New NES Anybody?

[foolish_icarus]

Vandals!

Yes, Micha is a good bet for the map

[Tassadar500]

I give one warning now. Be careful about your orders, be specific, use correct wording, think about everything that could go wrong, and ordering some minor things can help. I will try to be as realistic as possible, and I'll say this, I will let someone win, so not every war will be a stalemate, with the leading side plagued by unrealistic disasters.

[foolish_icarus]

I am convinced these are the best historical maps of Europe available on the internet. A true goldmine of information.

http://www.euratlas.com/time1.htm

[Jonny]

Originally posted by foolish_icarus
I am convinced these are the best historical maps of Europe available on the internet. A true goldmine of information.

http://www.euratlas.com/time1.htm

That really is a great site. I've used it plenty of times before.


I'll take the Franks.

[foolish_icarus]

yeah, it seems AD 500 would make the perfect start date

[appleciders]

I'll look for more playable nations, but I'm really not sure where else they might have lived. Maybe the Irish?

[bipolarbear]

The Irish are a tad small. maybe some sort of made up Irish Icelandic combination. I don't know if Iceland is on the map though.

I guess the Irish could have some statistical upper hand over the others.

[1889]

Invasions and Migrations
167 - Germans invade Italy and Greece.

200 - Visigoths and Ostrogoths move to Russia.

367 - Picts and Scots invade England.

370 - Huns invade Europe.

406 - Vandals, Alans and Suevis invade Gaul (France).

410 - Visigoths capture Rome, settle in Spain and southern France.

421 - Angles and Saxons invade Britain.

429 - Vandals invade north Africa. Burgundians and Franks invade France and Italy.

451 - Huns invade France, but retreat.

455 - Vandals conquer Rome.


Here are a few more tribes.

[appleciders]

If we're going to use Iceland, it should be Viking. As to the other tribes- ok, so we'll call the Britons the Saxons now. Burgundy is another option, I think they were east of the Franks?

[bipolarbear]

Perhaps we could do a more modern one and, interestingly, solve all these problems

yes but when you give people nukes, and a false reality in which death is really fictional, they tend to throw them around a lot more liberally. ThAT tends to be bad for the life of any NES.

[bipolarbear]

If we're going to use Iceland, it should be Viking. As to the other tribes- ok, so we'll call the Britons the Saxons now. Burgundy is another option, I think they were east of the Franks?

So then the Celts are going to have to be a British territory then.

[bipolarbear]

Simpler solution, keep it the way it is.

[bipolarbear]

Perhaps we could do a more modern one and, interestingly, solve all these problems

also, it is the obvious opinion of the NESers involved here, that a more modern NES would NOT be more interesting.

[bipolarbear]

I think lazy and selfish are better adjectives Tass.

History is the focus of this NES.

SOLUTION 1: Don't change anything. We have a problem with continuity, playability, and national selection.

continuity? how? We didn't put in a "No Expansion" rule. The West was discovered. It is silly ot assume that we won't. Also, there is a lot more to Asia than we have put on the map. If need be we will expand the map.

[appleciders]

No one's making you participate, Tass.