ChesterIOT 1 - ExpansIOT

ChesterIOT​

Spoiler for map

Spoiler for map of existing NPC nations:

NPC nations: Connaught, Brittany, Holstein, Genoa, Tunisia, Athens, Dobrogea, Antioch, Pskov, Nogai.

A map of Europe. Sounds simple, right?

Rules?
1) Everyone starts with max 20 provinces, who must have a land connection to each other. So you can be a big round blob or a thin line from Venice to Mecklemburg, as long as nothing interrupts you. Every island is on it's own. If you're coastal, you can also have some islands, but still in the limit, and not too far from your original province (like, if you're Aragon, you can get the Baleares, but no Sardegna. Only exception is Iceland, which is in reach from the northernmost Scottish provinces and all of Norway's coast.
2) Each year (turn), everyone gets to spend 50 Points. Points can be changed into money, at a rate of 1 Pt. = 10 EP. Points can also be exchanged into Tech Points. Tech points are used to get technologies. 1 tech point costs 10 Points. With Income points( EP), you can buy armies.
Armies cost:
1 Infantry - 2 EP
1 Cavalry - 4 EP
1 Artilery - 6 EP
Infantry has a power of 1, Cavalry has a power of 1.5 and Artillery has a power of 2. The combined power of your armies is both the “health” and the “damage” of your armies in battle. Having more inf/cav/art than the enemy gives a 10% bonus to the total power given by that category.
NOTE: Artillery works at full strenght only when it is the attacker. When defending, artillery has a power of 1, just like infantry.
3) Trade; each nation has a Center of Trade (CoT) as long as it exists. If the country is conquered, no more CoT. Sending a merchant to a CoT anywhere costs 2 Points. Your CoT has already full merchants in it. ( 20 - that's the max number of merchants a nation can have in a trade center). Each merchant brings 1 Point per turn.
4) Religion: be either Christian or Muslim; your choice. Further religious divisions are useless, as Religion is only a stat, which receives different bonuses from different techs.


Expanding you territory: Expansion is easy: as long as a land is adjacent to you, you can take it ( one of the technologies allows taking over land that’s 2 provinces away).

TECHNOLOGY is a HUGE factor in your progression. Spend Tech points to get the technologies. Each technology costs 1 Tech point.
Each technology must be bought in the order you see them, so if you want one of them, you must first get all the ones before it. Each tech can be bought only ONCE, except those who state otherwise.
NO MORE THAN 6 TECHS CAN BE BOUGHT EACH TURN, NO MORE THAN 2 OF EACH TECHTREE PER TURN. So, you can max 2 techs from each techtree per turn, max 6 techs total per turn.

Spoiler for Techtrees


Battles:
Each army, wether Inf/Cav/Art, can fight only one battle per turn.so it’s good to specify how many of each unit type to send to each of your enemies. If you don’t specify the exact number, I will spam your Inbox. After each military victory, you can discuss peace this way: 1) the winner may ask for land/troops/religious conversion/ Points/EP. 2) The defeated humbly offers whatever he has elft to not be completely conquered.

Also, if your nation get pwned, and destroyed, you can rejoin, just as if you were a new player. Just not in the same place.

The size of the nation is also important. While not counting the actual number of provinces, if a player feels big enough, he may ask to be promoted to the next tier.
Each tier is named according to the religion.

Sheikdom / County - small size (no bonuses) - starting size ( 0-30 provinces)
Emirate / Duchy - medium size ( adds 15 Points per turn) - ( 31-55 provs)
Sultanate / Kingdom - big size ( adds another 15 Points per turn) - (56-85 provs)
Caliphate / Empire - HUGE ( adds another 20 Points per turn) - (86+ provs)



PRESTIGE
All nations gain prestige from almost anything they do. Prestige is like a "total score" Winning a battle awards 10 prestige. Losing a battle gives 1 prestige. Completing a techtree awards 50 prestige. Becoming a Caliphate/Empire awards 50 prestige. Conquering any of the NPC nations awards 50 prestige. Winning a war against a player nation awards 75 prestige..
The player with the most Prestige will be the Overlord. Overlord gains 25 Points and 5 infantry armies every turn. Sadly, the overlord's armies suffer a -20% power penalty in combat.

Expand, kill, screw people up.
Also, the name of your nation is unimportant. As long as you acknowledge you're human and have only medieval weaponry, (around year 1200), I do not give a pony on your nation's name.
Any questions?

Reserved.
post away.

D'Hauteville Sicily

Capital: Palermo
Culture: Norman
Religion: Catholic with Orthodox and Muslim Minorities
More later.

Reserve Russia. Will post more later.

The Empire of the Great Khan:​

Okay, 4 more players and it starts.

If this isn't dead, I'd like to join.

THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF LONDON

Capital:London

Culture: British

Religion: Agnostic, though religious freedom is guaranteed.

Government: Republic

Official Ideology: The United Republic of London is the greatest nation in the world, and all other nations must adapt in the way The United Republic of London has, Or be assimilated into the Republic by force.

to further increase the number of players, I myself join as the Kingdom of Troll, in western Sweden. More later.


Also, no matter what happens, Update tomorow.
24 hours left.

Turn 0

Map


Player nations; Sicily, The Khanate, London and Troll
For everyone: having multiple religion in your country was not something planned in this IOT. For gameplay purposes, you may keep whatever religion you want, but must choose the bonuses of which one will you take upon researching certain technologies.


For turn 0, everyone starts with the basic stats: no armies, no prestige, nobody is Overlord, everyone has 70 Points to spend. ( 50 original + 20 from merchants in your own CoT)