These are the traditional duties and powers of all councilmembers:

Post polls and discussions to determine citizen desires for departmental policies, plans and agendas.
Cast a tie-breaking vote in the polls determining their departmental policies, plans and agendas.
Formulate departmental policies, plans and agendas based on citizen feedback.
Formulate departmental policies, plans and agendas of their own in the absence of citizen feedback (forum outage, low participation, etc).
Convey these policies, plans and agendas to the President for play in the game.

These are the duties of the Military Department:

Organize decisions on troop movements.
Organize decisions on defensive plans.
Organize decisions on offensive plans.
Organize decisions on troop upgrades and terminations.
Call a Mobilization Council Vote to determine if the economy should be mobilized.
When the economy is mobilized for war, becomes the defacto President, superceding the President in the Chain of Command.
Can supercede a provincial build queue with military units or improvements during time of invasion.

I nominate Sarevok, Falcon02, Donovan_Zoi, and Rik Meleet

I Second the above nominations

I Third the above nominations

Thanks, Black_Hole and everyone,

I will accept. :D

I will Decline my nomination here. My school starts in 2 days so I will have no time to be in a major position. I give my full support to Rik Meleet

I'm afraid I must Decline my nomination.
College starts for me the 30th, and I find I no longer have the passion for the demogame that I used to.

On the military nomination, I would like to see candidate program platforms before I decide to throw in my support. If the program platform works best for me, I will back the candidate.

Yer i have to agree with Provo, this could be a key term for us miltary wise.

Question for the candidates:

1. Concerning our National security and our current situation, what course would be good? Weare currently surrounded by hostile powers that are either military powers or culture powers. Seeing our current situation, would you seek inward perfection or would you go to expand our borders and crush our foes? If you should wish to crush our foes, then who would be first? What strategy would you use?

Here's a big surprise question for the wouldbe candidates:

Who are you going to invade first? Babylon, Iroquois, Zulu, Rome, French (when we meet them), or the pacifists? :lol: And why?

Here is my question to the MA candidates

Are you capable of developing a thorough program platform with your visions, solutions to problems, work methodology, way to submit instructions and in general how is your way of leading and respecting the WOTP at the same time? Plus, do you rely on informal voting blocks, previous DG background, or can you rely on technical writing/polling skills and sound strategy solutions for Japanatica alone?

I would certainly hope for a hardworking candidate that is willing to put his/her mind into a more developed strategic vision and publish it before the elections start.

I nominate myself and accept, DZ needs a little competition.

Now to answer the questions:

Question 1, submitted by Saervok
Concerning our National security and our current situation, what course would be good? We are currently surrounded by hostile powers that are either military powers or culture powers. Seeing our current situation, would you seek inward perfection or would you go to expand our borders and crush our foes? If you should wish to crush our foes, then who would be first? What strategy would you use?

A difficult question as I am seeing support for a diplomatic victory, but not every citizen wants a boring pacifist game. I myself would like to see our nation expand its borders and gain power to crush our foes if they decide to step out of line. But who should we crush first? From my experiences, the Zulu's are the biggest pests around, but the problem of war there is the hilly terrain. For Babylon, the arch-enemy of the DG, they have the mountains most likely guarding their captial, and it would be useless to send troops over the mountains to get picked off by the Babylonians, who will most likeley have prepared from the time war was declared. Rome would be an imposing threat, but judging by their number of cities, I assume they don't have an Iron source connected, but they are probably heading for it right now. French are too far away to be an immidate threat, and their UU is a defensive one so they are helpless. For now I seek defensive startegies, until we get our UU, in which I will, if I'm in office at the time, use aggressively aggainst our enemies. But for now, we aren't close to the Samurai, so we must be on the defensive as Babylon and Rome, and maybe the Zulus will most likely demand war. Spearmen are almost useless against a Legion, so having Swordsmen patrol during a war would be our main means of defense, and utilizing the use of hills to lure the enemy into a trap will help dwindle their numbers.[/b]

Question 2, submitted by blackheart

Who are you going to invade first? Babylon, Iroquois, Zulu, Rome, French (when we meet them), or the pacifists? :lol: And why?

Until the Samurai are roaming the country side, none; but if need be I would choose the Zulu, as they have the prime territory near the jungle. (I'd actually invade the pacifists, but we can't attack our own citizens ;))




Nah I'm just kidding every game has its pacifists.


I'll get to Provolution's question later when I have more time ^^.

In a completely unexpected move, I will nominate myself for this position but remain Undecided pending citizen reaction, if any.

I have accepted the nomination for President but would also be willing to try a new position I have not held before, if the citizens really want an old face in a new place. :)

I nominate Truckingpete, Chief of the Navy,for Military Advisor

Daveshack, I think you'd make a good Military Advisor... I second your "self-nomination"

Civanator and others , please answer the first question.

Here is my question number 2 and 3.

2. Which doctrine are you pursuing:

Pacifism
Take out the Babylonians since they are our traditional nemesis
Take out the Iroquois Southeast
Take out the Zulus North
Take out the Romans East
strike at the French in the far North

What do you think is realistic to achieve next term, and please sequence these by how many turns ahead you can visualize you can confront them and with what forces?

3.
Are you for a Northern landgrab (Blackheart), Eastern landgrab (what I propose), Southern landgrab (The Babylon haters), maritime expansion or peaceful coexistance?

I also think dave shack will make a good military advisor

Due to new responsibilities at my RL gig, I am going to now have to decline this nomination. :(

The Military is going to be the department to watch this term, and unfortunately I will now not have the time to do the role justice. A shame too, because I was really looking forward to taking on the Zulus(for those who were still curious about my leanings ;) ).

In my absence, I wish Civanator the best of luck, and welcome DaveShack to the position if he still wants to give it a shot.

Long Live Japanatica!

Due to a sudden shift on the side of DZ here, my dear and esteemed colleague, in a very surprising turn of events, I nominate myself for Military Advisor. Read my Domestic Nomination posts, and you will see I have a total strategy for next term, even working jointly with domestic. Contrary to DZ, I will try my hand on the Romans in the East, and my postings in the domestic thread are clearly signalling my intentions in this regard.

Pertaining to the existing nomination with Civanator, I know I can work well with him as deputy , or as minister, depending on the outcome. However, my work in the FA, and across disciplines, means that I will integrate military planning with citizen input more than any other. So I hereby REJECT [B] my Domestic Minister nomination, and renominate me for Military Advisor and Accept [B] .


Furthermore, as Noldodan points out, he has longer experience in the Demogame, with almost 12 terms in office and a good seasoned routine in running things. I backed him last election and I will back him again this one, as I had a good cooperation in this term. I still need to see some improvements in the Domestic side, with more strategic visions, more writings on the DA intentions, more input in provincial debates and in general a stronger communication across ministries. I know the Ringi reform failed, but that has been my intention all the way, and as a deputy or domestic minister I may have tried to improve those things, like no riors in Fanatikku and so on.

Therefore, I run for MA in the most civic way, and will also thank Sarevok and Falcon02 for the great groundwork they did in Term 1. Please dear citizens of Japanatica, vote Provolution for future victory! :)

I wish to second Provo for this possition in the military race and would like to encurage everyone to vote for Provo for Military

Provolution's questions certainly force one to think hard. Tomorrow I'll have a better chance of answering, as it's past midnight here ^^.

LOL :)

To quote the guardian of the riddle of the Bridge in Monthy Pythons "Quest for the Holy Grail"

"African or European Swallows?"

In a completely unexpected move, I support Daveshack's self-nomination.

Provolution all your rejections and acceptances are confusing me :crazyeyes:

Here's a question:

Will you build a mass force of the non upgradeable swordsmen or mass horsemen that will eventually upgrade to our most needed samurai?

Ideally, mass produce horsemen, but for that we need a road next to Epolenep, horsecity, and roads up north.

Of course, I'd go for Horsemen which upgrade to the all powerful Samurai, and inevitablely crush our foes.

Never mind WOTP just clicked ^^.

Question 3 by Provolution

Are you capable of developing a thorough program platform with your visions, solutions to problems, work methodology, way to submit instructions and in general how is your way of leading and respecting the WOTP at the same time? Plus, do you rely on informal voting blocks, previous DG background, or can you rely on technical writing/polling skills and sound strategy solutions for Japanatica alone?


All leaders must respect the word of the people one way or another, but how they choose to is up to them. I favor more DG backround, and discussion rather then loads of polls on every little tidbit. I would more rely on technical writing/polling skills and a sound strategy than anything else for the good of Japanatica.


Which doctrine are you pursuing:

Pacifism
Take out the Babylonians since they are our traditional nemesis
Take out the Iroquois Southeast
Take out the Zulus North
Take out the Romans East
strike at the French in the far North

What do you think is realistic to achieve next term, and please sequence these by how many turns ahead you can visualize you can confront them and with what forces?

For next term, it will have to be a mostly pacifist term, being that we lack our capable Samurai. But if we had the had to stage a fight against a nation right now, I am divided between the Zulu and the Romans. I lean towards the Zulu more because they don't have a particularly strong or capable UU, but I would say the Romans because they are more of a challenge, both strategically and tactically, but only if they have their Legions. Otherwise a fight with them would be just as difficult/easy as the Zulu.


Are you for a Northern landgrab (Blackheart), Eastern landgrab (what I propose), Southern landgrab (The Babylon haters), maritime expansion or peaceful coexistance?

I would say more for the rich lands of the east, being the silks and the Iron near Rome. But a Northern landgrab wouldn't be that bad either, but I would like to split the trading abilities of the northern countries from the souther countries. Peaceful coexistance is my very last resort when we have capable means of disposing of our foes.


Time for you to answer your questions Provo ;).

Are you capable of developing a thorough program platform with your visions, solutions to problems, work methodology, way to submit instructions and in general how is your way of leading and respecting the WOTP at the same time? Plus, do you rely on informal voting blocks, previous DG background, or can you rely on technical writing/polling skills and sound strategy solutions for Japanatica alone?


Personally, as a new DG player, I am not relying on informal writing blocs or previous background alone, but firmly believe in the merit of accomplishment.
This means, I rely on my technical writing skills as well as polling skills, and has actually developed, refined and codifed many of Japanaticas core developments. From the outset, I have been a strong proponent for pursuing iron working and monarchy, which has enabled us to gear our country spatially for seizing iron locations ahead of time from potential antagonists and to adopt a governmental type that enables us to fight several conflicts without suffering to outright economic waste of despotism or the danger of war weariness and lack of military police and troop support of Republic.
I am also for a line maximizing the unique features of Japanatica, training horsemen on barbarians where possible and later convert these to elite samurai, build barracks and temples on borders to sustain cultural integrity and military superiority and strategically apply revolutions in order to capsize antagonist and unprepared nations in swift and effective campaigns.

I consider the people of Japanatica as my bigest resource, and will consult you ahead of all major decisions, this means I will poll my military plans and sub-poll plan variations and modalities. As a military minister, I will develop my preliminary instructions for all to see and comment ahead of time, and adopt them to the will of the people. Yet, I will not let mob rule overrule a functional plan, and will cautiously evade fringe factions to hijack Japanaticas main agenda in small legal and constituitional scoops. This means that I will make the war a public project as possible. In extension with that, I will synchronize and exhange view with all branches of government, judiciary and governors, and will not fail any entity on operational and political expectations codifed in my polled supported proposed plans.

Which doctrine are you pursuing:

Pacifism
Take out the Babylonians since they are our traditional nemesis
Take out the Iroquois Southeast
Take out the Zulus North
Take out the Romans East
strike at the French in the far North

What do you think is realistic to achieve next term, and please sequence these by how many turns ahead you can visualize you can confront them and with what forces?


I will manage to handle a conflict with Rome, and if we work effectively, also handle the Zulus by the end of term 2, probably 3/4 into Term 2.
In the meantime, I will submit continuous projections on the military balance and our relative capability to destroy our enemys strength and control of battlespace, which means focussed strength on dedicated areas.
I suggest stable relations with Babylonians and Iroquois all the way term 2.


Are you for a Northern landgrab (Blackheart), Eastern landgrab (what I propose), Southern landgrab (The Babylon haters), maritime expansion or peaceful coexistance?

I am clearly for the Eastern landgrab in term 2, which does not mean we need to work around the Zulus, but here the method would be a coastal system of cities in the northwest, which gives us a geographical reach from which we can project force on the entire of our continent. I would say, Project Force East, patch up our southern border and extend influence north, jointly with coastal cities we can supply from sea with troops for a sudden shift of force balance they do not expect in the longer term.

Finally, I would like to say that I will work well with Civanator under all circumstances either as minister or as deputy, yet, in the position as minster, I can handle more the doctrinal issues in the grander scale and assure continuity, where I will nominate Civanator to be the Chief of Staff to develop some of the future battle plans putting the Samurai in the field.

I consider the future war ministry as a team, and yes, we will create positions
for eager citizens that believe they have the talent to serve our nation

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And with these words, I hope we can get an effective military administration next term.