Recent content by Grimbold

^^ Givern me alot to think about...I had gotten into the rut of a siege, i hardly thought about anything else... The army was going to loose because reinforcements are going to turn up last minute and attack their flank, and as they are shifting all the pikemen and stuff to the rear, the main...

I think its one of those things were if i just draw it i'll get it...but, i'm a stickler for perfect planning

Okay, the city is on the edge of the sea. However, all the trading is done outside the city, in a very large market which also houses the docks. this is because the market has seperate laws, sort of a "what happens in markettown stays in markettown." During the invading force, they are going to...

Having an issue finding about army sizes. I have no idea how many men 10,000 would look like, or operate on a field, i have no idea how many giants i could get away with without it being just plain silly, or how many archers to horsemen or pikemen are needed. How long would it take them to...

I'm glad its a nice healthy mix... I saw the first reply and the 10 year old inside me went "well what do YOU know your not ME!" and closed the tab. Came back and was pleased to find alot of "depends on the writer." I'm not disorganised, I have my outline, my plot, my characters and evrything...

No. Well. Not knowing it. I read alot of history but i could never tell you any dates and i know for a fact at least one of my plot lines is a vague fantastystyle idea of the precurser to WW1/ Actually thinking about it the big plot line is based around the start of WW1.

Hello all, I have with me a question that has been bugging me for a while. Are first drafts normally longer than needed and need toning down, or shorter and thus need extending? OR is it a mix? I ask because i know my chapters are about 700-1500 words shorter than they should be because i...

My villains evolve as much as my characters, so i try to never start a story before i have planned a villains whole backstory and life (at least the key points). The villain is a driving force, so you must know him inside out, and in "creating" the villain, his motives might change. I find the...

I'm sorry if this is asked alot, but normally i'm okay with judging what is a scene and what isnt. But every now and then i get one when i am never sure if i should end it, in particular the short ones. "A scene is a small event" is going to be no use aswell i'm afraid...If there is no...

*Thumps head against the wall in morse code for Hello* I'm at that point where the momentum from the sudden explosion at the start of the story has faded but i'm not at the big dipper moment of the exiting final few chapters where the cliffhangers loom and things go ahead. That...

Hi, Is there anything wrong with killing the narrator? I'm currently writing my book from the point of one character, however they are splitting up in a few chapters so writing will be split to the point of view of three characters, but the one who i started with is supposed to die... Is...

From your post i did some research and found out about the Scorpio, a sort of baby balasta/adult crossbow shooting a bolt 70cm long...Seams about right, not as complicated as a roman catapult, but still big enough :D

Hi all, I'm having a goblin army run out of caves at somepoint with trolls, however i want the trolls to have some sort of, troll sized/ballastaeish bows...Is it possible?

Depends how much luck effects it...I'd be to worried about stepping the line into "nothing bad ever happens to the good guy, everything bad happens to the bad guy" territory of boringfantasy

I play alot, well, used to, play alot of Warhammer, so my dwarves/elves/goblins ect are more Warhammerish than anything else, minus the gunpowder and scottish accents... Also, did the scotts had alot of dockyards as far as i remember? Like glasgow was famous for it i think (going only on Billy...