied for it that month (usually by asking the incumbent to resign), it will remain vacant for one month to allow PCs time to apply for it."]. It appears, however, that however, that General Tishton is determined to shine by comparisson with year's other army commanders with a view to becoming the next Field Marshal - and that Major de Lusby, God Rot Him! is the means by which he means to do it. I am doing all that I can to remove the man from my staff - though as the Commander of the First Army I must take full responsibility for its lacklustre performance this month [OOC: Threw a 1 :( ] What I find most irksome, as you will appreciate, is that having foisted de Lusby onto me, Tishton himself is now able to appoint an aide of far greater ability! Rest assured that I will do all in my power to support your efforts towards Tishton's removal. Let me wish you the best of luck in your efforts to replace him. General de Mylcandonai [OOC: > Joel Halpern asks the GM what influence is required for use with N9 since I did not think there could be two FMs, and he his serving as and Army Commander (requires a General). I can not actually tell if this was a promotion, in which case N9 should not still be Army commander or if something else is going on.] The situation of Bvt FM npc_KT is _exactly_ the same as that of Bvt Gen SdS, just one rung higher. Although brevetted to General, SdS' full rank (and that at which he secured his current appointment) is Lt General. Consequently, he will be able to retain his current appointment as Divisional Commander until it runs out in March, if he wishes, despite his promotion. (He _would_ lose it if he got promoted to full general, but this can only happen if holds an army command, the securing of which would require him to resign his Divisional Command in any case). Similarly, the situation of npc_KT is that, although brevetted to FM, his full rank (and that at which he secured _his_ current appointment) is General. Consequently, he will be able to retain his current appointment as Army Commander until it runs out in March unless influenced to resign. Any further help you could muster in influencing his resignation would be useful - hopefully, his brevet to FM will also lapse when he loses his army command;-) What appears to happen is that, at the end of the Summer, 'the King' chooses the FM for the following year from all those army commanders who were brevetted FM over the Summer Campaign. Hopefully, the precedence followed with appointments will come into play, as follows: PCs who have made the die roll successfully (the one who made it by the most, then by Greasy Pole order). NPCs (which NPC is chosen by making the same die roll as the PCs and the highest one gets the post, regardless of whether or not they succeed) PCs who want the post PCs who do not want the post. Cheers, Paul P.S. Greg, shouldn't the post of AdM's aide have been kept open for a month so that he could appoint one? The position of aide to npc_KT certainly seems to have done....Or will I have to call for and secure de Lusby's resignation before being able to appoint a successor? ] _______________________________________________ Banana mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.humf.su.se/mailman/listinfo/banana
