[OOC] The Age of Steam

[Mantido]

duck55223 said
Pseudo-Russia, I will fucking you

Pseudo-Russia with a professional and well-supplied army. Try it, I dare you.

[null123]

darkwolf687 said
Pseudo-Germany, did you pack your winter clothes this time ;p

I was watching this time I will Pseudo-France under Psuedo-Napeleon invaded Russia
We have many winter clothes this time.

[WilsonTurner]

Mantido said
Pseudo-Russia with a professional and well-supplied army. Try it, I dare you.

In exchange for food and gold, I will provide support. Air support, mind you, since the soldiers I plan to use are very defensive. Professional, trained, but defensive. Complete crap at offense.

[KabenSaal]

The soldiers I have planned are guerilla bow-wielding ambushers. Not very good in the open field. Very good in your camp, poisoning your food, water, reserves, and blowing up your gunpowder stores.

[Mantido]

WilsonTurner said
In exchange for food and gold, I will provide support. Air support, mind you, since the soldiers I plan to use are very defensive. Professional, trained, but defensive. Complete crap at offense.

I'm not making any arrangements before the thread itself starts. You'll have to bring that up with Yermak.

[Asura]

Gentlemen, please, place thy e-peens back within thy e-pants. The thread has yet to even begin.

[WilsonTurner]

KabenSaal said
The soldiers I have planned are guerilla bow-wielding ambushers. Not very good in the open field. Very good in your camp, poisoning your food, water, reserves, and blowing up your gunpowder stores.

Defense-oriented army will put an end to your slipping in!
Because most of the time, you won't find them outside a town or city. If you do find them, there's an airship overhead.

[WilsonTurner]

Asura said
Gentlemen, please, place thy e-peens back within thy e-pants. The thread has yet to even begin.

[KabenSaal]

WilsonTurner said
Defense-oriented army will put an end to your slipping in!Because most of the time, you won't find them outside a town or city. If you do find them, there's an airship overhead.

Defense-oriented army won't really be invading. Or if they did, they'd get nowhere fast.

[Mantido]

Asura said
Gentlemen, please, place thy e-peens back within thy e-pants. The thread has yet to even begin.

But mine is so big and thick, and it shatters air and ground forces equally well.
(My e-peen is an autocannon.)

[WilsonTurner]

"Mountaintop Kingdom", but the official name is The Alackian Kingdom.

Flag:


Form of Government: Kingdom/Aristocracy

Describe the System: The King and Queen rule over the Mountaintop Kingdom as absolute authority; their coronation can only be completed once the people have agreed to have the prince or princess as their desired King or Queen; a foreigner cannot become a figure of authority, so if they married a prince or princess of the Kingdom, they would remain so, while the prince or princess would become King or Queen. Their rank would become "Royal Consort," and would have to rely on their married counterpart for their power. The rich, the wealthy, are all Barons or Baronesses of the different Fiefs, being five of them across the Mountaintop Kingdom.

Location on Map Desired: WIP (Somewhere northern, in mountains, 'above' everybody else.

Capital: Alacoth, the Mountaintop City
Important Settlements:
Alacoth [Central Fief] [Storage, Crafting, Mercantile],
Valacoth [Western Fiefdom] [Mining] ,
Salacoth [Eastern Fiefdom] [Mining],
Halacoth [Northern Fiefdom] [Manufacturing],
Kalacoth [Southern Fiefdom] [Mercantile,]

Black City [Between the Border and Kalacoth]
[Essentially a city of bandits, cutthroats, and other criminals that essentially are left alone who can only enter or leave the city by having a 'permit' that gains them freedom from the law, as long as the only places they prey on are the smugglers and other people who don't use the main roads, or the airspace around them]
Description: Each of the five major cities of the Mountaintops are oriented a certain direction for the benefit of the nation, for the most part. There are festivals every Solstice, and at the beginning of the year, and at the end of the year, as well as the anniversary of the current King or Queen's coronation, which is typically in the middle of the summer. The traditional foods are more hearty and filling; chicken and steak are primary, as well as potatoes [every since they found out about them, they loved them] and carrots. They start the day off with a sort of oatmeal, usually flavored something fruity, then a hearty, filling meal of meats and potatoes and the like, and then a mix of everything for dinner. Miners have oatmeal in the morning, and a mix of everything 3 times a day after breakfast. Each city has a roundabout way with it, where the main road circles all the way around, just two blocks away from the city's walls, and then two main roads branch off at the Eastern-most and Western-most areas of the city, all the way up the mountain or large hill that the city is based around, through the Inner Wall, and then up to the Keep. Every festival starts with a barrel race: Participants jump in a specially-designed barrel, and steer themselves down the curving road all the way to the bottom. Despite no reward or even an actual reason [it just kinda started a couple centuries earlier], there are always at least two hundred participants. The barrels are courtesy of the government, built to withstand a hard impact, so that if one man were to lose control and smash into a building, he might be bruised and battered, but not broken and hurt. Various villages and towns outside the Cities have their own traditions, besides the mining towns. Other than that, the five Cities all loved their King and Queen, all of them, except for a few exceptions. The King and Queen rule, but they are surrounded by personal advisers who number so much that none of them can really gain any power- such is the point of the many advisers. However, it makes deciding even on the most menial of objectives lengthy.

However, the Black City is a different story. All the cutthroats and criminals in the city were required to have a semi-expensive 'pass', renewed every year, and then they can pillage and burn anyone who doesn't come through any of the official highways of the Mountaintop Kingdom. The city itself was more like a large town built in the shadow of a mountain, with their airdocks and the like higher up where ships can easily reach them, and not have to land, but still relatively out of reach of any land force.

Important Characters: [I'ma just use Skyrim & Firefly names]
The Mountaintop King, Balimund
The Mountaintop Queen, River
SkyFleet Commandant Reynolds
Black City Manager "Elismier"
Traits:

Army:
Navy:
GDP:
Stability:
Traits list

Starter Traits: +4
Professional Army: -3
Small Army: +2
Scared of Water: +3
Airlegs: -1
New Age Ship Construction: +/-0 (Affects both Naval and Air vessels)
Dreadnoughts: -2
Strong Industry: -2
State Controlled: +1

Population
Percentage of Population in: (This will be rolled by me as well.)
- Industry:
- Farming:
- Mineral Production:

[null123]

Okay two things
First population is rolled depending on your traits
Second, you can't just make up a grass that is poisonous to defend yourself like that change it.

[Asura]

And here I was making up acid-spitting cows that ate poison grass! Foiled again!

[KabenSaal]

And I was going to make exploding mutant zombie cows to eat the acid-spitting cows that ate poison grass.

[MrFoxNews]

I was just going to wear boots :P

[darkwolf687]

KabenSaal said
And I was going to make exploding mutant zombie cows to eat the acid-spitting cows that ate poison grass.

And I was going to land in my flying saucer, scan their brains and mistake them for the planets sentient beings, before tossing them at scientists with my telekinesis
*waits to see if anyone gets the reference*

[KabenSaal]

darkwolf687 said
And I was going to land in my flying saucer, scan their brains and mistake them for the planets sentient beings, before tossing them at scientists with my telekinesis*waits to see if anyone gets the reference*

*Loves the fact that someone knew what she was on about*

[darkwolf687]

KabenSaal said
*Loves the fact that someone knew what she was on about*

:) Good, I was worried it would be a little dated haha

[KabenSaal]

Imagine having the Quantum De-constructor in this RP. It'd be like, ownage.

[WilsonTurner]

duck55223 said
Okay two thingsFirst population is rolled depending on your traitsSecond, you can't just make up a grass that is poisonous to defend yourself like that change it.

It isn't made up. There is an actual grass that produces an actual dust that kills shit if someone breathes it or eats it. It's the problem of many ranches in Texas. I forget what it's called, but I can go ask my grandma about it; she's had to deal with it, and the grass is very resilient. Burning, plowing, spraying, none of it is really effective, cause it just keeps coming back. An expensive spray is all that was able to get rid of it. Otherwise, it'd get so thick that in the summer, when the wind blows, it would kill cattle in the pasture just from breathing it. Winter, Spring, and late Fall are the seasons one could travel safely; bad weather, or dangerous grass. Bad weather is mostly preferable, in which the bandits and the like will be watching. Except on the 'highways.' A dreadnaught would shoot the bandits down if they came near the highways.

The grass exists. A man told my uncle's ranchhands to herd the cattle along the side of the highway [this was a long time ago, when that was the norm] at a relaxed pace; don't hurry or push them. The side of the highway had the grass; all the cattle were dead before they even reached the other pasture.