Ye Olde Hegemony

[Seraphi]

Icu, the offer of letting you and Rocco create a port in Burgandy's southern coast still stands, by the way.

[Icuownage]

Then ok, but I has no monies to spend on it.

[Seraphi]

Not worried. As long as it gets built it increases all of our trade revenue.

[archimage_a]

I am not sure grudge is the right word....We are just aware that the other person will become too powerful if we don't check their expansion from time to time, sort of like a France-England balance.

 

Anyway, 200 Galleys is a useful figure for me to have.

 

I don't know how you have them deployed, but I assume that the ones that are at sea are difficult to contact, and the ones in port will need to be prepped before they can be launched....

The general point is that deploying a navy is more difficult than 'Force goes here'...

[Icuownage]

I imagine Dusty and Archi as the balance between good and evil.

 

Archi = Good

Dusty = Evil

 

They don't hate eachother, infact if I think about it I imagine them sort of like Kelso and Dr.Cox from scrubs. I believe they need eachother and if they put aside their differences it could blossom into a beautiful friendship. Which will end up forming a super team on hegemony and we realise that hegemony is now unwinnable :(.

 

With Archi's diplomatic skills and Dusty's warlike nature, it would be scary.

[The_Mather1]

I and Rocco are like the US and Russia.

[Icuownage]

Dang I want a counterpart. Here's hoping the anti Icu joins. I will love it when that happens.

[The_Mather1]

We're not counterparts, we're so much like eachother that it creates rivalry.

[Wisp]

Have budget's reset yet?

[Retech]

Yesh.

[archimage_a]

Hehe, nice to know that even with my insane planning I am considered 'Good'.

 

Anyway, I will contribute/buy the materials and build the port, on condition that all imports from Crete are treated without tarrifs, as well as a free-hand at the port(allowing me to import anything, even if the government believes it to be illegal). Also diplomatic immunity for any Cretian Staff working at the port, with a joint tribunal to decide on the punisment for any of the staff, should the Cretian Envoy deem it neccessary.

 

 

I also require permission to station up to 4 warships at the port, for personal use, with a detachment of 1,000 Trained Archers to guard the facilities, as well as facilities to keep them in good training.

Also to use the port as a military base, with an area of 4 miles square which is off limits to any and all non-cretians. To guard this area I will also send a detachment of 1,000 Swordsmen.

The area will be cobbled, except for brick buildings and brick roads.

The area is to have a dock capable of fitting a ship of 10 meters wide by 50 meters long, and sits up to 20 meters deep in water.

 

This will all be paid for by me. Retech can you advise on costs via PM, if Ross agrees to allow the port to be constructed.

 

The main port will belong to Ross, so all requests for access should go through him, not me, any 'Special' requests may be forwarded to me, though I reserve the right to tell Ross about any of these requests.

 

 

Summery:

Gift of a Port to Burgandy, on condition that Burgandy give me 4 Square miles of land at the port site, in addition to free-trade, permission to station troops at the port and up to 4 warships.

If Ross has any questions he may ask them and I will answer them to the best of my abilities without compromising any agenda which I may, or may not, be pursuing.

[Wisp]

I guess my unintentional strategy for these games is just turtling. What's everyone's military count now? Or how much invested into their current army.

[The_Mather1]

Well, as stated in the RP I use 8 million to transform the caves. The remaining 2 million goes into buying Ashraks, how many will that get me?

[Nero]

I guess my unintentional strategy for these games is just turtling. What's everyone's military count now? Or how much invested into their current army.

That's always your strategy! hehe

[Seraphi]

Okay Archi, but I'd like to revise those terms very slightly. The base and warships must go through an inspection once every five years by myself, the results of which shall not be published to anybody other than myself (And Retech, obviously), and any such queries about the state of things will be addressed to Archi only.

 

Everything else is acceptable. Are we agreed?

 

I'll also be stationing a fair amount of troops there.

[Retech]

Well, as stated in the RP I use 8 million to transform the caves. The remaining 2 million goes into buying Ashraks, how many will that get me?

 

I still don't know what an Ashrak is! :mellow:

[archimage_a]

Seems fair to me, though I must insist on one of the buildings being uninspected...Either that or we need to negotiate it some more in PM.

[Wisp]

I guess my unintentional strategy for these games is just turtling. What's everyone's military count now? Or how much invested into their current army.

That's always your strategy! hehe

Seems to work pretty well most of the time, ended with either 'tying' or second place hegemony 1, ended with me owning a continent and having the only non wrecked country left heg 2, and 2nd highest budget heg 3.

[Seraphi]

We'll need to discuss it over PM then.

[Seraphi]

A deal has been worked out. Construction of the trading port will begin whenever Archi feels like it, and will be usable by Archi, Icu and Rocco, as well as whomever else I allow. It should allow trade to be centralized, since it's an ideal point between HRE, France, Asia, and Crete.

 

Apologies for the double post.

[The_Mather1]

Well, as stated in the RP I use 8 million to transform the caves. The remaining 2 million goes into buying Ashraks, how many will that get me?

 

I still don't know what an Ashrak is! :mellow:

A unit with light twin swords, dressed in wowen bronze thread, dampening wool and soft leather. Also trained to use a bow profficiently and to work as assassins. Their survival training was a living hell which thought the ones who survived it how to deal with as good as anything. Their combat style incorporates martial arts and they use their body almost as much as their weapons in combat.

[archimage_a]

For the duration of the build I ask that no ships or personal approach the construction site. Any that do will be serverly punished. This includes any Rossians.

You have been warned, and Retech has been informed the consequences of any such tresspasses.

 

 

PLEASE do not cause any problems.

[Nero]

Spain sends a fireboat towards the new port.

[Icuownage]

*Was contemplating the same thing*

 

But that would be silly, and only worthy of trolls.

[Retech]

The fireboat is destroyed in a flurry. Spectators on the coast are unsure of what destroyed it, but rumors begin spreading of the Castheo Thunder Ray.