Iron and Blood: A Change of Worlds - Signups/Pregame Threads

[Tee Kay]

Would it be okay if my PoD was in the 1630s AD?

A bit of a stretch but allowable.

 

[Ailedhoo]

Would it be okay if my PoD was in the 1630s AD?

Forgive me but that would not require a universal PoD change for all less the impact of the change from one nation may give alteration for others? 1700 has potentials already...

 

[Tee Kay]

Well, be considerate of thy fellow forumers is what I ask.

 

[erez87]

Ok. So I can attack neutral nations with my units?

As for the levels, hmmm, inflation? lol, I don't know...

Hmm, so first level is 10IC and second level is 20IC. It's going to take a long time to build very few units...

In any case, I'll pick the Dutch East India Company and lay claim to Ceylon, Malaya and Java.

Provinces: Malaya, Java, Ceylon
Capital: Malacca, Malaya
Government: Charter Company
History: Rather than going bankrupted in 1799 the company grew in power faster than anticipated, as the dutch crown weakened and other countries begun to invest. Eventually the company's control over its territories in south east Asia became so strong the company is now seen as a state among the nations of the world, but in fact it is still a public company, albeit with a powerful private control over most of its stocks. Profit for the investors is above all else.

 

[filli_noctus]

I'm somewhat confused about the teching example given. It seems to indicate that if you have enough IC to buy a tech level twice over in a single turn both cost the same whilst paying for them over the course of two turns would mean the second purchase costs 10 IC more than the first. Is that correct?

 

[GreekAnalyzer]

I'm thinking that Scandanavia shouldn't change things too bad. Sign-up later.

 

[Ailedhoo]

I will like to purpose a alliance with the Dutch East Indies against any attempt to take over India and Sri Lanka by the British East Indian Company and the British Empire...

 

[erez87]

I will like to purpose a alliance with the Dutch East Indies against any attempt to take over India and Sri Lanka by the British East Indian Company and the British Empire...

While a formal alliance would be interesting to us, we would like to leave our choices open for the time being, but we shall gladly agree to a trade agreement with the great Marathas Empire, and a most important none-agression-pact.

or OOC Seeing as this is just the Signups/Pregame Thread, we should wait until the game starts and all players are accounted for . Who says there is a British Empire?

 

[Ailedhoo]

While a formal alliance would be interesting to us, we would like to leave our choices open for the time being, but we shall gladly agree to a trade agreement with the great Marathas Empire, and a most important none-agression-pact.

We concur with the trade and non-aggression treaties.

or OOC Seeing as this is just the Signups/Pregame Thread, we should wait until the game starts and all players are accounted for . Who says there is a British Empire?

OOC: There is bound to be one figure who plays the British and I think I know the likely candidate.

I also sense that a pregame alliance would allow possible joint stories between us; perhaps we both were involved in a war against the British East Indian Company? Of course this can be disused over the week, giving plenty of time to see who is whom and which is what.

 

[Tee Kay]

Ok. So I can attack neutral nations with my units?

You can attack NPCs, but not neutral provinces. Edit: think unclaimed provinces in Victoria or Europa Universalis. You can't march in with your troops.

Hmm, so first level is 10IC and second level is 20IC. It's going to take a long time to build very few units...

I will likely review the costs later yes.

I'm somewhat confused about the teching example given. It seems to indicate that if you have enough IC to buy a tech level twice over in a single turn both cost the same whilst paying for them over the course of two turns would mean the second purchase costs 10 IC more than the first. Is that correct?

Yes.

 

[Tee Kay]

This is a signup thread so uhmm yes keeping discussion to pre-1831 history and signup stuff would be great, yes.

Really, please.

 

[Tyo]

Claiming Muscovy, Ukraine, and Livonia

 

[erez87]

You can attack NPCs, but not neutral provinces.

I am confused as to the difference between NPC's and neutral provinces?

Tyo, I think someone did already...

 

[Tee Kay]

I am confused as to the difference between NPC's and neutral provinces?

NPCs: basically like player countries except... well, there's no player. I handle them.

Neutral provinces: greyed out provinces on the map that I didn't designate as a country.

What will happen is: the map will slowly (or not so slowly) fill with player countries, then I come back and put NPCs where there ought to be countries (like, say, if no one chose to start in Japan), and the rest will be neutral or unclaimed or greyed out, which players can then colonise with the method previously discussed (so, say, sparsely populated places like Patagonia, or places with tiny statelets like the Caucasus)

 

[JohannaK]

Tentatively claiming Sonora, California and Oregon.

 

[erez87]

NPCs: basically like player countries except... well, there's no player. I handle them.

Neutral provinces: greyed out provinces on the map that I didn't designate as a country.

What will happen is: the map will slowly (or not so slowly) fill with player countries, then I come back and put NPCs where there ought to be countries (like, say, if no one chose to start in Japan), and the rest will be neutral or unclaimed or greyed out, which players can then colonise with the method previously discussed (so, say, sparsely populated places like Patagonia, or places with tiny statelets like the Caucasus)

Ah got it. NPC's will usually be smaller than player states I guess? And probably Europe will have no such neutral/unclaimed provinces?

 

[Tee Kay]

I'm going to bed in a bit. Between now and when I come back tomorrow, if you have questions, please put them in bold and red so I don't miss it when reading the thread, thanks.

Or send a PM, that works too.

 

[Sonereal]

Royaume de France

Provinces: Aquitaine, Burgundy, Provence
Capital: Paris (in Burgundy)
Color: The blue on the flag above
Government: Constitutional Monarchy
King: Louis Philippe I
Prime Minister: Jacques Laffitte
History: Nearly everything as OTL.

 

[Tee Kay]

Ah got it. NPC's will usually be smaller than player states I guess? And probably Europe will have no such neutral/unclaimed provinces?

Europe is usually well-filled out by the time I get to making NPCs. If not, then I'll fill them with NPCs. If there are neutral/unclaimed then they'll be politically-fractious backward places like the aforementioned Caucasia or... Ukraine, maybe?

 

[JohannaK]

Rather, claiming Castile, Andalusia and Portugal. I believe Calgori wanted Catalonia, Sicily and Cuba.