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So .. how long is one turn? 1 month?

May I recommend some form of the Unreal Time so popular in SDN's World be used, in addition to the turns? Diplomatic negotiations might get tricky otherwise.

One production turn is a year long.

Darkevilme wrote:One production turn is a year long.

I meant, 1 turn = 1 year = real time 1 month?

HA! Zor gave us machines, and we also have crop-magic!

(Since, you know - his capital intensive agriculture gives the exact same yields as everybody else's, it's obvious everybody uses magic to boost their farming)

Bad choice of gift, I suppose

PeZook wrote:HA! Zor gave us machines, and we also have crop-magic!

I still have the edge in agricultural technology, with things such as disc plows, Reapers, grain processing systems as well as an Agricultural Wing of the Imperial Acadamy of Science and Engineering dedicated to producing superior strains of crops. Your crop improving magics won't save the spinal columns of your workers when it comes to using Sickles and Sythes to harvest it.

Zor

Zor wrote: I still have the edge in agricultural technology, with things such as disc plows, Reapers, grain processing systems as well as an Agricultural Wing of the Imperial Acadamy of Science and Engineering dedicated to producing superior strains of crops. Your crop improving magics won't save the spinal columns of your workers when it comes to using Sickles and Sythes to harvest it.

Zor

Mechanical harvesters are next, and we'll just use healing magics for the spines in the meantime

Look upon my works and despair, for that is your future puny mortals.

DarthShady wrote:Look upon my works and despair, for that is your future puny mortals.

Not after you indulge in a bar fight with me.

Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:

DarthShady wrote:Look upon my works and despair, for that is your future puny mortals.

Not after you indulge in a bar fight with me.

You will be given immunity...at least until I kill everybody else.

Oh, and I am so looking forward to our bar fight.

So how many provinces are people capturing this year? it seems to vary.
Fingolfin is capturing almost his own weight in empire. (30-40 provinces?) i dont know how many troops he used for that.
Zor has captured in excess of six while shooting his way to the Baltic.
And i took 8, for which i used 3/5ths of my army approximately though with little losses. The question is whether i'm being too cautious or Fingolfin is being too reckless.

Darkevilme wrote:So how many provinces are people capturing this year? it seems to vary.
Fingolfin is capturing almost his own weight in empire. (30-40 provinces?) i dont know how many troops he used for that.
Zor has captured in excess of six while shooting his way to the Baltic.
And i took 8, for which i used 3/5ths of my army approximately though with little losses. The question is whether i'm being too cautious or Fingolfin is being too reckless.

I did ask straight away how many are we limiting it or not. Anyway, Most of the lands are pretty depopulated, since everyone stayed in cities for the most part.

And I used a good portion of my available army (like more than half). Otherwise, someone could try cutting the number of provinces because just by eyeballing the map, there's a tonne of them in front of my own capital and they are disproportionately sized. I would imagine that I actually conquered like 20 or so, but that depends on how large the province is.

I am taking 25 and expanding this out next turn. The big thing is IIRC a province you take doesn't produce there turn you take it, produces only half the next turn, 3/4 the next, and finally full 3 years later, while needing 1/2 then 1/4 the forces to pacify before assimilated. Taking territory is long game strategy, it uses your army now to get you points down the road.

I'm not taking too many provinces myself, but that's mainly to do with the fact that there's pretty much only deserts surrounding me. I mean I could exploit established game mechanics by seizing ridiculous loads of empty Sahara, but realistically I already have the choice bits of land in my general geographical area, so really - should I bother?

The Provinces around my lands are small and numerous, so I'll be taking a lot of them.

DarthShady wrote:The Provinces around my lands are small and numerous, so I'll be taking a lot of them.

Too bad all your slaves will starve to death due to the fact that you killed every plant in your territory with your unending night thing.

Zor

I'm taking provinces slowly and putting a garrison of over a thousand soldiers in newly conquered territories.. that should allow me to get provinces producing quicker and welll assimilated. Plus we've got to kill all those troublesome bogeymen so our new subjects can live in peace of mind and life.

Shady's barbarians are way more awesome than your comical jackasses, Zor. At least they put up a fight. while it appears people living in Russia are stupid pricks who can't take the hint

Siege, you could expand further down the Nile.

As for how many provinces I took, it will be a modest amount, around 6-8. However, I'm on my way to a personal union with Denmark, and I'm buttering up to local tribes for great trade.

Zor wrote:

DarthShady wrote:The Provinces around my lands are small and numerous, so I'll be taking a lot of them.

Too bad all your slaves will starve to death due to the fact that you killed every plant in your territory with your unending night thing.

Zor

Magic Comrade, Magic is the answer.

PeZook wrote:Siege, you could expand further down the Nile.

Yeah, that's the plan. Now that the Black Kingdoms have sworn fealty to me, I shall venture south, discover the source of the Nile and the Mines of King Solomon, become unfathomably rich, and then impress all of y'all with gold-plated rhinoceros cavalry. What I lack in lands, I will make up for in sheer absurd wealth!

Hell I might even coat my personal Ha'Tak in diamonds, just because I can!

DarthShady wrote:

Zor wrote:

DarthShady wrote:The Provinces around my lands are small and numerous, so I'll be taking a lot of them.

Too bad all your slaves will starve to death due to the fact that you killed every plant in your territory with your unending night thing.

Zor

Magic Comrade, Magic is the answer.

That and fungus.

DarthShady wrote:Magic Comrade, Magic is the answer.

Importing from the Border States?

SiegeTank wrote: Yeah, that's the plan. Now that the Black Kingdoms have sworn fealty to me, I shall venture south, discover the source of the Nile and the Mines of King Solomon, become unfathomably rich, and then impress all of y'all with gold-plated rhinoceros cavalry. What I lack in lands, I will make up for in sheer absurd wealth!

Hell I might even coat my personal Ha'Tak in diamonds, just because I can!

And then you will discover modern economic phenomenons, such as one called "inflation"

PeZook wrote:And then you will discover modern economic phenomenons, such as one called "inflation"

As long as the Pharaoh can bathe in gold, and as long as there are rag-poor straggler states to our north desperately in need of our wealth to finance their myriad brushwars, Egypt doesn't really care . We'll be Persia to your Sparta during the Pelopponesian War!

Besides, c'mon, admit it.... You just know that sooner or later your druids will be wanting one of those fancy golden calves to decorate that cozy forest hamlet.

You didn't understand what I meant, did you?