JalNES I: Quick and Easy

[North King]

Galloglach are very Contemptian. You should take them.

 

[LittleBoots]

Thanks NK Personally, I think you should take some discontented tribe of the Sea Peoples and rebel

 

[North King]

Oh come now. You have bronze, at least. It honestly sucks to get screwed over so much... It's as though this was timed so that my offensive would be missing crucial amounts of men...

 

[jalapeno_dude]

Oh come now. You have bronze, at least. It honestly sucks to get screwed over so much... It's as though this was timed so that my offensive would be missing crucial amounts of men...

It's not my fault. Blame Darkening...

 

[LittleBoots]

I've spent three turns just trying to change UUs... I understand that losing bronze isn't cool, but neither is being unable to control the Galloglach and then somehow they wont cause problems in their own country...

Not that I'm complaining It has certainly been interesting

 

[andis-1]

Take Sparta contempt! take it! I need some good opponent in west when I'm done with Medes

 

[Contempt]

Asia is so lonely though, and there needs to be more action on the other side of the world...

 

[erez87]

Contempt want Egypt?

 

[TerrisH]

Please, Keep it to Europe Contempt. the Best Fresh starts tend to be the ones that don't over-extend themselves and spread to the entire world. they seem.. to last better. the Asian nations can develop off screen. Let's keep the attention focused and Prospering.

 

[alex994]

Gaius Marius ​

“First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen” –From Pisces’s tale, The Life of a Man

He is Gaius Marius. Father of the Roman Republic, First Consul of Rome his titles and honoraries go on and on and on. His name is legend of how the Gods blessed him. But who is the man behind this façade? According to Pisces, he was the son of a wealthy landowner near Rome, of relatively pure Latin blood. His family was noble, simply not noble enough to rank a seat in the Roman Senate, the body that ruled Rome. Little is known in fact about his time as a child until he was a young adult.

His name first appears on official documents listing the names of soldiers and officers. In fact, it’s believed he took part of the several failed military campaigns during the Oligarchic Period. It was during that time, he was able to successfully defend off an ambush even in the face of the death of their commander and lead the army back in one piece. From there on, his star was nothing but in the ascendant. From Princepale to Centurion in 2 years his name was on the lips of every soldier in Rome.

A brilliant officer skilled in tactics and logistics equally, his true defining moment would come in the Times of Trouble. The oligarchy at that time, seeing what popular support they had waning attempted to impose martial law in Rome, needless to say it didn’t go very well with everyone else. He was one of the Centurions of the force assigned to Rome and it was his post at where things got bad. Riots broke out shortly after martial law began, and as the Oligarchy demanded the army to crush the rioters, Marius was the first to refuse the orders.

He was just the first, of the many Centurions and other field officers to refuse the orders of their commanding officers and the Oligarchy. In the villa of the Caesars, the leading oligarchs wisely decided to hand power over to Marius and his centurions. Taking “temporary” power in Rome for 5 years with the blessing of the Oligarchs (even if they were threatened and blackmailed), with great support Marius enacted wide social reforms including and most importantly drafting the laws of the Twelve Tables.

He also extended seats in the Senate to wealthy families outside the original patrician, which also included his own family. When the 5 year period ended, and he stepped down from power, the former oligarchs were a minority in their own Senate. Powerless by the rules they had set up 5 years ago, they had lost all power as the members of their families in positions of power had been displaced. The Senate made up of mostly supporters of Marius, chose him as the next High Steward.

The High Steward had been in the times of the Monarchy administrator of the day to day affairs of the Roman State and when the last of the Kings had perished in battle, he became the King in all but name only answerable to the Senate who elected him for 4 year terms. Marius, now as High Steward had lofty goals. Goals which would inevitably lead him to clash with segments of his own supporters in the Senate in the future, and they of course did. Marius, was a Populists.

It was a strange thing, considering his own upbringing but Pisces points out in his book that Marius had always felt greater kinship with the common people then his fellow aristocrats due to one reason. His career as a professional soldier in his earlier years endeared the common man to him. And he would be endeared to the common man. For he was after all, called “Father of the Republic” even before his death for that same reason.

He established the Plebian Assembly, and opened it to all for petitions and demands for justice. The Plebian Assembly were made up of elected individuals whom were not poor, yet were not rich possessing a basic education. In there, he opened the doors of Government to them. It was their power and authority, to defend the rights of the Plebian class against any infringement by the Patricians in the Senate. While not all could hold office in the Assembly, all could vote for individuals aspiring to rise to power.

He left his print on Rome’s government in an even more dramatic way, curtailing his own power as High Steward limited to the city of Rome while establishing a new position. He established the position of Consul in which 2 Consuls would be elected every two years, one of them from the Senate, the other from the Assembly with a wide range of powers from spiritual matters to military command. In the first election, he and his political partner were both elected to the position of Consul.

The Roman Republic, had begun.

 

[Contempt]

Please, Keep it to Europe Contempt. the Best Fresh starts tend to be the ones that don't over-extend themselves and spread to the entire world. they seem.. to last better. the Asian nations can develop off screen. Let's keep the attention focused and Prospering.

Why should I keep it to Europe? That makes the game boring. Besides, I've played many fresh starts, many more than you, and in my experience the best fresh starts can be all over the World, and as long as the mod is good than the game is good. 'Over-extension' has nothing to do with it.

 

[~Darkening~]

It's not my fault. Blame Darkening...

Oh come now. You have bronze, at least. It honestly sucks to get screwed over so much... It's as though this was timed so that my offensive would be missing crucial amounts of men...

Heh. I just saw an opputinity and grabbed it.

Galloglach are very Contemptian.

Hopefully, and I do say hopefully, they'll be crushed this time ;]. I doubt they'll be able to run, unless JD decides to keep around for laughs ;]. Don't let them tell you what to do Contempt! Rebel and stay in Asia ;].

 

[jalapeno_dude]

Nice story alex!

 

[Lord_Iggy]

I'll try to get orders in later on tonight.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

JD, so at the moment do I only get 1/4 of the troops I pay for? I need to confirm this to send orders.

 

[alex994]

Why should I keep it to Europe? That makes the game boring. Besides, I've played many fresh starts, many more than you, and in my experience the best fresh starts can be all over the World, and as long as the mod is good than the game is good. 'Over-extension' has nothing to do with it.

I agree with contempt in general, though memories of stnnes3 does pop up...

EDIT: Yes you do Iggy, yes you do

 

[Lord_Iggy]

@alex- Where does it say that though? I heard it a few pages back, but can't find a post saying it? Is it in the update before last update?

 

[alex994]

Before Plymouth fell, Wessex merchants burned all of their trade maps from spite. Thus, Britannia did not even know about the trade partners in the south, nor could it reach them if it wanted to. As a result, the Tin Route collapsed. Nations suddenly found it harder and harder to make bronze, as the flow of tin halted but the demand increased. Will the nations of the Mediterranean have to resort to copper weapons? Or will they find a different metal that works just as well?

(Price of military units are doubled for the next turn. The turn after, it will double again. This does not apply to Eire, Eirehann, Britannia, or Prussia.)

Update 7, where did all the bronze go. For your reference

 

[LittleBoots]

Whoops, Alex answered as I was posting.

 

[jalapeno_dude]

JD, so at the moment do I only get 1/4 of the troops I pay for? I need to confirm this to send orders.

That is correct.