i am being strict, so i dont piss anyone off. i do have the added advantage of a heavily wooded country with highly drunk and defensive inhabitants. that and they are nearly all hunters, only a few farmers.

Earth, basically, no super giants who can kill thousands of troops.

 

People would have been okay if you said drunken beserkers who love to scream profanities and cut up their enemies.

they werent even super titans! stop brining it up!

Just as a quick warning though. Your army is rather small, and Antwerp isn't super weak. Remember a peasant only costs 100, and the max price of a unit is 1000. Probaly an army of 10000+ would work better. Would you still like to go through with it?

rocco, they can only do that if they are in regular combat, nothing else. archers will distract, ambush will kill/injure, seige will kill, and other things. hell, at best in any of those situations, theyd be best with 500 peasents. PEASENTS. now stop birning those Hell axemen up!

Just to clear up what the religion of Italia is -

 

Angolism is a sect of Christianity that believes that the bible is not the true word of god, and that the High Priest of Italia is the only one who can interpret God's meaning.

I'd say Pikemen would be around 500 for decent ones, and crossbowmen around the same. As some reference:

 

Light infantry with basic training and poor equipment would be around 200

Heavy Swordsmen around 600

Longbowmen around 400

 

I'll try to figure out a system to approximate values, but it's not going to be a formula.

And we get 10 million gold each decade?

 

Also, Map?

so, how long is a year? just a day?

Yes, year = day, and 10 million gold each decade. Map is now on the front page, and I will begin posting people's and their treasuries.

okay.. then i have

2/10 weapons research

2/10 agriculture

1/10 ships

1/30 seige weaponry.

Just to clear up what the religion of Italia is -

 

Angolism is a sect of Christianity that believes that the bible is not the true word of god, and that the High Priest of Italia is the only one who can interpret God's meaning.

 

My religion may of been bad, but you're basically like a Muslim to the pope right now.

 

My religion atleast says that Jesus and the Bible are right.

Italia is sending an army into the Slavic Tribal lands. Their orders are to move in a tight formation, staying clear of forests. All barbarians will be captured or killed, and their villages looted and razed.

 

10,000 armed peasants @ 200 gold each

 

5,000 Longbowmen @ 400 gold each

 

100 Knights

 

The lords of the Seat of Seven

 

Cost - 4 million gold

looks like i have to play the waiting game...

I have to go eat dinner, so I'll be back in about an hour to finish up the battles, which should be interesting. :)

 

 

 

 

 

The list of countries and their "stats" have been added to the front page.

 

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Mather can be Norway btw, since Archi is Crete. Which reminds me, I have to add those two countries. Anyways, I'll do that in an hour.

(God dammit my parents signed me up for band camp without telling me )

 

 

Kingdom: Second Bulgarian empire

Treasury: 10,000,000

Ruler: Ivan Asen II

Capitol city: Tŭrnovo

Religion: Bulgarian Orthodox

I actually prefer the one I choose, it gives me a headstart into Africa.

 

--That's graduation and the post-graduation party done! :thumbsup:

Again, I post if anyone wants to join in a trade route creation for the western Europeans.

Okay then.... (RP time!)

 

In a sunlit square in Tŭrnovo's keep a special ceremony is taking place. That ceremony is the execution of the last of the byzantine govenors to exist in bulgaria. The crowd roars as the King Ivan Asen the second strides onto the stage shimmering longsword in hand. He turns to face the doomed man and states "You have one minute to make your peace with god" before turning to face the crowd. After the cheering had finished he shouted "NEXT EASTER IN CONSTANTINOPLE!" and whips around cleaving off the praying mans head. This sends the crowd into a frenzy and they start chanting his name both volume and tempo increasing to a frenzied pitch. *Fade to black*

 

The setup of the Second Bulgarian Empire:

 

House Asen: Currently the most powerful house, the rulers are from this house and they own most of the land in Bulgaria. Specializes in military actions and has a specific type of heavily trained horse archers (type of ranged/melee light cavalry [think mongol hordes]). This house is also the second largest economic power in the Bulgarian empire.

 

House Terter: Militarily the weakest house, house Terter is however the strongest economically as it owns several ports on the Mediterranean sea. They specialize in naval combat and

the use of pikes and halberds.

 

House Kaloyan: House Kaloyan is the house of priests quite frankly. They are the holy warriors (as well as missionaries) of bulgaria and hold most of the monasteries (remember monasteries are the centers of learning in europe) as well as the priesthood. The can if properly motivated move on religious crusades as a sort of heavy infantry/cavalry force.

 

Anyways 20% of Bulgarias treasury goes to setting up a silk road (and not sharing it 'cause that's how Bulgaria rolls)

The Silk Road is currently split between Kiev and Bulgaria, 50-50, soooo yah. No monopoly for either of you.

You can set your own up?

 

Okay I monopolise steel, and set up the steel road for 2 million.

You can set your own up?

 

Okay I monopolise steel, and set up the steel road for 2 million.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road

 

Sadly you cannot monopolize what can be manufactured by others quite easily.

In that case, I'm going to monopolise chinese black powder as soon as my ships get there.

In that case, I'm going to monopolise chinese black powder as soon as my ships get there.

*cough* silk road reaches china *cough*

I believe that is China's monopoly, ok I monopolise silver, as that was one of France's main exports in 1000 AD.

 

The silver road is set up for 2 million!

 

Also Silk Steel and Silver, I dunno why them all starting with S makes me giggle a bit.