StKNES2: Rags to Riches, Tribes to Empires

[IceEye]

Nation: Babylon
Capital: Babylon
Player: IceEye - Maxurabi I
Government: Despotism
Economy: 4
Education: Average
Army: 500 men, Bronze Age
Navy: 10 Canoes, Bronze Age
Morale: 5
Age: Bronze Age
Religion: Perhaps someone could look this up for me
UU:

Could we have like despotism/monarchy or isnt that discovered yet? Is economy just points to spend or does 4=stable? I mean if I get below 4 does it anger my population?

 

[Heine]

Nation: Egypt
Capital: Thebes
Player: Heine/Pharaoh Heine I
Economy: 4
Education: Average
Army: 500 men, Bronze Age
Navy: 10 Canoes, Bronze Age
Morale: 5
Age: Bronze Age
Religion: Worship of Ra (sun)
UU:

 

[tossi]

Nation Template
Nation: Iceland
Capital: Reykjavik
Player: tossi
Government: Tribal Confederation
Economy: 4
Education: Average
Army: 500 men, Bronze Age
Navy: 10 Canoes, Bronze Age
Morale: 5
Age: Bronze Age
Religion:
UU:


Orders:
-grow education
-expand along the coast

 

[amirsan]

All the nations I would have picked are taken... so I will hold off on joining just yet. Make some good NPC's though, I am bound to join sooner or later.

Its tempting cuz there are soo many good NES players playing.... I dont want to be left out... lol

 

[IceEye]

Maxurabi looked out from the top of the watchtower. The sun made him shadow his eyes with his hands as he studied the city taking form infront of him. Whereever he looked he saw people building houses, gardens or where working on the city wall. Several larger house where built along with watchtowers, defenses and other great buildings, including the Palace.
Maxurabi liked what he saw.
The city was being built to host more than 20,000 men and woman but now the population counted just over 6,000, not including the farmers and other workers that would live outside the city.

As a youngster Maxurabi had been living in one of the many tribes that bread along the great river. Since he was young he had dreamed of uniting the many tribes and build a great city.
As he grew into a man he went out and using his expert rhetorical techniques along with some force when necessary, he had united the tribes and formed a civilization, Babylon.

The people, his people, called themselves Babylonians after the name of their city.

 

[Volum]

Emperor Volum of the Sicilians had recently just been leading a small band of pesky warriors. But with the unification with the other tribe on the island, he now had a pretty large army, and it was no longer place for everybody in the village. There was nothing to do but to expand. And Emperopr Volum knew that over the small water strait there was much land to claim, much by conquering he feared. But challenges, was something he gladly acsepted.

Orders:
Use 100 men to expand in every direction.
Use 100 men to guard Palermo
Increase army

 

[Kamilian]

Crap! I forgot a "Government stat". All governments righ now are either Despotism or Tribal Confederation. Please edit into your Nation Template posts which of these two Governments you want.

 

[Kamilian]

@ IceEye:
Your Trade suggestion, I kinda like that idea. I will deliberate about this and I will say whether I will go w/ your idea or stay w/ mine.
Military: For such an early Age, increases by 100 men are pretty good. If I make 1000 men increases, or 500 men increases, then you'll have a very very huge army too early. Why, in 2 turns, you'd already have 2500 men! No matter how huge your morale is in 2 turns, you're not gonna have that many men so eager to enlist in the ranks - later in the game, especially when very strong nationalism emerges, maybe, but not now. Sorry, but the default increase stays as 100.
Yah I will show roads on the map as much as possible w/o making it too confusing or space-consuming. However, your suggestion to include roads between other nations as a necessity for trade, I think it would make trading just a bit too hard, especially with the middleman rule. I CAN make it so that the city nearest to the nation you're trading with has a road connecting it w/ another one of your own cities, or (in overseas trade) the port from which the trade ships leave must be connected by road to another one of your own cities. But that is as far as I'll go with that.
I will show roads on the map.

@ Volum:
I have posted just now about that I forgot Governments. Tribal Confederation (or Tribal Monarchy, as others call it) are the 2 Gov'ts available right now. Edit that into your Nation Template, please.
The Economy. 4, is, I guess, kinda Stable. Only under really bad circumstances will people be discontent if the economy dips lower, such as if unemployment (later on) rises, or the economy overall is dropping, that kind of stuff. If there is such thing, or a Recession or Depression, occuring, it does not have to be at Economy levels 2 or 1. You could be at 9 and then it begins to plunge considerably. It COULD happen, and it has in real life. Take 1920s U.S. - the Roaring Twenties. The economy was doing GREAT in the post-WW1 decade. Then, in 1928 and 1929, we see it beginning to drop until finally the bottom fell out - Great Depression, with a "domino effect" going around the world as the U.S. even tried to balance it out by demanding debtor countries to pay a bit more than the set annual amount, which they did and boom! Worldwide Great Depression.
If a Depression or Recession begins to occur (and I will say it in the update story if it does), then the people will begin massive strikes, protests, etc. and your government may be weakened to the point of total collapse or something like that,

 

[IceEye]

@1 place education has a 1/3 chance of costing, in the other it allways costs 1 point. What is correct(under economy and under education the 2 are)

orders Babylon:
-get 200 soldiers
-send settlers along with 400 soldiers and all canoes in different directions to settle more lands and find suitable new city spots, main directions are along the river towards RL kuwait and in the other direction.
-increase education(but not if it automatically will cost 1 eco lvl, if it is a 1/3 chance then do it)
-start Wonder: The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
will increase morale by 3 and economy by 3(more people come to babylon to see it)

 

[Kamilian]

??? really? i will check.
EDIT: checked and edited. the 1/3 is the correct one. The "always cost an economy" was just a mistake by me cuz I didnt look back to make sure.
EDIT2:
About Orders: For this first update, orders MUST be sent in by all participants. If you don't send orders for this one, then I will make your nation NPC. - Just a reminder to anyone who posted templates but hasn't sent orders or still wants to join.

 

[Oruc]

Nope!

 

[tossi]

Saga of Knut the Old

The Saga of Knut the Old is the oldest relict of the Iceland. It is a very long song and this is only a small summary of the actual story.

Several centuries ago, our fathers lived in the wide lands of scandinavia, a land full of strange animals and big forests. But one day, Knut the Old built a big canoe. With his family and several other families, set sail to the west. The cause is not remembered today, but some say, that the gods visited him in his dreams and told him about Iceland. After several weeks, the ships finaly landed on a island. It was cold and snowy, so Knut called the island Iceland. After one year, Knut and his followers had build a small village, called Reykjavik at the eastern coast of the island. They fished in the sea and they hunted animals at the coast. Knut had led his people to a new home and most very happy about their leader. Knut lead his people over a long and dangerous period and he is remembered as the most famous Icelandic leader. One summer, when Knut was an old men, he asked his sons to construct him a small canoe. When his day came, he laid himself into this boat and drifted into the big ocean. This is the way, every Icelander wants to die, because this is the easiest way to come into halls of the gods.

 

[Amon Savag]

Bavaria

The tribesmen were all gathered in the main village called "Munich".They were superb marksmen with their bows and deffinetly knew how to get stuff done.Rumors had been heard of a tribe gathering to the north and it was said that this meeting was about that.

The man inside of the biggest hut in the village stepped outside...Everyone stopped and looked in silence at Amon Savag the Brave...He then let out the words "Let's kick some ass!" and they went into a frenzy and started doing their odd rituals to their gods and then set out with Amon at the head of them.

 

[Kamilian]

made another edit to the Trade rules - I'm goin w/ your suggestion IceEye.

 

[Grandmaster]

Turkestan

The tribal chieftains had assemlbed in the village of Samarqand, home of the Samar tribe, to discuss recent events in the world. The Dushan and Khivin chiefs had come to negotiate peace after their long and bloody civil war; the Samar, Dar'ya, and Kent elders were assembled to discuss matters of mutual interest.

Rumors had been circulating throughout the villages that the chieftains would discuss the possibility of unification of the tribes. According to legend, the Turks had once been a united people under the great king Tarkhan. The story went that Tarkhan had led the Turks through the desert to the banks of the Dar'ya river. Here they had found a hostile and warlike band of barbarians. Tarkhan had led the Turkic warriors in battle against these enemies, and though they fought bravely, they were almost defeated by the barbarians. According to legend, Tarkhan was hit three times with arrows, but continued to fight. With his last dying breath he launched an arrow that felled the barbarian king and caused the enemy to disperse, bringing victory to the Turks and allowing them to settle in the river valley. Tarkhan's son, Busir, took control of the Turkic tribes. But Busir was not a great leader like his father. He disrespected the gods, and so they punished him. They struck him down with a lightning bolt and rendered his only son impotent, ensuring the end of his line. They also sent a plague of war upon the Turks, igniting them into civil warfare that shed the blood of thousands and lsted many years. This is how the tribes were seperated.

But many believed that at this meeting in Samarqand the tribal elders would elect a single leader, who would rule all of the tribes. He would be a strong man, a great leader like Tarkhan who would lead his people to greatness.

The meeting began in the typical way, with the passing of a vodka skin and the saying of prayers -- for no-one wanted to suffer the fate of Busir. With this done, the tribal chiefs got down to business.

After negotiations ending the war had concluded, and other topics had been discussed, they got to the truly important issue of the meeting -- electing a despot for the united tribes. After much deliberation, the chieftains decided -- Osman, leader of the Samar tribe, would become Sultan of all the Turkic tribes. They would call the new united nation Turkestan, or Land of the Turks. The future looked bright for Osman's people.

Orders:
-Expand in all directions.
-Grow army.

 

[Azale]

Cyrus's Reign Begins

It had happened one late night. In his sleep the old King Persiseus had suffered a heart attack, ending his 80 year-old reign.

In his stead rose his apprentice. For over 30 years of that reign, Cyrus had been waiting for his chance to put his mark on the world. And now it had come.

His first order of work was too make a building commemerating the dead King Persiseus. It would be made of colossal beams of marble, to hold up the grand statue that would be carved on top. Great steps would let the citizens walk up and down to view the beautiful structure. And it would be the envy of the world.

OOC: Emu, grandmaster, ice eye, norseone, what are ya trying to do to me?

Orders
- increase army size
- expand to the east using 100 soldiers to escort
- expand to the north using 100 soldiers to escort
- expand to the west using 100 soldiers to escort

- begin wonder, Mausolleum of Persopolis (+1 education, +2 economy)

 

[Grandmaster]

OOC: If it had ONLY been Turkestan and Persia, then we'd both have had ample room, and it would've made for an interesting rivalry. It's all Norseone and IceEye's fault for overcrowding the region.

 

[Norseone]

The great cities of India had flourished for a long time. They were as ancient as the mountians to the North or the Great Ganges river. The people in one city in particular were beggening to contemplate uniting all the lands of India to carve out a better existence among the rugged terrain. These people lived in Dheli. It was a beautiful and large city that had all a person could want. But the people somehow wanted more, they wanted empire.

Orders:
Grow army
expand in all directions

OOC: sorry for the short story...iv lost my insperation

 

[IceEye]

OOC: Emu, grandmaster, ice eye, norseone, what are ya trying to do to me?

You will find out soon, MUHAHAHAHAHA

 

[Heine]

My government is Despotism.

Orders:
Increase economy by farming around the nile.
Expand up and down the nile.