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[Hubris Incalculable]

I think that's everyone...

[Iituem]

Sorry guys, no turn for several days after all.  Ran out of time, and I have a coach to catch.  I'll see if I can't upload a turn if I get WiFi tomorrow or Sunday.  Otherwise, apologies.

[Iituem]

Turn 11
Winter 1004 A.D.

Light Cavalry:  £750.  Upkeep £90.  As the light cavalry unit.  4 available.

Heavy Cavalry:  £1100.  Upkeep £150.  As the heavy cavalry unit.  1 available.

Javelin Cavalry:  £1000.  Attack 18, Defense 18.  Upkeep £110.  +10 vs infantry.  2 available.

Horse Archers:  £1700.  Attack 18, Defense 18.  Upkeep £170.  +15 vs infantry, +6 vs cavalry/heavies.  1 available.

Knights:  £2500.  Attack 28, Defense 28.  Upkeep £245.  +12 vs infantry.  1 available.

Pikemen:  £550.  Attack 12, Defense 15.  Upkeep £65.  +10 vs heavies/cavalry.  4 available.

Pirates!:  The expected attack on the Greenblood caravan never came.  Instead, a series of lightning raids on the Brentish coast have caused serious harm to the local economies...

Spoiler: P.E.P.P.P.R. (Pillow Killer) (click to show/hide)

Leader: Ali Shorabongmad

Research:  Unfortunately, whilst your engineers insist they are not far from completion, the preliminary keep designs have an unfortunate habit of falling down...

Peaceful and Parnassan forces engage.

Peaceful Forces
Light Macemen: 1 Intact, 0 Damaged
Spearmen: 2 Intact, 0 Damaged
Parnassan Forces
Archers: 3 Intact, 0 Damaged

A Peaceful Light Macemen has defeated a Parnassan Archers, but sustained heavy damage.  [88 vs 78]

A Peaceful Spearmen has defeated a Parnassan Archers, but sustained heavy damage.  [62 vs 52]

A Parnassan Archers has utterly destroyed a Peaceful Spearmen!  [81 vs 53]

Peaceful Forces
Light Macemen: 0 Intact, 1 Damaged
Spearmen: 0 Intact, 1 Damaged

Parnassan Forces
Archers: 1 Intact, 2 Damaged

The defenders have won out!

Fellrein Forces
Archers: 1 Intact, 0 Damaged
>>> prepArmy(Presst, [('spearmen',3)])
Peaceful Forces
Spearmen: 3 Intact, 0 Damaged
>>> fightBattle(Presst, NPC)
Peaceful and Fellrein forces engage.

Peaceful Forces
Spearmen: 3 Intact, 0 Damaged
Fellrein Forces
Archers: 1 Intact, 0 Damaged

A Fellrein Archers has defeated a Peaceful Spearmen, but sustained heavy damage.  [64 vs 59]

Peaceful Forces
Spearmen: 2 Intact, 1 Damaged

Fellrein Forces
Archers: 0 Intact, 1 Damaged

The attackers have crushed all resistance.

Peaceful and West Icedale forces engage.

Peaceful Forces
Spearmen: 2 Intact, 0 Damaged
West Icedale Forces
Spearmen: 1 Intact, 0 Damaged

A West Icedale Spearmen has utterly destroyed a Peaceful Spearmen!  [77 vs 42]

A West Icedale Spearmen has defeated a Peaceful Spearmen, but sustained heavy damage.  [55 vs 43]

Peaceful Forces
Spearmen: 0 Intact, 1 Damaged

West Icedale Forces
Spearmen: 0 Intact, 1 Damaged

Both armies have fought to bitter exhaustion.
The last stroke was won by the defenders.  They slay any wounded attackers.

Territories

Presst S (£545/turn):  Palace, Farm.  Game. 
 (+£27/turn from game)
 (+£100: Farm)
Presst W (£27/turn):  1 spearmen.  Farm. 
 (+£100: Farm)
 (upk: -£20)
Presst N (£175/turn):  1 spearmen.  Farm. 
 (+£100: Farm)
 (upk: -£20)
Presst U (£17/turn):  Farm. 
 (+£100: Farm)
Presst E (£38/turn):  1 engineers. 
 (upk: -£50)
Icedale E (£79/turn):  1 engineers, 0+1 light macemen, 1 spearmen.  Farm. 
 (+£100: Farm)
 (upk: -£120)
Fellrein S (£98/turn):  2+1 spearmen. 
 (upk: -£60)

Finances:

Cash Reserves:  £77
Revenue:  +£1506
Trade Pact(Arcadia): +£191 [Access lumber, iron, sheep, copper, wine, fish, coal, marble, grain, gold, silver, spices, ivory]
Trade Pact(Free Tempest): +£125
Upkeep: -£270  [6 spearmen, 2 engineers, 1 light macemen.]

Total:  £1629


Techs

Animal Husbandry I
Adaptive Farming I
Infrastructure I
Infrastructure II
Masonry II

Spoiler: Taikeni Dominion (Taricus) (click to show/hide)

Leader:  Theris Anataki

Taikeni and Astralathan forces engage.

Taikeni Forces
Heavy Axemen: 1 Intact, 0 Damaged
Spearmen: 1 Intact, 0 Damaged
Astralathan Forces
Archers: 3 Intact, 0 Damaged
City Walls

A Taikeni Heavy Axemen has utterly destroyed a Astralathan Archers!  [97 vs 58]

A Taikeni Heavy Axemen has utterly destroyed a Astralathan Archers!  [85 vs 66]

A Astralathan Archers has defeated a Taikeni Heavy Axemen, but sustained heavy damage.  [77 vs 73]

Taikeni Forces
Heavy Axemen: 0 Intact, 1 Damaged
Spearmen: 1 Intact, 0 Damaged

Astralathan Forces
Archers: 0 Intact, 1 Damaged

The attackers have crushed all resistance.

1 Archer has escaped to Terret South.

The siege of the walled city is a complete success.  Although only supplied with a minimal rear guard, your elite axemen tear through the city defences and utterly destroy the defending archers.

You spend much of the year developing the industries of Astrid and Storm, and with your generous investment into refining the old techniques of metallurgy your masons are able to produce large-scale smelters once again.

It has certainly been a very productive end to the year, but once again you find yourself bereft of wealth.  Only time will tell if you can sustain your empire based on your current funds.

New Tech:  Metallurgy I, enables construction of Smelter.

New Building:  Smelter.  £1000.  Upkeep £50.  Requires iron, copper or coal.  Provides an industry bonus of +75% to basic income.  Bonus improves by 5% with access to each resource; iron, copper, coal.  Counts as a separate industry to the mining and metalworking industries.

Territories

Storm C (£500/turn):  Palace, Mine, Smithy.  Copper. 
 (+£200: Mine)
 (+£380/turn from Smithy)
Storm S (£107/turn):  1 spearmen. 
 (upk: -£20)
Storm W (£71/turn):  1 spearmen. 
 (upk: -£20)
Storm N (£78/turn):  1 spearmen.  Hunting Lodge.  Game. 
 (+£4/turn from game)
 (+£200: Hunting Lodge)
 (upk: -£20)
Astrid W (£154/turn):  1 spearmen, Walls. 
 (upk: -£30)
Astrid C (£30/turn):  1 spearmen.  Mine, Forge.  Iron. 
 (+£200: Mine)
 (+£10/turn from Forge)
 (upk: -£20)
Astrid E (£179/turn):  2 spearmen.  Walls.  Wine. 
 (+£9/turn from wine)
 (upk: -£50)
Terret E (£354/turn):  1 heavy axemen, 1 spearmen.  Walls. 
 (upk: -£135)

Finances:

Cash Reserves:  £0
Revenue:  +£2476
Trade Pact(Free Tempest): +£125 [Access grain, fish]
Trade Pact(Vremya): +£85
Trade Pact(Arcadia): +£191 [Access lumber, sheep]
Trade Pact(Farland): +£108
Trade Pact(Grouting): +£157 [Access gold, coal]
Trade Pact(Brent): +£322 [Access marble, silver, spices, ivory]
Upkeep: -£295  [8 spearmen, 1 heavy axemen.  3 walls.]

Total:  £3169


Techs

Metalworking II
Sea Travel II

Spoiler: Free Tempests Republic (click to show/hide)

Leader: Speaker Fredrick the Red

Your soldiers arrive in Eastern Terret only to find that the whole region has already been pacified by your neighbour.  You will need to negotiate a handover separately.

In response to your demands for true fliers, Dr Faustus and your scholars put a great deal of work into seeing what other kinds of creatures they can summon from the same place the fireflies came.  After some 'hilarious' mishaps (the widow has been compensated) and some hastily improved security procedures, Faustus has perfected a technique for the summoning of a creature they have taken to calling an imp.  The little winged beast is capable of flying for miles at a time, and small enough to perch on even driftwood to sleep if need be.  It is physically quite weak, but quite a number can be summoned at once for relatively little cost, and the binding spells that prevent it from going on a rampage are similarly easy to maintain.  Against opponents who cannot strike it in the air, the imps should be quite devastating in number, though they are expected to be used mainly in shock tactics.  They also have a little extra quirk; they can produce short burps of flame immediately before attacking.  Though this may serve as little more than a distractionary measure, particularly weak or unlucky enemies could be susceptible to it.

The coming year is an election year, and the Senate are putting heavy pressure on you to devote funds and attention to domestic matters again.  You agree to fund trials of a new type of crop rotation system.  As it turns out, the rough details of the plan had been worked out well in advance and they were just waiting for the money to carry out a proper test.  The new crop rotation should enable your farmers to produce vastly greater outputs from their fields.

New Techs:  Agriculture II, Imps

New Building:  Improved Farm.  £1000.  Requires and replaces Farm.  Increases the industry bonus from the Farm by +£200.  Tech:  Agriculture II

New Unit:  Imps.  £300.  Att 6, Def 6, Move 2.  Upkeep £30.  Flier, Flametongue, Shock, Summoned (Chaos)
Flier:  Imps can cross land and sea at a cost of 1 move.  They gain the benefits of melee flight in combat, namely +8 vs melee units.
Flametongue:  Imps conduct a weak special attack that has a chance of wounding units before combat.

Territories

Storm E (£595/turn):  1 warlock, 5 fireflies.  Palace, Farm.  Grain. 
 (+£30/turn from grain)
 (+£100: Farm)
 (upk: -£350)
Terret W (£144/turn):  Fishery.  Fish. 
 (+£7/turn from fish)
 (+£100: Fishery)
Terret N (£272/turn):  3 spearmen. 
 (upk: -£60)

Finances:

Cash Reserves:  £514
Revenue:  +£1248
Trade Pact(Taikeni): +£248 [Access copper, game, iron, wine]
Trade Pact(Brent): +£322 [Access coal, marble, silver, spices, ivory, lumber]
Trade Pact(Vremya): +£85
Trade Pact(Farland): +£108 [Access sheep]
Trade Pact(Arcadia): +£191
Trade Pact(Grouting): +£157 [Access gold]
Trade Pact(Peaceful): +£151
Upkeep: -£480  [1 warlock, 5 fireflies, 3 spearmen, 1 trireme.]

Total:  £2544


Techs

Chaos Magic [Foundation]
Summon Fireflies

Armies

1 Trireme acting as part of a Brentish convoy.

Spoiler: Foul Empire (Demonic Spoon) (click to show/hide)

Leader: Emperor Demonic Spoon

Foul and Hive Ecktak forces engage.

Foul Forces
Zombies: 3 Intact, 0 Damaged
Skirmishers: 2 Intact, 0 Damaged
Phalanx: 1 Intact, 0 Damaged
Avatar of the Hive
Hive Ecktak Forces
Spearmen: 18 Intact, 0 Damaged

A Foul Zombies [Avatar] has defeated a Hive Ecktak Spearmen, but sustained heavy damage.  [65 vs 54]

A Hive Ecktak Spearmen has utterly destroyed a Foul Zombies [Avatar]!  [50 vs 35]

A Hive Ecktak Spearmen has defeated a Foul Zombies [Avatar], but sustained heavy damage.  [46 vs 44]

A Hive Ecktak Spearmen has defeated a Foul Phalanx [Avatar], but sustained heavy damage.  [78 vs 78]

A Foul Skirmishers [Avatar] has utterly destroyed a Hive Ecktak Spearmen!  [63 vs 34]

A Foul Skirmishers [Avatar] has utterly destroyed a Hive Ecktak Spearmen!  [83 vs 28]

A Hive Ecktak Spearmen has defeated a Foul Skirmishers [Avatar], but sustained heavy damage.  [72 vs 67]

A Foul Skirmishers [Avatar] has utterly destroyed a Hive Ecktak Spearmen!  [83 vs 63]

A Hive Ecktak Spearmen has defeated a Foul Skirmishers [Avatar], but sustained heavy damage.  [68 vs 59]
Avatar of the Hive has been wounded in combat.

Foul Forces
Zombies: 0 Intact, 2 Damaged
Skirmishers: 0 Intact, 2 Damaged
Phalanx: 0 Intact, 1 Damaged
Avatar of the Hive [Wounded]

Hive Ecktak Forces
Spearmen: 10 Intact, 5 Damaged

The defenders have won out!

The attempted siege of Hive Ecktak in Northern Ichor was a disaster.  Although the Hive possessed no physical defences such as fortified walls, they remained true to the tried and true klackon mentality of 'more is better'.  The Avatar returned alone, seriously wounded, having expended all his troops in an attempted escape.  In his defense, it appears that your leadership caste did not anticipate the sheer wealth available to the Hive to support that many drones.

[I've decided to rule that neutral territories only have a % chance of capturing a wounded Hero, instead of it being definite.  Be glad.]

Territories

Foul C (£535/turn):  Palace, Mine, Forge.  Iron. 
 (+£200: Mine)
 (+£171/turn from Forge)
Foul S (£179/turn):  1 skirmishers. 
 (upk: -£45)
Ichor W (£60/turn):  Stone. 
Ichor U (£28/turn):  Avatar of the Hive [W].  Cattle. 
 (+£1/turn from cattle)
 (upk: -£150)
Ichor S (£105/turn): 
Troud S (£19/turn): 
Troud N (£152/turn): 

Finances:

Cash Reserves:  £3
Revenue:  +£1450
Trade Pact(United): +£202 [Access copper, pottery]
Upkeep: -£195  [1 skirmishers.  Avatar of the Hive.]

Total:  £1460


Techs

Foundation Necromancy
Curses I
Summon Zombies

Infantry Training I


Armies

-

Spoiler: Grand Duchy of Grouting (hubris_incalculable) (click to show/hide)

Leader: Grand Duke Mortrati

You bed your new wife.  As expected, heirs will be forthcoming.  Looks like a thousand years of slumber haven't affected her child-birthing abilities after all.  They certainly haven't affected her performance; you've even take a temporary break from all the usual wenching!

Sir Charleston has made contact with the various local villages of Eastern Terrendale.  He has been unable to reach an accord with them so far, but they seem friendly enough.  He has also been able to compile a summary of the region's total wealth and defences:

Eastern Terrendale:  Likely tax income: £92/half-year.  Low population, no resources or structures worthy of note.  Likely defences in case of attack; 2 spear-armed clans.  No advanced infantry.

[Any time your diplomat passes through neutral territory, you can have him compile a scout report on their wealth and defences.]

Nevertheless, the information about local habits and etiquette from Sir Charleston's adventures has caused a stir in court.  Diplomatic techniques are being refined every day, which will no doubt come in help for future ventures.

New Tech:  Diplomacy II

Improved Diplomatic Operations

Negotiate Annexe:  Treaty chance 50%, War chance 8%.  Cost: ~9x half-yearly revenue.  Increments:  Up to £600/turn.

Embezzle Funds:  Base Chance bonus = +10%

New Diplomatic Operations

Bribe Unit:  A diplomat may attempt to suborn a rival unit for a large amount of money.  A defection attempt costs 1 Move.  Bribery always succeeds, but costs more or less depending on the skill of the diplomatic corps, the location of the unit and the loyalty of the territory it is in.  Units always defect instantly if bribed and may act with any Move left to them, but a counter-bribe may be made by the owners.  Or of course they may just have any other units attack the newly traitorous unit as punishment.

Bribery attempts may be made of units just before they attack a territory.

Counter Bribes:  Counter bribery raises the effective Unit Cost of the bribed unit, which is multiplied by any other factors.  e.g. Adding a counter bribe of £400 raises the base cost to bribe that unit by £800 in rival territory, £560 in neutral territory or £400 in friendly territory.

Base Cost if rival unit in rival territory:  2x Unit Cost (if bought new)

Base Cost if rival unit in neutral territory:  1.4x Unit Cost

Base Cost in rival unit in friendly territory:  1x Unit Cost

Each point of loyalty (if a rival territory) increases or decreases the bribery cost for that unit by 10% (depending on positive or negative loyalty).


Sabotage Unit:  A diplomat may attempt to interfere with a rival unit's proper function by assassinating commanders, rerouting supplies, tactical bribery or any other means.  A diplomat may attempt to Sabotage once per turn.  On a success, the unit is Wounded and the diplomat returns to the nearest friendly territory instantly.  On a failure, the diplomat is killed.

Base Success Chance:  50%
In Rival Territory: -20%
In Neutral Territory: +0%
In Friendly Territory: +10%

Territories

Grouting C (£500/turn):  1 diplomat, 1 sorcerer.  Palace, Mine.  Gold. 
 (+£50/turn from gold)
 (+£200: Mine)
 (upk: -£110)
Grouting E (£140/turn):  1 archers. 
 (upk: -£50)
Grouting N (£106/turn): 
Grouting W (£281/turn):  2 light macemen.  Mine.  Coal. 
 (+£14/turn from coal)
 (+£200: Mine)
 (upk: -£100)
Grouting S (£4/turn):  2 archers. 
 (upk: -£100)
Terrendale C (£74/turn):  2 yetis. 
 (upk: -£170)

Finances:

Cash Reserves:  £63
Revenue:  +£1569
Trade Pact(Taikeni): +£248 [Access copper, game, iron, wine, grain, sheep]
Trade Pact(Arcadia): +£191 [Access lumber]
Trade Pact(Brent): +£322 [Access fish, marble, silver, spices, ivory]
Trade Pact(Free Tempest): +£125
Upkeep: -£530  [1 diplomat, 1 sorcerer, 3 archers, 2 light macemen, 2 yetis.]

Total:  £1988


Techs

Glazing I
Diplomacy I
Sorcery [Foundation]
Trueshot
Windwall
Mariners

Spoiler: Arcadia (Kashyyk) (click to show/hide)

Leader: Lady Alexia von Kashna

You send out your new armada to join with the Brentish fleet, but it will still be some months before they pass the Cape of Farland.  Your advisors are making headway with the idea of a true espionage service, but at best right now they are capable of little more than gathering wild rumours.  This will require further research.

Queen Echinda sends back a golden necklace in response to her wedding present.

Territories

Garnlish C (£542/turn):  1 longbowmen, 2 archers.  Palace, Sawmill.  Lumber. 
 (+£27/turn from lumber)
 (+£100: Sawmill)
 (upk: -£185)
Garnlish N (£159/turn):  Game. 
 (+£8/turn from game)
Garnlish W (£48/turn): 
Garnlish S (£97/turn):  Walls. 
 (upk: -£10)
Sordell S (£172/turn):  1 archers.  Mine, Smithy, Walls.  Iron. 
 (+£200: Mine)
 (+£131/turn from Smithy)
 (upk: -£60)
Sordell W (£146/turn): 
Sordell E (£84/turn): 
Bleater S (£189/turn):  3 light macemen, 1 heavy cavalry.  Walls.  Sheep. 
 (+£9/turn from sheep)
 (upk: -£300)

Finances:

Cash Reserves:  £1
Revenue:  +£1912
Trade Pact(Taikeni): +£248 [Access copper, wine]
Trade Pact(Grouting): +£157 [Access gold, coal]
Trade Pact(Farland): +£108 [Access grain]
Trade Pact(Peaceful): +£151
Trade Pact(Brent): +£322 [Access fish, marble, silver, spices, ivory]
Trade Pact(Free Tempest): +£125
Upkeep: -£765  [1 longbowmen, 3 archers, 3 light macemen, 1 heavy cavalry, 3 trireme.  3 walls.]

Total:  £2259


Techs

Mechanics I
Mechanics II
Diplomacy I

Infantry Training I

Necromancy [Foundation]
Summon Zombies

Armies

-

Spoiler: Farland Gnomes (adwarf) (click to show/hide)

Leader: Harticus

[Fluff to follow when the GM has time.  Sorry, your post was one of the last in.  Mechanics III will provide at least one new building and is the direct precursor to the first type of Glider.]

New Techs:  Mechanics III, Infrastructure II.

Inf II improves your Industry Limit to a max of 2 industry buildings.

Territories

Farland W (£574/turn):  1 light macemen, 2 spearmen.  Palace, Farm.  Grain. 
 (+£29/turn from grain)
 (+£100: Farm)
 (upk: -£90)
Farland S (£159/turn):  1 light macemen, 2 spearmen.  Farm. 
 (+£100: Farm)
 (upk: -£90)
Farland C (£15/turn):  1 light macemen, 2 spearmen.  Farm.  Sheep. 
 (+£1/turn from sheep)
 (+£100: Farm)
 (upk: -£90)

Finances:

Cash Reserves:  £0
Revenue:  +£1078
Trade Pact(Taikeni): +£248 [Access copper, game, iron, wine, gold, coal]
Trade Pact(Arcadia): +£191 [Access lumber]
Trade Pact(Brent): +£322 [Access fish, marble, silver, spices, ivory]
Trade Pact(Free Tempest): +£125
Upkeep: -£270  [3 light macemen, 6 spearmen.]

Total:  £1694


Techs

Adaptive Farming I
Infrastructure I
Machinery I
Machinery II

Armies

3 light macemen, on loan to the Brentian Counties.

Spoiler: United Provinces (Terenos) (click to show/hide)

Leader: The Traveller

Your troops besiege the Upper Toldron city of Irecost, a walled port with added fortifications.

United and Irecostan forces engage.

United Forces
Phantom Warriors: 8 Intact, 0 Damaged
Light Macemen: 4 Intact, 0 Damaged
Light Axemen: 2 Intact, 0 Damaged
Cmdr Bright the General
Irecostan Forces
Longbowmen: 2 Intact, 0 Damaged
Archers: 1 Intact, 0 Damaged
Fortifications

A Irecostan Longbowmen has utterly destroyed a United Phantom Warriors [Cmdr Bright]!  [82 vs 44]

A Irecostan Longbowmen has utterly destroyed a United Phantom Warriors [Cmdr Bright]!  [86 vs 58]
Cmdr Bright the General has been wounded in combat.

A United Phantom Warriors has defeated a Irecostan Longbowmen, but sustained heavy damage.  [85 vs 78]

A Irecostan Longbowmen has defeated a United Phantom Warriors, but sustained heavy damage.  [80 vs 77]

A Irecostan Archers has defeated a United Phantom Warriors, but sustained heavy damage.  [73 vs 62]

United Forces
Phantom Warriors: 3 Intact, 3 Damaged
Light Macemen: 4 Intact, 0 Damaged
Light Axemen: 2 Intact, 0 Damaged
Cmdr Bright the General [Wounded]

Irecostan Forces
Longbowmen: 0 Intact, 2 Damaged
Archers: 0 Intact, 1 Damaged

The attackers have crushed all resistance.

Though well-defended with high stone walls and an inner bailey, the highly trained Irecostan archers were simply not prepared for the masses of troops fielded against them.  Their initial volleys decimated the ranks of the illusory soldiers sent against them, one arrow scoring myself a leg wound from which I will be recovering for some time, but once more sheer numbers were able to overpower their defences.

Upper Toldrun much like the west of the country is bereft of major natural deposits of resources, but the inhabitants of Irecost have a flourishing trade in cloth.

Territories

Toldrun L (£632/turn):  1 sorcerer, 2 engineers.  Palace, Mine, Forge.  Copper. 
 (+£200: Mine)
 (+£202/turn from Forge)
 (upk: -£200)
Toldrun W (£387/turn):  1 phantom warriors.  Potters, Walls.  Pottery. 
 (+£97/turn from Potters)
 (upk: -£45)
Toldrun U (£371/turn):  3+3 phantom warriors, 4 light macemen, 2 light axemen.  Cmdr Bright the General [W].  Weavers, Fortifications.  Cloth. 
 (+£93/turn from Weavers)
 (upk: -£530)
Pomford N (£250/turn): 
Pomford W (£250/turn):  Walls. 
 (upk: -£10)

Finances:

Cash Reserves:  £7
Revenue:  +£2482
Trade Pact(Foul): +£145 [Access iron, stone, cattle]
Upkeep: -£785  [1 sorcerer, 2 engineers, 7 phantom warriors, 4 light macemen, 2 light axemen.  Cmdr Bright the General.  1 potters, 2 walls, 1 weavers, 1 fortifications.]

Total:  £1849


Techs

Sorcery [Foundation]
Phantom Warriors

Spoiler: Kingdom of Brent (Sheb) (click to show/hide)

Leader: King Sheb McBrent

The convoy reached Gasket completely untouched, and your ships in a supreme display of naval might.  The Greenblood trade goods reach Gasket and plans for a long-term trade route are quickly drawn up.  It was an easy trip.  Too easy, in fact.

Your suspicions prove correct; the raid on the Arcadian merchanter was a feint to draw your attentions out to the narrowest point of the Brentish Channel.  Too late do you realise that the body of Roberts' fleet was lying in wait eastward off the Alestrom coast for you to gather your fleet just out of reach.

Both attacks occur on the same day, a pair of raids on Lower Brent and South Alestrom.  The raid on Lower Brent is barely contested, as the longbowmen due to defend the capital are still in training.  Raiders sack the ports, razing buildings and stealing much of the wealth, roughly equivalent to everything you would have taken in taxes from the region.

Pirate and Brentish forces engage.

Pirate Forces
Trireme: 1 Intact, 0 Damaged
Mariners: 2 Intact, 0 Damaged
Brentish Forces
Light Axemen: 1 Intact, 0 Damaged
Spearmen: 1 Intact, 0 Damaged

A Pirate Mariners has utterly destroyed a Brentish Light Axemen!  [75 vs 60]

A Pirate Mariners has defeated a Brentish Spearman, but sustained heavy damage.  [43 vs 39]

Pirate Forces
Trireme: 1 Intact, 0 Damaged
Mariners: 1 Intact, 1 Damaged

Brentish Forces

Spearmen: 0 Intact, 1 Damaged

The attackers have crushed all resistance.

The pirates sack Mitre almost as soon as your forces depart the city on their tour of conquest.  The trireme attacks at dawn, catching the defenders by surprise.  As they rush to gather their weapons, it becomes clear that they have been betrayed from within; the pirates have already stolen into the armoury and looted it clean.  The defence of the town quickly turns into a massacre and they make away with plenty of booty.  Both triremes and their occupants are presumed to be fleeing to a new port by now.

Captain Simo arrives by ship at the port of Gasket, just in time to hear the news.  He informs you that last he heard the Dread Pirate was sailing a fully-crewed galleon, the Queen Mary.  Worse still, some of the crew were supposedly trained in capturing defeated vessels.

Unfortunately, the only thing worse than your difficulties with defense are your fortunes in war.

Brentish and Central Lester forces engage.

Brentish Forces
Spearmen: 3 Intact, 0 Damaged
Light Axemen: 2 Intact, 0 Damaged
War Bears: 1 Intact, 0 Damaged
Central Lester Forces
Archers: 3 Intact, 0 Damaged
Fortifications

A Brentish War Bears has defeated a Central Lester Archers, but sustained heavy damage.  [83 vs 74]

A Central Lester Archers has utterly destroyed a Brentish Light Axemen!  [78 vs 38]

A Brentish Light Axemen has defeated a Central Lester Archers, but sustained heavy damage.  [88 vs 79]

A Central Lester Archers has utterly destroyed a Brentish Spearmen!  [86 vs 62]

A Central Lester Archers has utterly destroyed a Brentish Spearmen!  [94 vs 76]

A Central Lester Archers has utterly destroyed a Brentish Spearmen!  [85 vs 71]

Brentish Forces
Light Axemen: 0 Intact, 1 Damaged
War Bears: 0 Intact, 1 Damaged

Central Lester Forces
Archers: 1 Intact, 2 Damaged

The defenders have won out!

It appears that in this case Bearskin's leadership may well have made the difference.  The defenders met your armies at a well-built series of fortifications and though only equipped with shortbows were able to turn your usual conquest into an utter rout.  The humiliating massacre of your militias in particular may well live on in infamy.

In other news your master of research, Edwin Stubble, suffered a critical stroke and died on the eve of his greatest accomplisments in the twin fields of metallurgy and diplomacy.  Your schedule has been set back by months.

[You were less than 10 out from each of the techs on your research roll.]

All in all, a poor end to your first year as king.

Territories

Brent L (£500/turn):  1 longbowmen.  Palace, Fishery.  Fish. 
 (+£25/turn from fish)
 (+£100: Fishery)
 (upk: -£85)
Brent S (£234/turn):  1 caravan.  Cpt Simo the Cavalier.  Market. 
 (+£164/turn from Market)
 (upk: -£155)
Brent U (£287/turn):  Walls, Deep Mine, Forge.  Coal. 
 (+£14/turn from coal)
 (+£400: Deep Mine)
 (+£92/turn from Forge)
 (upk: -£10)
Brent N (£137/turn): 
Sutter E (£252/turn):  0+1 light axemen. 
 (upk: -£60)
Alestrom S (£275/turn):  0+1 spearmen.  Market. 
 (+£193/turn from Market)
 (upk: -£70)
Lester S (£256/turn):  1 light axemen, 0+1 war bears.  Bearskin the Druid.  Mine, Forge, Fortifications.  Marble. 
 (+£13/turn from marble)
 (+£200: Mine)
 (+£82/turn from Forge)
 (upk: -£295)

Finances:

Cash Reserves:  £234
Revenue:  +£3224
Trade Pact(Farland): +£108 [Access grain, sheep]
Trade Pact(Arcadia): +£191 [Access lumber, game, iron]
Trade Pact(Grouting): +£157 [Access gold]
Trade Pact(Vremya): +£85
Trade Pact(Taikeni): +£248 [Access copper, wine]
Trade Pact(Free Tempest): +£125
Trade Pact(Greenblood): +£90 [Access silver, spices, ivory]
Raids:  -£1049
Upkeep: -£865  [1 longbowmen, 1 caravan, 2 light axemen, 1 spearmen, 1 war bears, 2 trireme, 1 archers.  Cpt Simo the Cavalier, Bearskin the Druid.  2 market, 1 walls, 1 fortifications.]

Total:  £2548 


Techs

Nature Magic [Foundation]
Summon War Bears

Weaponsmithy I
Marketplaces
Organised Religion

Armies

1 Trireme (Gulf of Troud)  (upk: -£70)

Spoiler: Steel Empire (Johnfalcon99977) (click to show/hide)

Leader:  Dariuoiua

Your people certainly rejoice at the influx of wealth they are receiving, particularly given that most of it was taken from them.  Nevertheless, your redistribution efforts have certainly improved conditions in eastern and southern Maver.

Your people have always had a spiritual inclination, and with the recent religious revivals in nearby Highblood and distant Brent a new impetus has come to organise the tenets of the faith.

With the danger of naval assaults on the horizon, your engineers have worked hard with the money you have provided, developing a new design for coastal defences.  Essentially the basic defence is little more than a wall out at sea, but it can be garrisonned far more effectively against naval combatants than a land-based city wall.

New Techs:  Organised Religion, Coastal Defences I

New Building:  Sea Wall.  £400, upkeep £15/turn.  Provides a bonus of +10 vs naval units only.  Techs: Coastal Defences I, Masonry I

Territories

Steel S (£515/turn):  1 spearmen, 2 caravan.  Palace.  Ivory. 
 (+£26/turn from ivory)
 (upk: -£20)
Maver N (£188/turn):  1 spearmen. 
 (upk: -£20)
Maver W (£82/turn):  1 spearmen.  Farm.  Wine. 
 (+£4/turn from wine)
 (+£100: Farm)
 (upk: -£20)
Maver S (£177/turn):  1 spearmen.  Lumber. 
 (+£9/turn from lumber)
 (upk: -£20)
Maver E (£132/turn):  2+1 skirmishers, 2 spearmen. 
 (upk: -£175)

Finances:

Cash Reserves:  £93
Revenue:  +£1233
Trade Pact(Greenblood): +£90 [Access marble, silver, spices, fish, coal, grain, sheep, copper, game, iron, gold]
Upkeep: -£255  [6 spearmen, 2 caravan, 3 skirmishers.]

Total:  £1161


Techs

Infantry Training I

Spoiler: Cadre of Vremya (Phantom) (click to show/hide)

Leader:  Kasr Umirat

As well as choosing a promising Arakael to lead the main body of your troops, your effort to improve the distribution of food within the empire effects a slight improvement on all your territories.

Territories

Cauldron W (£504/turn):  1 javelineers, Palace, Ranch.  Horses. 
 (+£25/turn from horses)
 (+£300: Ranch)
 (upk: -£50)
Cauldron L (£263/turn):  1 javelineers.  Walls. 
 (upk: -£60)
Cauldron S (£116/turn):  2 skirmishers, 1 javelineers, 1 light macemen, 4 spearmen.  Takticheskii the Hero.  Horses. 
 (+£6/turn from horses)
 (upk: -£300)

Finances:

Cash Reserves:  £4
Revenue:  +£1214
Trade Pact(Taikeni): +£173 [Access copper, game, iron, wine, lumber, sheep, gold, coal, grain]
Trade Pact(Brent): +£226 [Access fish, marble, silver, spices, ivory]
Trade Pact(Free Tempest): +£87
Upkeep: -£410  [3 javelineers, 2 skirmishers, 1 light macemen, 4 spearmen.  Takticheskii the Hero.  1 walls.]

Total:  £1294


Techs

Animal Handling I
Ranged Training I
Infantry Training I

Spoiler: The Greenblood Union (Dwarmin) (click to show/hide)

Leader:  High Shaman Lord Dwareet'ik

Despite the vast influx of wealth from your cross-continental trade route, you have had little luck convincing your people to engage in trade on a local level.  More time and money may be forthcoming, assuming you do not just purchase the details of the principles from someone else.

Greenblood and Highblood forces engage.

Greenblood Forces
Longbowmen: 1 Intact, 0 Damaged
Light Macemen: 4 Intact, 0 Damaged
Breejilgig the Shaman
Highblood Forces
Longbowmen: 4 Intact, 0 Damaged
Javelineers: 1 Intact, 0 Damaged
Keep

A Highblood Longbowmen has utterly destroyed a Greenblood Longbowmen [Breejilgig]!  [103 vs 65]

A Greenblood Light Macemen [Breejilgig] has utterly destroyed a Highblood Longbowmen!  [92 vs 71]

A Greenblood Light Macemen [Breejilgig] has utterly destroyed a Highblood Longbowmen!  [93 vs 79]

A Highblood Longbowmen has defeated a Greenblood Light Macemen [Breejilgig], but sustained heavy damage.  [74 vs 66]
Breejilgig the Shaman has been wounded in combat.

A Highblood Longbowmen has utterly destroyed a Greenblood Light Macemen!  [92 vs 66]

A Highblood Longbowmen has defeated a Greenblood Light Macemen, but sustained heavy damage.  [77 vs 67]

A Highblood Javelineers has utterly destroyed a Greenblood Light Macemen!  [76 vs 63]

Greenblood Forces
Light Macemen: 0 Intact, 2 Damaged
Breejilgig the Shaman [Wounded]

Highblood Forces
Longbowmen: 0 Intact, 2 Damaged
Javelineers: 1 Intact, 0 Damaged

The defenders have won out!

Territories

Highblood N (£500/turn):  Breejilgig the Shaman [W].  Palace.  Marble. 
 (+£25/turn from marble)
 (upk: -£35)
Highblood C (£210/turn):  Silver. 
 (+£11/turn from silver)
Highblood E (£53/turn):  Farm.  Spices. 
 (+£5/turn from spices)
 (+£100: Farm)

Finances:

Cash Reserves:  £105
Revenue:  +£904
Trade Bonus:  +£3450
Trade Pact(Steel): +£123 [Access ivory, wine, lumber]
Trade Pact(Brent): +£322 [Access fish, coal, grain, sheep, copper, game, iron, gold]
Upkeep: -£35  [  Breejilgig the Shaman.]

Total:  £4869


Techs

Organised Religion
Weaponsmithy I

Armies

1 Caravan (Aboard a Brentish trireme.)

Sea Wall.  £400, upkeep £15/turn.  Provides a defensive bonus of +10 vs naval units only.  Techs: Coastal Defences I, Masonry I

Smelter.  £1000.  Upkeep £50.  Requires iron, copper or coal.  Provides an industry bonus of +75% to basic income.  Bonus improves by 5% with access to each resource; iron, copper, coal.  Counts as a separate industry to the mining and metalworking industries.  Tech:  Metallurgy I

Weavers:  £200.  Upkeep £10.  Provides an industry bonus of 25% to basic income.  Produces the Cloth resource, which acts as a trade good.

Rule Clarification: Building defensive troops only makes them available to defend on the following turn.  If your tear down all of the defences on one turn and then attack immediately after you may be able to catch them out before they can replenish their troops.

Hostile Landings:  When sending troops and ships into a hostile territory to attack, any defending ships and other naval-capable units in that territory get a chance to engage in naval battle with the attacking fleet before the land attack can commence.  It is possible to sink large portions of an invading army this way before it can reach the shore and engage in combat.

Apologies for the incomplete turn, I felt it was more important to get the turn up than do the fluff.  This is my last communication for the next few days though, so have fun!

[Taricus]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Territories

Storm C (£500/turn):  Palace, Mine, Smithy.  Copper.
 (+£200: Mine)
 (+£380/turn from Smithy)
Storm S (£107/turn):  1 spearmen.
 (upk: -£20)
Storm W (£71/turn):  1 spearmen.
 (upk: -£20)
Storm N (£78/turn):  1 spearmen.  Hunting Lodge.  Game.
 (+£4/turn from game)
 (+£200: Hunting Lodge)
 (upk: -£20)
Astrid W (£154/turn):  1 spearmen, Walls.
 (upk: -£30)
Astrid C (£30/turn):  1 spearmen.  Mine, Forge.  Iron.
 (+£200: Mine)
 (+£10/turn from Forge)
 (upk: -£20)
Astrid E (£179/turn):  2 spearmen.  Walls.  Wine.
 (+£9/turn from wine)
 (upk: -£50)
Terret E (£354/turn):  1 heavy axemen, 1 spearmen.  Walls.
 (upk: -£135)

Finances:

Cash Reserves:  £0
Revenue:  +£2476
Trade Pact(Free Tempest): +£125 [Access grain, fish]
Trade Pact(Vremya): +£85
Trade Pact(Arcadia): +£191 [Access lumber, sheep]
Trade Pact(Farland): +£108
Trade Pact(Grouting): +£157 [Access gold, coal]
Trade Pact(Brent): +£322 [Access marble, silver, spices, ivory]
Upkeep: -£295  [8 spearmen, 1 heavy axemen.  3 walls.]

Total:  £3169


Techs

Metalworking II
Sea Travel II

Construction/Recuitment:
Build two galleons, One Heavy axeman in Astrid east.

Research:
Remaining funds into organized religion.

Troop movements:
Axemen are to return to Astrid east. The spearmen in Terret E are to be given to the Tempest republic.

Other:
Give Terret east to the FTR.

[Johnfalcon99977]

Finances:

Cash Reserves:  £93
Revenue:  +£1233
Trade Pact(Greenblood): +£90 [Access marble, silver, spices, fish, coal, grain, sheep, copper, game, iron, gold]
Upkeep: -£255  [6 spearmen, 2 caravan, 3 skirmishers.]

Say it isn't so...

[Demonic Spoon]

...again?! Why does this keep happening to me?! WHY?! And shouldn't it be 3 skirmishers not 2?

A Hive Ecktak Spearmen has defeated a Foul Phalanx [Avatar], but sustained heavy damage.  [78 vs 78]

What

[Johnfalcon99977]

Hostile Landings:  When sending troops and ships into a hostile territory to attack, any defending ships and other naval-capable units in that territory get a chance to engage in naval battle with the attacking fleet before the land attack can commence.  It is possible to sink large portions of an invading army this way before it can reach the shore and engage in combat.

This day just keeps getting better and better.

[Taricus]

Defending ships and other naval-capable units only

[Johnfalcon99977]

You have no ships at the moment. I can start building a defensive naval fleet at the same time as you and build a lot of sea walls before you get here. And then where will your power be?

But really, can you get over it? Your just making yourself look like a warmongering bastard. I am even talking to Sheb about letting him have an Emperial base nearby if you need some unneeded reasurance that I won't attack.

And even I am tried of arguing with you over who will win the future war, just like everyone else. Can you drop the idea of invasion and just get over it?

[Taricus]

Okay.

[Johnfalcon99977]

... I really thought that would be far harder then that.

All I had to do was ask for you to drop the argument and stop planning an invasion and you would do just that?

[Demonic Spoon]

((You forgot my investment in Foul Central's Economy))

Starting: 1500
Build Mine in Ichor West: -1000
Invest in Foul Central's Economy: -500
Lick Wounds and swear bitter revenge against al who oppose us: Priceless
Savings: 0(We're bankrupt lolol)

Disband the Unit of Skirmishers for dereliction of duty and cowardliness in the face of the enemy.

[Taricus]

Yep.

[Hubris Incalculable]

... I really thought that would be far harder then that.

All I had to do was ask for you to drop the argument and stop planning an invasion and you would do just that?

I doubt he's stopped planning it. He's probably just shutting up.

[Taricus]

*Beats Hubris*