New NESes, ideas, development, etc

[Thlayli]

There were other Indo-European tribes that founded a dynasty of some note? In China?

The Tocharians.

 

[Nuka-sama]

Edit: The Welsh nation

 

[Dachs]

The Tocharians.

You mean, the Yuezhi? The ones who didn't actually settle or assimilate? The ones that we're actually talking about right now?

 

[Birdjaguar]

I'd play any of these and would accept any assignment you made based on how other assignments fall into place.

Brown = Daliang/Great Liang Dynasty
Surprise Surprise More Purple = Wu
Red-pink = Yamato
Darker blue = Chola (dark blue in central India?)
Light brown = Ystrad Clud/Strathclyde
Hot pink = Cambria

 

[Kraznaya]

I'll be happy decorating the river plains of the Middle Kingdom with your entrails.

 

[Espoir]

I will put in an application for Areia.

 

[Thlayli]

You mean, the Yuezhi? The ones who didn't actually settle or assimilate? The ones that we're actually talking about right now?

Your sarcasm detector is sooo broken.

But Panormus sounds spiffy. Looks like some kind of Greco-Carthaginian hybrid culture. Tangentially, does the somewhat contrived division of Italy have any Latin cultural elements left whatsoever?

 

[Anonymoose]

Chatti and Palermo could be great fun as commercial powers or piracy centers, imo. /applicate

 

[North King]

The map looks a little... blech to me.* It's as though the world were evenly divided into near-equally sized powers from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Admittedly I have not read the timeline; maybe half of those powers are really weak. But from the looks of it...


* And not just because it's in that horribly ugly semi-emo black glowy map style, though that "helps".

 

[Abaddon]

agreed, glow map is bletch.

 

[Kozmos]

Glow maps fit better for modern day, but I like the style personally.

 

[North King]

There is a timeline but Dachs isn't gonna publish it, and power isn't really a function of size now is it.

Yes, as I just acknowledged. However, I think it seems more likely that the powers are all really neatly balanced, which, while I suppose it might make it more playable, is also really silly.

 

[Kraznaya]

You know what's silly two pixel coastlines are silly

 

[North King]

Ooh look at me I can eliminate punctuation to make mock too.

 

[Thlayli]

Woah. This conversation crossed the line when you went after two pixel coastlines.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I'll be happy decorating the river plains of the Middle Kingdom with your entrails.

If blood across the plain does run,
If victory's claimed and battles won,
After all the death and disemboweling
Without a doubt the standard crowning
Heaps of seething bodies groaning,
Countless prisoners chained and moaning,
Will be mine, and never thine!
Unless of course there are reasons touted,
And in confidence, betrayal doubted,
That common purpose should be our guide
To sweep all away, before our tide.

 

[Dachs]

Yes, as I just acknowledged. However, I think it seems more likely that the powers are all really neatly balanced, which, while I suppose it might make it more playable, is also really silly.

They aren't neatly balanced.

You know what's silly two pixel coastlines are silly

That was my "reasoning".

 

[North King]

They aren't neatly balanced.

Then why are nations more or less evenly spaced from ocean to ocean?

Ah, you know what, never mind. Clearly my sense of everything is wrong right now.

 

[Dachs]

Then why are nations more or less evenly spaced from ocean to ocean?

Ah, you know what, never mind. Clearly my sense of everything is wrong right now.

All righty then.

 

[Thlayli]

I dunno, some of these countries are just...wait for it...PANORMUS.

Whew, I kill myself sometimes.

Seriously though, there is a distinct lack of statelets and fragmented pseudo-polities that would seem to be standard in an age of, uh, pre-nationalism. Especially sans a great centralizing influence like Rome to provide a governance model in the Western Med.