FSTGOD1: A Cool Idea

Agent Fisher · Post by **Agent Fisher** » 2004-09-26 09:50pm

hmm, with 35 regiments, most likely 28, because i will go for professional.

Question. If i go for professional, does that mean i can call up my people as reserves?

in other words, do reserves count towards regiments.

and how many troops to a regiment?

Hotfoot · Post by **Hotfoot** » 2004-09-26 09:52pm

For the record, I will be remaining aloft, without a proper power. As the needs arise, I will handle any NPC powers that may get involved somehow, dealing with revolutions and covert actions, as well as determining any natural disasters that may occur.

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2004-09-26 09:53pm

Agent Fisher wrote:hmm, with 35 regiments, most likely 28, because i will go for professional.

Question. If i go for professional, does that mean i can call up my people as reserves?

in other words, do reserves count towards regiments.

NUMBERS MAN! Think NUMBERS! Because that's all that's going to save you when I get to your house. I'm thinking ten better than average regiments, and then fifty masses of barbarians that will crush your puny nations beneath their trampling feet.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-09-26 09:53pm

Note to self: Make sure my dwarven provinces invent flush toilets.

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2004-09-26 09:54pm

Straha, not everyone gets to be a 100 regiment power. I'm stuck with 30.

Agent Fisher · Post by **Agent Fisher** » 2004-09-26 09:54pm

Straha wrote:
Agent Fisher wrote:hmm, with 35 regiments, most likely 28, because i will go for professional.

Question. If i go for professional, does that mean i can call up my people as reserves?

in other words, do reserves count towards regiments.
NUMBERS MAN! Think NUMBERS! Because that's all that's going to save you when I get to your house. I'm thinking ten better than average regiments, and then fifty masses of barbarians that will crush your puny nations beneath their trampling feet.

okay, we have a Mordor wannabe.

But my question still stands.

Agent Fisher · Post by **Agent Fisher** » 2004-09-26 09:57pm

I really like hotfoots map.

With my people occupying the southern part of italy, we only have to put troops on that narrow strip to keep the enemy on land out.

Now ships on the other hand...

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2004-09-26 09:58pm

Rogue 9 wrote:Note to self: Make sure my dwarven provinces invent flush toilets.

*Offers to sell his. Very fair price, very fair. Throws in clockwork dwarf toys at a premium. And that's cutting me own throat*

Hotfoot · Post by **Hotfoot** » 2004-09-26 09:59pm

Just to reiterate folks, in case you missed it earlier:

Thirdfain wrote:Grand Powers field an average of 50 regiments.
Medium Powers field an average of 35 regiments.
Regional Powers field an average of 15 regiments.

There are your averages. Over that value, and you no longer have professional armies, but rather forces which have less training and cruder equipment, up to hordes of conscripts. Below those numbers is when you start getting Spartan Hoplites and the like.

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2004-09-26 10:00pm

SirNitram wrote:
Rogue 9 wrote:Note to self: Make sure my dwarven provinces invent flush toilets.
*Offers to sell his. Very fair price, very fair. Throws in clockwork dwarf toys at a premium. And that's cutting me own throat*

DIBBLER!

I wonder what Dhblah is offering to the rest of you guys...

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2004-09-26 10:01pm

Hotfoot wrote:Just to reiterate folks, in case you missed it earlier:

Thirdfain wrote:Grand Powers field an average of 50 regiments.
Medium Powers field an average of 35 regiments.
Regional Powers field an average of 15 regiments.
There are your averages. Over that value, and you no longer have professional armies, but rather forces which have less training and cruder equipment, up to hordes of conscripts. Below those numbers is when you start getting Spartan Hoplites and the like.

Woah, he cut those back. It was 100, 50, 30.

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2004-09-26 10:01pm

Hotfoot wrote:Just to reiterate folks, in case you missed it earlier:

Thirdfain wrote:Grand Powers field an average of 50 regiments.
Medium Powers field an average of 35 regiments.
Regional Powers field an average of 15 regiments.
There are your averages. Over that value, and you no longer have professional armies, but rather forces which have less training and cruder equipment, up to hordes of conscripts. Below those numbers is when you start getting Spartan Hoplites and the like.

Is it alright, like with what I said above, to have a, relativley, small corps of elite veteran and specialized units, and to have the rest be a bunch of raving lunatics?

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2004-09-26 10:02pm

Make that 100, 70, 30.

Agent Fisher · Post by **Agent Fisher** » 2004-09-26 10:02pm

Straha wrote:
Hotfoot wrote:Just to reiterate folks, in case you missed it earlier:

Thirdfain wrote:Grand Powers field an average of 50 regiments.
Medium Powers field an average of 35 regiments.
Regional Powers field an average of 15 regiments.
There are your averages. Over that value, and you no longer have professional armies, but rather forces which have less training and cruder equipment, up to hordes of conscripts. Below those numbers is when you start getting Spartan Hoplites and the like.
Is it alright, like with what I said above, to have a, relativley, small corps of elite veteran and specialized units, and to have the rest be a bunch of raving lunatics?

in your thing you had like 60. to do what you want, try fifty.

StormtrooperOfDeath wrote:Make that 100, 70, 30.

good idea.

And since i take up the bottom half of italy, should i be a grand power, or just a medium one?

Hotfoot · Post by **Hotfoot** » 2004-09-26 10:05pm

Straha wrote:Is it alright, like with what I said above, to have a, relativley, small corps of elite veteran and specialized units, and to have the rest be a bunch of raving lunatics?

I have nothing against gradiations of power inside the military, so long as you figure out what the total value of the army is compared to the average. For example, if you want to have a core of five elite regiments, each worth two standard regiments, and then the rest of your army be slavering hordes, each worth a fourth of one standard regiment, that would be fine by me, though there will be diminishing returns beyond a certain point (no one-man armies equal to Sauron, or one-ten thousandth regiment swarms, for example).

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2004-09-26 10:05pm

Agent Fisher wrote:
Straha wrote:
Hotfoot wrote:Just to reiterate folks, in case you missed it earlier:
There are your averages. Over that value, and you no longer have professional armies, but rather forces which have less training and cruder equipment, up to hordes of conscripts. Below those numbers is when you start getting Spartan Hoplites and the like.
Is it alright, like with what I said above, to have a, relativley, small corps of elite veteran and specialized units, and to have the rest be a bunch of raving lunatics?
in your thing you had like 60. to do what you want, try fifty.

I know... I'm a grand power.

The way I see it I've got twenty regiments condensed down into ten elite ones, and I've got 30 raving regiments of Jihadistic fury increased up into sixty of them. My Army is not going to be a big proffesional army, it's going to be a bunch of fundamentalist commoners with swords, supported by trained veterans with scars over their body and devotion in their heart, along with a few good fleets and a couple flying brigades.

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2004-09-26 10:06pm

So do we get the 100/70/30 as a baseline of decent army, or is it halved and cut that for professional troops?

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2004-09-26 10:07pm

Agent Fisher wrote:And since i take up the bottom half of italy, should i be a grand power, or just a medium one?

It says you're a medium one in the Ratification thread, so that's what you are.

Agent Fisher · Post by **Agent Fisher** » 2004-09-26 10:08pm

Straha wrote:
Agent Fisher wrote:And since i take up the bottom half of italy, should i be a grand power, or just a medium one?
It says you're a medium one in the Ratification thread, so that's what you are.

because thats what i asked for, not realizing how much space i took up.

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2004-09-26 10:09pm

Agent Fisher wrote:
Straha wrote:
Agent Fisher wrote:And since i take up the bottom half of italy, should i be a grand power, or just a medium one?
It says you're a medium one in the Ratification thread, so that's what you are.
because thats what i asked for, not realizing how much space i took up.

The Grand Powers are about twice your size if I'm looking at the map correctly...

Thirdfain · Post by **Thirdfain** » 2004-09-26 10:10pm

100/70/30 is for conscripts and barbarians. Half that, you've got deecent troops.

Hotfoot · Post by **Hotfoot** » 2004-09-26 10:10pm

Agent Fisher wrote:
Straha wrote:
Agent Fisher wrote:And since i take up the bottom half of italy, should i be a grand power, or just a medium one?
It says you're a medium one in the Ratification thread, so that's what you are.
because thats what i asked for, not realizing how much space i took up.

If you are a medium power with a lot of land, then you should probably just deal with it by having somewhat larger than average armies in order to compensate for your physical size. There is a cap on grand powers which we are rapidly approaching.

Edit: Gah, keep saying regional when I mean Medium. Same concept applies for all powers of course, but hey.

Agent Fisher · Post by **Agent Fisher** » 2004-09-26 10:11pm

Hotfoot wrote:
Agent Fisher wrote:
Straha wrote: It says you're a medium one in the Ratification thread, so that's what you are.
because thats what i asked for, not realizing how much space i took up.
If you are a regional power with a lot of land, then you should probably just deal with it by having somewhat larger than average armies in order to compensate for your physical size. There is a cap on grand powers which we are rapidly approaching.

ok, never mind then.

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2004-09-26 10:17pm

Thirdfain wrote:100/70/30 is for conscripts and barbarians. Half that, you've got deecent troops.

Alright, looks like I'll be editing my OOB...

Agent Fisher · Post by **Agent Fisher** » 2004-09-26 10:20pm

so Straha, are you just going to try and gooble up as many small powers as you can, or are you going to come after the big dogs?