Warlords: Strategic Conquest

"The coward Lord Kahn it is. To chaos."

With that, he slips out of your room as quietly and stealthily as he entered. Later on, you question your guards but none of them noticed anything out of the ordinary. You chastise them for their incompetence and make plans to tighten up your palace security.

A few days later, one of your scouts rushes into your tent, out of breath. He squeezes out words between gasps. "President Min…I have…urgent news…Lord Kahn...assassinated…last night…" You patiently wait for the soldier to catch his breath.

"A servant noticed the foul odor of poison gas coming from the Lord's room and went in to check on him. He found Lord Kahn lying lifelessly in his bed, his body stiff and eyes rolled back in his head. The servant rang the alarm and guards quickly noticed a figure in black trying to escape the compound and they shot him dead with arrows. They found a card with the pictograph of an eight-point star on his body. He was probably the same assassin who had killed several warlords recently…"

You thank the soldier and dismiss him. You reflect on the news. Without its leader, Lord Kahn's territory will soon fragment. It was not a major state to begin with and now becomes even more irrelevant.

After you upgrade your palace security, you refocus on securing alliances. By now, other local leaders are no longer worth your time. You need to secure an alliance with a major warlord soon to avoid being seen as an easy target by predatory warlords. General Nahru and Governor Toleron are the only two powerful enough to be worth meeting with. Who do you visit first?