FSTGOD1: A Cool Idea

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2004-09-28 02:09pm

Rogue 9 wrote:Mine are four feet tall, thank you very much.

You mean Royal Push-Over Guards?

Post by **Beowulf** » 2004-09-28 02:10pm

Rogue 9 wrote:Mine are four feet tall, thank you very much.

*loads Ballistae* so?

Pablo Sanchez · Post by **Pablo Sanchez** » 2004-09-28 03:33pm

Straha wrote:Hey, Pablo, seeing as how we're going to be "alone" in Africa, how do you want to partition it out?

I have everything from Tunisia west to Morocco, and it will remain so for the rest of the game.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-09-28 03:40pm

Dahak wrote:
Rogue 9 wrote:Mine are four feet tall, thank you very much.
You mean Royal Push-Over Guards?

Try 'em and see.

admiral_danielsben · Post by **admiral_danielsben** » 2004-09-28 08:46pm

Sounds cool... the Caucusus doesn't look taken yet. May i have it?

If yes, then the Neo-Khazars will rule a mid-size empire (please?), stretching from the Crimea to the black sea, south to where Northern Armenia would be, and north almost to Volgograd. Mostly horse-based cavalry for army, average size (70 units? do i read right as average). A few boats in the Black sea and the Caspian, mostly defensive (and some trade in the black). The army is two-part: a small permanent professional force and a larger peasant conscript 'ready reserve', which trains a few weeks a year.

The Neo-Khazars (actual name: The Khazar Imperium) are mixed central asian and eastern european Jews, ruled by an Emperor. Lots of natural resources to trade, but relatively little flat farmland (mostly in the north). Rest of the country is mountainous, and full of metal ores, coal, and oil in addition to grazing goats and sheep and foresting. The Khazars are somewhat expansive, but aren't generally conquerors.

The primary military weapon would be the longbow, often launched from horseback. Military is highly mobile, but has relatively little protection: leather and maybe chainmail armor if lucky. Spears and swords are also used.

No magic or elves (at least not yet). The Khazars are just ordinary white and central asian jews.

May I? Please?

Thirdfain · Post by **Thirdfain** » 2004-09-28 08:59pm

PM me with your request, and read the whole thread so you understand the system, please. No, a mid-sized nation is NOT 70 regiments.

Oh, and a nation without magic will get steamrolled unless it has some HUGE otehr advantage, and I don't know you well enough as an STGODer to offer you such a deal.

frigidmagi · Post by **frigidmagi** » 2004-09-29 12:24am

Nuts, I have a nieghbor. I was just getting used to the idea of being alone in a sea of white...

Bugsby · Post by **Bugsby** » 2004-09-29 12:26am

Speaking of which, are we going to have anything in those white spaces? If not, what are the rules reguarding the white spaces going to be?

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2004-09-29 12:26am

Bugsby wrote:Speaking of which, are we going to have anything in those white spaces? If not, what are the rules reguarding the white spaces going to be?

*sips tea* I crush you if you take it without giving me some?

Thirdfain · Post by **Thirdfain** » 2004-09-29 12:29am

White Spaces are regions which are not heavily settled yet. Expect them to contain barbarian tribes (to be run by Hotfoot, if he'd like,) and inhospitable wilderness. Magical beasts, that sort of thing. Here There Be Dragons.

When the final map is made, we'll include some roads amongst the European powers which stretch through white territory, remnants from some long-dead empire. Some of you may be interested in those.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2004-09-29 12:29am

Bugsby wrote:Speaking of which, are we going to have anything in those white spaces? If not, what are the rules reguarding the white spaces going to be?

One would assume it's populated with barbarian tribes, smaller city-states, and just plain wilderness.

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2004-09-29 12:35am

Bugsby wrote:Speaking of which, are we going to have anything in those white spaces? If not, what are the rules reguarding the white spaces going to be?

I can see there being 3 reasons for space being "white"

1. Unuseable land, no one can really "live" there for whatever reason.

2. Free wilderness, land of no apparent value. Useable land without any particular value, claimable, but for what purpose?

3. Inhabited by small tribes. Again, the land is likely to possessanything of real value, though instead of untouched wilderness there are small villages or the like, perhaps even defended by local warlods.. I suppose you could conquer them, but why would you want to?

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2004-09-29 12:54am

for the same reason Caesar conquered Gaul. Slaves, land, and auxilliary troops

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2004-09-29 01:01am

Alyrium Denryle wrote:for the same reason Caesar conquered Gaul. Slaves, land, and auxilliary troops

Actually, those were far from the empty sort of lands that we're talking about. Gaul was rather populous and certainly more developed than you give them credit for.

And of course ol' Gaius Julius most just came to kick ass and make his name.

Agent Fisher · Post by **Agent Fisher** » 2004-09-29 01:23am

my OOB is now complete

frigidmagi · Post by **frigidmagi** » 2004-09-29 01:36am

Non of the characters in my OOB exceed "normal" power levels.

Agent Fisher · Post by **Agent Fisher** » 2004-09-29 01:38am

frigidmagi wrote:Non of the characters in my OOB exceed "normal" power levels.

what?

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-09-29 01:42am

If you're going to have magic, some had better.

frigidmagi · Post by **frigidmagi** » 2004-09-29 01:43am

Excuse me typo. It should read:

NONE of the characters in my OOB exceed "normal" power levels.

Meaning Tapper is not a Uber Knight Paladin. He's just a skilled and smart Windrunner War Chief.

Malrissia is just a "normal" Shameness.

Beldoth is a very old wise but not overly powerful old Shamen.

Get it?

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-09-29 01:48am

Yeah, I get it.

Thirdfain · Post by **Thirdfain** » 2004-09-29 01:50am

Agent Fisher: Your nation is SMALL in size for a Medium Power. I'm nixing the idea that all your regiments are Dragoons. Unless, of course, you'd like to field a smaller number of regiments, or make your current regiments weaker...

Add to this the fact you don't have a particularly small army for a medium power. I field somewhere in the realm of 8000 troops, that's small for a medium power.

Agent Fisher · Post by **Agent Fisher** » 2004-09-29 01:52am

Thirdfain wrote:Agent Fisher: Your nation is SMALL in size for a Medium Power. I'm nixing the idea that all your regiments are Dragoons. Unless, of course, you'd like to field a smaller number of regiments, or make your current regiments weaker...

they do not fight from horseback. They use them to get around instead of marching.

I have only three regiments trained to fight from horseback

Thirdfain · Post by **Thirdfain** » 2004-09-29 01:54am

Um, what?

Dragoons don't fight from horseback. They are infantry who use horses to move about.

Once again, nixed. Giving your entire army Cavalry-scale strategic speed is silly.

Agent Fisher · Post by **Agent Fisher** » 2004-09-29 01:59am

Thirdfain wrote:Um, what?

Dragoons don't fight from horseback. They are infantry who use horses to move about.

Once again, nixed. Giving your entire army Cavalry-scale strategic speed is silly.

ok, i will get rid of it.

Agent Fisher · Post by **Agent Fisher** » 2004-09-29 02:02am

okay, its gone.

and i cut down my number of troops