NEW BYPASS
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The Mitrine scouts have discovered a new bypass from the East Liruma through to the West Liruma that is all land that can be captured. This offers an alternative route for troops to travel, and lessens the effect of the Ruins chokepoint.

This was originally (and perhaps a little too optimistically) designed as a three-way conflict, so the stranglehold of the Ruins was meant to be offset by the fact there another faction biting at your ankles. It obviously didn't play out that way, so we had to find an alternative solution.


COMMANDER REASSIGNMENT
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A big thing we wanted when going into this war was for everybody to be able to get a chance to participate, through missions and by having troops under only their command. While we still think this was a good idea, in practice it made things a struggle for people who couldn't be around during the times of coordinated troop strikes. To that end, we're introducing a way to reassign your troops to a new commander.

ORDER DIVISION COMMANDER <person>
Will allow the specified person to take command of your troops. You can also still command your own troops if needed (and reassign them to a new valid commander).

However, not everybody can take command of extra troops! It's based on your war-faction rank with the division's faction. So at rank 2, you can take one additional troop under your command in addition to your own, and at rank 3 that increases to two, and rank 4 increases to three and so on.


IMP MISCHIEF
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Imps are up to mischief, as they do. Every Howling, an Imp Saboteur will bomb one of the faction's troops, killing 5 of a division's soldiers. What side they pick depends on who has the most soldiers fielded. They'll always target a division from that faction with the lowest lives remaining.


TRADE
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The Trade Minister (minister only, not aides) can now approach certain tradespeople in each of the warring factions, to organize a trade of commodities.

Trades are based on allowances. Your city gains +1 trade allowance for every 500 missions your city has completed for that faction. This allowance lets you buy up to 10k of a single commodity type. You can purchase less if you want to, but you won't get the remainder back. Better to use up all that 10k!

Most commodities will be traded a 2:1 rate (i.e. you pay 2, get 1), but some of them will be more - and not all commodities are available! Rates/available comms are:

2:1 Rates
Iron, Wood, Coal, Obsidian, Leather, Cloth, Rope.

3:1 Rates
Steel, Gold, Silver, Ash, Ice.

4:1 Rates
Stone

The tradespeople are:
Mitrine - Vyapari Rohivi
Ophidians - Shn'all, a colourful Ophidian merchant

The syntaxes for the Trade Minister are:
CITY TRADE
View your available trade allowances.

CITY TRADE <comm to sell> FOR <amount> <comm to buy>
Trades the comm you want to sell for the comm you want to buy. Must be done at the faction's trade person. e.g. CITY TRADE LEATHER FOR 10000 CLOTH will take 20k leather from your city and give it 10k cloth in return.
The commodities you are selling must be in the commodity warehouse/reserves (i.e. not the quartermaster).

Side note;
We've already done a trade manually with Spinesreach, Enorian and Duiran so those three cities have their first allowance used up.

SHOPS
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Those same tradespeople above now have shops available via ASK <person> WARES. Each rank with the faction allows access to more items, and the various ranks gain items as the war progresses. Visit the shops every now and then and see if more things have been added! Note that this is also tied to supplies given to the factions.

Some items require explanation:

Trap Charm - Possessing this will allow you to avoid imp traps entirely. Decays.
Earthshaper Charm - RUB this to be sent straight to the mission board in Rock Bottom. 1 Use.
a smudge of bound flowers - WAVE this to be sent to the mission board of the Mitrine. 1 Use.
personal war effigy - If you die with Hostility aura while holding this, you will not lose experience. 1 Use

Penned by my hand on Gosday, the 25th of Midsummer, in the year 474 MA.
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