Ye Olde Hegemony

[Wisp]

Two masted's were due on the 23rd

[Retech]

Okay, thanks.

 

I was mistaken. :thumbup:

[Wisp]

Permission to add a schedule to the front post:

July 21-Budget Reset

July 23-Earliest possible date of two masted ship research completion

July 26-Budget Reset

July 31-Budget Reset

Or something similar?

Or you can add it. Either way.

[Retech]

Sure, go ahead. :thumbup:

 

 

Basically a reset happens every five days, on the day after a multiple of five.

[jasignhagj]

Ship Prices??

[Wisp]

It's something like:

War Cogs: 100k

Galley: 100k

Transport/trade Cog: 50k

[Retech]

Some Funny Business (Revised)

 

A large Cretian transport fleet sailed towards the Valencia, a region in the eastern part of Spain. They were escorted by three large Cretian warships. As the neared the Spanish coast, ten Spanish galleys sailed to meet them. Numerically, the Cretians had the advantage, but the majority of the Cretian ships were used for transport, while the Spanish had only warships. The Spanish galleys ordered the Cretians to sail away, but the Cretian warships merely turned their sides to the Spanish and fired a barrage, destroying five ships instantly and damaging another two. The remaining Spanish ships immediately fled, while the Cretians did not give chase.

 

The Cretian transport fleet landed in Valencia and released thirty thousand Tunisians. They seemed as if they were possessed, and began moving southwards down the coast in a large group, causing chaos along the way. A small detachment of the local knights rode through the countryside, hunting the Tunisians, but the occasional straggler continued to persist his wanderings. The worse part was that the Tunisians decapitated the heads of Spanish peasants in the area and carried them on their trip southwards.

 

The three Cretian warships headed north to the Torelo, a Spanish castle on the border with France. The commander of the Cretian fleet was reluctant to enter the range of the castle's various defences, but when it was clear that the metal projectiles could not damage the castle walls from such a distance, the fleet moved much closer to the coastline and fired several volleys, breaching the castle walls at two locations, on the side closest to the water. They received minor damage from the castle's ballistas, but were otherwise undamaged.

 

Meanwhile, another three Cretian warships sailed for "de Franco", the Spanish castle located in Gibraltar. They engaged and destroyed ten galleys with no casualties, before arriving at the castle and beginning the barrage. It managed to heavily damage on point on the walls, but it did not do as much damage as hoped. Unlike the other commander, the Cretian commander did not think of coming up-close and remained at a medium distance. As their ammunition began to run low, following procedure, the Cretian fleet began to withdraw. However, the Spanish had wheeled catapults and flaming ballistas to the shores of the strait and began firing at the Cretian warships. The Cretian commander ordered his ships to sail in single file, to keep them as far away from the shores as possible, while they could still utilise their fire power to heavily damage Spanish forces on the shoreline. It also saved the fleet, as one of the warships caught fire, causing a huge whooshing sound and a large explosion, releasing bits of wood and metal over the surrounding area.

 

Casualties:

Twenty Spanish Galleys

One Cretian Warship

Assorted Spanish soldiers on the shore

Hundreds of Spanish Peasants

 

Damage caused:

Two breaches in Torelo on coastal shore

Heavily damaged section in de Franco

 

French-Burgundian-Icelandic Invasion of Spain

 

Following the siege of the Southern French Castle, the former foes united their forces with additional relief forces from Burgundy and France and marched southwards into Spain, towards Tolero. They arrived shortly after the breach of the walls by the Cretian fleet, and prepared to breach the walls. The castle was garrisoned by a skeleton garrison as well as local nobility. Further, the peasantry in the area were formed into militias by the frightened nobles, who lived in constant fear of a French attack.

 

Roughly half an hour later, the coalition forces began their attack. Their targets were the two breaches in the castle walls. Unfortunately, they would have to hug the coastline to reach the breaches, which would subject them to several minutes of harrowing archer fire before they reached the breaches. The commander realized the breath of the operation, and ordered his men forward. First, the three Cretian warships off the coast fired a series of volleys at the defenders, using a differently shaped projectile. It proved less effective than expected, and the garrison refused to surrender.

 

The coalition forces fired five specially made carcasses into the castle, before beginning the siege. After ten hours of stalemate, the Army of Madrid finally arrived to relieve the defenders. The coalition had been expected a longer wait, but Spains improved infrastructure allowed the Army of Madrid to march on finely paved roads to their target, especially to an important part of the Spanish defensive network. Coalition scouts discovered the advance an hour beforehand, allowing the coalition forces to retreat back into France, to their castle in the Southern border. Meanwhile, much of the castle's garrison is either killed or impaired by strange diseases. Fortunately, a quick quarentine prevented the spread to the rest of Spain.

 

The Cretian warships immediately withdrew after the retreat of the coalition army, to prevent further losses.

 

Meanwhile, an Icelandic fleet was spotted off the coast of Gibralta, before they turned and sailed back northwards.

 

(I think that I have followed the posts to as much accuracy as possible, except for the middle part which had some contradictory or confusing information, which I tried to iron out as much as possible)

[Nero]

Right. Anyways, Spain starts mass producing cannons and muskets, since we have somehow catapulted to the Renaissance era (thanks Arch). I'm just going to ignore the silliness of 10 ships sailing up to Spain crammed with 30,000 people and my fleet doing absolutely nothing to stop them.

 

Btw, those castles are garrisoned at all time by at least 4000 men.

[Retech]

Zey zid zu zumting.

 

Your castle had roughly five thousand soldiers. :thumbup:

[Nexaduro]

Why did my fleet turn back?

 

Also, it's not gunpowder Dusty. No go.

[Retech]

Why did my fleet turn back?

 

Also, it's not gunpowder Dusty. No go.

 

The attack on de Franco did not fufill conditions mentioned in the plan.

[Nero]

Why did my fleet turn back?

 

Also, it's not gunpowder Dusty. No go.

Okay, it fires metal projectiles, some of them spherical, out of its sides. Then it exploded when the hull and the insides were smashed open by an anchor.

 

The ship is also very expensive, and I've prevented gunpowder from advancing.

 

Which means that yes, it is gunpowder.

 

So, expect to face Spanish Line Infantry and Napoleonic Era lancers very shortly, Nex. :)

[Nexaduro]

The answer is simply; no. No guns, ever. You don't have the slightest clue how Archi's weapons work, I do, it's not gunpowder, give it up. :thumbdown:

[Nero]

I can only go on what the moderator tells me, and that's that it is in fact gunpowder. I should know, it's been used on me what...5 times now?

 

Yea. It's gunpowder. Further proof is the fact that it managed to make a breach in a castle wall within like...a day.

 

Retech, how much would an infantry of line soldier cost? I'm thinking like 2000 each since it's relatively new technology.

[Nexaduro]

No. The simple answer is no. We will all attack you, everything will be destroyed.

 

And you haven't researced it.

[Retech]

I thought I've been giving pretty big clues. When the flames breached the hull, it made a whooooooshing sound before the entire thing basically burst outwards in an explosion. :thumbup:

[Nexaduro]

You could NOT be giving clues for secret technology, that's irresponsible modding.

[The_Mather1]

The Zirids launch project Prototype.

[Retech]

You could NOT be giving clues for secret technology, that's irresponsible modding.

 

It may be secret, but it does give off clues when it's used. I simply repeated what was stated in the battle report.

[Nero]

No. The simple answer is no. We will all attack you, everything will be destroyed.

 

And you haven't researced it.

You're already attacking me using it, so I really don't care.

 

Don't need to research it. We're in the Renaissance era, free technology for all :D

 

I thought I've been giving pretty big clues. When the flames breached the hull, it made a whooooooshing sound before the entire thing basically burst outwards in an explosion. :thumbup:

 

That's nice. It's either gunpowder or one of Arch's stupid quasi-science [developmentally delayed] weapons. And since I know you're smart enough not to allow Arch to just put that crap into the game, that leaves gunpowder.

[Nexaduro]

Oh, whatever.

 

EDIT: You really aren't very observant, are you Dusty... I'm tempted to tell you just so you stop being a stupid gamebreaker...

[Nero]

Oh, whatever.

:)

 

Spain trains 5,000 infantry of the line and starts building Man-o-wars with mounted 16 pounder cannons.

[The_Mather1]

I think I know what Archi is using, I'll tell you one thing; it's not gun-/blackpowder.

[archimage_a]

Sorry Rocco, we couldn't risk you backstabbing us to Dusty. You do kinda have a reputation.

 

 

Anyway, I am happy with the results...not entirely sure how 500 knights killed 30,000 people but there we go.

 

Fleets redeploy along discussed lines.

[Nexaduro]

Hlaupari fleet does whatever it's supposed to I guess...