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[Vanigo]

Zefie regulars charge with full plate (they're like little armored balls) and pikes. They all carry sidearms (swords generally, although axes are found, as per the soldier's preferences, some might use a second spear).


I'd be happy if it was something like -25 to ranged (which isn't there forte) and +10 to defense.

That's not exactly what I meant. I mean, do they even have limbs, or what?

[Strife26]

No they don't. They still hold two things at a time, but they don't have limbs. Or any discernable features or organs. They're funny like that. Stabing them through the center'll still kill them though.

[TheNewerMartianEmperor]

There are those within Kubrinka who wish to mount an expedition into the foreboding forest, to uncover what lies beyond, before doing this they need someplace to organize themselves at. So they shall make an explorers guild, and reap the benefits! (2 labor or something thereabouts)

Within the city there has been a great discovery!  The league of natural philosophers have discovered a great wonder formed by a process involving heating the sand found in the lower parts of the mesa. This miraculous invention, called "glass" is clear, solid and has some rather strange effects on ones eyesight. The natural philosophers shall begin their investigation in earnest momentarily. (2 labor to the scientific investigation of glass, 1 to the mining and gathering of sand.)

As is well-known, the city of Kubrinka is on a mesa. What is less well known is that no-one has left it in quite a while, what with the city tearing itself apart and all. They have mostly survived by virtue of being able to grow their crops in cramped conditions. This alone is no longer enough, there's not enough room. As such cautionary clearing of some of the forest floor has begun, in order for there to be enough food. This has also lead to a great effort by the dark-clothed ones to domesticate the more benign and tasty beasts of the woods, something that may just result in great things. (2 labor to food 2 to wood and 1 to animal domestication)

In other news, local sage predicts rain of fish: Nomindarmus the sage was always a somewhat......... strange person, but this latest prediction of his takes the cake. He has predicted that there shall be a rain of fish, and not just any fish. He claims that on the first of Jrune there shall be a rain of the blind cave fish that swim in the lower depths of the mesa. Incidentally, Fernsworthy, head of  the society of natural philosophers, has said "If this comes to pass, I will not only eat my own hat, I will also dig a room 10-feet cubed with my teeth!" Nomindarmus replied "Weee! I'M A LOONEY FISH HAT HAT BARK!

[Pandarsenic]

Pretty awesome, but a quick question: Do I need to research glass tech before I can utilize my already-made Alchemist's lab?

[RPB]

Granary sounds about right for the Asykos; they're fairly communal, civic-minded, frugal, and are big on planning for the future. For leaders... yeah, I guess I can kind of see the problem. Engineer fits for lack of anything better... the only thing that might fit more specifically would be some kind of intelligence-gathering role maybe? They're pretty big on collecting information.

Is there a fixed tech tree, or is it going to be pretty much freeform?

[Vanigo]

No they don't. They still hold two things at a time, but they don't have limbs. Or any discernable features or organs. They're funny like that. Stabing them through the center'll still kill them though.

So, they're like a cross between Homestar Runner and Chewbacca? Okay, whatever. (Oh, and I should probably point out that you don't have the technology to make plate armor yet... or, for that matter, any metalworking at all.)

Pretty awesome, but a quick question: Do I need to research glass tech before I can utilize my already-made Alchemist's lab?

Uh, you don't have an alchemist's lab... Oh! My mistake; I should have explicitly stated that those last two were descriptions of the special buildings your leaders enable you to make. Sorry about that. The buildings you already have are the Hall of Learning and the Stables. The same goes for everyone else: The only buildings you actually have are the two listed as starting buildings under city info. The descriptions under your leaders are buildings your leaders (and, for Zrlv, racial traits) enable.

Is there a fixed tech tree, or is it going to be pretty much freeform?

A little from column A, a little from column B. I've got some basic techs planned out, but I'm planning to make up a lot of stuff on the fly.

NME: The game hasn't started just yet. Sorry if you thought otherwise. I'll start a new thread when the game begins. I've still got some information to get up; we can probably start later today. (And, uh, almost half your people would starve if you did that, anyway.)

[Vanigo]

Some more rules that I didn't get up earlier:

Food and your people:

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As noted earlier, each 1000 people consume 1 food a turn. If extra food is available, it provides morale bonuses - each extra .5 food per 1000 people increases morale by 1.
Famine can easily be disastrous. If there is not enough food, your city's population drops by 1000 every turn and morale is reduced by two until the situation is resolved.

Terrain and terrain improvements:

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Plains
2 food

Hills
1 food, 1 wool

Forest
1 food, 1 wood

Mountains
1 stone

Ocean/lake
2 food

River
+1 food

Terrain improvements (and technology required)

Irrigation (Farming)
Plains or hills
Requires river or lake present or adjacent
no resources, 2 labor
+1 food

Quarry (Construction)
Hills or mountains
no resources, 2 labor
+1 stone

Pasture (Animal taming)
Hills
1 wood, 3 labor
+1 food OR +1 wool

Woodcutting village
Forest
2 wood or stone, 2 labor
+1 wood

Hunter's camp (Archery)
Forest or Swamp
2 wood or stone, 2 labor
+1 food, +1 leather

Fishing village (Fishing)
Ocean/Lake
Requires land adjacent
2 wood, 2 labor
+1 food

Watermill (Engineering)
Any land
Requires river present
Stacks with other improvements
2 wood or stone, 1 wood, 4 labor
+1 to any one resource already produced

Palisade
Any land, including city tile
2 wood, 2 labor
+25% strength to defenders within wall

Stone wall (Construction)
Any land, including city tile
3 stone, 3 labor
+50% strength to defenders within wall

Money:

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Initially, your people don't use money much. This changes once you research Trade. Money is used mostly for upkeep of military units and for trading. Each 2000 people produce 1 gold in tax income, and each military unit requires 1 gold in upkeep costs. Before trade is researched, you may only support three military units.

Buildings:

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Buildings

Hall of Learning
2 wood or stone, 2 labor
No tech required
Allows up to three labor to be spent on research

Stables
2 wood or stone, 2 labor
Horseback riding
Allows production of mounted units

Dockyard
3 wood, 3 labor
Sailing
Allows production of ships

Granary
2 wood or stone, 2 labor
Construction
Allows storage of up to 20 food

Shrine
2 wood or stone, 2 labor
No tech required
+1 morale

Library
3 wood or stone, 4 labor
Literacy
Requires Hall of Learning
Increases max researchers to five, unlocks more advanced technology

Smithy
2 stone, 1 ore (any ore allowed), 3 labor
Metalworking
Allows production of metal weapons and armor

Marketplace
2 wood or stone, 3 labor
Trade
+50% tax income

Military workshops
2 wood or stone, 2 labor
No tech required
Doubles production speed of weapons and armor (Normally 2 labor for each)

Clothier's workshops
2 wood or stone, 2 labor
No tech required
Doubles production speed of clothing (Normally 1 labor for each)

Military school:
2 stone or wood, 4 labor
No tech required
Requires General to build and operate
Train up to 2 units/turn

Alchemist's lab
2 stone or wood, 4 labor
Glass
Requires Alchemist to build and operate
Provides research with no labor

Fortress
4 stone, 5 labor
Engineering
Requires Engineer to build
+50% strength to defenders in city

Mechanic's workshop
1 wood, 1 stone, 1 wood or stone, 6 labor
No tech required
Requires engineer to build and operate
+33% to all construction

Watchtower
2 stone, 3 labor
Construction
Requires engineer to build
+10% strength to defenders within city radius

Technologies:

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Construction
    Build stone walls, quarries, granary

Animal Taming
    Build Pasture

Horseback Riding
    Build Stables, Horsemen
   
Farming
    Build irrigation

Mining
    Requires construction
    Build mines

Fishing
    Build fishing villages

Engineering
    Requires construction
    Build watermill
    Build fortress (with Engineer)

Metalworking
    Requires mining
    Build smithy

Archery
    Build hunter's camp
    Build archery units

Literacy
    Build library

Trade
    Enables money
    Build marketplace

Now, before anyone asks, I know Glass isn't listed here. I know where on the tree it goes. You don't.

Research:

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Research points are produced primarily with labor spent at the Hall of Learning. You may tell your researchers what you want them to work on, but they may surprise you from time to time. Plus, there is a large random component to research speed, so don't assume much.

Your city's surroundings:

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The 18 tiles surrounding your city are available for production, but tiles being used for production may need to be protected. Enemies can keep you from working tiles, and may also destroy improvements in them. Units in your city may be ordered to defend terrain tiles, or not, as you prefer. Walls improve the strength of your units when they're defending any tile they enclose, but are of no use outside them.
Your tiles may be referred to by number as follows: The tile directly above your city is tile 1, and the remainder of the inner ring is numbered 2 through 6 clockwise. The northmost tile is number 7, and the rest of the outer ring is numbered 8 through 18 clockwise.

Oh, and a non-rules thing I forgot to mention earlier: Please name your leaders. There are a variety of reasons I don't want to do it for you, but I do want it to get done.

[Nirur Torir]

What do mines do? +1 ore?

Authentic goblin leader names and brief bios:

General - Stozuagun - Glrknl's younger brother, Stozuagun is a military genius, at least in goblin terms. He was tasked with ensuring that nobody disturbed the peace.

Explorer - Xungbubukza - He has been a friend to Stozuagun from a young age. Since he has a knack for finding whatever he's looking for, Glrknl has asked him to discover a vein of high-quality iron. He hasn't found any yet, but will continue looking until he succeeds. (Not an action. Yet.)

[Vanigo]

Yeah, mines generate ore, but you need to find it first.

[mainiac]

Is it possible to build ships at the game start?

It seems like river tiles are kinda overpowered.  They give a bonus, allow for a cheap upgrade and allow for an additional upgrade.  And using less laboring gathering food means fewer farmers to feed which allows for an even bigger labor bonus.

Jerran Leaders:
Engineer: Brennan the Sage, a descendant of the heroic Reynus, oversaw the latest renovation of Jericho's walls and is the most respected of the "circle of Reynus", those who study the art of architecture
Governor: Anselm is a member of the Jerran "tribe", those who claim lineage back to the member of the village at the time of Reynus's arrival.  He is the first Elder to lead the town who is not a descendant of Reynus since Reynus's arrival, which speaks to the wily ability he has to please the populace.

[Vanigo]

Is it possible to build ships at the game start?

Sure, if you've got a dockyard (which you do) you can build a galley for 2 wood and 3 labor.

It seems like river tiles are kinda overpowered.  They give a bonus, allow for a cheap upgrade and allow for an additional upgrade.  And using less laboring gathering food means fewer farmers to feed which allows for an even bigger labor bonus.

Yeah, that's why everyone has one.

[Nirur Torir]

Do we get to use resources on the turn we get them? I'd like to train up a military unit with the wood I'm harvesting and new arrivals.

[Vanigo]

Yes, you can.
... You know, come to think of it, I'd better put weaponcrafting costs somewhere. It takes 2 labor and 1 wood to make 1 unit of simple weapons, and 2 labor 1 wood to make a unit's worth of wooden shields. Only 1 labor for you, since you've got the workshops.

[mainiac]

Yeah, that's why everyone has one.

At the risk of sounding petty, I wish to point out that some of us got stuck with substantially smaller rivers.

[RPB]

Leaders of the Asykos:

Amnarchis the Sage. Current Patriarch of Antemnon and one of the youngest ever elected to this position.
Ramades the Engineer. His focus on practical mechanics over theory causes many of his compatriots to look askance at him, but his skills win him grudging respect nonetheless.