[narkotic]

There are wars and there are battles.

What I saw with the Nighthawks was more of a battle than anything, and apparently this ONE battle has decided the fate of an entire monarchy and the control of the island that resided there.

A war is of course made up of several battles. Therefore, respawning shouldn't be too much of a big deal, although battles would draw out until one side gets bored and leaves. Perhaps have it a standard where if you die five times in a ten minute period, you're sent back to the unstick me point of the mainland.

I like the idea of death and ressurection. That would play much better, and could be restricted to priests only (not necessarily a learnable skill or something of that sort). Plus, corpses would be much more rp-ish as well. Have a bunch of dead bodies on the battle field (wearing the colors of their kingdom) and you could see the carnage and such.