Overview:
The Middle Ages have advanced differently from otl thanks mostly to the fact that this NES is based on the C3C Middle Ages conquest. While not necessarily the most realistic thing to base an NES on, its a fun way to do it! Anyways read the national backgrounds for more historical info. Start Date: 1455
Stats
Nation
Government
Capital:
Dissent:
Production Capacity:
Population:
Productivity:
Trading Centers:
Army:
Army Quality:
Navy:
Navy Quality:
Governments:
Feudal Monarchy: The King is forced to share his power with various nobles who may undermine his authority. (-0.2 productivity, +5% dissent)
Absolute Monarchy: The King has complete control over his kingdom and everyone is subordinate to his rule. (+10% dissent)
Early Constitutional Monarchy: The King has decided to shed some power to grant nobles and citizens rights and power. (-0.1 productivity)
Production Capacity:
Your economy will be known as production capacity. It is a rating which represents the total capacity of commerce, industry, and agriculture in your nation. It is mostly determined at this stage by your population, the vast majority of which are farmers. Technology, Productivity, and Government, are three modifiers that are added onto the base PC created by your Population. PC will be represented as a fraction, the numerator being the actual available PC for one turn, and the denominator as the base PC.
Dissent
Dissent represents the percentage of people, and more importantly nobles, who oppose the current dynastys rule. Once Dissent reaches around the 40% mark civil war is all but inevitable. However, smaller rebellions can still occur at lower dissent ratings.
Cities/Population:
Cities represent not only a center of culture, commerce, and industry, but also represent the greater population of the area surrounding it.
Small City: 200,000 people
Large City: 700,000 people
Metropolis: 1 million people
Note: While a city itself may have a population of say 5,000 the remaining 195,000 surrounding it are represented by the city. If the city is captured, so is the population.
Population is important as it is directly linked to Production Capacity. Every million people provide 1 base PC from which other PC modifiers are added. Population is rounded so 1.4 = 1 and 1.5 = 2.
Cities will appear and grow on their own.
Productivity:
Productivity is another base number much like above population. It represents just how much output each individual is giving out in regards to agriculture, industry, and commerce. A nation with a productivity rating of 1 means that each million persons give 1 PC. A nation with 1.25 means each million people give 1.25 PC and so on. Basically productivity takes into account things like corruption, upkeep, infrastructure, good crops, natural resources, etc. Should a gold rush occur, productivity will go up without effecting population. Should a famine or plague occur, not only will population most likely decrease but so will productivity as fields die out and people become too sick (or nervous) to work and trade. In other words it determines if your empire is economically effective. Usually the bigger the kingdom the worse the productivity and the smaller the kingdom, the better.
Productivity effects the rounded PC base score of your population, not the population itself.
Trade Centers:
Trade Centers will also affect PC and will be separate from both population and productivity. They easily represent the commercial wealth of a nation. A Trade Center will be a city of any size and marked by red. Each will introduce and additional 0.5 modified PC and do not round up. As such you will need an even number to maximize PC from trade centers. Trade Centers can and will shift based on trade routes. There are also Regional Trade Centers which represent a city's trade control over an entire region. This city gives 1 additional PC by itself and is marked separately from other trade centers in the stats, but not on the map.
Current Regions/Regional Trade Centers:
Western Region: Paris
Northern: Bergen
North-Central: Poznan
South-Central: Constantinople
Eastern: Sary Su (ancient local otl name)/Bursa (name in civ3 game)/Volgograd (modern otl name)
Southern: Alexandria
Armies:
Each consist of mixed cavalry and infantry
Feudal Banner: ~1000 men under command of a noble. Mixed bag of militia and knights. 1 PC for 2.
Mercenary Company: ~1000 men under command of a mercenary captain. Professional soldiers for hire, loyal to the coin not the crown. 1 PC for 1.
Professional Regiment: ~1000 men under command of a career military commander. Well-trained, equipped, and experienced men loyal to the crown. 2 PC for 1. (May only account for 1/5 of your total army until Professional Armies is learned)
Navy:
Early Ships: Simple ships based on ancient designs. 1 PC for 15.
Medieval Warship: A sturdier sailing vessel. 1 PC for 10.
Longship: Sturdy Viking sailing ships. 1 PC for 10. (Can only be built by Norway and Sweden)
Caravel: Well-built sailing vessel with the potential of ocean travel. 1 PC for 5.
Religion:
Europe at this point in time is split between three religions: Catholic Christianity, Orthodox Christianity, and Islam. Each religion is headed by an NPC who wields great political clout. The Pope, Patriarch, and Caliph each have the power to make and break kings at this point in time, and it would be unwise for even the most powerful monarch to move against them.
Catholicism: Headed by the Pope in Rome
-Norway, Sweden, Brittany, France, Castile, Germany, Holy Roman Empire, Hungarian Empire, Kingdom of Pisa, Papal State, Catholic Crusader State
Orthodoxy: Headed by the Patriarch in Constantinople
-Byzantine Empire, Bulgarian Empire, Empire of Kievan Rus, Orthodox Crusader State
Islam: Headed by the Caliph in Baghdad
-Abbasid Caliphate, Fatimid Sultanate, Cordova, Sardinian Emirate, Turkish Sultanate
Outside/Grey World
At current times I would like to keep things focused on the west (west being defined as the Christo-Islamic world west of central Asia and north of the Sahara). That is not to say an outside world doesnt exist. There is still a China, India, Mesoamerica, Africa, etc. However at this time the influence they exert on the region the game focuses on will be considered minimal. While this is obviously unrealistic, the games premise in and of itself is unrealistic being based on a civ3 game. At this point in time there is little capacity to attempt to explore and try to make contact with the outside world; this will change as technology advances. As technology begins to allow exploration the map will slowly expand to include new areas, which will most likely be represented by the below colors, but may get their own kingdoms if there is high enough demand.
As such areas not under control of one of the established kingdoms will be shown in white, grey, and dark grey. The white is an area of little inhabitance and as such little value. Expanding into such an area will not net any real positive benefits. In fact it would be most beneficial to avoid the white areas for now. The grey areas meanwhile are inhabited areas which have no central authority. Grey areas will not be easy to conquer; the people here have fought amongst themselves perhaps for centuries and are well versed in warfare. Theres a reason they have yet to be incorporated into the existing kingdoms. Finally there is the dark grey which represents the civilizations of India. Rather than adding the actual Indian kingdoms I have simply given the area a dark grey color. Considering fighting this area comparable of fighting a more advanced fellow kingdom, it would be difficult to say the least.
Technologies
High Middle Ages:
NATIONS:
CATHOLIC:
ISLAMIC:
OTHODOX:
STARTING MAP:
The Middle Ages have advanced differently from otl thanks mostly to the fact that this NES is based on the C3C Middle Ages conquest. While not necessarily the most realistic thing to base an NES on, its a fun way to do it! Anyways read the national backgrounds for more historical info. Start Date: 1455
Stats
Nation
Government
Capital:
Dissent:
Production Capacity:
Population:
Productivity:
Trading Centers:
Army:
Army Quality:
Navy:
Navy Quality:
Governments:
Feudal Monarchy: The King is forced to share his power with various nobles who may undermine his authority. (-0.2 productivity, +5% dissent)
Absolute Monarchy: The King has complete control over his kingdom and everyone is subordinate to his rule. (+10% dissent)
Early Constitutional Monarchy: The King has decided to shed some power to grant nobles and citizens rights and power. (-0.1 productivity)
Production Capacity:
Your economy will be known as production capacity. It is a rating which represents the total capacity of commerce, industry, and agriculture in your nation. It is mostly determined at this stage by your population, the vast majority of which are farmers. Technology, Productivity, and Government, are three modifiers that are added onto the base PC created by your Population. PC will be represented as a fraction, the numerator being the actual available PC for one turn, and the denominator as the base PC.
Dissent
Dissent represents the percentage of people, and more importantly nobles, who oppose the current dynastys rule. Once Dissent reaches around the 40% mark civil war is all but inevitable. However, smaller rebellions can still occur at lower dissent ratings.
Cities/Population:
Cities represent not only a center of culture, commerce, and industry, but also represent the greater population of the area surrounding it.
Small City: 200,000 people
Large City: 700,000 people
Metropolis: 1 million people
Note: While a city itself may have a population of say 5,000 the remaining 195,000 surrounding it are represented by the city. If the city is captured, so is the population.
Population is important as it is directly linked to Production Capacity. Every million people provide 1 base PC from which other PC modifiers are added. Population is rounded so 1.4 = 1 and 1.5 = 2.
Cities will appear and grow on their own.
Productivity:
Productivity is another base number much like above population. It represents just how much output each individual is giving out in regards to agriculture, industry, and commerce. A nation with a productivity rating of 1 means that each million persons give 1 PC. A nation with 1.25 means each million people give 1.25 PC and so on. Basically productivity takes into account things like corruption, upkeep, infrastructure, good crops, natural resources, etc. Should a gold rush occur, productivity will go up without effecting population. Should a famine or plague occur, not only will population most likely decrease but so will productivity as fields die out and people become too sick (or nervous) to work and trade. In other words it determines if your empire is economically effective. Usually the bigger the kingdom the worse the productivity and the smaller the kingdom, the better.
Productivity effects the rounded PC base score of your population, not the population itself.
Trade Centers:
Trade Centers will also affect PC and will be separate from both population and productivity. They easily represent the commercial wealth of a nation. A Trade Center will be a city of any size and marked by red. Each will introduce and additional 0.5 modified PC and do not round up. As such you will need an even number to maximize PC from trade centers. Trade Centers can and will shift based on trade routes. There are also Regional Trade Centers which represent a city's trade control over an entire region. This city gives 1 additional PC by itself and is marked separately from other trade centers in the stats, but not on the map.
Current Regions/Regional Trade Centers:
Western Region: Paris
Northern: Bergen
North-Central: Poznan
South-Central: Constantinople
Eastern: Sary Su (ancient local otl name)/Bursa (name in civ3 game)/Volgograd (modern otl name)
Southern: Alexandria
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Armies:
Each consist of mixed cavalry and infantry
Feudal Banner: ~1000 men under command of a noble. Mixed bag of militia and knights. 1 PC for 2.
Mercenary Company: ~1000 men under command of a mercenary captain. Professional soldiers for hire, loyal to the coin not the crown. 1 PC for 1.
Professional Regiment: ~1000 men under command of a career military commander. Well-trained, equipped, and experienced men loyal to the crown. 2 PC for 1. (May only account for 1/5 of your total army until Professional Armies is learned)
Navy:
Early Ships: Simple ships based on ancient designs. 1 PC for 15.
Medieval Warship: A sturdier sailing vessel. 1 PC for 10.
Longship: Sturdy Viking sailing ships. 1 PC for 10. (Can only be built by Norway and Sweden)
Caravel: Well-built sailing vessel with the potential of ocean travel. 1 PC for 5.
Religion:
Europe at this point in time is split between three religions: Catholic Christianity, Orthodox Christianity, and Islam. Each religion is headed by an NPC who wields great political clout. The Pope, Patriarch, and Caliph each have the power to make and break kings at this point in time, and it would be unwise for even the most powerful monarch to move against them.
Catholicism: Headed by the Pope in Rome
-Norway, Sweden, Brittany, France, Castile, Germany, Holy Roman Empire, Hungarian Empire, Kingdom of Pisa, Papal State, Catholic Crusader State
Orthodoxy: Headed by the Patriarch in Constantinople
-Byzantine Empire, Bulgarian Empire, Empire of Kievan Rus, Orthodox Crusader State
Islam: Headed by the Caliph in Baghdad
-Abbasid Caliphate, Fatimid Sultanate, Cordova, Sardinian Emirate, Turkish Sultanate
Outside/Grey World
At current times I would like to keep things focused on the west (west being defined as the Christo-Islamic world west of central Asia and north of the Sahara). That is not to say an outside world doesnt exist. There is still a China, India, Mesoamerica, Africa, etc. However at this time the influence they exert on the region the game focuses on will be considered minimal. While this is obviously unrealistic, the games premise in and of itself is unrealistic being based on a civ3 game. At this point in time there is little capacity to attempt to explore and try to make contact with the outside world; this will change as technology advances. As technology begins to allow exploration the map will slowly expand to include new areas, which will most likely be represented by the below colors, but may get their own kingdoms if there is high enough demand.
As such areas not under control of one of the established kingdoms will be shown in white, grey, and dark grey. The white is an area of little inhabitance and as such little value. Expanding into such an area will not net any real positive benefits. In fact it would be most beneficial to avoid the white areas for now. The grey areas meanwhile are inhabited areas which have no central authority. Grey areas will not be easy to conquer; the people here have fought amongst themselves perhaps for centuries and are well versed in warfare. Theres a reason they have yet to be incorporated into the existing kingdoms. Finally there is the dark grey which represents the civilizations of India. Rather than adding the actual Indian kingdoms I have simply given the area a dark grey color. Considering fighting this area comparable of fighting a more advanced fellow kingdom, it would be difficult to say the least.
Technologies
High Middle Ages:
Spoiler :
NATIONS:
CATHOLIC:
Spoiler :
ISLAMIC:
Spoiler :
OTHODOX:
Spoiler :
STARTING MAP:
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