Retech

The regular run of the mill ones would be around 250. Skirmishers that can usually stand up against an enemy would probaly be 400, and elite ones, 500. ---- Earth, I will do your calculation tomorrow, like everyone elses. In the meantime, I suggest everyone starts sending me defence plans and working out what everyone is going to contribute. Oh yes, the Mongols have a natural fear surrounding them, so it would be like fighting half their number in blood knights. :P

Well the Mongols will invade somewhere north of the Black sea, meaning either somewhere in Kiev or through the Turkish tribes. Either way, most of the terrain is either steppe (basically it has permafrost, but it has sharp cliffs and stuff), or plains. There are also some coniferous forests. If someone could dig up a terrain map, that would be great.

With the message back, the Mongol war machine moves westward. Expect them sometime in the next five years. Scouts report that the first wave will consist of roughly 30,000 soldiers.

There has been quite a stir in the royal courts of Europe after a richly decorated Chinese man's corpse was sent to Kiev. Speculations are that Kiev is working with the Mongols, but no one can really be sure. ---- Troops in Norway retreat to Sweden. I'll calculate the push back against Denmark this evening, or if I'm busy, then tomorrow.

Sure. Here is where they are currently located: Denmark: 2000 Pikemen 3000 Knights 2000 Men at Arms 3500 Macemen 2000 Heavy Horse Archers 2000 Axe Riders 2000 Crossbowmen Norway: 500 Men at Arms 1700 Swordsmen 300 Knights 400 Longpikes 2300 Archers 500 Pikemen Sweden: 500 Spearmen 200 Longpikes 500 Macemen 1300 Knights 2000 Archers 1000 Peasants 1000 Men at Arms ---- You got 5 million from Denmark, 6 million from Sweden, and lost 3 million from their conquests in HRE. Currently Sweden is occupied by both Kiev and HRE, so I just gave you the entire budget of Sweden, but you have to work it out with Dungeonal. Note that Denmark and Sweden were mostly mostly broke, so you only got a portion of their budget for this five year period.

Continental-Scandanavian War Since the war between the Holy Roman Empire and Denmark started several years ago, the conflict has blossomed to historical proportions, involving troops from eight countries. On the continental European side, fought France, the Holy Roman Empire, elements of Leon, Iceland, and Kiev. On the Scandanavian side fought Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, as well as some Finnish mercenaries. The new stage of the war began with two massive invasion fleets under the command of Generals Conrad and Thomas set sail from the HRE towards their targets in Norway and Sweden. Such a large fleet could not have been easily hidden, and the Norwegians immediately sent their fleet towards their targets in the Holy Roman Empire. The Swedes had sent their troops with the Norwegians on the few ships they had remaining, while the other half of the Swedish army had to wait for the fleet to return. Soon after, Kiev sent its troops marching overland towards Sweden. Norwegian Theatre The HRE force under General Conrad of France landed in Norway during a snowstorm. Despite the strength of the winds, the entire army disembarked with only a few dozen casualties. They moved under the cover of the snow and swiftly captured the Norwegian capital city of Oslo. After interrogating the local citizenry, they discovered that the Norwegian nobility had fled northwards. In quick pursuit, the continental army ventured northwards. However, their supply trains began to exceed them, and the cold claimed many lives. There they met the armies of Norway, composed primarily of Huscarls and axemen. The main Norwegian army had disappeared from Norway, but the nobles had received adequate warning and gathered their troops as they fled north. The Norwegian force composed of five thousand Scandanavian axemen, along with a thousand Huscarls. By then, the continental force had dwindled to four hundred pikemen, 800 longpikes, 400 spearmen, 2500 men at arms, 2500 archers, 2500 swordsmen, and a thousand peasants. Unlike General Conrad and his forces, the Norwegian King was well adapted to fighting in blinding blizzards. His men were heavily clothed, and they frequently fought in the snow. The battle began with a massive flanking action by the Norwegian army. The five thousand Scandanavian axemen and the thousand Huscarls had snuck around to the side of the continental army, the snow muffling the clanking of their armor. However, they had miscalculated and instead of appearing at the backs of the continentals, they engaged their right flank. The force engaged the swordsmen, men at arms, and knights of the HRE, using their large axes to great effect. Meanwhile General Conrad tried to regroup his men into a solid fighting force. Finally he rallied his soldiers behind his knights, which were holding their own against the axemen. The longpikes were used to great effect, as they could simply march forward and impale the enemy on their weapons. However, the Norwegian King withdrew his Huscarls and ambushed again, engaging the continentals on two fronts. General Conrad ordered a general retreat, and the remainder of his army bumbled back to the coast where they had landed. Meanwhile, the Norwegians recaptured Oslo and began raising their militias for the next bloody round. Casualties Holy Roman Empire 2500 Men at Arms 1300 Swordsmen 500 Knights 600 Longpikes 2000 Peasants 700 Archers Norway 2800 Axemen 300 Huscarls Result: Crushing Defeat Swedish Theater The HRE army under General Thomas landed in Sweden, quickly reaching the outskirts of Stockholm. However, there was a sizeable garrison of Swedish troops inside, though General Thomas could only estimate for the moment. The garrison quickly formed itself into battle lines outside the city, seemingly to try and save the city from the damage a battle could bring. Thankfully the snowstorm encountered in Norway had drifted northwards, and the sky was crisp and clear. By now General Thomas could tell, the enemy army consisted of eight thousand Scandanavian axemen, two thousand Huscarls, two thousand Norse archers, and a thousand militia axemen. The Swedish General reasoned that his troops were less heavily armored, meaning that his forces would suffer more casualties than the enemy in a predominately ranged battle. He told his soldiers to march forward, and they marched forward with great fervor. Several hundred meters away, they broke into a run. The knights and huscarls on both sides had dismounted, because the snow on the ground made it unsuitable for a mounted charge. The Scandanavian axemen reached the enemy lines first, and threw them against the 2000 longpikes and 2500 spearmen in the front line. The axemen proved very effective against them, and began driving them back with their fury. The first line almost broke when the Huscarls reached the line next, their skill unmatched in combat with the axe. General Thomas immediately sent his macemen and knights forward to stabilize the line, while he swung the thousand men at arms around the side with his archers. The archers fired arrows at extremely close range at the backsides of the Swedes, damaging them severely. They began to flee, almost stampeding the archers which were still firing. The Swedish King and fifty knights hastily set off northwards towards the northern regions of Sweden, when he encountered ten thousand men at arms en route from Kiev, which promptly captured him. Casualties: Entire Swedish Army in Sweden Holy Roman Empire 2000 Spearmen 1800 Longpikes 1000 Peasants 2000 Macemen 700 Knights Continental Theater (HRE and Denmark) Soon after the invasions of Norway and Sweden, the Norwegian and Swedish invasion forces landed near Antwerp. It was composed of five thousand Scandanavian axemen, two thousand men at arms, two thousand Huscarls, a thousand Calvaliers, and two thousand Norse archers. They began their march towards Denmark, marching in a swinging door pattern to conquer the northern stretches of the HRE. At the same time, another HRE army marched into Denmark, finding the cities defenseless. The troops spent a fun-filled day in Copenhagen looting, burning, raping, murdering, and generally causing mayhem. Meanwhile, Denmark's army of three thousand Scandanavian axemen, a thousand Huscarls, and the King himself had traveled by boat around the invading army, and landed in Denmark closer to the Holy Roman Empire. As they neared the border, they spotted a massive defensive force of the Holy Roman Empire. The main component of the army was the contingent of five thousand crossbowmen which lined the ridge. The Danes charged, before being repelled by the sheer number of crossbow bolts in the air. Soon after, the Swedish-Norwegian invasion force had reached the battle site, but on the other side of the ridge. The armies of all three Scandanavian nations charged at once, finally reaching the top of the ridge. The HRE army could not hold against the combined onslaught, and was promptly destroyed. Casualties: Lots of Danish citizens Scandanavians 4500 Axemen 1500 Men at arms 500 Huscarls 500 Calvaliers HRE Entire defensive force French Invasion of Sardinia The Sardinian Queen surrenders, but the populace is not that happy about it. Expect revolts ahead. Meanwhile the Pope has condemned your actions, especially attacking such small countries without Causus Belli. Scottish Raids on England Those darned Scottish vagabounds run around having a fun time, and manage to bring back dozens of herds of sheep, numbering over a thousand. England has almost burned itself out from its civil war, and it seems that the barons are close to deciding a new government. + to Economy

Just noting that the destroyers probaly cost more than 50 billion by themselves. Wait nvm, they're probaly about a billion each. Then the aircraft carrier would have to be big enough to fit that many destroyers, and that's probaly a bit over fifty billion (dramatic understatement).

Are you using the 72/interest rule for your doubling calculations? (For people who don't know what it is, basically you divide 72 by the interest rate to see how many reiterations of that interest rate would it take to double the principal)

The Swedes are caught off guard, so half of their fleet is sunk. However, they are now borrowing ships from Norway after the Norwegians are dropped off, so they'll just be late to the party. Norwegians were in a state of war, and the spies couldn't get close to the ships.

Well it's in civil war, but the borders haven't been defined yet. Boundaries haven't really stayed steady for more than a week.

You can still get it for five dollars cheaper than that (10 dollars) on Amazon. :P

Did you PM me about your unique unit yet? :D

Okay. Everyone please remember to create defence plans as well. Sometimes for ambushes, raids, and surprise attacks, I will not ask for the most current defence plans, so if you can keep it updated every 5 years or after every battle in which you are attacked, that would be great. Please send this in a separate PM called: "Defences - (Your country here)", so that I can just look at that and look for the latest ones. You can ask me questions in the PMs that most of you have already started, but I need defences separate.

Any specific location for the castle? Like a general spot to put it. Also, the merchants come back empty handed, because all of the things that they bought, rotted before it came back.

It happened Dungeonal, but there were so few people on the islands that I didn't think you needed a battle report. Also, fifty men at arms weren't going to do anything just sitting on the island by themselves. The values have been reset but not necessarily recalculated this round, because I have to work out some kinks in that system. Instead I will give double the percentage boost for the next update in five years. ---- Strange thing, but I basically have Sun Tzu's Art of War with me while I'm doing the battle reports. Sometimes I just read through it and check off the elements which you have fufilled, and gives some bonuses based on that. Note that Genghis Khan and his immediate subordinates will be excellent generals, so be prepared for that. The ones you have faced so far are bumbling oafs by comparison.

Okay, hooooooooooold up for a second. This is getting ridiculous. First of all, five trillion dollars? One trillion dollars was expensive for America, and all those Republicans went crazy. There's a reason countries can't do this much stuff in the real world, and that is that they actually have to give their people services when they tax them.

Medieval total war? What am I using the system for? That reminds me. If we ever get to fighting huge battles, I can fight custom battles on Medieval total war to see how they turn out. I'll play as the human to balance it in your favor. :P

What kind of calvary? Oh right, I forgot about that. I'll go do that now.

Heh, I decided that this was no exact time, but in the general high middle ages, from the 11th century to the 13th century. Mongols are fair game!

Nope. I set 400 as a nice round number because it wasn't that high or low. My reasoning was that I like round numbers, which is why in my calculations in battles, sometimes I round to the nearest hundred. As a "reason", I would say that the other 70% are not interested in that line of work. :P

The catapults are shorter ranged than the trebuchets, and because of the defences (remember that they still have the trebs), he felt it was better to wait for further instructions. I don't like deviating from people's plans too much, so if they go too off track and the enemy isn't necessarily owning, I normally give the person a chance to revise and think about it more.

Just finishing up Icu's attack. French Invasion of Sardinia (The real one!) The French archers opened the battle with devestating volleys of arrows, killing several peasants fishing along the shore line. The catapults demolished their hovels, and the balistas burned down their clothes lines. The French army landed without much opposition and marched up to the fortress, which had two rings of concentric walls. By then the defence had been alerted, and their forces were prepared. First the trebuchets began pounding on the first wall, though the fortress has trebuchets set up within its rings which fired back at the French trebuchets, destroying all of them. However, the first wall had been breached, and the bloodthirsty general ordered the peasants in. They met a force of two thousand spearmen, and two thousand pikemen. The peasants were easily slaughtered, though the French general had finally figured out how large the enemy army was and what it was composed of. In accordance to the plan, the general ordered his archers and siege equipment to fire at them, while his swordsmen charged in to face them. However, most of the arrows were ineffective because most of the wall was still there. The swordsmen were decimated by the variety of defences that the enemy had, including flaming logs and boiling pitch. Soon they had been killed as well. The French General decided against continuing the attack, and instead made camp outside the fortress while waiting for further instructions. Casualties French Swordsmen French Peasants 1700 Sardinian Spearmen 1100 Sardinian Pikemen Result: Clear Defeat ---- It is the next 5 year period, but you can still edit the finances of the last period. I still have yet to figure out an effective ship system.

The Scandanavian emissaries are still mad at you, but they decide that the Mongols are a much more dangerous foe. That being said, they're not willing to help defend you, and will only defend their own soil.

Well not necessarily. Remember that I've been thinking about this for a while, so you just have to be crafty about it. It's medieval, so things are naturally depressing! :)

Yeppers. Keep in mind the design constraints are basically one wall, two walls, three walls for castle, fortress, and citadel. They all have a strong keep. If you have any improvements to the structure, then just PM me and I'll give you the price for adding that. And I'll finish it right now. Btw, it's a new decade now. :)