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Regeneration In Process
NES2 VIb - Return of the Chaos.
Rules.
DO NOT POST UNTIL I SAY YOU CAN.
Setting
In a world different from our own since the 16th century, a completely different balance of powers emerged, with religious tensions being minimized, and replaced by greater international violence and ethnic strife. The industrial revolution came far earlier than in OTL, but the faster technologic progress ensured social instability. In the early 1740s, this spilled out into outright social enthropy and a dozen or so brutal wars fought with the most sophisticated modern weapons and doctrine. Ranging from 1740 to 1754, from small local conflicts to the final four-year World War; by the end of it all, entire provinces were utterly depopulated, empires were destroyed and built, and ultimately, several great powers - the Ottoman Empire, the Krakow Union/Greater German Republic and the Kingdom of Spain were destroyed altogether, Portugal losing its homeland and global colonial empire and being relocated to Brazil, Russia being pushed back to the borders of 1740 and beyond and China suffering a devastating civil war and the loss of numerous periphereal territories. And meanwhile, the Estados Unidos Americanos, a brand new nation, came to predominate the Western Hemisphere, the Mughals had forged with iron and blood a huge Islamic empire of the Middle East and Japan jumped into the struggles of great powers and created a powerful Pacific empire. And last, but first of all the great powers was the new Holy Roman Empire of Emperor Julien II, formerly Julien-Francois I, King of the French - perhaps the greatest leader of the 18th century, and definitely one of the greatest.
The next 2.6 decades passed by more quietly, but this was a quiet before the storm. This was a time of a bad peace, a rotting dam of Pax Gallica about to break and let the waves of chaos engulf the world. From one fringe, the Egalitist movement gained credit and support amongst the lower classes of the world, pledging to destroy the present and build in its place the future. From another, reactionaries demand a return to the good old days in the victorious countries, while in the defeated, military strongmen and nationalist leaders seek revenge. The victors themselves are not at all united, and have many disagreements, as do the losers of the past wars, on the other hand. What is certain is that this war will not be a repeat of the last one - after all, the geopolitical situation changed, valuable lessons have been learned, powerful new weapons were invented - and lastly, again most importantly, determination grew, determination, hatred, fear - all the emotions that demand a total war.
Soon chaos will come, far greater chaos than before. But as before, after that, a new order will be forged out of the chaos. Which order will that be?
Introduction
This is the continuation of NES2 VI: Last Semblance of Order - second IT (Interesting Times) so to speak.
There aren't too many nations here, which only makes my emphasis on the player commitment stronger. If you don't have time for furious diplo exchange, conniving intrigue and complete orders (as opposed to just long orders - under "complete orders" I mean orders that cover all the subjects that need covering in orders, hopefully in a precise, clear manner), then don't play, or at least don't play as a major power.
Enjoy it! Or die.
Players, stories, orders, NPCs, barbarians, updates, map, countries
Players - unlimited. Please only join if you trully have the time to PARTICIPATE, and that doesn't simply mean telling me to "grow economy" at every turn.
Stories - not necessary, but very encouraged. For good (and FULL-LENGTH, i.e. two-three lines will not be considered one) stories, I will give out story bonuses (but not as generous as in ITNES I). Don't forget that stories create atmosphere like nothing else (apart from good, precise, in-depth updates perhaps, but that's not my specialty I'm afraid).
Orders - orders in a list. Ideally, they should be precise and easily-understandable, because I'll have to deal with lots of them; naturally, they will probably be quite long anyway because you people rarely trust your buerocrats and generals for some reason. In democratic and other councillary forms of government (such as Feudalism), you'll have to take the opinion of your council into account; sometimes, depending on your nation's constitution, it might even take matters into its own hands altogether. This, by the way, is one of the reasons for you to send orders a day before the deadline, so that I have time to inform you if the council disapproves of any parts of your orders; the other reason is that it just makes things easier for me. Oh, and note that some of the actions you order might inadvertly have sideeffects, positive or negative.
NPCs - lol, considering they’re NPC, I will play them, kinda. Same as the NPCs in all other NESes of late. Some will roll over rather easily, some will be harder to fight than PCs...
Barbarians - as not all of the world is civilized yet (most is), the barbarians will be there. Not innovatively, they will be light gray and have no stats. They will have their names written on them, unless I forget to do that. And many of them are likely to attack you and try to eat you; others only want to be left alone, and when somebody tries to change that they will... well, they'll try to eat whoever tries that too. The barbarians are NOT to be underestimated, some of them could bring out a horde of ferocious warriors five times larger then your army (okay, maybe not).
Updates - Updates come on WedNESdays (unless I say otherwise), yet the orders have to be sent in by Tuesday barring emergencies. Where I live (the Urals, same timezone as Pakistan if you're curious) the deadline for orders is 20:00, GMT it should be 15:00, and I don't know nor want to know what time it should be on the western coast of North America, or in the eastern coast of the same America, or even in Finland (although the latter I could probably guess). If you know that you probably won't have time to send orders this Tuesday... send them on Monday, that's even better. Updates will consist of “non-military events” (political, economical, etc), “military events” (including violent rebellions, not just wars), “random events” (random events - people who write good stories get good random events, often related to what they’re writing about. And there is also always a “bad” random event for a random nation, lots of them), “spotlight” (a more detailed description of something that happened) and “ooc” (OOC comments and death threats).
(boldened to make sure you people actually notice it this time - though some have consistantly ignored it even after I boldened it)
Map - I will use the current version of the collectively-improved "Jason map". I will put in cities (black circles), fortifications (line of black squares) and rebellion areas (dark gray area within nations). A capital is a city with white borders; an economic center is a city with red borders (a capital economic center will have a combination of the two).
Countries - pick a NPC or start a rebellion or just clamour incessantly for independence. Though as this is a continuation, most people will have nations from the start (but if they don't confirm it before first update, and don't have the legit excuse that I could find in the vacation thread, out they go). Also, please read your nation background, and don’t act uncharacteristically. There are no alliances at the start, but there are some traditional allegiences, as mentioned in the nation backgrounds; to go against these allegiences is sometimes necessary, but is almost certainly an unpopular thing to do.
NATIONAL TEMPLATE
Nation Name
Capital:
Ruler:
Government:
Centralization:
Tech. Level:
Army (Training):
Navy (Training):
Economy:
Size (points required):
Leadership (Military/Civilian): /
Infrastructure:
Education:
Living Standards:
Culture:
Confidence:
Projects:
Nation Background:
Government
Government - is your form of government. You are free to change your government, and explain it how ever do you want, but that can piss off followers of the previous governments, and might lead to nation-wide riots, or even a civil war. Incidentally, the same goes for various reforms; I am something of a diehardthenriseupagainfromthegrave narrow-minded reactionary, so if you get carried away with those and say try to set up a democratic republic in 18th century south-east Asia (provided ofcourse that it didn't change enough for this to work, which is up to me *rubs hands*), don't complain when you're stoned in the alcohol-free meaning of the word unless you take good measures. Generally keep it historical. That is, you could invent your own government, but it must make sense for YOUR nation of THAT time. You could consult me about that.
Centralization
This is one of the most important issues of politics historically and today. A centralized state is, on one hand, more stable, and can command its resources more efficiently; but, on the other hand, it is very vulnerable to attacks on the center and is unlikely to be popular among the various minorities, whereas a decentralized state is less stable, less united, but is harder to destroy from within and indeed is more defendable.
You usually (barring random events or unforeseen consequences of your actions) could change your centralization "slider" once per turn, and ofcourse only move forward or backward a level. However, do know that changes are unlikely to be welcomed by those who like the way things are AND ofcourse those who want to move in the opposite direction...
League-Loose Confederation-Confederation-Loose Federation-Federation-Tight Federation-Unitary with Exceptions-Unitary-Uberunitary-More Unitary-Overcentralized
Technology Level
Will use the age system. It is the same as in other NESes of other people, ofcourse the ages are not identical. They will advance at their own pace, though nations with higher education are likelier to advance to the next age. This, for the most part, begins in Middle Industrial Age, with most civilized nations roughly equal (so even those in Early Industrial are about to catch up and already have in most cases purchased some modern weaponry from their more advanced friends).
Also note that though I brought up analogical technologic levels of OTL, they aren't entirely identical, and ofcourse there is a chance that technology will advance faster, slower, or even in a different direction than in OTL.
Late Enlightened Age: approximate analogy in our world is 1760-1790 Europe.
Early Industrial Age: approximate analogy - 1790-1840.
Middle Industrial Age: approximate analogy - 1840-1880.
Late Industrial Age: approximate analogy - 1880-1916.
(main differences - naval and some land tech more advanced, more peaceful technologies (telegraphs, railroads, factories) rather more backwards; but all deviations are not beyond two decades in distance from OTL. Aerial technology more advanced in that there are already powerful airships, but no sign of airplanes on the other hand.)
Do note that over the last few decades, lots of weird designs and ideas have been accumulated, but not yet used in most cases. I usually do not encourage this, but in this particular part of this particular NES, I shall grant you considerable freedom to invent new weaponry and so forth; that is to say, I still will control it to a large extent and prevent any developments too wild, but I won't restrict it as much as usual. Anything that was used in the late 19th/early 20th century or was proposed to be used or could feasibly be used is in, unless I find it just way too unlikely. Mind, though, technological development does take time...
Military
That will, as of now, consist of army, navy and air force. These will be number-based as it gives more versatility. These will be represented in divisions, sea squadrons and air squadrons. Note that the sea squadrons will be divided into ship squadrons and submarine squadrons (though they would cost the same); also, there are capital ships (huge battleships and so forth), that shall be treated as 5 squadrons each (in regards to both eco. point demand, size and training), but shall be very powerful and a great boost for prestige and morale.
What will you have in it? Anything that you can have in it, according to your tech level; if you aren't sure about something, just ask me for clarification. If you just invented some sort of a weapon, you will have to invest some money to re-equip your army/navy with it; the training will also probably drop, due to the unfamiliarity of the weapons. Each “stat-growth” will increase any part of military by 5 (however, there could be exceptions). But know that if you have too large an army, your economy will probably suffer, as will your confidence; ofcourse, both could be, sometimes, restored by succesful military campaigns, or perhaps campaigns of propaganda back at home. If you grow your military too fast, your training, and later your military leadership, will suffer.
UUs - one per nation, but can be changed at any point (though the newly-“demoted” UU units will not be happy). I will keep a list of them, somewhere. Could be land, sea, or air at a later point. They will be separated from other units in the stats. They are grown as normal units. Remember to keep them REALISTIC. If the amount of UUs exceeds the amount of regular units, they will begin to drop in quality, morale and also in loyalty as their commanders, often being rather arrogant and ambitious (hey, they aren't commanders of an elite unit for nothing), will probably try to use their power base in one way or another.
Irregulars - local militias and simple civilian population that, for whatever reasons, took up arms - most often in rebellion or to defend against an invader, though there are exceptions - they aren't good for much that isn't guerrila warfare, though they can also be a neat diversion, and professional cannon fodder. They aren't too reliable, and often are rather hard for you to control; then again, they are also best left uncontrolled - they fight even worse when away from home, and, on the other hand, if at home they'll probably know what to do better, with their knowledge of the situation and the terrain.
Training - it is done in levels. There are separate training stats for army, navy and fleet, and it is grown with eco. points. UU is assumed to be one level higher then the average training level for its branch. If your army grows too quickly, there will be a chance of training level lowering.
None-Rabble-Semi-Rabble-Tolerable-Normal-Better-Good-Very Good-Professional-Elite
Conscription will give you a certain amount of conscript divisions that you could specify if you want; ofcourse, conscription, especially in democratic countries, tends to be quite unpopular, especially the large-scale variety...
As a certain Corsican once said in OTL, an army marches on its stomach. Logistical support is necessary for any real military operations, so you will probably have to invest 1 eco. point into each such operation, whether offensive or defensive; if involving a particularily-large army (or navy), or if taking place in a difficult territory with little chances for local resupply, you might have to invest more than one eco. point. And if its a large army somewhere far away in the middle of a desert... things get interesting.
Economy
The NES2 V Economy System is based on a mixture of my old ideas and those of some other people.
Economy levels still play the vital role. However, the amount of economy points that you have differs from level to level (if you get a negative amount of them, I will decrease a random stat per negative point); it is also influenced by random events and by economic centers (cities that are either trade centers, industrial centers or capitals of agriculturally-rich provinces); each of the latter provides one eco. point per turn to whoever holds it at the time (i.e. if it is on occupied territory, the occupier receives the eco. point). To grow economy (i.e. to advance from one level to another), you have to a) not spend your eco. points, apart from those received from eco. centers, on anything else that turn and b) to point out what exactly are you going to do to grow it (note that eco. growth might not always be succesful, depending on what you do and how things fold out).
Eco. points could (and should) be spent on growing military, miscellanous stats (see below), logistical support for the military and on continuing projects. Speaking of the latter, you could also invest a whole eco. level into a project to speed it up by two turns.
Eco. points cannot be banked.
Eco. levels still could be "sacrificed", i.e. converted into 6 eco. points each. Only two eco. levels could be sacrificed per turn.
Creation of economic centers also requires the investment of at least one eco. point into some specific development programs, most of the times anyway.
Depression (-2)-Bankrupt (-1)-Recession (-1)-Very Poor (0)-Poor (0)-Not Bad (+1)-Normal (+1)-Good Enough (+2)-Growing (+2)-Rich (+3)-Very Rich (+3)-Richer (+4)-Richest (+4)-Economic Powerhouse (+5)-Monopoly (+6) (after Monopoly, you get Monopoly+x (+6+x), where x is the amount of economy levels beyond Monopoly)
Size
As proposed by Disenfrancised, though somewhat altered by me. The larger your country is, the more money you will have to spend to grow any particular stat. You could invest money into stat growth over time if your country is large enough; in that case, the stat will still increase, but only in some, probably central, parts of the country.
Small (1)-Medium (2)-Above Medium (3)-Large (4)-Huge (5)-Gargantuan (6)-Half the World (7)
Note that training and military leadership do NOT depend on the above country size. They depend on army size. You need one eco. point per a full 20 divisions to grow army training; 1 per 20 squadrons for navy training; 1 per 20 divisions OR 20 squadrons (so the total amount of eco. points needed is determined by the sum of both the divisions and the squadrons) for military leadership.
Miscellanous Stats
Those four/five stats below are all grown with eco. points, but, like with growing economy itself, you are supposed to point out what exactly you are doing.
Leadership
Whether military or civilian, leadership is an important factor. Competent military leaders will succesfully carry out plans or will even attain some successes on their own without orders; competent buerocrats will greatly help all government programs and assist the development of the land. But incompetent generals will even with the best plan stagger and blunder, while incompetent civilian administrators will embezzle funds and otherwise will be corrupt. So, this is quite crucial, and cadre preparation thus should be an important priority. Note that sometimes it is best to give specifics when growing this stat (meaning, how EXACTLY are you training your new leaders - what military doctrines should be emphasized, for instance, what stance should your buerocrats take on the various rebels, et cetera). When you expand your army radically, your military leadership will suffer; when you expand your territory, the civilian one will.
None-Imbecile-Moronic-Stupid-Incompetent-Barely Tolerable-Tolerable-Competent-Better-Good-Brilliant
Infrastructure
Roads, bridges, boats - all things used for transportation of goods and men - are listed under infrastructure. The higher is your infrastructure, the easier it is to move your (or enemy) troops across your territory; also, infrastructure could sometimes slightly grow economic benefits from trade centers, and it is a must for maintenance of a high culture level in large empires, as well as actually maintaining your grip on faraway provinces.
None-Dirt Paths-Pathetic-Barely Tolerable-Tolerable-Improving-Good-Efficient-Very Efficient-Great-Excellent
Education
This is just how your people are... educated, I guess. Obvious enough. With a good education, you have better chances of receiving a “miraculous invention”. You could design better walls and siege engines, and ships for that matter, with higher education. The higher education, the more chances you have to develop some technology.
Once someone reaches Enlightenment education, he becomes much more likely to reach the next age as soon as it becomes possible at all. When he does, he loses two education levels.
None-Dumb-Illiterate-Tolerable-Literate-Educated-Well Educated-Perfect-Academic-Enlightenment
Living Standards
This is pretty simple. The higher your living standards are, the happier your population is; the lower, the tougher it is, because of the tougher life. Living standards drop easily, due to economic weakness and war; they are raised as any other economic stats are raised, but the more they are raised the more greedy your people get for more. To create a classic revolutionary situation, raise the living standards somewhat and then neglect them and let them drop.
None-Slums-Very Low-Low-Barely Tolerable-Tolerable-Normal-Higher-Very High-Splendid
Culture
NOTE: NO LONGER CAN BE GROWN BY ECONOMY DIRECTLY.
This is how culturally strong, patriotic and unified your nation is. A nation with strong patriotism is less likely to fall into a civil war, and it’s people would resist most invaders and otherwise help their government. This also influences army morale. A nation with weak patriotism is unlikely to be as resistant to outside threats, there will often be rebellions and defections.
None-Divided-Untrusting-Average-Strongly Cultured-Devoted-Patriotic-Hyperpatriotic-Jingoist-Uberpatriotic
Confidence
NOTE: NO LONGER CAN BE GROWN BY ECONOMY DIRECTLY.
People can be fiercely unified and patriotic, but they will not necessarily like their ruler - in fact, a strongly
cultured nation with little confidence in its leaders can, in its cultural unity, lynch the rulers and fire their remains from cannons. Into the huge pot filled with boiled sharks. Not that the rulers will care by then...
Lynching-Hateful-Resentful-Barely Tolerating-Tolerating-Respecting-Admiring-Loving-Nation Personified
Investments
Wait! There is even more stuff you could waste your treasury on! Particularily, you could invest it, in the form of eco. points, into all sorts of programs - for example, you could invest them into the development of some technology (NOTE - it MUST be something conceivable for this time. You probably will have to consult me about this too... :sigh: ), though the success will depend not just on the amount of money invested, but also on your education level and on chance. Sometimes it could take quite a while. Or maybe you could invest it into a colonial venture. Or into some nice idea that you have, such as a jungle-clearing program that might increase infrastructure, and, in long-term, economy. This is also one of the few ways you could increase culture and confidence using money.
Note - in no case is success - or, at least, complete success - guaranteed. But its possible.
Detirioration
Over time, all your stats will detiriorate. This can be sped up by many factors, such as war, rebellion, neglect, low economy (not just with a minus eco. point, though the lower the "better"), et cetera. You could delay this by investing money into maintaining your current stats, the more money the less your stats will detiriorate.
Projects
Local equivalent of wonders (that name is inappropriate in most NESes, as these are often modernization programs, national revival and other PROJECTS, not just huge and magnificent buildings). You tell me what it does, I tell you how long do you build it. You will have to invest an eco. point once each turn for the work on the project to continue You can sacrifice an econ. level to speed it up by THREE turns, or invest 2 additional eco. points to speed it up by one more turn. Note that there is a limit - you can only invest one eco. level per turn, and accordingly only 6 extra eco. points per turn. The exact time it takes to build a project will depend on too many factors to list here.
Nation Background
To better fit in as the ruler of your country, you will have a brief history of each country here.
Rules.
DO NOT POST UNTIL I SAY YOU CAN.
Setting
In a world different from our own since the 16th century, a completely different balance of powers emerged, with religious tensions being minimized, and replaced by greater international violence and ethnic strife. The industrial revolution came far earlier than in OTL, but the faster technologic progress ensured social instability. In the early 1740s, this spilled out into outright social enthropy and a dozen or so brutal wars fought with the most sophisticated modern weapons and doctrine. Ranging from 1740 to 1754, from small local conflicts to the final four-year World War; by the end of it all, entire provinces were utterly depopulated, empires were destroyed and built, and ultimately, several great powers - the Ottoman Empire, the Krakow Union/Greater German Republic and the Kingdom of Spain were destroyed altogether, Portugal losing its homeland and global colonial empire and being relocated to Brazil, Russia being pushed back to the borders of 1740 and beyond and China suffering a devastating civil war and the loss of numerous periphereal territories. And meanwhile, the Estados Unidos Americanos, a brand new nation, came to predominate the Western Hemisphere, the Mughals had forged with iron and blood a huge Islamic empire of the Middle East and Japan jumped into the struggles of great powers and created a powerful Pacific empire. And last, but first of all the great powers was the new Holy Roman Empire of Emperor Julien II, formerly Julien-Francois I, King of the French - perhaps the greatest leader of the 18th century, and definitely one of the greatest.
The next 2.6 decades passed by more quietly, but this was a quiet before the storm. This was a time of a bad peace, a rotting dam of Pax Gallica about to break and let the waves of chaos engulf the world. From one fringe, the Egalitist movement gained credit and support amongst the lower classes of the world, pledging to destroy the present and build in its place the future. From another, reactionaries demand a return to the good old days in the victorious countries, while in the defeated, military strongmen and nationalist leaders seek revenge. The victors themselves are not at all united, and have many disagreements, as do the losers of the past wars, on the other hand. What is certain is that this war will not be a repeat of the last one - after all, the geopolitical situation changed, valuable lessons have been learned, powerful new weapons were invented - and lastly, again most importantly, determination grew, determination, hatred, fear - all the emotions that demand a total war.
Soon chaos will come, far greater chaos than before. But as before, after that, a new order will be forged out of the chaos. Which order will that be?
Introduction
This is the continuation of NES2 VI: Last Semblance of Order - second IT (Interesting Times) so to speak.
There aren't too many nations here, which only makes my emphasis on the player commitment stronger. If you don't have time for furious diplo exchange, conniving intrigue and complete orders (as opposed to just long orders - under "complete orders" I mean orders that cover all the subjects that need covering in orders, hopefully in a precise, clear manner), then don't play, or at least don't play as a major power.
Enjoy it! Or die.
Players, stories, orders, NPCs, barbarians, updates, map, countries
Players - unlimited. Please only join if you trully have the time to PARTICIPATE, and that doesn't simply mean telling me to "grow economy" at every turn.
Stories - not necessary, but very encouraged. For good (and FULL-LENGTH, i.e. two-three lines will not be considered one) stories, I will give out story bonuses (but not as generous as in ITNES I). Don't forget that stories create atmosphere like nothing else (apart from good, precise, in-depth updates perhaps, but that's not my specialty I'm afraid).
Orders - orders in a list. Ideally, they should be precise and easily-understandable, because I'll have to deal with lots of them; naturally, they will probably be quite long anyway because you people rarely trust your buerocrats and generals for some reason. In democratic and other councillary forms of government (such as Feudalism), you'll have to take the opinion of your council into account; sometimes, depending on your nation's constitution, it might even take matters into its own hands altogether. This, by the way, is one of the reasons for you to send orders a day before the deadline, so that I have time to inform you if the council disapproves of any parts of your orders; the other reason is that it just makes things easier for me. Oh, and note that some of the actions you order might inadvertly have sideeffects, positive or negative.
NPCs - lol, considering they’re NPC, I will play them, kinda. Same as the NPCs in all other NESes of late. Some will roll over rather easily, some will be harder to fight than PCs...
Barbarians - as not all of the world is civilized yet (most is), the barbarians will be there. Not innovatively, they will be light gray and have no stats. They will have their names written on them, unless I forget to do that. And many of them are likely to attack you and try to eat you; others only want to be left alone, and when somebody tries to change that they will... well, they'll try to eat whoever tries that too. The barbarians are NOT to be underestimated, some of them could bring out a horde of ferocious warriors five times larger then your army (okay, maybe not).
Updates - Updates come on WedNESdays (unless I say otherwise), yet the orders have to be sent in by Tuesday barring emergencies. Where I live (the Urals, same timezone as Pakistan if you're curious) the deadline for orders is 20:00, GMT it should be 15:00, and I don't know nor want to know what time it should be on the western coast of North America, or in the eastern coast of the same America, or even in Finland (although the latter I could probably guess). If you know that you probably won't have time to send orders this Tuesday... send them on Monday, that's even better. Updates will consist of “non-military events” (political, economical, etc), “military events” (including violent rebellions, not just wars), “random events” (random events - people who write good stories get good random events, often related to what they’re writing about. And there is also always a “bad” random event for a random nation, lots of them), “spotlight” (a more detailed description of something that happened) and “ooc” (OOC comments and death threats).
(boldened to make sure you people actually notice it this time - though some have consistantly ignored it even after I boldened it)
Map - I will use the current version of the collectively-improved "Jason map". I will put in cities (black circles), fortifications (line of black squares) and rebellion areas (dark gray area within nations). A capital is a city with white borders; an economic center is a city with red borders (a capital economic center will have a combination of the two).
Countries - pick a NPC or start a rebellion or just clamour incessantly for independence. Though as this is a continuation, most people will have nations from the start (but if they don't confirm it before first update, and don't have the legit excuse that I could find in the vacation thread, out they go). Also, please read your nation background, and don’t act uncharacteristically. There are no alliances at the start, but there are some traditional allegiences, as mentioned in the nation backgrounds; to go against these allegiences is sometimes necessary, but is almost certainly an unpopular thing to do.
NATIONAL TEMPLATE
Nation Name
Capital:
Ruler:
Government:
Centralization:
Tech. Level:
Army (Training):
Navy (Training):
Economy:
Size (points required):
Leadership (Military/Civilian): /
Infrastructure:
Education:
Living Standards:
Culture:
Confidence:
Projects:
Nation Background:
Government
Government - is your form of government. You are free to change your government, and explain it how ever do you want, but that can piss off followers of the previous governments, and might lead to nation-wide riots, or even a civil war. Incidentally, the same goes for various reforms; I am something of a diehardthenriseupagainfromthegrave narrow-minded reactionary, so if you get carried away with those and say try to set up a democratic republic in 18th century south-east Asia (provided ofcourse that it didn't change enough for this to work, which is up to me *rubs hands*), don't complain when you're stoned in the alcohol-free meaning of the word unless you take good measures. Generally keep it historical. That is, you could invent your own government, but it must make sense for YOUR nation of THAT time. You could consult me about that.
Centralization
This is one of the most important issues of politics historically and today. A centralized state is, on one hand, more stable, and can command its resources more efficiently; but, on the other hand, it is very vulnerable to attacks on the center and is unlikely to be popular among the various minorities, whereas a decentralized state is less stable, less united, but is harder to destroy from within and indeed is more defendable.
You usually (barring random events or unforeseen consequences of your actions) could change your centralization "slider" once per turn, and ofcourse only move forward or backward a level. However, do know that changes are unlikely to be welcomed by those who like the way things are AND ofcourse those who want to move in the opposite direction...
League-Loose Confederation-Confederation-Loose Federation-Federation-Tight Federation-Unitary with Exceptions-Unitary-Uberunitary-More Unitary-Overcentralized
Technology Level
Will use the age system. It is the same as in other NESes of other people, ofcourse the ages are not identical. They will advance at their own pace, though nations with higher education are likelier to advance to the next age. This, for the most part, begins in Middle Industrial Age, with most civilized nations roughly equal (so even those in Early Industrial are about to catch up and already have in most cases purchased some modern weaponry from their more advanced friends).
Also note that though I brought up analogical technologic levels of OTL, they aren't entirely identical, and ofcourse there is a chance that technology will advance faster, slower, or even in a different direction than in OTL.
Late Enlightened Age: approximate analogy in our world is 1760-1790 Europe.
Early Industrial Age: approximate analogy - 1790-1840.
Middle Industrial Age: approximate analogy - 1840-1880.
Late Industrial Age: approximate analogy - 1880-1916.
(main differences - naval and some land tech more advanced, more peaceful technologies (telegraphs, railroads, factories) rather more backwards; but all deviations are not beyond two decades in distance from OTL. Aerial technology more advanced in that there are already powerful airships, but no sign of airplanes on the other hand.)
Do note that over the last few decades, lots of weird designs and ideas have been accumulated, but not yet used in most cases. I usually do not encourage this, but in this particular part of this particular NES, I shall grant you considerable freedom to invent new weaponry and so forth; that is to say, I still will control it to a large extent and prevent any developments too wild, but I won't restrict it as much as usual. Anything that was used in the late 19th/early 20th century or was proposed to be used or could feasibly be used is in, unless I find it just way too unlikely. Mind, though, technological development does take time...
Military
That will, as of now, consist of army, navy and air force. These will be number-based as it gives more versatility. These will be represented in divisions, sea squadrons and air squadrons. Note that the sea squadrons will be divided into ship squadrons and submarine squadrons (though they would cost the same); also, there are capital ships (huge battleships and so forth), that shall be treated as 5 squadrons each (in regards to both eco. point demand, size and training), but shall be very powerful and a great boost for prestige and morale.
What will you have in it? Anything that you can have in it, according to your tech level; if you aren't sure about something, just ask me for clarification. If you just invented some sort of a weapon, you will have to invest some money to re-equip your army/navy with it; the training will also probably drop, due to the unfamiliarity of the weapons. Each “stat-growth” will increase any part of military by 5 (however, there could be exceptions). But know that if you have too large an army, your economy will probably suffer, as will your confidence; ofcourse, both could be, sometimes, restored by succesful military campaigns, or perhaps campaigns of propaganda back at home. If you grow your military too fast, your training, and later your military leadership, will suffer.
UUs - one per nation, but can be changed at any point (though the newly-“demoted” UU units will not be happy). I will keep a list of them, somewhere. Could be land, sea, or air at a later point. They will be separated from other units in the stats. They are grown as normal units. Remember to keep them REALISTIC. If the amount of UUs exceeds the amount of regular units, they will begin to drop in quality, morale and also in loyalty as their commanders, often being rather arrogant and ambitious (hey, they aren't commanders of an elite unit for nothing), will probably try to use their power base in one way or another.
Irregulars - local militias and simple civilian population that, for whatever reasons, took up arms - most often in rebellion or to defend against an invader, though there are exceptions - they aren't good for much that isn't guerrila warfare, though they can also be a neat diversion, and professional cannon fodder. They aren't too reliable, and often are rather hard for you to control; then again, they are also best left uncontrolled - they fight even worse when away from home, and, on the other hand, if at home they'll probably know what to do better, with their knowledge of the situation and the terrain.
Training - it is done in levels. There are separate training stats for army, navy and fleet, and it is grown with eco. points. UU is assumed to be one level higher then the average training level for its branch. If your army grows too quickly, there will be a chance of training level lowering.
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Conscription will give you a certain amount of conscript divisions that you could specify if you want; ofcourse, conscription, especially in democratic countries, tends to be quite unpopular, especially the large-scale variety...
As a certain Corsican once said in OTL, an army marches on its stomach. Logistical support is necessary for any real military operations, so you will probably have to invest 1 eco. point into each such operation, whether offensive or defensive; if involving a particularily-large army (or navy), or if taking place in a difficult territory with little chances for local resupply, you might have to invest more than one eco. point. And if its a large army somewhere far away in the middle of a desert... things get interesting.
Economy
The NES2 V Economy System is based on a mixture of my old ideas and those of some other people.
Economy levels still play the vital role. However, the amount of economy points that you have differs from level to level (if you get a negative amount of them, I will decrease a random stat per negative point); it is also influenced by random events and by economic centers (cities that are either trade centers, industrial centers or capitals of agriculturally-rich provinces); each of the latter provides one eco. point per turn to whoever holds it at the time (i.e. if it is on occupied territory, the occupier receives the eco. point). To grow economy (i.e. to advance from one level to another), you have to a) not spend your eco. points, apart from those received from eco. centers, on anything else that turn and b) to point out what exactly are you going to do to grow it (note that eco. growth might not always be succesful, depending on what you do and how things fold out).
Eco. points could (and should) be spent on growing military, miscellanous stats (see below), logistical support for the military and on continuing projects. Speaking of the latter, you could also invest a whole eco. level into a project to speed it up by two turns.
Eco. points cannot be banked.
Eco. levels still could be "sacrificed", i.e. converted into 6 eco. points each. Only two eco. levels could be sacrificed per turn.
Creation of economic centers also requires the investment of at least one eco. point into some specific development programs, most of the times anyway.
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Size
As proposed by Disenfrancised, though somewhat altered by me. The larger your country is, the more money you will have to spend to grow any particular stat. You could invest money into stat growth over time if your country is large enough; in that case, the stat will still increase, but only in some, probably central, parts of the country.
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Note that training and military leadership do NOT depend on the above country size. They depend on army size. You need one eco. point per a full 20 divisions to grow army training; 1 per 20 squadrons for navy training; 1 per 20 divisions OR 20 squadrons (so the total amount of eco. points needed is determined by the sum of both the divisions and the squadrons) for military leadership.
Miscellanous Stats
Those four/five stats below are all grown with eco. points, but, like with growing economy itself, you are supposed to point out what exactly you are doing.
Leadership
Whether military or civilian, leadership is an important factor. Competent military leaders will succesfully carry out plans or will even attain some successes on their own without orders; competent buerocrats will greatly help all government programs and assist the development of the land. But incompetent generals will even with the best plan stagger and blunder, while incompetent civilian administrators will embezzle funds and otherwise will be corrupt. So, this is quite crucial, and cadre preparation thus should be an important priority. Note that sometimes it is best to give specifics when growing this stat (meaning, how EXACTLY are you training your new leaders - what military doctrines should be emphasized, for instance, what stance should your buerocrats take on the various rebels, et cetera). When you expand your army radically, your military leadership will suffer; when you expand your territory, the civilian one will.
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Infrastructure
Roads, bridges, boats - all things used for transportation of goods and men - are listed under infrastructure. The higher is your infrastructure, the easier it is to move your (or enemy) troops across your territory; also, infrastructure could sometimes slightly grow economic benefits from trade centers, and it is a must for maintenance of a high culture level in large empires, as well as actually maintaining your grip on faraway provinces.
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Education
This is just how your people are... educated, I guess. Obvious enough. With a good education, you have better chances of receiving a “miraculous invention”. You could design better walls and siege engines, and ships for that matter, with higher education. The higher education, the more chances you have to develop some technology.
Once someone reaches Enlightenment education, he becomes much more likely to reach the next age as soon as it becomes possible at all. When he does, he loses two education levels.
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Living Standards
This is pretty simple. The higher your living standards are, the happier your population is; the lower, the tougher it is, because of the tougher life. Living standards drop easily, due to economic weakness and war; they are raised as any other economic stats are raised, but the more they are raised the more greedy your people get for more. To create a classic revolutionary situation, raise the living standards somewhat and then neglect them and let them drop.
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Culture
NOTE: NO LONGER CAN BE GROWN BY ECONOMY DIRECTLY.
This is how culturally strong, patriotic and unified your nation is. A nation with strong patriotism is less likely to fall into a civil war, and it’s people would resist most invaders and otherwise help their government. This also influences army morale. A nation with weak patriotism is unlikely to be as resistant to outside threats, there will often be rebellions and defections.
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Confidence
NOTE: NO LONGER CAN BE GROWN BY ECONOMY DIRECTLY.
People can be fiercely unified and patriotic, but they will not necessarily like their ruler - in fact, a strongly
cultured nation with little confidence in its leaders can, in its cultural unity, lynch the rulers and fire their remains from cannons. Into the huge pot filled with boiled sharks. Not that the rulers will care by then...
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Investments
Wait! There is even more stuff you could waste your treasury on! Particularily, you could invest it, in the form of eco. points, into all sorts of programs - for example, you could invest them into the development of some technology (NOTE - it MUST be something conceivable for this time. You probably will have to consult me about this too... :sigh: ), though the success will depend not just on the amount of money invested, but also on your education level and on chance. Sometimes it could take quite a while. Or maybe you could invest it into a colonial venture. Or into some nice idea that you have, such as a jungle-clearing program that might increase infrastructure, and, in long-term, economy. This is also one of the few ways you could increase culture and confidence using money.
Note - in no case is success - or, at least, complete success - guaranteed. But its possible.
Detirioration
Over time, all your stats will detiriorate. This can be sped up by many factors, such as war, rebellion, neglect, low economy (not just with a minus eco. point, though the lower the "better"), et cetera. You could delay this by investing money into maintaining your current stats, the more money the less your stats will detiriorate.
Projects
Local equivalent of wonders (that name is inappropriate in most NESes, as these are often modernization programs, national revival and other PROJECTS, not just huge and magnificent buildings). You tell me what it does, I tell you how long do you build it. You will have to invest an eco. point once each turn for the work on the project to continue You can sacrifice an econ. level to speed it up by THREE turns, or invest 2 additional eco. points to speed it up by one more turn. Note that there is a limit - you can only invest one eco. level per turn, and accordingly only 6 extra eco. points per turn. The exact time it takes to build a project will depend on too many factors to list here.
Nation Background
To better fit in as the ruler of your country, you will have a brief history of each country here.
First post! (7th Actually)
I count... 11 trade centres including the Scandinavian Virgin Isles.
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