Civ Design Challenge III - Alternate History

So savage? Huh? I have asperger as well... I mentioned it a few times in this forum.

Spoiler :
before you got here :p guess is should've mentioned it again...
I only added that since I tend to get too critical in real life as well, and that is related to my autism. I know that's an absurd, but pointing out the fact I've got autism seems like the best way to explain my actions in some situations. Nevertheless, I've only ever told it to a very few people outside of my family.

It's not absurd. I am quite critical of a few things personally myself (Mostly art and writing granted.) It does explain some things so I wouldn't say it's not something that affects your behavior and the way you react or act towards certain things. Also, I did know you had it as well since I looked at your About Me on the site. :)
 
Should we wait for more designs in this challenge, or vote and hope the next challenge renews interest in the contest?
 
We could start the next challenge as this one's a little dead theme wise. I'd recommend it. We could either vote or just move on due to lack of designs in general...
 
Actually I might submit one today so if we could hold the vote off a little pls that'd be nice
 
ohw8 nevermind something came up and i wus busy lel, sorreh guise - vote if ya like
 
Seems like this thread's a little dead so unless we get further votes today I think it's fair to end here.
 
Right, right, let's fire it up again!

What if... Napoleon had conquered England?

Prompt's simple, start off!
 
Right, right, let's fire it up again!

What if... Napoleon had conquered England?

Prompt's simple, start off!

Alright, seems fair enough.

Backstory (Not the best):
Spoiler :
Instead of a plan, it was an action. Napoleon decided towards his invasion of Great Britain during the start of the Third Coalition, however it proved to be more successful than the British believed it would be. With Napoleon's naval power and mounted infantry were able to be quite the invasionary forces for the French Empire making them able to take hold of England. It was a long, hard battle for the people of France to win but they pulled through by the thin of their teeth, capturing England. Great Britain was at a hard faced position, having not much to do but to either give up England to the French or continuing fighting at the risk of further captures. They choose the former...
French Empire (Napoleon)
UA: Grande Armée -
For every naval unit inside a City-state's :c5citystate: borders gain +5% Production :c5production: toward your land-based units. Upon the capture :c5war: of a city, gain points towards both a Great General :c5greatperson: and a Great Admiral :c5greatperson:.

UU: Chasseur -
Replaces Calvary. Can travel in other civilization's borders without extra movement :c5moves: costs. This unit deals +10% :c5war: more damage to cities, however this becomes +15% if it's a coastal city.

UU: Fusilier -
Replaces Musketman. Deals +5% more damage :c5war: for every mounted unit in adjacent tiles. When you are in Golden Age :c5goldenage: this unit gains +1 Movement :c5moves: and +10% Strength :c5strength:.
 
I felt like participating in one of these for once, so well, here it goes:

What if Napoleon had conquered England?

Short Story/History/WhateverYouWantToCallIt
Spoiler :
History said:
The year is 1803, England is dead; the French have taken it over. Using diversionary ships, Napoleon was able to lure the Royal Navy away and set sail towards the English Coast with his small army. If it were not for the newest French invention, the Scope Ship (See the UU spoiler for a description), the French navy would not have succeeded. Thanks to the ship's extended sight, the weaker defenses of the English Coast were easy to be spotted without the English noticing the French Navy. When the French Navy entered a closer range, the navy's cannons could be fired from a distance that would normally be unreachable due to the Scope Ship giving orders on where to fire specifically. The Scope Ship's function didn't stop here either: since it could easily spot from where the English shot their cannons, it could order the other ships to hide behind the rocks of the English Coast, preventing a lot of damage to these ships. In short: The English didn't stand a chance without their massive navy!
Shorty after England had surrendered (since their capital had been taken over and new orders couldn't be given out to the English army), Napoleon took control of the former Royal Navy, and renamed it to the 'Marine des Îles Françaises' (Navy of the French Isles). Being so proud of this accomplishment, he decided to name the newly acquired lands the same.

A week after Napoleon's overwhelming and unexpected victory, he set his eye to Scandinavian territory, including Iceland, Denmark, Norway and even Greenland. He sent his new Navy towards these lands, under control of admiral Jacques Bonner, who also led the main attack on the English coast. Up until the death of Bonner (ironically, he drowned), the new Marine des Îles Frainçaises had major success, taking control of most of Scandinavia and even parts of Russia as well. Since the news of his death in combination with the news that no new leader had been chosen yet quickly spread around the whole of Europe, the Austrians launched a surprise attack against the navy stationed in 'La Principale Ville de l'Île', capital of 'Marine des Îles Françaises'. This attack was as victorious as the former French invasion of England, meaning that the empire Napoleon and Bonner had worked so hard for had been taken down in an instant. The next few years, the main French army (still led by Napoleon) was so demoralized due to the loss of the Isles, that it quickly got destroyed by the new European power: Austria. For the next twelve centuries, Austria ruled over a vast part of Europe, including all the territory that Napoleon had conquered.

Marine des Îles Françaises (Jacques Bonner)
Capital: La Principale Ville de l'Île
UA: Invasion of the Isles:
All units gain 33% combat strength against cities which have settled on a different continent than your original capital.

UU: Diversionary ship (replaces the Caravel)
Cheaper and weaker than the standard Caraval. Gains GPP towards a great Admiral when being attacked. When destroyed, all naval units further than 5 tiles away gain double movement for 1 turn. (This movement doesn't stack with other Diversionary ships' destruction)

UU: Scope Ship (replaces the Great Admiral)
In addition to the normal bonuses that a Great Admiral provides, the Scope Ship also provides bonuses to both ranged and melee naval units within the same hex.
Naval Ranged units: Range increased by 1 (This stacks with the 'Range' promotion and will increase range for both attacks if the unit has the 'Logistics' promotion.) The Tower Ship's movement points are set to 0 if the buffed unit attacks.
Naval Melee units: The unit temporarily gains cover I as well as +1 sight.
Spoiler :
The Scope Ship is an imaginary French Invention, which basically is a ship with an advanced scope on it, so that it can easily spot enemies or enemy attacks from afar.


Start Bias: Coast

Map:
Spoiler :
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NOTE: I haven't read Keniisu's design yet, so I might actually have come up with a similar concept :) Nope, completely different :lol:

EDIT: Updated the history (Thanks Cyphose :p) as well as the name of the Great Admiral Replacement (a towership is kind of... bs). Updated the name of the Civ as well!
 
Backstory:
Divergence point: Battle of Trafalgar

Though Horatio Nelson's genius looked to secure British dominance of the seas, his passing during the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 threw his forces into disarray and instead sealed Britain's fate as their grand navy succumbed to the combined French and Spanish fleets. With the end of any hope of maintaining naval supremacy in the Third Coalition, unable to aid their allies on the continent, and prey to the now-superior French and Spanish fleets, Great Britain had little choice but to remain isolated on the isles as Napoleon summarily subjugated Europe. A year later, Napoleon saw to the defeat of Austria and Russia and the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire. With the newly-formed Confederation of the Rhine guarding France's borders from the possibility of an immediate counteroffensive led by Prussia, Napoleon turned his eyes toward the British Isles. It had been a long-held ambition of his, and in his own words, becoming masters of the English Channel was akin to becoming masters of the world. He had made designs upon Britain before, but their naval superiority had prevented him from executing his plan effectively. With the British fleet's demise at Trafalgar, however, Napoleon could advance unimpeded and in a far more direct manner--instead of landing in Ireland to disrupt the British and force their hand as planned, he would land directly on the coast of the English heartland.

As he had done in the past, Napoleon struck with unprecedented swiftness. Despite their best efforts at fortifying the coast in preparation for the event of an invasion, the British routed en masse in the face of the ferocious French strike. Within days, the main British redoubt at Dover had fallen, and within weeks London followed. Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington and acting commander of the British forces, attempted to rally the demoralized English forces, but Napoleon continued to prove why even all the greatest powers of Europe had not bested him. With a decisive victory over Wellesley miles outside of London during his effort to recapture the British capital, Napoleon advanced northward nearly unopposed through the rest of his campaign and brought Great Britain to its knees.

With its Parliament and monarchy exiled to various locations in France, the British government was effectively dismantled, and in its place, Napoleon instituted a satellite state, much like he had with Spain and the Confederation of the Rhine, to oversee matters until the tides of war had receded. Merciful in victory and having the utmost respect for his opponents, Napoleon named Wellesley himself the leader of this new state, the Hégémon des Îles (Hegemon of the Isles).

With tensions with Prussia rising, and a fourth coalition quickly forming as a response to his aggression toward Britain, Napoleon was forced to turn his attention elsewhere. Though rebel sentiment burned in Wellesley just as it did in much of the Isles, the military capabilities of Great Britain had been confiscated for Napoleon's war effort and the morale of its people was meager. With little choice but to obey Napoleon's decrees in the name of his people, Wellesley accepted his governance in the name of the French crown with a heavy heart, and set to repair the damage that had been done.

Hégémon des Îles
:c5capital: Leader: Arthur Wellesley
(Unique Ability) The Iron Duke
:c5puppet: Puppeted Cities grant a portion of their :c5food: Food and :c5production: Production yields to the :c5capital: Capital, increasing but generating additional :c5angry: Unhappiness over time. Annexing a :c5puppet: Puppeted City generates :c5goldenage: Golden Age Points based on how long it was a Puppet.​

(Unique Unit) Gribeauval Battery
Replaces the Cannon. +1 :c5moves: Movement. Reduced :c5rangedstrength: Ranged Combat Strength against Cities (+150%, from +200%) but gains +25% :c5rangedstrength: Ranged Combat Strength against Land units.​

(Unique Building) Assemblée Constituante
Replaces the Courthouse. Unlike the Courthouse, it can be built in non-Occupied Cities. -2 :c5gold: Gold maintenance, +2 :c5happy: Local Happiness, and +2 :c5culture: Culture. Builds twice as fast and is prioritized in :c5puppet: Puppeted Cities.​

EDIT: Well this is awkward, Troller...
 
@Cyphose, don't worry, it's just a name ;)
Also, little point, -2 Gold maintenance is pretty much identical to +2 gold, isn't it? :)
I like your UA, seems pretty unique (that being said, that's what a UA is supposed to be right? :lol:)
 
Also, little point, -2 Gold maintenance is pretty much identical to +2 gold, isn't it? :)

Yeah, but the Courthouse normally costs 4 Gold maintenance, and giving a building +Gold output is a bit of a moot point if it still has a maintenance cost, so I just halved the maintenance instead.

By the way, I read your brief history, and this stuck out to me:
English Bowmen were not able to take the French archers down
By Napoleon's time, warfare was far beyond archers :p Muskets and cannons were the name of the game.
 
Spoiler :
Point of divergence: Battle of Smolensk

The French occupation of Smolensk, during the Great Patriotic War of 1812, was a longer battle, wherein the Russian army made a direct confrontation upon the conquest of the first suburb the French reached. After three weeks of nonstop fighting, the Grand Army was able to defeat the frenzied Russian forces. The majority of the Russian army withdrew to Smolensk, and cruelly quartered themselves in the homes of the urban peasants.

After another three days and nights of bombardment, during which hundreds of peasants were killed and the supply of food to the Russian army was cut off, de Tolly finally surrendered to Napoleon. Poland was ceded to Napoleon, as were some Baltic ports, and Napoleon established the République Baltique, centered in Warsaw. The monarch selected was a soldier who displayed personal bravery during the battle and took a bullet for Napoleon in the kneecap, the "Invalid King of Poland", Alfonse I.

Following the crippling Russian defeat, and the following establishment of a fortified border, the only enemy of Napoleon's France left in Europe was the Empire of Great Britain. As the British war against the fledgling United States of America was also in progress, a small portion of the Royal Navy was diverted to the West Atlantic. There was enough of a diversion, however, for Napoleon to pressure Britain into a strategic stalemate with the threat of the entire French navy, army, and military industry potentially trained on the isles.

In the rough year following the Treaty of the Strait (in a slight novelty, the treaty was signed on a ship in the Strait of Dover, where at least three British frigates were ordered to be present at all times), British saw an interesting unprecedented appropriation of manufacturing for military purposes. The industrialized nation saw itself focusing its massive production on the production of munitions, and of cannons. However, it was not alone in this; 1813-1814 also saw the federally sponsored industrialization of several German and Rhine states, notably Westphalia, as well as the Lowland region. Napoleon used the Baltic Republic as a trade foothold and imported several tons of iron from Russia, whose peace stipulations included an embargo on Britain.

Despite Britain's superior naval tradition and industrial infrastructure, the raw material and personnel available to Napoleon through the French Empire and her puppets proved to be a massive untapped potential. Britain quickly made peace with American leaders, following an influx of economic support by the French, the defection of Tecumseh's federation into a third party, and the re-employment of guerrilla tactics by the war hardened Americans. This, in tandem with the Strait Peace, provided Napoleon another advantage in the form of morale.

The British peoples' resolve was broken by humiliation at the hands of Napoleon, the loss of several key territories to the growing Tecumseh Federation, which now encompassed much of Atlantic North America, talks of French re-entry into India, and probably the most individually impactful factor: urban discontent. With the governmental appropriation of some factories, the wages in major centers plummeted as taxes went towards the upkeep of the military. The Coal War, as it would be known later, bankrupted the British, while simultaneously skyrocketing French, Belgian, and German industry.

As Napoleon set his sights on the Balkan region and the decaying Ottoman Empire, new strategists were put in charge of the British front, which had largely grown cold and had lost Napoleon's interest. A new strategy employed by Henri Ducard I, a young new man raised from a peasant Parisian family who never knew the Monarchy, involved discrete armament of urban socialist Radicals in Plymouth, London, Manchester, and Yorkshire, important English industrial and naval centers.

This plan, which came to be known as the Ducard Plan, was carried out in late 1814, with French sailors in disguise as merchant ships ferried massive amounts of German and Dutch made munitions to the revolutionaries. This distributive phase lasted through to early 1815, and with the burgeoning establishment of an American navy in the Atlantic, Ducard decided that France and her allies were ready to challenge British control of the sea and even threaten Great Britain herself. The first gunshots of the Great War of 1815 were fired by English revolutionaries during a seizure of an important British munitions factory in London. The Royal Navy's attention was diverted to the mainland, where the Radicals toppled city after city, and bombardment began of several key fortresses in England by the Royal Navy itself.

The French quickly began to engage, and soon both the United States and the Tecumseh Federation (now de facto encompassing most of Canada besides the St. Lawrence river) declared war on Great Britain as well. The Royal Navy was unable to focus on so many fronts, and the first front abandoned was North America; the Dominion of Canada was left to its own devices with the withdrawal of the Royal Navy to the East Atlantic front. With the French re invasion of British East India in March of 1815, both European armies found themselves subject to a great storm, which prevented fighting in South Asia until early May.

However, the French armies were able to cut off the lines supplying the Isles, and with internal insurgency followed eventually by the breakdown of the Royal Navy, the British Empire started falling to ruin. The inability of Great Britain to keep up with military production due to the seizure of many important industrial centers by the rebels led to a rapid decrease in its ability to withstand the French bombardment; in June of 1815, French armies sailed to the British Isles and were able to engage directly in the conflict along their revolutionary contemporaries.

The Loyalist British government fled to India, where the French hadn't yet deployed a large enough force to beat down the combined British and Indian armies in the region. Russian entry into the war, forcing the French to redirect reinforcements eastward, led to a peace treaty towards early 1816 with the new Raj. The French were able to hold the Baltic Republic, but with neither the French nor the Russians making any progress, a stalemate peace was signed by 1817.

However, the de facto collapse of the British Empire drastically changed the geopolitical stage. The great powers became the rapidly industrializing Russian Empire, the Japanese Empire (whose industrial reforms were much earlier due to the hegemonous French Empire), which started to expand through China to support the lucrative British opium trade in an unlikely alliance, the French Empire itself and her many vassals, and the United States, which had managed to enter a political union with Tecumseh's Federation, become the Great American Union, which quickly expanded across Canada and the Great Plains.

By 1825, there were three clear international power blocs: the Eastern, led by Japan, Russia, and the Raj; the Continental, consisting of most of Europe besides some of the Ottoman Balkans and Scandinavia, all gradually being divided and annexed by the growing French Imperial Republic; and the American, where industrialization was beginning to unlock the vast potential of a continent, assisted by an egalitarian model of relative equality between the races. Slavery was peacefully abolished in the South, where immigration by Amerindian and European workers was contributing to urbanization and industrialization.

Following Napoleon's retirement to a somewhat more honorary aristocratic position, Henri Ducard I slowly rose through the ranks and began to reform the Continental government into a more republican, bureaucratic system. It was clear the economy and the world were changing; in a letter written by a now aging Ducard to a young German philosopher in 1843 disclosed a shrinking faith in the imperial system and a growing faith in new industrialist republics like in Japan and the United States.

The year is now 1850, and conflicts in the Pacific between Japan, America, and France appear to be mounting. All three nations combat nationalist tensions internally, but all three have industry available to them in copious manufacturing amounts. Factories across China, Eastern Europe, and the American Midwest assure that, should conflict arise, it will be violent, bloody, and wholly industrial...


Written in a separate app over many days, I got carried away, hopefully it's not too long on the site.

:c5puppet: The French Imperial Republic :c5puppet:
:c5capital: Paris
Henri Ducard I

UA: The Ducard Plan
:c5razing: Capturing cities does not require a melee unit; reducing a city to 0 HP provides the option to :c5puppet: puppet it. :c5rangedstrength: Ranged units ignore fortification and defensive buildings in enemy cities do not affect their :c5strength: strength. :c5puppet: Puppeted cities passively generate military units.
Spoiler :
The Ducal Plan was the name of the strategy involving fomentation of insurrection in Britain

UU: Unité
Replaces Gatling Gun. :c5rangedstrength: Range of two, but with greatly decreased :c5strength: strength, at 20 melee and 20 ranged. However, unique "Continentale" promotion, allowing +5% strength and ranged strength for every city in the empire, doubled for every puppet.
Spoiler :
Les Unités, or Units, were the United forces of the French army that took place in the British Invasion, composed of many continental volunteers from French puppet states, who fought despite poor training because of the main professional army being abroad in other conflicts of the war

UB: Nationale
Replaces factory; does not require coal. May be :c5gold: purchased in :c5puppet: puppet cities, and each Nationale in the empire causes 1 :c5unhappy: global unhappiness to each enemy for every garrison the enemy has stationed.
Spoiler :
Les Nationales were the factories and industrial outposts that appeared all over the Rhineland, the German city-states, and Belgium during the buildup to the war. They were expressly for the French government, and were federally built and maintained.
 
What if... Napoleon had conquered England?

You didn't say how long for. :D



Spoiler :
1805
During the Battle of Trafalgar, HMS Victory is improbably blown up early on destroying British morale and without leadership, their ships are scattered. Villeneuve turns north before they can regroup and destroys the blockade at Brest freeing up the entire French fleet which forces the English ships guarding the channel into ports.

Following Austerlitz and the Italian campaigns, Napoleon establishes the confederation of the Rhine and convinces new Batavian Republic to support his naval capabilities. By 1806, the Royal Navy has regrouped but not recovered and when the War of the Fourth Coalition starts, taking Berlin is enough for to force Prussia out of the war. At this point Denmark-Norway joins on the French side where its fleet defeats the Swedish and blockades Russian ports.

With Spain still on side, a combined French-Spanish-Dutch fleet destroys the Royal Navy and Napoleon whimsically lands at Hastings. He reaches Birmingham before the British army resorts to full-scale guerilla warfare. He lays waste to key industrial centres, especially ports, and returns to the continent in time to discourage any Russian continental support.

During the War of the Fifth Coalition, Portugal is defeated and Austria subdued again. Napoleon returns to Britain and occupies major cities before crowning Charles III of the house of Stuart king. (Descendant of James II through Louisa who didn't die young.) Napoleon returns to the continent to re-subdue Austria defeating a combined Austro-Russian army near Budapest.

Charles III relies on Catholic allies Spain and France to supply him loyal soldiers but also drew heavily from native Catholics - especially Scottish and Irish forces. However, he reinstated parliament and allowed many protestant ministers which encouraged local support. The house of Hanover had fled to Canada but due to his ill health, George III never survived the journey. George IV was unpopular in the colonies due to his dislike of them and tried to return to Prussia but was captured and executed.

Charles III used the resources of his great empire to rebuild the Royal Navy. At first, Napoleon was glad of his home-made powerful ally but became wary and demanded Britain cede Quebec and territory in Africa. From paranoia, he tried to ensure the loyalty of other allies by promoting his brothers Joseph to King of Spain and Louis to King of Holland. These coup d'etats against strong allies provoked outrage across Europe and the War of the Sixth Coalition in 1816 of Russia, Prussia and smaller states plus rebels in Spain, Austria and Holland. Great Britain stayed neutral.

Leaving his Marshals to deal with threats at home, Napoleon embarked on destroying the last true threat to his rule. He marched through Austria with his veterans easily crushing resistance and joining a Polish force to attack the Prussian heartlands. This was a ploy to drag the Russian armies west and he decisively destroyed their forces alongside most Prussian armies. He then turned back east spending winter in Poland and in Spring, started his Russian campaign.

The plan was a coastal route to St Petersburg relying on the Danish navy for supplies however, that was defeated at the Second Battle of Copenhagen by a Swedish and coalition Dutch force. The new Swedish navy proceeded to harass Napoleon's army until he gave up and marched inland routing another Russian army and sacking Kiev. The war officially ended in stalemate although resistance in Spain continued.

Until 1821, there was an uneasy peace with no nation powerful enough to challenge France in Europe but Napoleon running out of allies. Then, deeming the Royal Navy to be suitably rearmed, Charles III recommenced war attacking French colonial possessions. With the French fleet almost entirely based in Europe between the British and Dutch navies in England and the Spanish to the south, Napoleon was only able react by arming for a third British campaign.

While making his preparations, a Prussian force invaded Westphalia and marched down the confederation of the Rhine eventually annexing Bavaria. For the first time, Napoleon's Marshals were ill-equipped for their campaign with the elite forces preparing for the invasion of Britain and the German protectorates were defeated by a resurgent Austro-Prussian army. When news of a Russian army nearing Vienna reached Napoleon, he acted swiftly and defeated the German army although not decisively. He followed the Austrian army south into Italy and fought their army alongside the Russians outside Milan. The resulting campaign was inconclusive but Napoleon had to return to France to deal with a British landing that had combined with what remained of the Prussian army.

They fought a series of battles in northern France and Belgium during which attrition killed many of Napoleon's veterans and lowered French morale. In a bold move he completely wiped out the advancing Austrians from the south but was then trapped between Russians, Germans and British. He entrenched himself and only surrendered upon hearing of his brother Joseph's execution and a Spanish army approaching from the south. He was exiled to the Caribbean where he died under suspicious circumstances and France resumed as a Republic.




Great Britain

Charles III
The Noble Jacobite

May gain benefits of the two most popular religions in cities. Whenever a unit is recruited in a city, that city gains 10% production bonus to building that type of unit.

Spoiler :
Reflects the way he used pacified religious differences between Catholics and Protestants and the speed that the Royal Navy recovered following almost complete destruction by Napoleon.


Highland Footman - (replaces Rifleman)
Receive double experience in fighting in rough terrain and are slightly stronger than Rifleman (36 strength). May be purchased with faith.

Spoiler :
The Scots and Irish Catholics that where originally recruited as the few native British in support of Charles III but following a relatively short period of pacification, they formed the core of Charles' new army. Their experience with difficult terrain proved valuable during the Ardennes campaign of 1821 and expeditions to Canada and America in the years following the Napoleonic Wars.


Aboretum - (replaces Zoo)
Requires a forest tile. Has an additional +1 happiness if there is an unimproved tree tile within the city's borders. Whenever a peace treaty is declared, enter a WLTKD.

Spoiler :
Following the years of wars that had devastated every corner of Europe, the region entered a period of relative peace which in Britain, became public orchards and parks set up by upper classes.The fascination with trees partly stems from the peaceful nature but also from stories from the wars such as the Merry Men, a band who resisted Napoleon's short rule from Sherwood Forest and named themselves after the legendary Robin Hood.
 
By Napoleon's time, warfare was far beyond archers :p Muskets and cannons were the name of the game.
:blush: I've never been that good in history at school... This could explain why :mischief:

EDIT: Updated in my Original Post
 
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