Recent content by Israelite9191

Holy mother of God, this place still exists?! You people still manage to find the time to do this?! (Bravo on that!) Das still has the same avatar and the same quote in his signature?! I'm allowed to use this many question mark-exclamation point combinations in a row?! WHAT?!?!?!

Congratulations Bird, again.

Congratulations Bird!

Mod discretion. ;) Basically, it comes down to a combination of official agreements (Celtic Reformed Bloc alliance, Chagatai-Lahore alliance, East Asian tributary systems, royal marriages, and the like), past relations (such as who was on what side of the German War of Religion), and various...

Here is the latest version of the mercenary rules. Looking for criticism, particularly on the numbers I've assigned. Map:

Today is my first chance to spend a significant bloc of time on the update, and I will be doing just that.

This is true. I suppose they would be better managed as levies than as mercenaries. To give China access to to Indochinese mercenaries. Since I'm going to allow hiring of mercenaries from neighbouring regions, though, I will make them part of East Asia.

Simple question really, would the Akıncı and Bashi-Bazouk be considered mercenary units?

Very interesting concept. Could you expand more on what, precisely, players will be doing?

Left over from an older version. Will fix. I will add Kashmir to India. I had added Afghanistan to the Northern India region to reflect the widespread presence of Afghan military in Muslim India. Do you think it would make more sense to have India as a single region? Based on what you're...

You just had to read this in the half a minute between posting and editing in the map, didn't you? ;)

Here is a revised map of the mercenary regions for YosefNES. I consolidated Europe into two regions, although I'm still not certain whether to include the OTL Baltic States region in Eastern Europe only, or in the East-West overlap. I think that this should generally clear up the concerns that...

What the hell are 'Indus Valley Sumerians'?

Thanks. I'm sorry if I came off angry...reading what I posted it came off much more aggressive than intended.

OOC: I was under the impression that we were some way into the first age, thus the fact that there are well established kingdoms and peoples. See above. I wish you had specified that you meant this to be the very begining when in my first post I drew up the basic outline of this story...