Story Thread idea...

[General_BT]

I'm looking for good territorial maps of the colonies. BD expressed interest in being a Native American Confederation, which would prove a very interesting addition to the game...

I've found one map, but I've got to do some extensive cleanup on it... it may take a few days...

The good news is, I have the main European map done.

Overseas colonies... France has the area claimed in Louisiana, and Quebec... Britain has the 13 colonies, Spain still has much of her Carribbean Empire...

England:
13 colonies
Jamaica
Barbadoes
St. Kitts
Montserrat
Antigua
Bermuda
Belize

Spain:
Mexico
Much of Central and South America
Cuba
Santo Domingo (E. Hispanola)
Puerto Rico
Florida

France:
Lousiana
Quebec
Guadeloupe
Martinique
Haiti

Holland:
Curacao
St. Maarten

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[Midshipman]

If this is going to be moved, then will someone please post a link?

[General_BT]

Teh new forum isn't ready yet.. so we're going to start here, then move...

[Boshko]

suggested rules:
-General_BT moderates all. I'll help him if he wants my help
-1 day real time = 3 months story time
-if your country gets conquered don't whine about it, just start another country.
-no building steel refineries in the 1760's If you've got a backward country don't modernize it in a week

Rebels in colonies should probably be allowed (ie Bolivar and Washington types).

[General_BT]

I was thinking of trying something new with the combat and army movement, if everyone wants to do so...

You'd be able to divide your field forces into armies, each with a leader with different attributes (leadership, charisma, skill). Now, when a battle occurs (two opposing armies in the same territory), I have got the formulas for battles in Empire in Arms... what the player does is pick a tactic (outflank, etc.), and then send that to the mod. I make a series of die rolls (morale, fighting, etc.), and check on the chart and then casualties and whatnot can be assigned. And of course I can write nice flowerly battle write ups.

The biggest problem to this right now is that I can't find many leaders for these nations in the 1750s... All I have now are

ENGLAND:
George II
Duke of Cumberland
Duke of York

FRANCE:
Louis XV

PRUSSIA:
Frederick II

I'm looking for others, but if you guys want to try this to get rid of unrealistic battles and backbiting (instead everyone can attack me. ), we can try it...


Here's my finished European Map

The terrain that has green and national colors going through it is woods... if we go with my battle idea they could modify the results as well...

The numbers in each little territory are how much it is worth individually, if we want to do anything with that. The city sizes are shown by the number of stacks on the factory:

5 - Metropolis
4 - Huge
3 - Large
2 - Medium
1 - Small

The blue boxes with numbers (such as Yarmouth with 80 under it) indicate ports and how large they are (the largest is London, with 110)


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[BasV]

I can think of a Dutch leader, that would not be too hard. But what is a 6, it's even bigger I presume?

[General_BT]

Id idn't see any 6 smokestack cities on teh map...

Some of the territories are 6's, they are some of the richer ones in Europe...

[Napoleon Bonaparte]

Sounds good BT. Go with it.

Are u on icq?

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Almighty ruler and Resident God!!

[Boshko]

look at this 1763 map http://www2.bc.edu/~heineman/maps/1763.jpg
I think you've got some of your borders a bit off.
1. the area around Zara is Venician I think

It's Savoy, not Piedmont I think.

The Papacy controls the Romagna/Ancona area

Mameluke Egypt and the rest of North Africa are nominally still part of the Ottoman Empire, but the Ottomans had virtually zero control over them. The Ottomans had similarly little control over much of their balkan territory and the north coast of the black sea (I think).

I think that my map says that Tuscany and Milan are controlled by the Austrians, but it's hard to tell.

[PolarisGL]

No, no, I mean we start here and post a few then when my site is complete, we move it.

Napoloen, we are still good friends.

1750 Leaders of the World

COMPILED BY GEORGE "POLARIS" LYLES

BRITAIN
George II

GERMANY (PRUSSIA)
Francis I

FRANCE
Louis XV

SPAIN
Philip V

PORTUGAL
Joseph

ITALY
???

CHINA
Chien-Lung

JAPAN
Tokugawa (which one?)

RUSSIA
Frederick II
Elizabeth or Peter III


All I know for now, but I could get more later, most-likely.

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[Napoleon Bonaparte]

Of course we are man.

Good list

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Almighty ruler and Resident God!!

[PolarisGL]

Thank you. One comment down...hah.

[Boshko]

The vile and currupt Romanovs have been overthrown and the Rurik dynasty has been restored.
Long live Tsar-Autocrat Konstantin II!

[Bearcat]

Austria was lead by Francis I of the Holy Roman Empire. But I'd rather have Kaiser Roman I. If that's okay??

[General_BT]

Hows the map now?

I've checked out five books on teh War of Austrian Succession, and the Seven Years War... so I'll hopefully have a list of commanders by later tonight.