MoshIOT I (Sign-ups)

[bonefang]

Thanks

 

[Double A]

Any reason you posted two...?

The first one is me trolling (hence the name), the second is my real sign-up.

 

[spaceman98]

Republic of Australia:
Government: Republic
Claims: Light Blue
Capital: Blue
History: Australia became independant from European rule peacfully. We are a democracy built on the idea of equality for all. We believe in the peacful resolution of conflicts.

 

[christos200]

Kingdom of Hellas

Government:
Parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy

King George I:

Prince Constantine:

Prime minister, Mr. Eleftherios Venizelos:

Vice president, Mr Charialos Trikoupis:

Claims: Green
Capital: Athens
Official language: Greek
Religion: Greek orthodox christianity
History: After the collapse, Greek nationalists overthrew the remnants of the Turkish government in Istanbul, and called themselves the Republic of Greece. When they realized they didn't actually control Greece, they stopped and thought. Eventually, it was decided that a Prince of Haiti who had financially supported the movement would be invited in to take the throne of a new Byzantine Empire. Meanwhile greece itshelf, after the 1821 revolution that created an indepedent greek nation, declared that the byzantine empire is greek and should unite with greece. After the third balkan wars greece took over macedonia and parts of thrace that had been taken over by the byzantine empire.

Claims:

Spoiler :

 

[Krzowwh]

Republic of Romania

Spoiler Map of the Republic of Romania :

Capital: Roma
Flag: No national flag, uses the flag of Roma when represented in international affairs

Ethnicity: Romaniano 26%, Venexigo 17% Tusciano 16%, Serian 12%, Retic 11%, Italkim 10%, Norich 5%, Other 4%
Language: Romaniano 49%, Italic Serian 22%, Retic 10%, Italkith 8%, Norich 5%, Other 6%
Currency: Denario
Religion: Roman Mithraism 65%, Confucianism 24%, Judaism 9%, Other 2%

Government: Parliamentary Republic, Triumverate
Economy: Free market (more or less)

History: After the collapse of the Roman Empire in 313 AD, the area surrounding Roma was conquered by the Herules, founding a Kingdom which would control Romania until its dissolution in the early 7th century. Independent cities fought for control over land, and many states grew stronger, such as the Kingdom of Padoa or the Republic of Ravena. The region around Roma became under the control of the Patriacy and Heliodromate of Roma. During the 16th century, ideals were conceived and spread during the Illumination, creating instability within the conservative states of Europe. During the same time, contact with Seres began to reform, and some Illuminated thinkers adopted Confucian ideals, using Classical Serian in their writings. In 1724, the Illuminated started the Romanian Revolution of Independence, drafting a constitution and forming the Republic of Romania. Though it has met terrible wars, it survives still to the present day.

 

[Omega124]

Snip

Can't. stop. laughing.

 

[MoreEpicThanYou]

Fine, I'll rename it the Carolinian Empire.

 

[Mosher]

Fine, I'll rename it the Carolinian Empire.

Thank you.

The first one is me trolling (hence the name), the second is my real sign-up.

Ah, okay.

 

[Tyo]

Reserve Spain for me? I'll have my stuff in within the hour.

 

[Tyo]

Spoiler :

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More stuff later. Anyone take another peace of Spain... I'll be mad to say the least.

 

[Kinich-Ahau]

Neo-Papal States​

Flag:

Government: Catholic Theocracy
Economy: Capitalism
Capital: Lima
Language: Latin (de Jure), Spanish (de Facto)
Religion: Catholicism- 96%, Inca Religion- 3%, Other- 1%

Spoiler History :

According to official government records, a weather balloon crashed near Roswell, New Mexico in the summer of 1947. Of course, this is patently false. In actuality, an alien craft containing 5 beings from another world smashed into the harsh desert outside Roswell. Three of the beings were killed instantly, with the other two critically injured. Hikers who came across the scene reported the crash to government officials in Roswell; they in turn reported the incident to their superiors, & within a day, the US Military had arrived. Scores of helicopters, ground vehicles, & infantrymen patrolled the desert, & the aliens had been taken to a nearby US Air Force base for study. There they remained for nearly five years, until one of the creatures managed to escape. The US Military went on a desperate chase through the New Mexico desert in an attempt to recapture the being, but found no trace of the creature- for the alien had managed to sneak across the border to Mexico, & once there hid on the first seagoing vessel it came across. That ship was headed to the Italian Peninsula. The alien waited hours after the ship had docked, only emerging from his hiding place in the dead of night. The creature was tired & starving, & after a futile search for nourishment, it launched a desperate raid on a nearby building, hoping to find food. That building was a church. When the priest came across the poor, emaciated being, he was overwhelmed with pity for the creature. He decided that only one person had the authority to decide the fate of the creature- Pope Pius XII. He smuggled the alien into the Vatican, & presented him to the Pope. But the Pope had never come across such a creature before; he did the only thing he could- he prayed. He prayed for a week, only pausing to take food & drink. On the evening of his seventh day of prayer, Pius XII had a vision- and he knew that he would have to care for this visitor from another world. He sought to communicate with the creature, & discovered that while in Captivity, the being had gained a rudimentary knowledge of the English Language. For 4 years, the alien lived in the Vatican, learning to understand Latin, learning to read, learning the ways of the Church. But this arrangement could not last forever. A decade after the alien crashed on Earth, a heretical priest exposed his existence to the world. Representatives from countries all over the globe descended on the Vatican, demanding that the church surrender the alien to the UN. But Pius XII was resolute; just as he had hidden Jews from the Nazis over a decade earlier, so too would he hide the being- who had since converted to Catholicism & taken the name Julian- from the world. But he did not have the resources to do so effectively, & after a Soviet attempt to take Julian by force, Pius XII went underground. The Church established secret bases throughout the world, & for a year & half, the leaders of Catholicism dropped off the radar- no intelligence agency could locate them, no military could intimidate them into revealing themselves. While in hiding, Pius XII passed away, & Julian ascended to the position of Pope. Then, in the later months of 1959, the Vatican leadership reemerged in Peru. No one knows why they chose Peru; no one knows how they came to be in control of the Nation. What everyone does know, however, is that now that the Church has not just the resources of the Catholics of the World, but also the resources of a moderately-sized country at their fingertips, any attempt to kidnap Pope Julian I would be far too costly to attempt.

Spoiler His Holiness, Pope Julian I :

 

[Double A]

So much win.

 

[Graceheart the Leopard]

The Holy Quebecois Empire
Leader: Pope Peter II
Government: Roman Catholic Theocracy
Capital: New Rome (Quebec City)
Language: Latin (Official) French (De-facto in Quebec), English (Defacto outside of Quebec)
Religion: Catholicism is the official religion. Protestants are at risk of being arrested and detained by the Inquisition.
History: When the Canadian government collapsed in 1950, many people in Quebec looked to the Church to provide for them (the Catholic Church was the most influential organisation in Quebec at this time IRL). Eventually, a Theocracy was established by de-Facto, which was the only vestige of Catholic authority that remained public after the dissapearance of Pope Pius XII. In late 1958, the Archbishop-Cardinal of Quebec declared to be de-facto Pope by the remaining clergy in Quebec due to both the lack of any communications coming from Rome itself and that he was the highest Catholic authority who still was in the public eye.

 

[Mosher]

Farsight, Italy has been largely taken by someone else. Only southern Italy is available.

 

[Double A]

When I run an IOT, if you claim somewhere that has already been taken, I'm not going to tell you. If you can't take the minute to look through other people's claims, then it bites you in the ass.

 

[Sonereal]

I did some formatting of the ruleset to make it a bit easier on the eyes.

MoshIOT I​

Joining the game

We're using the IOT7 Map

Spoiler :

Choose 20 provinces to start out with, and select a capital as your province. Please mark it clearly. All of your infrastructure will be in your capital; if it is captured, all of your infrastructure is contained within your capital. Please also state your name; anything else, such as history, flag, economy, etc is purely up to you, but will grant you RP bonuses at the start.

Basics
This IOT is set in 1960, and updates will be every 2-3 days.

Each territory grants you one IC (Industrial Capacity). IC is the lifeblood of your economy; you do EVERYTHING with your IC, from building armies to building infrastructure to investing in technology.

You can expand by investing IC: it costs 2 IC to expand to one province.
You will get bonuses, at my discretion, for good RP.

Economy

Now, you can just expand as far as you want ( as long as the tiles are contigious or linked by sea), but you can also invest in infrastructure. Buildings that provide defensive bonuses can only be built in your capital, and the defensive bonus is only given once (you can build more than one, but you only get the bonus once) There are 6 buildings you can build with IC:

Factory (Costs 20 IC)
Provides: 10 IC/turn

Road (5 IC)
Provides: +10% defence in your capital, 2 IC/turn

Airport (70 IC)
Provides: +10% defence in your capital, 30 IC/turn, allows training of aircraft

Bunker (20 IC)
Provides: +30% defence in your capital

AA Guns (100 IC)
Provides: Enemy aircraft attacking your capital have a 70% chance of being destroyed

Drydocks (60 IC)
Provides: 10 IC/turn, allows building of ships


Military
The much more fun means of expansion!

Whilst declarations of war can be sent via PM to myself, I will sent a notification to the defender stating that this province is being attacked (not by who, unless the declaration was public), and he will state how many units are to defend. I will not state how many units are attacking.

You require a navy for every 5 armies you wish to transport overseas.

You can blitz through one extra territory for each army tech level you have. (Army Tech 2 means blitzing through two territories)

Aircraft

There are two types of aircraft: planes and helicopters.

Inside of the planes section, there are two subsections: fighters and bombers.

Fighters intercept bombers, unless they are protected.

Bombers can bomb a province before an army goes in. It will roll a 10-sided dice; if it rolls a 1, it kills one enemy army, a 2, one enemy army, and so on and so forth.

Helicopters also have two subsections: Medical and attack.

Attack Copters act much the same as jets, but are only used for defense (but are cheaper)

Medical Copters are interesting. Though expensive, each Med. Copter in the attack/defense side has a 10% chance of rescuing half of the armies killed in the fighting, up to an 80% chance. So, if 5 armies die in an attack, and there are 8 Med. Copters that succeed in their 80% chance roll, 3 armies will be revived (rounded up).

Combat in this game works like this: Each side rolls a 20-sided dice. The defender will always win a tie; defender will get a 5x bonus to their roll if fighting in this capital. For having a 2-1 advantage, the larger side will get a 2x roll. For having 3-1, 3x roll, 4-1, 4x roll, and so on and so forth. The loser will get their roll subtracted from their opponents roll, and that number represents the number of armies lost for the losers. The winner will get their roll, divided in half (rounded up if it is a decimal), as their casualties.

Example
Nation of X attacks Nation of Y with 50 armies to Y’s 20. Since Nation of X has a 2.5-1 ratio against Y, it’s rounded up to a 3-1 bonus. Nation of X rolls a 10, multiplied by 3, into a 30. Nation of Y rolls an 18. Since Nation of Y lost, it subtracts 18 from 30, coming out to 12; it takes 12 casualties, bringing its army down to 8. Since Nation of X rolled a 10, it takes 5 casualties, bringing its army down to 45.

Unit list

Army (1 IC)

Fighter (10 IC)

Bomber (30 IC)

Attack Copter (5 IC)

Med Copter (50 IC)

Navy (2 IC)


WMDs

There are three different WMDs - nuclear, biological, and chemical. Each one can be upgraded, either improving tiles destroyed by 1 for each tier or percent chance of success increased by 10% and failure reduced by 1%.

Nuclear bombs will decimate several provinces (5, radiating from the blast point), making them worthless. They will show up as grey on the map. They will not provide any IC at all. A capital province, if it has a bunker in it, can survive 5 nuke blasts before it is turned into a wasteland.

Chemical weapons will be deployed and will roll a 10-sided die. Each chem weapon has a 50% chance of wiping out 20% of the enemy army; but beware, because a chem weapon can only be deployed on provinces that you are adjacant to (or connected-by-sea), and have a 20% chance of destroying 20% of an nation’s army that has tiles adjacent to the province where it was deployed. These can only be deployed once every 5 turns.

Biological weapons will have a 50% chance of doubling enemy unit production cost (armies will cost 2, for instance), by killing off the people needed to fill the ranks. These will last for 5 turns, and each turn has a 10% chance of it spreading to a neighboring nation (which can then be spread to other neighboring nations). This effect does not stack if another bio weapon is used on the nation until the nation is free of the effects of it.

Each program for these will cost 200 IC.

Atomic bomb (60 IC)

Chemical Weapon (30 IC)

Bio Weapon (50 IC)

Science

Each tech costs 50 IC more than the previous one. All tech for combat units (armies, attack copter, fighters, navies, etc) will add a 2 to their roll when they fight. It also increases naval capacity by 2 for each Naval Tech.
Tech for Heli increases Med. Copter chance by 10%
Tech for WMDs are explained in the WMD section
There are 25 techs in each tech branch except for the WMDs, which have 10.

Army Tech 2 -
Cost: 50 IC

Aircraft (Plane) Tech 2 -
Cost: 100 IC

Aircraft (Heli) Tech 2 -
Cost: 100 IC

Nuke Tech 2 -
Cost: 200 IC

Bio Tech 2 -
Cost: 150 IC

Chem Tech 2 - 300 IC

Naval Tech 2 - 100 IC

 

[Mosher]

Thanks, Sone! I'll edit the OP in a moment.

 

[SouthernKing]

Vijayanagar:
Capital: Bangalore
Leader: Salman Khan
History: Later
Claims:

 

[Mosher]

All right, we've got 15 players. Barring any complications, this game will start Sunday afternoon.

 

[hoplitejoe]

Southern Pommyland

Spoiler :

Government: Parliamentary
Economy: Sheeps
Capital: Auckland
Language: Kiwi