Imperator Knoedel
Currently obsessed with The Owl House
Salvete salutores fori! ( My poor Latin teachers would be rolling in their graves right now if they were still alive 
)
Since nobody outside the PBEM community (and not even most inside) seems to care about my stories so far I've decided to just start my own game which I'm playing specifically for storytelling. But this isn't just any story: Inspired by Royal Tenenbaum's original interactive America game in the DoC forum which spawned two sequels and a whole lot of similar threads by other authors with different civs I decided to jump the IAAR bandwagon too!
Only instead of Dawn of Civilization or even RFC I will be using a completely different and under appreciated ( just like me some people might say
) mod: Pie's Ancient Europe!
Never heard of it before? Now you have! Never played it? Neither have I!
That's the beauty of it, both I and hopefully most of my readers are complete newcomers who have almost no knowledge of this mod's inner workings, which means we can keep metagaming completely outside and just focus on roleplaying our way through history! Doesn't that sound like fun?
As if that wasn't revolutionary enough, this isn't even just any old IAAR either, for the exact means by which you, the reader, can influence what is happening depends on ingame events, mostly the civics of our civ. Do we have a democracy? Everyone and their mother can tell me what to do! Oligarchy? Representatives you elect! Tyranny? Sit back and watch as I trample on our citizens' rights, taking no stercus ( better not google that word
) from nobody! The exact method by which we change civics will still have to be determined, but I'm sure we can figure it out once the time comes.
Now who is that lucky civilization we will lead to glory and stand the test of time with? Why, Rome of course!
Was there ever any doubt?
We will play on the Large Europe map, since I'm afraid my PC won't be able to handle the XL one. I have manually added most civs, but not all of them, which means we have about 20 competitors. Our leader is the one and only Aggressive and Charismatic Julius Caesar, but beware that many traits have different effects than their BtS counterparts.
Now for our start:
For ages our tribe has wandered, but now the people have grown sick of it and many demand that we settle down in one place for good, so the chieftain has decided to listen to their pleas and let everyone's voice on this matter be heard: Should we settle? If yes, where? Right here on this hill on the mouth of a river next to the sea? Or shall we move to one of the other hills? Inland? The swamps? And once we have chosen a place to stay, what of our warriors? Shall they stay and protect the new settlement or wander on, exploring our surroundings and hunt food? Half half? This and more are issues which have to be discussed before we decide on a course of action.
So, discuss, fellow members of the tribe!
For the record, these are our initial civics:
For now everything is pretty informal, you make a suggestion and if we reach a consensus I will do what the tribe decided to do. I will ask for your opinion whenever something comes up, be it a tech to be researched, a build item in the city to be chosen, another civ met what have you. This should work okay as long as there isn't much to do.
)Since nobody outside the PBEM community (and not even most inside) seems to care about my stories so far I've decided to just start my own game which I'm playing specifically for storytelling. But this isn't just any story: Inspired by Royal Tenenbaum's original interactive America game in the DoC forum which spawned two sequels and a whole lot of similar threads by other authors with different civs I decided to jump the IAAR bandwagon too!
Only instead of Dawn of Civilization or even RFC I will be using a completely different and under appreciated ( just like me some people might say
) mod: Pie's Ancient Europe!Never heard of it before? Now you have! Never played it? Neither have I!
That's the beauty of it, both I and hopefully most of my readers are complete newcomers who have almost no knowledge of this mod's inner workings, which means we can keep metagaming completely outside and just focus on roleplaying our way through history! Doesn't that sound like fun?
As if that wasn't revolutionary enough, this isn't even just any old IAAR either, for the exact means by which you, the reader, can influence what is happening depends on ingame events, mostly the civics of our civ. Do we have a democracy? Everyone and their mother can tell me what to do! Oligarchy? Representatives you elect! Tyranny? Sit back and watch as I trample on our citizens' rights, taking no stercus ( better not google that word
) from nobody! The exact method by which we change civics will still have to be determined, but I'm sure we can figure it out once the time comes.Now who is that lucky civilization we will lead to glory and stand the test of time with? Why, Rome of course!
Was there ever any doubt?We will play on the Large Europe map, since I'm afraid my PC won't be able to handle the XL one. I have manually added most civs, but not all of them, which means we have about 20 competitors. Our leader is the one and only Aggressive and Charismatic Julius Caesar, but beware that many traits have different effects than their BtS counterparts.
Now for our start:
For ages our tribe has wandered, but now the people have grown sick of it and many demand that we settle down in one place for good, so the chieftain has decided to listen to their pleas and let everyone's voice on this matter be heard: Should we settle? If yes, where? Right here on this hill on the mouth of a river next to the sea? Or shall we move to one of the other hills? Inland? The swamps? And once we have chosen a place to stay, what of our warriors? Shall they stay and protect the new settlement or wander on, exploring our surroundings and hunt food? Half half? This and more are issues which have to be discussed before we decide on a course of action.
So, discuss, fellow members of the tribe!
For the record, these are our initial civics:
For now everything is pretty informal, you make a suggestion and if we reach a consensus I will do what the tribe decided to do. I will ask for your opinion whenever something comes up, be it a tech to be researched, a build item in the city to be chosen, another civ met what have you. This should work okay as long as there isn't much to do.
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