FSTGOD1: A Cool Idea

Thirdfain · Post by **Thirdfain** » 2004-09-26 05:24pm

A fantasy, land-based STGOD. You fight with regiments of soldiers at a Roman Imperial techlevel- Simple iron and bronze weapons, limited communications, basic stirrups, non-tacking square sail vessels, and... Magic.

Nations come in 3 flavors- Grand, Medium, and Regional. Each player takes the map and marks off a peice of Europe, North Africa, or Western Russia. They then get to mark where it is mountainous and where it is forest or flatland, and the mods will Yea or Nay everyone's choice. Grand powers get a maximum of 100 regiments of soldiers (Far fewer if they want to have a professional force rather than barbarian hordes.) Medium powers get 70, regional powers, 30.

Just tossing an idea out here. Anyone have any comments? Like my little apocolyptic map?

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2004-09-26 05:25pm

Not too bad an idea.

I'd like to stake out a Grand Power in the Spanish/French Region.

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

Dibs on the Netherlands for a Medium power...

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-09-26 05:26pm

I'm up for it. I call Rome! (Not the empire at it's height, of course; that'd screw the whole game; just the city of Rome and its general area/as large a territory around it as we're allowed to have.)

Edit: Putting this link here for later use.

Thirdfain · Post by **Thirdfain** » 2004-09-26 05:27pm

Check out the map. See where rome would be?

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-09-26 05:28pm

Hey, wait a second! Cheater.

Edit: And London/Londinium is cut out as well. Nuts.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-09-26 05:30pm

I call a Hunk of siberia.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-09-26 05:30pm

darthdavid wrote:I call a Hunk of siberia.

Genghis Khan? Is that you?

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-09-26 05:31pm

No. The emperor of my land shall be called Ghengis Korn...

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2004-09-26 05:33pm

Oooh! Oooh! Dibs on a Corrupt Fundamentalist Nation spanning Turkey and Africa

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-09-26 05:36pm

I call Britain anyway, London or no.

Out of curiosity, what natural phenomenon causes all these perfectly round bays where major ancient cities should be?

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2004-09-26 05:36pm

Scandinavia would be nice.

Is this human-only, or are there also dwarfs, elfs, trolls, and other such fantastical peoples? What sort of magic?

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2004-09-26 05:40pm

Rogue 9 wrote:I call Britain anyway, London or no.

Out of curiosity, what natural phenomenon causes all these perfectly round bays where major ancient cities should be?

A Nuclear Holocost at the end of the 21st century gutted every city and town, and left the bays in their place.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2004-09-26 05:40pm

I'm interested, and I'd be interested in playing a medium sized empire in North Africa, centered on what is in RL Tunisia. But if magic is going to be involved then it is going to need to be well controlled. I have zero interest in playing a game in which people start quoting D&D for examples of what there uber mage can do. Fantastical creatures and peoples I have no objection too though.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-09-26 05:41pm

If there are dwarves, I'm doing that. Because if there are, I already have the groundwork for my nation laid out. For I am Renegade: Paladin Mod and Official Dwarf Designer of Quentriandal. Fear me.

Got lots of work put into it... If not, hey, it'll be fun making something new.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2004-09-26 05:44pm

Straha wrote:
A Nuclear Holocost at the end of the 21st century gutted every city and town, and left the bays in their place.

The fact that many of those craters of destruction have islands n their centers strongly suggest volcanoes. Anyway, the fact that we get to chose our own terrain really says to me at least that we should abandon any premise of this being the earth.

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2004-09-26 05:45pm

I'd be interested to led ze German Legions to ze Viktory!!

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2004-09-26 05:46pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:I'm interested, and I'd be interested in playing a medium sized empire in North Africa, centered on what is in RL Tunisia. But if magic is going to be involved then it is going to need to be well controlled. I have zero interest in playing a game in which people start quoting D&D for examples of what there uber mage can do. Fantastical creatures and peoples I have no objection too though.

North Africa is already called for the Jihading Armies of SPAM (or a god whose name and Ideals I have yet to determine) so get your own land, bucko. Though having a nation that someone else is already at war with would be... interesting.

The one thing I'm worried about is the communication time between nations, because if were playing this midevil, it's going to be immense, and unless we allow Magic to be relativley common-place, the only news you'll be getting is from Magical Ambassadors, and maybe covert agents inside nations...

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2004-09-26 05:46pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:
Straha wrote:
A Nuclear Holocost at the end of the 21st century gutted every city and town, and left the bays in their place.
The fact that many of those craters of destruction have islands n their centers strongly suggest volcanoes. Anyway, the fact that we get to chose our own terrain really says to me at least that we should abandon any premise of this being the earth.

The Sarcasm Detection is week in this one...

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-09-26 05:49pm

Straha wrote:
Sea Skimmer wrote:
Straha wrote:
A Nuclear Holocost at the end of the 21st century gutted every city and town, and left the bays in their place.
The fact that many of those craters of destruction have islands n their centers strongly suggest volcanoes. Anyway, the fact that we get to chose our own terrain really says to me at least that we should abandon any premise of this being the earth.
The Sarcasm Detection is week in this one...

He has questioned THE GREAT LEADER's wisdom! Show trial! Show trial!

... Wait, he's not in HAB. Nuts. Guess we'll just have to sic First Armored on him.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2004-09-26 05:55pm

Straha wrote:
North Africa is already called for the Jihading Armies of SPAM (or a god whose name and Ideals I have yet to determine) so get your own land, bucko. Though having a nation that someone else is already at war with would be... interesting.

Fuck that. You can't go and call all of Northern Africa and Asia Minor outright. That's a huge amount of territory including one entire continent. Now how about as a more reasonable deal you take North Africa up to say Tripoli-Benghazi-ish and I take what is west of that. Though if someone else wants to extreme west for a small-ish Empire I'm fine with that.

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2004-09-26 06:41pm

Rogue 9 wrote:
Straha wrote:
Sea Skimmer wrote: The fact that many of those craters of destruction have islands n their centers strongly suggest volcanoes. Anyway, the fact that we get to chose our own terrain really says to me at least that we should abandon any premise of this being the earth.
The Sarcasm Detection is week in this one...
He has questioned THE GREAT LEADER's wisdom! Show trial! Show trial!

... Wait, he's not in HAB. Nuts. Guess we'll just have to sic First Armored on him.

LONG LIVE THE BATTLEMECH! VIVA LE MECH! VIVA LE MECH!

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2004-09-26 06:49pm

What sort of 'level' of magic are we talking, exactly? I'm assuming not Netheril or Zeal(Which is a pity, a flying city is always impressive to you barbarian outlanders!), and I'm assuming medieval tech. I suppose I could ask if I could go steampunkish out in the Atlantic on floating atoll-cities, but I doubt that fits the rest...

Darksider · Post by **Darksider** » 2004-09-26 07:02pm

Has anyone called the British Isles yet?

If so, i'll take a part of northern Russia

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2004-09-26 07:06pm

Darksider wrote:Has anyone called the British Isles yet?

If so, i'll take a part of northern Russia

Rogue 9 called Britain. Most of Russia, southern and eastern Europe are all still open by my count.