The Fall of Rome NES

[Warman17]

The Fall of Rome NES:

The year is 200 AD. The Roman Empire is at it’s peak, but what goes up must come down. You are one of many tribes trying to gain dominance over all the others.

Wealth:
Equivalent to credits/bank in other neses wealth is used as a testament to your greatness. Wealth is used to buy everything, from army and navy to houses and plumbing. Wealth is made in numbers instead of words this so it is easier to keep track of and can use it much better. The only way to gain Wealth is to tax, raid or conquer and gain spoils.

Army:
Your army is the second most important thing to a civilization next to wealth. Using it to conquer or defend is your discretion. Army is also done in numbers so it is also easier to keep track of.

Navy:
Your navy is not as important as other categories but it is necessary to transport troops and supplies across waters. It’s also done in numbers. Every 1 navy can transport 2 army.

Upkeep:
Each army has a 1 wealth upkeep and each navy a 2 wealth upkeep. If you want to make money and expand you need to keep your income above your upkeep, otherwise armies will disband.

Living Standards:
Living standards are important and is like culture. You need it to stay up before people decide to go live in Rome or other tribes. You also want it to draw people to you. It’s also numbers. Building up Living Standards also increase taxes.

Tax:
You gain 5 wealth per turn from taxes. You need to increase taxes by building cities and Living Standards.

Cities:
Cities increase your tax +10. Captured cities only bring +5 tax for 3 turns. These are the larger blocks on the map.

Raids:
Another way to gain money besides taxes is to raid enemy cities. You will have to successfully raid and return from a city to gain wealth. Raiding a city is also a good way to cut off enemy income as it stops taxes for that city.

Forts
A Rome only. These are smaller blocks on the map. Forts help protect against enemy invasion and strengthens Roman defenses. Forts are hard to pierce, especially lines of them but massive amounts of troops can run them over quickly. Once forts are conquered they are turned into wealth. Forts also help defend from raids. Forts also have a 5 wealth upkeep so they are expensive for Rome to maintain. Forts cost 5 for Rome to build.

COSTS:
Everything costs wealth. Here is a conversion table. Some things below isn’t wealth but it’s still conversion.

1 Army: 2 Wealth, 1 per turn
1 Navy: 4 Wealth, 2 per turn
1 Living Standard: 3 Wealth
City: 25 Wealth

3 Living Standards: +3 Tax
Raid: +2 wealth per army that survives
City: +10 tax
Captured Fort: 3 Wealth

NATIONS:

Rome
Player: Warman17(Permanent NPC)
Wealth: 55
Taxes: 375
Upkeep: 330
Income: +45
Armies: 89
Navies: 20
Living Standards: 30
Cities: 35
Forts: 45

Picts:
Player:
Wealth: 16
Taxes: 15
Upkeep: 10
Income: 5
Armies: 4
Navies: 3
Cities: 1
Living Standards: 0

Vandals:
Player:
Wealth: 10
Taxes: 15
Upkeep: 6
Income: 9
Armies: 2
Navies: 2
Cities: 1
Living Standards: 0

Jutes:
Player:
Wealth: 15
Taxes: 15
Upkeep: 8
Income: 7
Armies: 4
Navies: 2
Cities: 1
Living Standards: 0

Franks:
Player: Sheep2
Wealth: 15
Taxes: 15
Upkeep: 10
Income: 5
Armies: 10
Navies: 0
Cities: 1
Living Standards: 0

Visigoth:
Player: emu
Wealth: 23
Taxes: 15
Upkeep: 11
Income: 4
Armies:9
Navies: 0
Cities: 1
Living Standards: 0

Goths:
Player:
Wealth: 15
Taxes: 15
Upkeep: 8
Income: 7
Armies: 8
Navies: 0
Cities: 1
Living Standards: 0

Ostrogoth:
Player:
Wealth: 10
Taxes: 15
Upkeep: 5
Income: 10
Armies: 5
Navies: 0
Cities: 1
Living Standards: 0

Poles:
Player:
Wealth: 20
Taxes: 15
Upkeep: 6
Income: 9
Armies: 6
Navies: 0
Cities: 1
Living Standards: 0

Scythian:
Player:
Wealth: 10
Taxes: 15
Upkeep: 6
Income: 9
Armies: 4
Navies: 1
Cities: 1
Living Standards: 0

Huns:
Player: Temporary NPC
Wealth: 10
Taxes: 5
Upkeep: 5
Income: 5
Armies: 5
Navies: 0
Living Standards: 0

Kushan:
Player: Geko1234
Wealth: 24
Taxes: 28
Upkeep: 17
Income: 11
Armies: 11
Navies: 3
Cities: 2
Living Standards: 3

Sassanian:
Player: aaminion00
Wealth: 35
Taxes: 38
Upkeep: 18
Income: 20
Armies: 14
Navies: 2
Cities: 3
Living Standards: 3

Arab Raiders:
Player:
Wealth: 11
Taxes: 5
Upkeep: 3
Income: 2
Armies: 3
Navies: 0
Cities: 0
Living Standards: 0

Nubian Raiders:
Player:
Wealth: 10
Taxes: 5
Upkeep: 1
Income: 5
Armies: 1
Navies: 0
Cities: 0
Living Standards:0

Desert Raiders:
Player: Puglover
Wealth: 11
Taxes: 5
Upkeep: 3
Income: 2
Armies: 3
Navies: 0
Cities: 0
Living Standards: 0

 

[Oruc]

Nope!

 

[aaminion00]

this looks like a lot of fun. I'll be the Sassanians.

 

[china444]

Scythians for me

 

[amirsan]

I'll be Rome .

Just joking, this game looks very cool, though I think I'm overdoing my NES signupsa and even modding one of my own unsuccessful NESs. I wish I could join. I'm in like 10 NESs.

 

[puglover]

Desert Raiders for me.

 

[Sheep]

Franks for me. Lets see if i can keep history true to itself.

 

[Warman17]

You can all post/send orders you know

 

[Sheep]

Franks:
Player:
Wealth: 10
Taxes: 15
Upkeep: 5
Income: 10
Armies: 5
Navies: 0
Cities: 1
Living Standards: 0

Build 5 more armies.

Raid the Jutes with 3 armies. Be sure to make it back.

 

[aaminion00]

- Build 5 armies
- Invade the Arab raiders with all but 2

 

[Revolutionairy]

I'll be the Picts

Bulid 2 Navys
Raid the City in Roman Cornwall with 2 Armies on bored a Navy from Ireland then withdraw at the first sign of Legians

 

[puglover]

- Build two armies

To: Nubian Raiders
From: Desert Raiders

Alliance?

 

[gecko1234]

Ill be Kushens

 

[gecko1234]

Kushans
build city north eastern Caspian Sea
build 3 armies in sout

 

[Warman17]

update on the way

 

[Oruc]

Nope!

 

[Warman17]

ROMAN NEWS:

Emepror Severus reforms the Legions and is able to create more armies. He jopes to be able to fend off any barbarian invasion that might come about.

The empeor personaly travels to Egypt and leads his troops to victory against Nubian raiders.

In Roman Brittania barbarian tribes launch a navel raid on a Roman city. The garrison is destroyed and the barbarians make off with loot.

A Roman city is raided by Ostrogoths and it's taxes are cut. An army dies killing a barbarian army.

-5 armies built
-lost 2 Army

BARBARIAN NEWS:

The Franks begins to try and gain dominance over other tribes. The Franks raise 5 new armies to help in their war. The Franks then send raiding parties into Jute lands. The jutes are unable to stop the larger Frank army and the Franks pillage many villages in southern Jute lands.

-5 Armies built
-5 Wealth raided

The Sassanian Empire begins to expand as it invades Arab lands. The Arabs are too few in number to fight back against the invading Persians. The Sassanians take large amounts of land. Only the arab desert holds back the enourmous Sassanian army. The empire also builds 5 new armies

-5 armies built

The Picts of northern Brittania begin to enlarge their navel power by building 2 new navies. In need of supplies the Picts launch a navel raid of a Roman shore city. The Roman garrison of 1 army is slaughtered in the raid. The 2 Pict armies come away with all they could carry.

-2 new navies
-5 Wealth Raided

The Desert Raiders begin to gain power as they raise 2 armies.

- 2 new armies

The Kushan King also orders 3 new armies to be traised for defense.
- 3 new armies

The Visigoths begin to mount a war against other barbarians. The Visgoths raise 5 new armies for this effort. They send 4 armies to Goth and 4 to Poles to raid their villages. The Goths are able to keep their enemies from reaching the Goth city and succesfuly destroys a Visigoth army, while losing 2 of their own. The Poles meanwhile meets the 4 Visigoth armies with 3 of their own. The battle was fierce but the Visigoths win, killing a polish army while losing 1 of their own. The Visigoths pillage all over and get a lot of wealth.

- Builds 5 armies
- losses 2 armies
-14 wealth raided

NPCS:
Vandals do nothing

Jutes build 2 armies

Goths build 2 armies, loses 1 to Visigoths

Ostrogoths build 2 armies. Raids a roman city. Loses an army

Poles build 2 armies. Loses 1 to Visigoths

Scythians do nothing

The Huns migrate further west.

Arabs build 2 armies. Loses land to Sassanians

Nubians try to raid Egypt but fail.

MESSAGES:
from Nubian raiders
to Desert Raiders:

Let us raid the Roman lands together!

OOC:
Geko- it costs 25 wealth to build a city, you only had 24 if you didn't build your armies.

 

[Revolutionairy]

How much does it cost to raise the living standards so that you get the +3 tax benifit?

 

[Warman17]

9 Wealth

 

[Revolutionairy]

Picts - Orders

Spend 9 gold on raising my living standards
Bulid 3 new armies for 6 gold
Use the 2 navies to carry 4 armies to raid the City on French west coast and again withdraw at the first sign of legians.