stJNES10: Expand and Conquer

[fantasmo]

Brisbane orders!

Expand west from our capital, send the whole army and station them along the border with the aboriginies.
Spend and economy level on spearmen.
Expand south, and north as well. the south and north expansions don't need soldiers with them.


Jason, it's Brisbanite, not Brisbanian.

 

[das]

Good update, will wait for that thing about Iron Age. That and I have to update my NES.

 

[Sheep]

Javanese Story

The Emperor sat on his throne in the palace of Yogajakarta as the expedition leader from Kalamantan (Indonesian name for Borneo for those who dont already know) recounted his experiences.

'You say that they are other people on this island of Kalamantan?' enquired the Emperor.
'Sire not only are there other people but they seem to have some ruidimentry form of organisation, akin to our early history, before civilisation. They all call themselves the Malay tribes.' The Explorer returned
'We must make contact and offer them friendship then, only through co-operation with these Malay can the Empire continue its expansion, and together we shall prosper!'
'As your majesty wishes, however......' The Explorer stopped. The Minister for Exploration burst into the room rushing up to the throne, in such a hurry he almost forgot to bow to his sovereign.
"Sire, please forgive this intrustion but I report that the Exploration fleet has returned to port and I am please to say that we have discovered the whereabouts of two new lands. One is called Australis, the other Guinea (new Guinea in RL) Both offer potential for extensive settlement and development, however Guinea is mainly jungles while Australis is wide open and largely arid.' The Minister stated eargely waiting for his principal's reply.
'Excellent, it all begins to fall into place, Genteleman, I salute your efforts in the growing of the Empire, and both of you shall be rewarded'
'Thank you' both subjects said at once, as they left, their dismissal evident.

The Emperor was indeed happy, he watched the two men leave and begun plotting the continued gorwth of his family's dynasty and holdings.

Javanese Unique Unit

Jungle Fighters: Expert jungle skirmishers, these troops are adept at dwealing with the jungle vegetation prevelant in the Indonesian archipeglo and thus stike with suprise, sometimes able to kill every enemy before they know what had hit them. They armed with blowdarts that are poisoned by a jungle plant that can kill a man in 30 seconds through a nerve agent, a quality bronze sword and strong crocodile leather amour that effecitvley stops all but the hardest of blows.

Good at jungle warfare and quick through the jungle and built up areas, however they suffer in open ground and their blowdarts have a very limited effective range.

Javanese Orders

Use 1/2 navy to scout out a passage to North Australia and land a small colonisation force in the Darwin area, establishing a port city. Expand inland if possible. Use this colony to farm kangaroos (for meat), emu (for eggs and meat) and crocodiles (for tough leather and meat once again)

The other 1/2 of the navy are to expand the Empire to New Guinea landing a small colonisation force on the island and pushing inland.

The army is to start rounding up and enslaving the barbarians of Sulweisi Island. On Sumatra and Boreno continue expansion readily however do not yet encroach on barbarian lands and use the army to protect the settlers of these islands. If the barbarians attack conduct raids to prevent their military access to our lands, capturing more if needed tactically.

Send an emissary to the Malay Tribes offering them an automous province of the Javanese Empire and all the benefits given therin.If they so choose to do so, have the Emperor marry the doaughter of a leading Malay Chieftan bringing Malays and Javanese closer together.

Spend an economy with equipping the first few Jungle Fighters.

 

[Jason The King]

Trade Rules

Only available for those in the iron age.

Basically you trade all the time. But you can set three priority trade routes with three different nations. You must have a road connected, which costs 1c to build, from one of your cities (not towns/villages) to one of their cities. Or you must share the same body of water, and both have a city port. The you each must pay to set up the route, which is basically agreeing to a right of trade. Then, you have to pay three economies to set up the route, and then every three turns you gain one economy.

The routes can be broken during war with armies/navies, and random events do distort outcomes of trade.

 

[amirsan]

meh, trade rules suck... it should not have rules, instead it should be flexible and the income based on the orders given should be determined by you.

 

[Jason The King]

meh, trade rules suck... it should not have rules, instead it should be flexible and the income based on the orders given should be determined by you.

yes, that would make sense in an NES with an income state. But this deals in levels of economies, and it would be too difficult and unbalanced if we did it that way.

remember, everyone is still trading. You can still get random economies from trade, and negative from embargoes, etc.

 

[amirsan]

yes, that would make sense in an NES with an income state. But this deals in levels of economies, and it would be too difficult and unbalanced if we did it that way.

remember, everyone is still trading. You can still get random economies from trade, and negative from embargoes, etc.

oh ok, thanks for clearifying that. If there is some surprise factor then I guess its cool. I have faith in the master mod god.

 

[erez87]

OOC: I find it kidna unfair the NPC's that just created now can have so much more power than other powers?

BTW whats Iron age thingis with units and stuff? 1000 infantry and 500 horsis and 10 siege?

 

[Fëanor]

Great Update!
By the way, with whom do i have contacts?

 

[amirsan]

so I understand that npc nations will not join another player nation's country as a commonwealth or something?

 

[das]

OOC: Quick orders for Tripolye (assuming we're back to the schedule, and I can't really take any chances).

IC:

Orders:
- Upgrade the army to the next age.
- Increase missionary efforts in our lands and in Moskovia.
- The entire army is to attack Dacia. At first, our infantry and archers will confront them, as before, and fight. While the enemy is embroiled in the battle, have our chariots slam into their flanks and our horsemen attack their rear. DO NOT RETREAT! Bakoslav himself will lead our army. Fight with courage. Let out scary battle cries. Btw, encourage any volunteers, if such have their own equipment, to join our army - promise a lot of loot if we win.

 

[blackheart]

Normandy Orders
* 3 eco to finish the project
* used about 1/4 of the army to push east to the Danube River and settle and make cities there.
* send emissaries all over the world to copy other civs, steal their secrets, and get iron age
* slap my sages into shape and tell them to invent how to use iron from the mines dug by my slave workers.

 

[Heine]

Vikingland is a nations under the direct rule of King Harald I Halvardson Haarfagre, under him the nobility serves, this is the Jarls. Each Jarl rules over a "Fylke", the current nation consist of 8 "Fylker" , this is:
1 Akershus (Jarl Tore Halvardson)
2 Østfold (Jarl Gudmund Hallgrimson)
3 Agder (Jarl Inge Leivson)
4 Skåne (Jarl Harald Helgrimsson)
5 Bohulsen (Jarl Olav Olavson)
6 Jylland (Jarl Grim Bjørnarson)
7 Sjæland (Jarl Brynjar Ingeson)
8 Gøteborg (Jarl Haakon Jonson)

Akershus is the biggest and wealthiest part, governed by the Kings Brother, Tore. In Akershus the great capitol of Vikingland is also placed, Oslo. This is the city where the new Academy of Berserkers would be raised.

The population of Vikinland is a aggresive and warlike population, and fights between neighbours are normal. Each Jarl therefor have to have his own small standing "police" existing of Einherjars to stop the fighs from escalating. In recent times the King have used the agressivnes of the Vikings to expand the nation.


Orders:
3 Economy on Wonder (Finish)

250 Spearmen, 50 galleys. This troops will make landfalls over the Baltic Coasts and make settlements and secure land to the Viking Crown.

250 Spearmen (denmark), this troops will attack the tribe south of the current settlement and demand that they join Vikingland, there is no option to reject.

1000 Spearmen, 1000 Archers (largest army in this NES atm, in Norway and Sweden), this troops will march north and secure the land from the diffrent Viking Tribes, they also have the choise to join us peacefully and get a position in the nobility, but if they reject our arrows and spears are sharp, and they shall find out they got no choise

 

[Constantine]

To Calicut:
From Sinhala

Excellent, we are very pleased you have argeed let this be the start of a golden age of trade and happiness between our peoples. We would like to settle an issue of land to north of our island and where you land resides is a vast contient of land we do not wish to aquire any more land on it except for some harbours and trading posts. As such we hope there will be no disargeements over this?

Sinhalese orders:
The army is to help build local infrastructure, clear land etc

Promote the Use of Irraigtion channels to help improve corps

Use the navy and some army to set up a colony in the Gagnes Delta, use this colony as a staging point for naval voyages of exploration, use our alphabet to write down what we find

Spend one economy on the wonder.

Allow merchants from Calicut to trade in our cities and send some merchants with Sinhalaese goods to Calicut.

 

[Fëanor]

Stonehenge Midsummer Festival​

Each Year at the newly finished Stonehenge the Midsummer festival would be held, a few animals would be offered to please the gods in hope that they would bless the fields with fertility, but Stonehenge was much more that it seemed, few men knew what its true purpose was.

The Secret of Stonehenge​

The Druids had build Stonehenge on a carefully selected place and had aligned the stones in a way that only a few outside the Druidic order Comprehend; The Site functioned as a calendar and as a astronomy tool, but it did not only show what was already know, the site could be used to study and discover even more things about Astrology.

 

[North King]

To Calicut:
From Sinhala

Excellent, we are very pleased you have argeed let this be the start of a golden age of trade and happiness between our peoples. We would like to settle an issue of land to north of our island and where you land resides is a vast contient of land we do not wish to aquire any more land on it except for some harbours and trading posts. As such we hope there will be no disargeements over this?

There are no disagreements over this at all.

 

[alex994]

“This meeting of the City Council is now in session, Councilor Pertinax has some things to discuss”

“Councilors, Liguria’s coasts are beset by pirates of unknown origins, who attacks foreign merchants attempting to trade with Liguria and her ports. I call for an expansion of the fleet to deal with such a foe.”

“Councilor Lassiu has the Floor.”

“Councilor Pertinax, foreign trade is of little significance compared to the other pressing demands of Liguria. Communications are slow all throughout the nation, our current system of government is insufficient to represent the will of the People. I propose to the City Council that we REFORM the government composed of mainly two houses. One house elected officials from each province while the other house will be composed of merchants and mostly the well to do. Lord Crau, your opinion?”

“Such a drastic movement towards popular power could be dangerous, for all we know our heads would end up on stakes tomorrow. Therefore, I propose that the matter be tabled until the next City Council meeting. I do support Pertinax’s proposal and will have it brought to vote. All those in favor?”

“YES!”

“It is decided, the navy shall be increased.”

The Room empties except Lord Crau and Councilor Lassiu.

“My Lord, why did u table my proposal and decide to increase the Fleet?”

“Our future enemy cannot be reached via the seas, so they will not expect an invasion from us so easily. The preparations are ready, we shall attack this year…”

 

[das]

Story:

"Lyudi dobriye!" - shouted Tverdislav with sarcasm - "Dobro davayte!"

The Goths - or Dacians, as they called themselves - did not know Tripolean. That did not prevent them from understanding what was being said to them by the commander of ten horsemen. He wanted their food. And their gold, if they had any.

The village elder gestured for Tverdoslav to come near him with a smile. Feeling his superiority, Tverdoslav laughed and rode towards the elder. The elder's smile disappeared. He waved his hand, and suddenly, the farmers, the poor rabble who Tverdoslav ignored, held up weapons... strange weapons, of strange metal. Tverdoslav was rather surprised, but ofcourse tried to impale one with a spear. Then...

...he knew not how it happened, only that it did...

...the spear broke. The surrounded Tripolean raiders were quickly massacred with iron weapons.

---

In the sky, the Both Gods, who decided to punish Tripoleans for their arrogance were arguing. The Chernobog thought it served Tripoleans right. The Belobog, however, thought the Tripoleans deserved revenge. They needed assistance... What kind of assistance? Chernobog did not want to really assist them with divine intervention, for they might grow dependant on it and truth be said he did not want to help them. "Let them deal with it themselves", he said. But the Belobog proposed something different.

A sign.

---

"How did this happen?" - asked Bakoslav again. He was growing old very slowly, almost unnaturally so. Yet today, his hair was suddenly much grayer - "How did THIS happen?!" - he yelled with rage at the messanger. The messanger wore a black hat. He was a Black Messanger, a Bearer of Bad News. He was already mourned over and forgiven for his past misdoings. Now was his time to die.

Bakoslav thrust his spear through the Black Messanger's skull and cursed again. The messanger died, but it reminded him that his spear was bronze. He thought bronze to be the strongest metal. But now, it seemed that these odd Goth weapons were indeed made of a new metal, zhelezo. The knyazheskiy zodchiy, Knyaz's Seer, said that this metal could be found in Tripolean lands, near the village of Kursk. Already, the petty thieves were rounded up and sent to mine it. Weapons were to be forged. Revenge had to be taken.

Indeed, revenge WOULD be taken. The sacrificial stakes indicated that the Both Gods were on his side; that he was to fight, and to win, this war. Fight... or die.

Bakoslav stood up in all his height and looked in the direction of the distant Gothland/Dacia. Revenge will be his.

 

[Stormbringer]

Orders:

Jason, Morskoy Gorod (Sea City) was a large fortress/trading post on the sea where present day St-Petersburg is. It was supposed to act as a defence for the city in times of need, and as a trading and military port. (+2 army, +1 navy, +1 economy) so if you could add that it would be great.
Keep expanding our trading empire to the south west. Build small trading posts and station troops there, create an administration, etc. As these posts grow put more troops and administration there slowly absorbing the territory and making it ours. Build a second large city/trading post where present day Riga is.
Build a series of roads between Riga and Novgorod to increase the trading ability
Use our new port to send merchants to as far as we can to establish contact with others and start trade.
Begin fur trapping expeditions to the North East. Build a few small trading posts there and proceed as with the other way if there are natives, if there are not, just build the trading posts to be used for trade and expand slowly.

 

[amirsan]

update today right?