Term 3 - No. 10: The Presidential Office

[donsig]

Lots of info in the first few posts of this thread. Nice. But I didn't notice a link to the turn chat summary thread (which, by the way, has not had a new post since April 17).

Will the new administration be posting turn chat summaries?

Will the old president be filling in any blanks? Last we knew Sir Isaac Newton was on the scene...

 

[Furiey]

MOTH: Thank You, I've now linked to the Term 3 thread.

donsig: This new administration certainly intends to post summaries, there were no links to the Summary Thread as I have yet to write any summaries! I was intending to link to each one under the appropriate chat. I can certainly add a link to the thread in general though.

 

[zyxy]

Madame President,

As you may know, your military has started training our young men to fight from horseback, so that we may gore our enem... excuse me, achieve our foreign political goals with greater speed and efficiency. For the further glory of Fanatannia, I hope to provide our mounted soldiers with better weaponry in the near future.

Of course, such upgrades come at a price: to provide one unit with shiny armor will cost the tiny sum of 120 gold pieces. The number of units needed, and the moment when they will be needed, will depend on the plans of the External Consul. As it stands now, I would expect that these knights in shiny armor will be required some 25-30 turns from now (90 BC) in an operation against China, and for our defenses. About 20 should be enough initially. May I count on your cooperation in reserving 2500 gold pieces in 25-30 turns for this modernization of our valiant armies?

CoAF zyxy

 

[Bertie]

Madame President,

I'm going to be out of town much of May 6, 7, & 8th. I think I'll be able to post the instructions for turnchat on Sunday the 8th either tomorrow or early on Friday. If I can't I've asked Nobody, Deputy External Consul, to post the instructions for me.

Could you possibly post the thread for Sunday's turnchat sometime tomorrow so it be available for posting instructions if I'm able to formulate them?

Thanks!

 

[Furiey]

CoAF zyxy

I recognise the need for the modernisation of our valiant forces, however 2500 gold is a lot, in fact if we save all our gold for the remaining 26 turns that we are researching Engineering we will only have 2567 gold (assuming we maintain 77gpt) and we are about to spend some of that on alliances. I must of course balance the needs of the whole of Fanattania, and recognise the importance of our military to gain us the territory we need, but unless we can make a lot more gold, you may have to make do with a smaller initial upgrade. Thank you for making me aware of this requirement, I will do what I can to meet it when I balance the budget.

 

[Furiey]

Consul Bertie

I intend to post the TCIT for the next turn chat immediately after this one, unless it's 3 in the morning or something silly in which case I may get a little sleep before I post it in the morning.

I hope you have a good weekend

 

[zyxy]

CoAF zyxy

I recognise the need for the modernisation of our valiant forces, however 2500 gold is a lot, in fact if we save all our gold for the remaining 26 turns that we are researching Engineering we will only have 2567 gold (assuming we maintain 77gpt) and we are about to spend some of that on alliances. I must of course balance the needs of the whole of Fanattania, and recognise the importance of our military to gain us the territory we need, but unless we can make a lot more gold, you may have to make do with a smaller initial upgrade. Thank you for making me aware of this requirement, I will do what I can to meet it when I balance the budget.

President Furiey,

I fully understand that this is quite a hefty sum, and that our budget is limited. Of course the army will make do with what is made available, and will also seek popular support for these expenses once the External Consul has finalized his plans. I am glad you value the importance of a modern army and thank you for your consideration.

As a footnote, I would like to point out that this is probably the only time that the military will require sums of this magnitude. After the discovery of armored horsemen we will probably not train the unarmored version anymore -- who would volunteer? Thus I expect a one-time mass upgrade. My eaves-droppers at the R&T department have heard rumours that future upgrades from knights to better units will be much cheaper.

zyxy

 

[Furiey]

Summary for the 4 May chat is now up here

The start of a new term and the continuation of our conquest of part of the continent for territory. But things did not go as well as hoped.

In total we lost 4 cities and built 1. 2 were lost to flips, one capture and 1 gifted. We razed Arnhem and built on the Iron/Wheat site.

 

[Furiey]

CRpViewer Event log from 90BC to 50AD - NB: the original city names are used:

Updated graph

 

[GenMarshall]

Now I await for CT to tell us "I've told you so"

 

[zyxy]

Furiey,

Thanks for the great summary! Keep it up please!


@CG: think she already did, in the chatlog.

 

[Furiey]

Thanks zyxy, I'm glad you liked the summary. I will do my best to keep writing them.

And yes, CT said I told you so both in the chat and posted in the last TCIT.

 

[Furiey]

Poll concerning moving the Palace or not is up here

 

[Furiey]

Summary for 8 May session is now up here.

This time the RNG was much more kind to us, we captured Amsterdam, Breda and Eindhoven and founded 3 new cities.

France has declared war, our Peace with India is up and several of our alliances have now expired.

 

[Furiey]

Summary for 11 May Session is now up here.

We Formed Alliances against the French, cancelled our alliances against Persia and made Peace, and capture the final 3 Dutch cities we were after. We can now make peace.

We captured

 

[Furiey]

This update covers the events of the last two turnchats.

Please note where it says founded Nijmegen that city is actually Warm'ogh as I initially named it incorrectly.

 

[Furiey]

We are now a Republic!​

 

[Furiey]

Summary for Saturday 14 May is finally complete here.

 

[Furiey]

A thread has now been created for all your gold requests: Chancellor's Office (Budget Thread). Please request any gold you need in this thread.

 

[DaveShack]

Madame President, may I suggest a discussion thread on using our newest Great Leader Edward on another wonder project?