New NES Anybody?

[appleciders]

My vote is for the cnes: 1498. I haven't checked out all of those, though.

[bipolarbear]

I like staznes, and cnes except they don't allow for too much freedom in battle orders.

[foolish_icarus]

anyone else?

[appleciders]

They are a little limited in terms of battle orders. We could try something new and divide the army size section up, maybe into three or four catagories (Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, and .... I can't find a good term for ranged units like archers, but you know what I mean). Give each of those a size, and then we can get some kind of differences between nations armies besides just size and overall training level.

My guess is that Micha will be into joining, he joined the NNES when it was running.

[appleciders]

I ran into this:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=110195&page=1&pp=20

over at civfanatics. It's an NES centered around tribes of garden gnomes trying to take over a yard. It's structured enough to be fun and fair, and it's silly enough in nature that Bipolarbear's sarcasm wouldn't interfere with the mood. It's closed over there, and I wondered if it might be fun to ressurrect over here. With a few changes, anyway. Is anyone else interested?

[Gamecube64]

I likes the gnomes! Sounds great, I'd play.

[appleciders]

This one just seems fun. Kudos to Xen over at Civfanatics for the concept, but there are some things about that NES that I wanted to adjust.

For one, the gnome NES over there lost interest due to gnome colonies being too far apart to make contact within a couple turns, so there was no diplomacy. Either make gnomes expand faster, allow longer distance raiding to force contact, or make everyone start closer together. One thing I really like about this NES is that it'd be easy to expand the map; just move into the neighbor's yards.

Anyone else interested? I'd be happy to mod this one, I'd like to take a shot at that.

[foolish_icarus]

Gnomes would be difficult for me to play, I just don't have a lot of insight into gnomish culture I would play if the rules were greatly simplified.

[Tassadar500]

I thought they were already simplified.

[Gamecube64]

Originally posted by appleciders
This one just seems fun. Kudos to Xen over at Civfanatics for the concept, but there are some things about that NES that I wanted to adjust.

For one, the gnome NES over there lost interest due to gnome colonies being too far apart to make contact within a couple turns, so there was no diplomacy. Either make gnomes expand faster, allow longer distance raiding to force contact, or make everyone start closer together. One thing I really like about this NES is that it'd be easy to expand the map; just move into the neighbor's yards.

Anyone else interested? I'd be happy to mod this one, I'd like to take a shot at that.

I think the best way to fix it is to make the radius of the settlements much bigger or make a new, smaller map. Also, the settlements have a max pop/soldiers that can live in them, but how many gnomes are actually there aren't listed on the map, or anywhere else. The GM should put important information like that on the map.

Not knowing gnome culture? They are living garden gnomes that are 11mm tall, they have no culture, you make their culture.

[appleciders]

Make up the culture, that way we'd get distinctly different cultures for each tribe.

I agree, bigger settlements, or at least areas of influence around settlements, is the way to go. There's a good chance I'll lift the map from the one over there, it's a good one for the purpose.

My time is limited during the week, but I'll start working on it. How do you link to a map, rather than posting it?

Lord Nuclear, will you be joining us?

[Tassadar500]

Originally posted by appleciders
Make up the culture, that way we'd get distinctly different cultures for each tribe.

I agree, bigger settlements, or at least areas of influence around settlements, is the way to go. There's a good chance I'll lift the map from the one over there, it's a good one for the purpose.

My time is limited during the week, but I'll start working on it. How do you link to a map, rather than posting it?

Lord Nuclear, will you be joining us?

Sounds fun, sure.

[Gamecube64]

http://img159.exs.cx/img159/5812/gnomecopy3zx.png

You mean like that?

[appleciders]

Yep, like that. How?

[Gamecube64]

Just copy the address in "properties" when you right click on a picture.