IOT: The Flood

It happened only a few years ago.
The ice caps melted. Slowly.
Governments did try to stop this change, but all failed.
Hail, Rain and other disasters nature likes to throw at us hit the battered communities.
Now, 10 Years Later....
2070. The world is looking slightly normal again*. People are coming together in small communities, to brave this world where the environment has been turned from something to save into something to loathe.
*Any wonder why I took the IOTV map?

Welcome to my new IOT!
General rules:
You are not Poseidon. You are not the God of Winter. You cannot prevent the ice and water flow from happening.
No trolling.
While I encourage you to be as treacherous and backstabbing in order to survive I cannot accept
stuff like "BOOM HEADSHOT I WAS NEVER ON YOUR SIDE YOU ARE NOW DEAD UMADBRO?" because that does not make any sense AT ALL. I can and will veto such things.
If you are going to treacherously backstab your allies, tell me first (and properly please. Don't write "I will DoW ally X because" in a VM. In PM). I won't pass on such information.
Any hard crimes to mankind will have you removed - no genocides or purges or whatever.

Starting out form:
Name of country:
Religion:
Starting Bonus:
Territory claimed: (insert 1 and only one territory here)
Brief history of your nation: anything goes, but you can't have something like "And then the USA killed everyone and lived on" because THE COUNTRY DIDN'T SURVIVE.
DON'T PANIC! Each country starts out with 15 SP since they survived the disaster (exception below).

Claiming, Economy and Gains from a province.
The Economy of this game runs in the Survival Points (SP). These do not represent any currency, merely the will of your people to keep themselves alive. This is a bankable resource - nothing is wasted, everything stays under control.
A standard province brings in 1 SP.
if it is half-covered by water it brings in 0.5 SP (also for ice) (exception: Foraging and Survivor's spirit Bonuses mean such a province gives you 1 SP as well.)
If it's completely water/ice nothing.
There are soldiers: armies cost 5 SP a piece. Then there are two different navies. Old navies cost 3 SP but too many lower your ENV level so you can research everything AGAIN, and New navies only come with the NAV and hence the ENV IV tech and cost 10 SP but can move through frozen and partially flooded tiles.
Claiming costs 1 SP, just state the province you want to claim, if you'd be so kind.
There is no negative outcome to wasting everything in one go, but it'll take a while to research things!
You can bank. Don't worry.

Bonuses:
You start with a primary bonus (with the auto-unlocked BON 1, as soon as you reach ENV 3 you can research splinter technology BON 2 which allows a secondary bonus.

Primary Bonuses:
Survivor's spirit - mitigate the penalty from flooded prov. to 0.5
Barbarian - Gain 1 MAR tech army
Technological - Gain ENV II at the cost of 10 SP in the start.
Naval Engineering - Old navies can move through partially flooded provinces.
Secondary Bonuses:
Foraging - no penalty from flooded prov. , mitigate penalty from frozen prov. to 0.5
Scorched Earth - any lost territories lose their SP gain for 1 turn
Prepared for Ice - Frozen land can be reclaimed at ENV IV, but with 1 more SP cost.
Great Drydock - New navies cost 5 SP to build instead.
Guerrilla - armies suffer no penalty on friendly frozen/partially flooded prov.
Air Support - +1 to every battle random dice roll

Techs:
BON = Bonus techs. Give you the bonuses above. There are only 2.
ARMY = techs designed to improve your soldiers. There are two = MAR and TUN.
ENV = techs to change the environment. there are IV, everything bases on these.
NAV = the navy tech.
Each tech costs 15 SP
Full tree of the techs:


Passing/Repealing:
Once you have unlocked a ENV level, you can swap between it and any other levels you have unlocked and still research the next one.

Battles:
Battles will be fought using random dice rolls. When choosing your area to fight, remember the following points:
Tundra/frozen gives both sides a -2*
Partially flooded gives both sides a -1*
Air support gives the side with this bonus a +1
TUN is necessary to move through frozen, MAR is necessary to move through Partially Flooded
Old Navies can't sail through Frozen and only sail through partially flooded with the Naval Engineering bonus.
Old navies carry 2 armies per navy, New navies carry 3
The further away you get from your territory, the more demoralized your soldiers get. From 5 land provs away they fight with -1 strength, from 10 land provs they fight -2, 15+ is -3
You can't get a negative battle outcome - 2 dices are rolled per team.
Allies can join in in the same battle.
* penalty for defender goes with Guerrilla

No UN:
Exactly. The UN crashed. No one wanted it anymore, it was useless.
This is where the players come in.
For when your main focus is not being drowned in your sleep, you aren't going to listen to some big organization are you.
So the normal blocs form as usual, but there is no main governing body, meaning that a post-apocalyptic world can be truly post-apocalyptic.

Map:

Country list:
Current map:

Shouldn't Greenland be, I dunno, meltwater?

Name: New Atlantis
Religion: Poseidon!
Starting Bonus: Technological
Claim:
Brief history: When civilization asploded, many people from West Africa sought shelter in Europe and the Canary Islands, considering their economies didn't suck entirely. New Atlantis, home of the most hardy of these people, will do what its namesake could not - survive the rising waters which have claimed so many lives.

wait a moment.
1) I will get the images up now
2) please take some more time to act civilized will you? kthxbai

Name of country: Commonwealth of Virginia
Religion: Amalgam of Protestant Faiths, a little Hindu, Islam, Buddhism, and Catholicism
Starting Bonus: Technological
Territory claimed: North Virginia (the northernmost part of the state of Virginia)
Brief history of your nation: When the United States collapsed, the people of Richmond and northern Virginia in general pulled together to save their culture. They now seek to reuinte Virginia, and spread the wisdom of the great state from there.

WE CLAIM ALL OF TEH STATE OF VIRGINIA: DO NOT SETTLE THERE

Civ'ed said:

wait a moment.
1) I will get the images up now
2) please take some more time to act civilized will you? kthxbai

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Stages of Double A's involvement in an IOT:
1) Random questions in the thread or spartan sign-up post
2) Do what I didn't do in #1
3) More random questions
4) Actual history

all right, just tell me which province, please....

Double A said:

Claim: that island that borders CoI, SCA, and NCA.

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Um...

The Tribe of White Sands​

Religion: Atomism
Starting Bonus: Tech
Territory claimed: Trinity Test Site
Brief history of your nation: We were nothing before The Discovery. We found the monument to the atom, and it gave us a sense of life. Oh, the monument! We are all children of the atom, we are all its servants and followers. It gave us life, and hope, and we promise to protect it with our lives. We will show the atom our gratitude, for it lets us live, and breath, and rule over the land we call home.

-The Book of the Proton

Name of country: Batavia
Religion: Protestant Christianity
Starting Bonus: Naval Engineering
Territory claimed: Amsterdam
Brief history of your nation: Although the government had collapsed, whoever survived in the Low Countries managed to survive in the (relatively) high areas of the region. Eventually, they managed to reclaim much of the old Netherlands in the process. Eventually rebuilding the old capital of Amsterdam, the Dutch have a promising future in this new world.

Religion: United Church of Canada is the official religion, but all sects of Christianity and Athiesism is tolerated. Other religions are frowned upon in society, but not outright persecuted.
Starting Bonus: Suvivor's Spirit
Territory claimed: Toronto
Brief history of your nation: TBE

Credit for the awesome flag goes to Dreadnought. Used with Permission

Atacama Ascendancy​

Religion: Catholicism
Starting Bonus: Technological
Territory claimed: Central Atacama
History: After the flood, untold amounts of people were displaced. The encroaching waters took the lives of millions, and all hope seemed lost. As part of a last-ditch effort, a group of survivors decided to build a new society, set in the driest place on Earth- the Atacama Desert. The intense heat & aridity posed a great challenge to the settlers, but after decades of hardship, they finally succeeded in their dream- the city of New Cuzco was born, & the Atacama Ascendancy was ready to take on the worst things the Earth could throw at them.

Name of country: Democracy of Attica.
Leaders:



capital: Athens.
Religion: Ancient greek religion.
Gonverment: Athenian democracy. There are three political bodies where citizens gathered in numbers running into the hundreds or thousands. These are the assembly (in some cases with a quorum of 6000), the council of 500 (boule) and the courts (a minimum of 200 people, but running at least on some occasions up to 6000). Of these three bodies it is the assembly and the courts that were the true sites of power — although courts, unlike the assembly, were never simply called the demos (the People) as they were manned by a subset of the citizen body, those over thirty. But crucially citizens voting in both were not subject to review and prosecution as were council members and all other officeholders. Also we often hear of the assembly sitting as a court of judgment itself for trials of political importance and it is not a coincidence that 6000 is the number both for the full quorum for the assembly and for the annual pool from which jurors were picked for particular trials. Approximately one hundred officials out of a thousand were elected rather than chosen by lot. There were two main categories in this group: those required to handle large sums of money, and the 10 generals, the strategoi. One reason that financial officials were elected was that any money embezzled could be recovered from their estates; election in general strongly favoured the rich, but in this case wealth was virtually a prerequisite.
Starting Bonus: Technological
Territory claimed:
Brief history of your nation: After a bankrupt greece collapsed and after the great destruction all civilization was destroyed. But Attica, under the leadership of Athens, managed to rise up, re-create the ancient athenian democracy, under the name << Democracy of Attica > and try to re-unite greece.

The United Soviet Socialist Republic of Saskatchewan

Name of country: USSRS ((United Soviet Socialist Republic of Saskatchewan))
Religion: Atheism
Starting Bonus: Technological
Territory claimed: Regina
Brief History: TBA
Map:

Red_Spy said:

The Tribe of White Sands​

Religion: Atomism
Starting Bonus: Tech
Territory claimed: Trinity Test Site
Brief history of your nation: We were nothing before The Discovery. We found the monument to the atom, and it gave us a sense of life. Oh, the monument! We are all children of the atom, we are all its servants and followers. It gave us life, and hope, and we promise to protect it with our lives. We will show the atom our gratitude, for it lets us live, and breath, and rule over the land we call home.

-The Book of the Proton

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I don't know where that is so I'm not putting you on my map.

Red_Spy said:

Here it is

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It doesn't say exactly where it is though. I looked it up with Google already.

The middle part of New Mexico

oh. too late anyways. I'll update it later when there is more players.

Pink, really?