SilliNES3: The Search for Imago

Expect a progress report tonight. A tentative map tomorrow.

NinjaCow64 said:

The glorious Australian people will only ally with Patagonia if it throws off the shackles of bourgeoisie slavery and join us in promoting total global revolution!

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We graciously except to join in your noble cause.

Never! Capitalism and democracy shall prevail!

dasemay said:

We graciously except to join in you noble cause.

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The Union is frankly quite shocked that its indigenous brothers to the south would ally with a power founded on imperialism and oppression of the Australian Aborigines. We would urge you to rethink your decision and join us to defend the rights and territory of indigenous peoples everywhere.

мы смеемся you poor ignorant people some day you will learn!

dasemay said:

We graciously except to join in you noble cause.

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Excellent! May the alliance between the Patagonian Communists and the Democratic People's Republic of Australia last forever! Or at least until we destroy the Imperialist Dog-Pigs. Whatever works.

Now only if there was some way of making an alliance with ALL the communists. Hmm...

m.t.cicero said:

The Union is frankly quite shocked that its indigenous brothers to the south would ally with a power founded on imperialism and oppression of the Australian Aborigines. We would urge you to rethink your decision and join us to defend the rights and territory of indigenous peoples everywhere.

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Patagonia has long since dropped all it's cultural ties. our history is nothing more to us then weakness holding us back form progression, today we practice communism pure communism at it's finest, and have no wish to sully our selves in other's affairs such as thou.

Whelp looks like its time to break out the covert ops and PMC's.

As a pro-tip, there will be 3 types of powers. Major power is 10ASP baseline. Regional is 7 ASP baseline. Small is 5 ASP baseline. Minor is 3 ASP baseline. Stuff like former Granadine island colonies would be Minors. NPC's won't necessarily have the same level of development as PC's, or possibly have more. Finally, in Update Zero I will hand out bonuses like Economic Strength, Bonus, Approval Rating, Techs, and even banked ASP or ASPT as I see fit.

I would like to also remind all Magic is available, but heavily marginalized by technology due to ethical and moral issues, as well as relative inefficiency.


Rhenish Confederacy/Bair_the_Normal
-Size is much more appropriate for this type of game: good
-Should specify a bit more about The Stahlstromwachen. Are they patrol boats, infantry? Or are they like the Marine Corps, with a force mixture of soft to hard, land air sea, to be utilized as needed?
-If no one takes Germany, I'll give you permission to establish southern German (or swiss/austria/bavaria etc) power, and discuss the history of the Rhenish Confederacy with Germany as a whole.
-Current Moderator NPC Wishlist: Bohemia, High Tech Swiss (minor), Polish/Prussia

Nasri Caliphate of Granada / Milarqui
-Everything excellent, I knew I could count on you.
-Start working on colonial history (talk to mercury)
-I'll give you leave to set up a Northern Spanish/Visigothic power, or maybe work with France and others to carve it up. ("France" wants Aragon)

Popular Union of Rome/GrandKhan
-Looks good, I approve
-What's your relationship with Venice? Are you the power that conquered it, or was the power that conquered it your patron which the Republic overthrew?
-Establishing Egypt as a lost Roman colony if LOE and you approve

Union of Free Nations/ m.t.ciceo
-You have 1 extra ASP. Remember, your first ASP of Commando's are free. Use the ASP for extra commandos or anything else you wish.
-Just so you have more leverage to fit your influence, I'll give you some associate nations. They won't be "free ASP" because they do consider themselves independent, and I'm thinking about establishing an antagonistic element in the Texas area.

OK, the "historic" colonies have been developed. There are five in total: Xayma (Jamaica), Nahual (RL Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua), Gaiqa (northern Venezuela), Qauba (Cuba) and Borinqa (Puerto Rico). The first three gained independence peacefully, the last two after a struggle, not as intense as the American War of Independence.

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NOTE: traded Puerto Rico for Florida

Nuova Venezia/merciary
-Hispaniola and Puerto Rico are core region.
-Has "significant" influence in either Quaba (Cuba) or Xayma (Jamaica). Talk to Milarqui.
-Has an extra 1 ASP, due to the 1 free UU ASP
-the Guardia are in Squadrons. And I have to warn you they are pretty weakish on fleet-fleet battle. You'd probably cut down on commerce raiding really well though, they'd likely provide high damage/cost ratio too, as you develop rockets and torpedoes.

Minsk Republic / talonschild
-Zealots sound like 2 Brigades (for larger masses) or 4/6 Regiments (if they focus on clandestine operations). Although they sound like Marines Elite (3 Brigades), the heavy vehicle emphasis and training makes me lower their size a bit.
-There's lots of land in Russia. What do you think would be the chance of, say, a sympathetic Ukrainian state?

Tamil Nadu/mrrandomplayer
-You need to make some changes
-rename multipurpose carrier something! Please!
-Are the MPCV's individual ships, or small carrier groups? If the former, each ASP buys 10 Ships. If the latter, each ASP buys 4 Groups. Warning: if you buy them in ships, they'd be somewhat vulnerable to direct fire or submarine attack. You'd have more firepower though.
-Personally assuming MPCV's as supercharged Pocket Carriers rather than speedy Super Carriers. Inform me if this is not the case.

Shadowbound
-All sound cool, bro.

Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Australia/NinjaCow64
-Approval!
-You'll have lower starting approval rating with banked ASP, with the assumption that you just finished conquering the other half of the island. OR you can have higher starting approval rating and at war or at least in conflict with a reactionary Australian/Oceanic state. I'll let you choose.

The Ape Dominion / BILLSIF
-Replace "Cybernetic" with "Magitech" or "Hydraulic." I know what you mean, but others don't, and it's worrying them.
-1 ASP for 1 Company of Hands
-You need at least 10 ASP in Racial, and 5 ASP towards your special Ape soldiers
-Come up with a mix of starting racial, technological, and magical stuff already . You have 75 friggin ASP to throw around.

France as the Socialist Union of Democratic States/Ailedhoo
-Preapproved, but you gotta fill out the form by the second deadline, bro. If not, I'll hand France to the next comer.

Invincible Holy Empire of the Sun/ ork75
-SPEND YOUR MONEY!
-I don't really care how elite you want your Mountain units to be, so propose a ratio and I'll give you a generalization of how good they are

Dual Monarchy of Sikkim-Bhutan/NedimNapoleon
-Nothing to see here

Atwal Empire/Js_9001
-Going to be head cannon that Mupalla are sorta like helicopter-ninja-seals, dashing through rough terrain to outflank positions and baffle enemies. Of course, being brigades they aren't super-elite.
-You are missing 1 ASP. Remember, first UU comes with 1 free ASP of UU.

The Tsardom of Alyaska/Terran Emperor
-Your spending isn't filled out
-Also, you got bit'chin rockets.

The Union of Arab Socialist Republics/Lord of Elves
-It's your birthday!
-Arab Revolutionary Militia volunteer during periods of conscription.

Patagonia/dasemay
-Has some bit'chn fission reactors
-OFFICIAL CANON: home of the nuclear submarine/carrier/battleship
-Seawolves sound like they'd be in wolf packs. 1 ASP for 6 Wolfpacks.


NPC REQUESTS! May overlap.
"Big Scary European Nation" which conquered Venice, a formerly preeminent Mediterranean power, in the 1800s.
"Vested Italian Interest Power" which aided the young Republic of Rome. (Maybe Swiss/Bohemia, Conqueror of Venice?)
"Anatagonist Italian Interst Power" which was kicked out by the formation of the Republic of Rome. (Maybe Northern Spain?)
WIP
Colonial or Post Colonial stuff. I know not many of you want to deal with colonies, it seems. But unless we want a literal Dark Continent still stewed in comparably anachronistic magic chiefdoms and empires, some of us should step up to the place as current or former colonizers.

FREE REGIONS
-Northern Spain
-Britain (Manx something Scotland something)
-Scandinavia
-Eastern/Southern Germany
-Poland/Central Europe
-Balkans (Where's Christos when you need him?)
-Basically all of Asia that's not India or the Middle East
-----Russia, China, Indochina, Central Asia, Persia, Anatolia, Indonesia, Japan
-Most of Africa that's not Morocco, Egypt, and the Kongo
-----Colonies/ex-colonies/native powers welcome! I'm too lazy to list, so just talk to preexisting powers
-Brazil (probably at least 2 states/colonies)
-possibly China
-Possibly Colombia/Panama
-Texas/Mexico
-Central Great Plains
-Rocky Mountains
-California and West Coast

Post edited here. The Lightning Cruisers occupy the blurry line between the two categories that you mentioned, being able to pass decently for either one, but I can sort them as your first category if it is more convenient for you.

Patagonia orders 6 wolf packs. -1 ASP

Hey, I think there's going to be wayyyy too many NPC's for me to handle. What do you guys think about me asking for an NPC mod who just handles diplomacy and NPC spending/general orders?

Added 3 Commando brigades with the free EP.

And also, Central Plains, Rockies, and Cali should have a smattering of Associated Nations. Texas can be an apartheid-like, Nasri-derived Shari'a-ruled Sultanate which oppresses its natives.

Also how much of my reach did I get?

That's determined in Update Zero, after Deadline 2. You probably got most of it except for Florida, and maybe/probably Louisiana (goes to "Texas").

I can see the "Texas" antagonist being considered morally lower than the Free Nations, but provide a greater degree of access to the western world. (Controls the Mississippi and the Plains, so closer ports for the central Associates.)

NPC mods have been tried on the IOT forums, havent gone very well in some cases, but I wouldn't mind trying it here.

@Terrance
The Mountain Brigades are intended to be units that, while elite, are still fairly numerous, like the US Marines or Airborne troops.

Perhaps 2 or 3 brigades for 1 ASP?

I've also edited in research/tech stuff.

Nice.

Please add numbers.

Also, reconsider how your techs work with your society. (this goes with Patagonia to some extent, but I find a hyper-fission powered Patagonia to be HILARIOUS.)

I filled out the free spending, I just want to know if I did it correctly, or if i still have like 15 ASP for me to spend (because I am currently assuming my 15 tech for Rockets is part of the spending)

Terran Emperor said:

NPC mods have been tried on the IOT forums, havent gone very well in some cases, but I wouldn't mind trying it here.

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Seconding this. Make sure it is some you like and shares your design philosophy, at least for this game. That was a real issue.

Terrance888 said:

Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Australia/NinjaCow64
-Approval!
-You'll have lower starting approval rating with banked ASP, with the assumption that you just finished conquering the other half of the island. OR you can have higher starting approval rating and at war or at least in conflict with a reactionary Australian/Oceanic state. I'll let you choose.

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I'd like to take the first option please. I would still like to be bullying New Zealand/Some other neighboring NPC, but if it isn't possible then I won't be too upset.

Declaration of the Foundation of the Communist International:



Supreme Leader Robert Menzies has announced the formation of the Communist International. All Communist/Socialist/Pseudo-Communist nations are allowed to join and have been invited to the organization, with its headquarters in Canberra. Fake Commies (OOC: Basically everyone preaching “Communism” that Australia doesn’t like /OOC) and Capitalist Pig-Dogs need not apply.

The goal of the Communist International, or ComIntern, is to provide a place for Nations that support the rights of the workers and the peoples to peacefully resolve their differences and to allow said nations to cooperate in overthrowing the bourgeois once and for all. It also acts as a Mutual Defensive Pact, so Capitalist Pig-Dogs will think twice before they try and stop our revolutionary power.

Invited:

-Popular Union of Rome (Grandkhan) (As they are basically Communists)
-Patagonia (dasemay)
-Union of Arab Socialist Republics (Lord of Elves)
-Socialist People's Jamahiriya (Assuming Shadowbound is playing as them)
-Socialist Union of Democratic States (Ailedhoo)
-All Communist NPCs

(OOC: If I have missed your Communist nation, please contact me it is probably a mistake

Also dasemay I haven't invited you to the Social Group yet as you do not have social group privileges yet. Ask here to have them enabled along with PM privileges so I can invite you .)