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And prettier colours on the map! Let there be orange, orange everywhere!

Because they're just tribesmen and it makes sense financially. It's how the game is balanced. Also Icu.. I don't really understand your post. People don't just become part of your trade league because you say so mate.

Thanks Retech. I'm enjoying this so far! Another 1000 MAA are recruited and stationed in each region. Research is spent on developing survival tactics for the extreme cold. The merchants are given priority on the coastline, to develop the Hanseatic League, whereas the nobles are given more land in the North of Kiev and closer inland. New nobles who proved themselves fighting the natives are created, creating a new aristocratic class - the warriors. Revered in court as proven heroes of Kiev, they are expected to always be present for the king, as well as a contingent in exchange for their land, title and honour at court. Icu, that map is ludicrous... You can't just go through player countries without their permission. Only NPC's, sensibly. Ultimately our routes can join at the end but Hansa stands tall and proud! Never to merge, never to falter, always to profit!

wheres yours bro! but i guess it makes sense so im perfectly happy to have that! btw im the leader of the Hanseatic League! I call whos in and whos out! I mean we're democratic but Kiev rocks this particular party

Kiev launches glorious celebrations at the announcement of full governmental backing to the Hanseatic Trade league! Coastal nations in the Baltic are invited to join, as well as the inland nations in the north of mainland Europe, and of course Norway! Ports are set up in Kievan controlled areas of the Baltic coast to provide centres of trade for the league

bro bear in mind 90% of that is spent on runnign the coutnry

:smug: ok retech I'd like to alter my trade route from the Silk Road to a naval route to Norway and through the North Sea to the British Isles and Denmark etc hansa :DDD

you gonna tap dat? so why no response bro!

Kiev guarantees the independance of Poland from foreign invasion!

hey Nex why'd you ignore my invitation of a trade route now we're gonna be enemies!

oh man guys, i've got a giant bubble across the ocean that none of my ships can cross and there's certainly no way we could have maneuvered through my allies land THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN MADNESS

nice OP sere, OWAIT im russia everything i do in hegemony MK 6 i do here and vice versa STOP WITH TE HEGEMONYES FFS also basically all my moves in all hegemonies are universal so should prob just merge them cause im the most important person sup so i invade mongolia kazakstan ukraine estonia latvia lithuania with my huge russian empire also we use lodas of troops to invade finland

It really would require pruning though. If everyone is ok with it, I'd like to request Archi chops away.

Thanks for clearing that up Retech! And I see. Again let me reiterate, historically Kiev is going through it's golden age right now! So all the nobles love me! Although that's probably cheating. I was thinking of keeping my OP updated with cool stuff but I might not. I feel that if we get Arch to cleanse the thread so if we all have one post on the front page with loads of cool info about our civs, then people who stumble across the thread might be more intrigued into joining.

well ive got a [phallic] i filtered it myhself mods NO WRONGDOING HERE!

I did, I've got 3 million left. [Although I actually thought the Silk Road was bit north of where it actually is.. so I'd like to change my trade route to one from here to Norway, if Nex wants it. Or somewhere in Asia, silk road II] ...Your "specific" training and equipment made your troops cost 1/8th the cost of mine? Why the [bleep] are knights free? If this crap isn't in the OP, it's not easily viewable. Ergo, retrospectively recalculate please Retech! 5000 free knights will easily achieve my objectives! Thanks. Vladimir the Great, being in great wisdom and benevolent, has bestowed a great many lordships among the people of his land. These people, now lords, dukes, marquis, viscounts, are all training to be knights. They are expected to swell the number of knights Vladimir can call upon within 4 years! Some say he has named at least 10000 more nobility..

That map is hilarious. -- I'm going to assume you didn't update treasury: Cause otherwise my 1500 soldiers would have cost 5 million, whereas France's 2000 light inf and 2000 knights cost 2.5? And HRE's 2500 and 10000 pikemen cost a slightly more reasonable 6.25.. But even if these figures are correct: It would imply that my 1500 were slightly stronger than their foreign contemporaries.. good enough to take slightly less losses against a barbarian rabble, no?

They carry a crossbow and a shield, as well as a longsword. Their armour is little more than peasants, the few blacksmiths in the army are coveted like gold. Expert woodsmen, they are the people of the land. Few are recruited from towns, and all are supreme in the eastern European countryside. Yet they fight with a bloodlust and rage found only in the heartlands of Kiev. Dangerously aggressive, they have been known to wipe out entire armies twice their number with a well executed flank, yet in open air combat they suffer from a lack of discipline found in knights or phalanx. Kiev begins to trade along the Silk Road with Asia.

1 troop that can kill 1000 others is not made underpowered by being vulnerable to arrows nor is it even logical that arrows can pierce his armour but not lances

Invasion of the Baltics. 1500 Men at Arms. Not mercenaries. Men at Arms. 10000 if we're using legit values. If not, 1500 is more than enough otherwise the system would be balanced otherwise.

ok im building a unit with HUGE steel armour so hes impervious to everything but catapults which fire 1000kg weights cause otherwise they just bounce off his armour he can kill loads of things before he gets too tired where he just goes to sleep until he starts killing stuff again

ive got a dragon guys

Saying X beats Y, but Y beats Z, but Z beats X, is pointless. You just have 1 of each and don't think about it anymore. Might as well just have 3 of A. Also, you have to remember that most peasants don't want to throw their lives away for their liege. After the knights killing 3-4 each, the peasants are gonna get bored and leave.

Then redraw your rivers but prettier :P

Tbh it might be cooler to just draw our own rivers :P This kind of things. 2 riversish in each country, unless that country has a sea borderish.