Gosh I can't imagine the effort updating a map like that!
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Gelion
Retired Captain
What format does the game take place? The discussion etc?
This really brings back some memories
erez87
Lord of Random
How much interest is there for a states game like north kings old one? Usa forms but not yet signs the constitution and remains more of a confederacy of states at first. Always wanted to play that one, maybe i could run it.
I'd love to play, and I would help round up players
Thlayli
Le Pétit Prince
The rules, updates, and stats are posted as discrete google docs, with a lot of ongoing discussion happening in the Discord channel and IRC. Between updates, the actual battles to which players commit are resolved in IRC chat, with a dice rolling bot (helpfully coded by Luckymoose) which players and the mod roll to actually resolve hits, misses, and damage rolls, and the army unit icons deployed onto a Google Slide (effectively an editable powerpoint).
So it functions fairly similarly to a forum-based NES in principle, with the google docs and the Discord chat replacing the forum posts, and battles simulated between turns. This style works quite well I think, since players have some "content," i.e., the battles, to tide them over between the submitting of orders and the mod posting the next update. It was last used to my knowledge in SysNES II back in 2013 or so, but it has been adapted well to this game.
Merry Christmas to all my NESers past and present! 
Gelion
Retired Captain
Thanks a lot for the info! I am very happy that this evolution of NES carried on. Also because it is a new technological iteration of a NES. Congrats to you guys!
Finally squeezed my update out, @Daftpanzer how is yours coming along? 
Thlayli
Le Pétit Prince
Coming soon to a NES near you*
*NES may not contain dinosaurs. It may or may not contain trollmen.
thomas.berubeg
Wandering the World
Coming soon to a NES near you*
*NES may not contain dinosaurs. It may or may not contain trollmen.
and will certainly not contain birds.
Anonymoose
KING OF MEESE
That little whippy thing looks sufficient to motivate a TRex.
Small brains, small whips!
thomas.berubeg
Wandering the World
Thlayli
Le Pétit Prince
Here is a preview of the map which Terrance and I are working on for our upcoming NES, Consider the Laurel. The game will be an epic simulator of imperial crisis going through generations of civil war, with victorious players reigning as Emperor and setting imperial policy. This is just our test of the capital region - the final map will be huge (it frequently breaks our computers) and may be the largest map ever created for a NES. Terrance has been an invaluable assistance and junior imperator, and I look forward to our future success in this project.
For interested parties, as there are still a few player slots available, the rules can be found here:
TNES VII - Consider the Laurel
You can expect Consider the Laurel to launch some time in the next month, give or take. If you are on the Discord, where we give frequent development updates, feel free to pop in and ask questions.
(Also a big thanks to Daft who showed us some Civ2 mod sprites, which Terrance has brilliantly adapted for our purposes.)
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Thlayli
Le Pétit Prince
So far we have:
Kyzarc/Sean, imperial governor in Aetheria (Britain)
Jehoshua, imperial governor in Tarias (Gaul)
Luckymoose, legionary commander in Aytak (Carthage/Morocco)
Thomas.berubeg, Valianized barbarian-descended imperial prefect in the central sea isles (Sardinia/Balaeres analogue)
Nuka, governor of Hateph (Egypt)
Danwar, legionary commander on the Altenland frontier (Germania)
Lord Iggy, aristocratic delegate in Magna Valia (Southern Italy/isles)
TheMeanestGuest and ork, a declared team of the foreign empire Ashrai, set to gain revenge on archenemy Valia (the furthest east)
LordArgon, a barbarian tribe (undeclared location)
There’s also some interest from Immac and Shadowbound who haven’t fully declared starts yet. I would say the roster has capacity for one or two more, considering potential no shows. I intend to keep a thread updated here in CFC, but things like battles will be resolved either in IRC or on the Discord in the inter-turn time. Players are welcome to begin in coalitions with other imperial players.
Kyzarc/Sean, imperial governor in Aetheria (Britain)
Jehoshua, imperial governor in Tarias (Gaul)
Luckymoose, legionary commander in Aytak (Carthage/Morocco)
Thomas.berubeg, Valianized barbarian-descended imperial prefect in the central sea isles (Sardinia/Balaeres analogue)
Nuka, governor of Hateph (Egypt)
Danwar, legionary commander on the Altenland frontier (Germania)
Lord Iggy, aristocratic delegate in Magna Valia (Southern Italy/isles)
TheMeanestGuest and ork, a declared team of the foreign empire Ashrai, set to gain revenge on archenemy Valia (the furthest east)
LordArgon, a barbarian tribe (undeclared location)
There’s also some interest from Immac and Shadowbound who haven’t fully declared starts yet. I would say the roster has capacity for one or two more, considering potential no shows. I intend to keep a thread updated here in CFC, but things like battles will be resolved either in IRC or on the Discord in the inter-turn time. Players are welcome to begin in coalitions with other imperial players.
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Angst
Rambling and inconsistent
@Thlayli Y'know. Might actually do some insertselfing as much as I can and play as a barbarian tribe in Altenland, as something from not!Saxony and beyond, amalgating some Norse/Germanic things (Y'know, Angles, Jutes, Saxons, Danes). If you're interested in that. I could lift some stuff from another setting I've worked on if you're interested in ideas, if not, fine too. I know in our world the area was largely insular save for the immediate Germans I think, so I'd be taking over some minor power, probably being more of an ambigious party (mercenary leader that'll do stuff for someone in Tarias?) than an actual prominent actor as eg not!Gaul.
Looking at the (latest) Discord map fragments, is Taglarika supposed to be not!Scandinavia? The non-peninsular areas seem quite (Norse) Saxon.
Seems to currently be a foreigner player and a barbarian player, so there's a barb slot free, no?
If anything, interest expression maybe. If you prefer talking in Disc, you can ping me in the Laurel channel
Looking at the (latest) Discord map fragments, is Taglarika supposed to be not!Scandinavia? The non-peninsular areas seem quite (Norse) Saxon.
Seems to currently be a foreigner player and a barbarian player, so there's a barb slot free, no?
If anything, interest expression maybe. If you prefer talking in Disc, you can ping me in the Laurel channel
Thlayli
Le Pétit Prince
You're basically right - we describe the coastal area of Taglarika as "if Netherlands lost to the sea," so it's a Danish/Frisian/North German geographic resemblance, with these big bight/sound type areas cutting deep into the landmass, creating many shallow channels. In the north is kind of like a Dogger Bank-like large tidal landmass that freezes over in winter, and it's traversable by migrants from north and east. (It's a bit different from Europe, since it's sort of like, what if Jutland came before the Netherlands and was connected to Poland overland rather than close to Sweden. There's more of a traditional Scandinavia-like area further to the north, but it's so remote as to be off the map.) Then in the interior there are some deep primeval forests and iron age hill fort societies.
Taglarika has a weak king and the confederacy is propped up with Valian support, so there's a lot of potential mischief to be had there, as well as possibly working as a mercenary for one of the imperial players, or even allying to the foreigners. Tldr; your ideas are very welcome and I think it'd be fun to have another barbarian player, as well as someone to flesh out some regional cultures.
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