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So Boerd said
Fortunately I have 10 fiefs so addition and subtraction is suuuper simple. Already fixed.

I misunderstood your question. Looks better now, but I'm preoccupied at the moment. So long as it's good before the RP starts, take your time.

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So Boerd said
Uh...turns out I did my calculations wrong initially anyway (15,000 people for tax rather than 18,000) and I already raised it to buffed levels. What do I do?

Lower resources down to pre-buff levels, and account for the missing population by reducing your military. I recommend spending 1 point to give yourself 5,000 bullis so little hiccups like that don't eff up everything.

Also, I technically never accepted your sheet, since I trust you to work all your shit out eventually, so feel free to take all the time you need to iron out any kinks. Your on the accepted kingdoms list just because I like 'ya.

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Heyitsjiwon said
Yea, raiding a trade route will actually have pretty large political implications.

Indeed. It's a good thing every Lord of Lundland is an upstanding fellow, who would never debase themselves with such barbaric practices such as piracy or raiding. Especially not the good Houses of the North. Why, they are of the highest repute, and long has our kingdom prospered under their nature as peaceful traders and humble fishermen!

EDIT: It's mostly because of the military implications that resources are staying at previous levels at the start. For some people, thousands of new bullis would be added to their treasury, which would vastly expand their military. This would involve a lot of calculations, and since everyone's already done a metric butt-tonne of those, I'd like to spare people from any more future math.

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So Boerd said
No problem. I like interconnectedness and continuity. By the by, house , not house Jorvik :pTbh I thought resources were worth their points, but I never turn down a buff XD

Resources got a buff because of their point value.

For one point, you could either get Sparse resources, or a scrubland fief. Now, these resources would have a nice long-term value, since you can't develop resources in a resourceless land, but instead of having those resources, you could have a whole new scrubland fief. That's 3,000 extra suckers to tax, conscript, take crops from, and use to create more suckers to tax, conscript, and take crops from. You might also put up a nice castle there, to defend your more valuable suckers from invasion. Such a purchase would not only be a decent short term purchase, but a good long-term purchase as well. Resources are nice, but even their long-term value doesn't necessarily stack up against its alternatives, so it got a small buff to even things out.

EDIT: I'd nerf tariffs, because there's so many towns in this particular game, but I think their extreme value will create an interesting political situation.

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Outcast said
I spent four points on another fief plus more people in my town, so that should take me to 100 points.

. . . I think my mind is fucking with me, but I've counted it three times, and it's ended up being 96, which would mean I somehow miscounted before. I'll break down what I'm seeing in writing.

Kaldur (15) + Icemark (13) + North Ridge (13) + Westwatch (13) + Deep Lake (7) + Goliath (3) + Hallasholm (3) + Wolf Hold (3) + Torches Hill (3) + Giant's Bane (22) + 1 Point converted to Family Points = 96.

. . . woo weeee woooo. . . I think RNJesus is trying to tell me to count things more thoroughly.

Tell you what, just as a recommendation, upgrade the resource level of Goliath, Hallasholm, Wolf Hold, and Torches Hill all to either Infertile or Some Resources, and you're accepted. Don't have to do that if you don't want to, but it's what I'd recommend, hah. If you want to make it really simple, you could just convert 4 points into 20,000 bullis, to give you a nice starting boost.

EDIT: Long overdue rules update. All troop templates were fixed, and mercenaries were given a 20 point boost. Most importantly, resources were given a boost to justify their point cost, and their in-game building upgrades now reflect this as well. Since it would be unfair of me to make everyone change their sheets due to an oversight of mine, we're simply going to pretend resources were not changed, but still follow the stats for the new in-game resource upgrades. Meaning, if you upgrade from Sparse to Some resources in-game, you'll get 9,000 not 7,000.

I felt infrastructure was worthy of its point cost as-is, so there were no changes made to it.

Also, So Boerd, House Bloodhorn, the vassal of House Strongheart, is now also a descendent of the Suehans. I thought it would be a cool trait for them, but I can remove it if you want your guys to be the only migrants from that land.

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*wink*

Thanks for the patience everyone. School courses are starting up soon, which ironically means I'll have a lot more time for this RP. Weird world where any amount of time off from work, even to do schoolwork, opens up a vast universe of productivity. Damned capitalism.

Also, waiting on Outcast and Nex to officially finish their sheets. Nex, I love how your's is turning out so far, and the history is a great read.

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[ Your loyalty has been rewarded, ulsterwarrior.

House Reaver intentionally does not have all its bullis spent, since I figured it would need a large treasury to keep even half their army going for an extended period of time.

jiwon's vassals are coming up tomorrow afternoon/night. Also added some towns that were missing from the town list. So Boerd, adding you to accepted list, because I forgot to. ]

Vassals of House Strongheart

[ The crest of House Ealmund; an axe over a white field. It is meant to symbolize their strength and unity, shown by the gold band over the axe blade and handle. Their motto is 'We Conquer All We See.' ]

Lady Olga is the lady of Lambcastle, Wavehall, Stonebeach, and Plunderbay. She is age 18, average of height and heavier of weight, pale of complexion, brown of hair, dark of eye, and possesing of a voluptuous figure. She is married to Lleold, age 38, born to and heir of House Dunsch-Taxi, the vassal of House Bloodsun. She has one son [ Osguid, age 1 ]. She has no siblings, cousins, nephews, nieces, or grandparents, and is effectively the last member of House Ealmund with any legitimate claim to its lands.

House Ealmund had long inhabited the northern islands, and joined House Strongheart in all its campaigns, including their rebellion [ if it could be called one ] against Lord Fulmar. The House had once been the fiercest of all the raiders, providing weapons and ships if the other Houses could not make ends meet.

But the once proud House has gotten soft of late. The late Lord Guldelic died a natural death at the age of sixty-three, leaving behind only a single eight year-old daughter, Olga. The old friends of Guldelic collectively ran the lands affairs, until the lady came of age at sixteen. Even then, the girl had been so accustomed to having things done for her, and Guldelics old guard had gotten so used to running things, that things had changed in names only.

That is, until Olga unexpectedly married an older man she had been meeting in private for some time: Lleold of House Dunsch-Taxi. Not months after getting married was a child concieved. Despite the difference in age, the two seem to show a genuine love for each other, but the marriage was not matrilineal. As Lleold is the heir to the House Dunsch-Taxi, this means that upon Lady Olga's death, House Ealmund would become extinct, and their lands would fall to the Dunsch-Taxis.

Concerned about this, Guldelic's old guard confronted Lleold. Words quickly escalated to violence, and the whole old guard were killed in court on charges of treason.

It has been two years since that affair, and the once insufferable lands of House Ealmund are looking more welcoming each day. Everywhere, the influence of Lleold and his wealthy House is spreading. Even their feasts have become Mainlander affairs of sophistication, dress, and fine food.

"The warriors of my land have become better dressers than fighters; they can chug a wine pitcher faster than they can swing an axe," one guardsman recalled of a recent feast.

It is something of an open secret that Lleold now runs all aspects of House Ealmund's lands, when he's not busy defending his inheritance against his haughty younger brother, Phylls. He is man to keep an eye on.

Fiefs

Lambscastle

Infertile [ 10,000 pop. ( 7,000 from fief, 3,000 from infrastructure ), 4.4 crops per person, +.5% growth. ]

Some Resources [ +7,000 bullis ]

Advanced Infrastructure [ +3,000 to starting pop., +1,500 bullis, +600 crops, +.2% growth ]

Stone Manor

Stone Wall

Wavehall

Scrubland [ 3,000 pop., 4.2 crops per person, .3% growth ]

Resourceless

Basic Infrastructure

Fortified Manor

Stone Walls

Stonebeach

Scrubland [ 3,000 pop., 4.2 crops per person, .3% growth ]

Resourceless

Basic Infrastructure

Wooden Manor

Wooden Palisade

Plunderbay

Scrubland [ 4,000 pop. (3,000 from fief, 1,000 from infrastructure ), 4.2 crops per person, .3% growth ]

Sparse Resources [ +3,000 bullis ]

Improved Infrastructure [ +1,000 starting pop., +500 bullis, +200 crops, +.1% growth ]

Wooden Manor

Wooden Palisade

5 Points converted to 25,000 bullis

Military

100 Heavy Horsemen [ Mail Armour, Spear, Sabre, Horse ]

200 Horsemen [ Leather Armour, Spear, Shortsword, Horse ]

750 Sheildwallman [ Leather Armour, Spear, Javelin ]

325 Axemen [ Leather Armour, Axe ]

500 Bowmen [ No Armour, Bow, Dagger ]

50 Great Longboats

350 Longboats

Lordship Receipts

Total Population: 20,000 [ 7,000 from Lambcastle, 3,000 from Wavehall 3,000 from Stonebeach, 4,000 from Plunderbay ]

Population in Towns: 0

Crops Produced per Annum: 86,800 [ 10,000 * 4.2 = 42,000, 10,000 * 4.4 = 44,000, +800 from infrastructure ]

Total Growth Bonus: 1.7%

Income per Annum: 32,000 bullis [ 20,000 from taxation, 10,000 from resources, 2,000 from infrastructure ]

Current Treasury: 57,000 bullis

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[ The crest of House Reaver; two crossed, purple-handled axes tied by golden bands to gray blades, over a field of purple. It has not been said to represent anything, other than its founder, Lady Inga the Bear's favorite colour, and weapons of choice. Their motto is 'We Take What We Want.' ]

Lord Dougan is the lord of Rabbit's Eye, Axecobble, Ogre's Den, and Grindings. He is age 76, tall of height and thin of weight, pale of complexion, gray of hair, and rheumy-eyed, though they used to be blue. He was married to Lady Dyda, but she died a natural death two years earlier at the age of 70. He has three sons, [ Ceric, age 54, Tom, age 50, Roger, 44 ], and two daughters [Frida, age 46, Helga, 42 ]. Both daughters have caught an illness, and are currently under quarantine. Each child has their own children.

House Reaver was founded by Inga the Bear, a huge, ferocious woman who lived two centuries ago. Much of what is known comes through legends that perhaps once had a grain of truth to them, but are now clearly stories that have been embellished over the ages. What is agreed is that she was a fierce pirate and raider, who would charge into battle with an axe in either hand.

House Reaver has followed the Stronghearts loyally since their founding, and remain the islands most prolific raiders. Their love of raiding is no mystery; their lands are the smallest and some of the least fertile on the islands.

Lord Dougan used to be a man of great muscle and battle prowess, but that was many years ago. He considers himself unlucky to have gotten to his age, as he is too weak to die an honorable death in battle. As can be imagined, he sees civilian occuptaions as a necessary evil to provide for his campaigns. He scorns House Ealmund for having been given to a weak girl, and put under the sway of a Mainlander man.

Each of his sons take up much after their father, but even they have their best days behind them, and have sons and daughters of their own to continue the family legacy.

Frida and Helga have recently caught a very strange and violent disease, for which they have been suffering from for quite awhile now. They remain locked up in the manor at Grindings, where no one is allowed to visit them. As Lord Dougan believes, they shall either overcome their afflicition by their own strength, or deserve to die for their weakness.

Rabbit's Eye

Scrubland [ 3,000 pop., 4.2 crops per person, +.3% growth ]

Resourceless

Basic Infrastructure

Stone Manor

Stone Walls

Axecobble

Scrubland [ 3,000 pop., 4.2 crops per person, +.3% growth ]

Resourceless

Basic Infrastructure

Wooden Manor

Wooden Palisade

Ogre's Den

Scrubland [ 3,000 pop., 4.2 crops per person, +.3% growth ]

Resourceless

Basic Infrastrucutre

Wooden Manor

Wooden Palisade

Grindings

Scrubland [ 4,000 pop. ( 3,000 from fief, 1,000 from infrastructure ), 4.2 crops per person, +.3% growth ]

Sparse Resources [ +3,000 bullis ]

Improved Infrastrucutre [ +1,000 starting pop., +500 bullis, +200 crops, +.1% growth ]

Wooden Manor

Wooden Palisade

20 points converted to 100,000 bullis

Military

100 Horsemen [ Leather Armour, Spear, Shortsword, Horse ]

1,450 Spearmen [ Leather Armour, Spear ]

1,020 Axemen [ Leather Armour, Axe ]

1,000 Bowmen [ No Armour, Bow, Dagger ]

100 Great Longboats

300 Longboats

20 Ladders

Lordship Receipts

Total Population: 13,000 [ 3,000 from Rabbit's Eye, 3,000 from Axecobble, 3,000 from Ogre's Den, 4,000 from Grindings ]

Population in Towns: 0

Crops Produced per Annum: 54,800 [ 13,000 * 4.2 = 54,600, +200 from infrastructure ]

Total Growth Bonus: 1.3%

Income per Annum: 16,500 bullis [ 13,000 from taxation, 3,000 from resources, 500 from infrastructure ]

Current Treasury: 106,500 bullis

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[ The crest of House Bloodhorn; a rampant gray yale with red spots and horns over a black field. It is meant to symbolize the House's origins from the far north, where Yale was hunted in abundance. Their motto is 'Your Home is Ours.' ]

Lord Svipold is the lord of Noordlanding, Neuland, Godestone, Bludden, Wodynwall, Gootgrund, and Cleeft. He is age 44, shorter of height and heavier of weight, pale of complexion, black of hair and brown of eye. He is married to Lady Ghelre, age 40, a lowborn by the family name of Gutmandottir. He has one son [ Ivar, age 22 ].

House Bloodhorn are descended from the Suehans, who migrated from their far northern islands to the Ironstone Islands long ago. Compared to their old land, the Ironstones were a promised land, where they could finally settle down and live a stable life. Though they came with peaceful intentions, they were no strangers to violence, and proved worthy of holding their own slice of land, even conquering several lesser Houses in the process.

However, they were not entirely unaffected by the culture already present there, and soon came to blend their peaceful philosophies with the raiding ways of the natives, raping and pillaging alongside their new brethren.

Lord Svipold is the perfect embodiment of this blending. He is a hearty, jolly man, who treats raiding as both a competitive sport, and excellent way to make up for the shortfalls in harvesting. He is quite short, standing just an inch shy of five feet, but is nonetheless stout, and an excellent fighter. His only son, Ivar, is quite a ways taller than him, and has already proven to be an excellent fighter in both tourney and battle. His wife, Ghelre, he picked for her lovely beauty, and though she had little say in the matter, and she was not exactly the woman he expected her to be, the two make for a darling couple.

Fiefs

Noordlanding

Scrubland [ 4,000 pop. ( 3,000 from fief, 1,000 from infrastructure ), 4.2 crops per person, +.3% growth ]

Resourceless

Advanced Infrastructure [ +3,000 starting pop., +1,500 bullis, +600 crops, +.2% growth ]

Fortified Manor

Wooden Palisade

Neuland

Scrubland [ 4,000 pop. ( 3,000 from fief, 1,000 from infrastructure ), 4.2 crops per person, +.3% growth ]

Resourceless

Improved Infrastructure [ +1,000 starting pop., +500 bullis, +200 crops, +.1% growth ]

Wooden Manor

Wooden Palisade

Godestone

Scrubland [ 3,000 pop., 4.2 crops per person, +.3% growth ]

Resourceless

Basic Infrastructure

Wooden Manor

No Walls

Bludden

Scrubland [ 3,000 pop., 4.2 crops per person, +.3% growth ]

Resourceless

Basic Infrastructure

Wooden Manor

No Walls

Wodynwall

Scrubland [ 6,000 pop. ( 3,000 from fief, 3,000 from infrastructure ), 4.2 crops per person, +.3% growth ]

Resourceless

Advanced Infrastructure [ +3,000 starting pop., +1,500 bullis, +600 crops, +.2% growth ]

Stone Manor

Stone Wall

Gootgrund

Scrubland [ 3,000 pop., 4.2 crops per person, +.3% growth ]

Resourceless

Basic Infrastructure

Wooden Manor

Wooden Palisade

Cleeft

Scrubland [ 3,000 pop., 4.2 crops per person, +.3% growth ]

Sparse Resources [ +3,000 bullis ]

Improved Infrastructure [ +1,000 starting pop., +500 bullis, +200 crops, +.1% growth ]

Fortified Manor

Wooden Walls

5 points converted to 25,000 bullis

Military

100 Horsemen [ Leather Armour, Spear, Shortsword, Horse ]

900 Spearmen [ Leather Armour, Spear ]

800 Axemen [ Leather Armour, Axe ]

1,000 Bowmen [ No Armour, Bow, Dagger ]

100 Great Longboats

300 Longboats

Lordship Receipts

Total Population: 28,000 [ 6,000 from Noordlanding, 4,000 from Neuland, 3,000 from Godestone, 3,000 from Bludden, 6,000 from Wodynwall, 3,000 from Gootgrund, 3,000 from Cleeft, 3,000 from Wocke ]

Population in Towns: 0

Crops per Annum: 119,800 [ 28,000 * 4.2 = 117,600, +1,400 from infrastructure ]

Total Growth Bonus: 2.9% [ 2.4% from fiefs, .5% from infrastructure ]

Income per Annum: 34,500 bullis [ 28,000 from taxation, 3,000 from resources, 3,500 from infrastructure ]

Current Treasury: 58,000 bullis

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Outcast said
Knowing me, I've probably stuffed up the stats somewhere, so I hope it is ok.

You're actually at 96 points, assuming you spent 1 on your family. Giant's Bane will be difficult to feed at your current crop output, but possible.

Again, I apologize for the wait. They've had me working from 5pm to 2 or 3 am the past five days. I end up getting up at noon, and have zero energy all the time. Just one more day 'till I can get a day off. I've actually almost got ulsterwarrior's and jiwon's vassals done, just need to write the descriptions and make sure the math is correct.

World in Revolution: 1861

Psh, the Shi'ite Caliphate will be uniting the world of Islam, and showing them the righteous path!

Allah is merciful! Persia shall into relevance!

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Cale Tucker said
While they get free homage, protection, and freedom to do as they choose as long as they don't hurt others? Why of course.Edit: Most of this doesn't even matter in the grand scheme of it, does it? It's all about numbers and math, in the end it's about destroying the others and becoming king, ya? :/

It is about numbers and math, but it's also about telling a story. You could go the whole RP without going through a single battle, though you might miss some awesome conflicts.

ulsterwarrior said
Probably. Either you'll end up king, put a man your following on the throne, or die trying. At least, that's what I'm thinking this will end up as. And just wondering, Flooby, I posted my updated sheet. I wasn't sure if you've gotten a chance to check it out yet.

Yes, I did get to check it out. That was the one I looked at when I reviewed your sheet, and said it was good. Your vassals are coming next, then it's jiwon's, So Boerd's, Ashgan's, then Nex's.

Sorry for the pace, gentlemen. Work has been eating my soul lately.

And jiwon/Cale got it, vassals are separate, and you can ask them to raise their levies to fight for you.