Okay, all of you Nomadic people, I just found out that the stat program has not been charging you support on Bow men, well I fixed that, so no more free bow men for you.

I wish you and all of yours all the best in these upcoming holidays. May the next year bring you all the happiness and peace that you deserve. Also sometime soon the Norse player, Craig Smith and his wife will have a new child to raise, I just wanted to congratulate them both and wish all three of them well in the upcoming years.

AWARDS!

As made traditional in Sean Harding's Lords Two or Thomas Harlan's Lords One ... I do not have a clue who started it...

Lord: Autumn Thorsen - Auum & Chris Riga - Yamato, both jumped up 4 in the MSI chart

Vagabond: Rob Nicoles - Umayyads, looks like changing religion hurts, eh?

Lucky SOB: Bob Jacobson, The Rus Intelligence Agency stumbled onto something very interesting

RULES ERRATA AND REMINDERS

Tithe Income: If you are paying a tithe to a Religious Primate and the rate of the tithe is less than 5% then there is no effect to you; you do not lose any money. If the rate of the Tithe is greater than 5%, then you lose 1% of Tax Rate for each percentage point of the tithe over 5.
Bidding on Mercs: When you are making a bid for mercenaries, please make separate bids for mercenary units and mercenary leaders.
New Ruling on the Rule action. After a talk with Thomas, I have found that yet again I was wrong. When your King/Queen/Heir Rules, their 4th stat (The all important hidden stat) is added to your Infra level. The 4th stat is between 1 and 10, so you do not get 100%.
Elite troops: They are available to be built/trained when you achieve tech level 5 or greater, this represents how well your troops are versed in combat
Holy Troop:. Holy troops must be used in combat with the target religion., they can not sit around.

TROOP CONVERSIONS

Infantry (500 men = 1 point), Cavalry (500 men = 1 point), Siege Engineers (500 men = 1 point), Warships (5 ships = 1 point), Transports (5 ships = 1 point), Bowmen (50 guns = 1 point)

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ASIA - -- / NNNN1/2  TROOPS: 10C, 17I, 5W, 4T  AQRS: C3 S2 I2 W1  LEADERS: CHOU XIN (M789)

Somewhere around Mongolia…

"I'm in Mongolia? How in Allah's blessed name did I end up here?"

"You are not the first to come here in this way, there are Legends of people who called themselves Celt's to come here in much the same way you did, they left this spot together, oh, it would be more then 1000 years now."

"Well, my wife probably thinks me dead, as my King also. I thank you for your information, I must head home."

With that the misplaced Umayyad leader started his long journey home.
 

Liang -  Chosun, General of the Heavens,Destroyer of Steps, King of China  Diplomacy: None

No turn was received.
 

Yamato -  Oda Hiroyuki, Light of Heaven, Ruler of the Sea's  Diplomacy: None

Oda Hiroyuki came home to Yamato after last years diplomatic efforts, and ordered a massive campaign to beautify his nation to show his people how much he appreciated their continued love and admiration. Gardens, both plant and rock were built in every region, and temples were also built for his people. A city was built in Yamaguichi named Kristi-chan, making all regions Oda owned had a city in them.
 

Champa -  Emperor Luikan, Leader of the Champa, Lord of the South Pacific  Diplomacy: Siam (EA), Kwangsi (F), Surin (T)

Luikan, content that the evil Nan-Han will never bother his country ordered that three new cities be built, Yuri in Cochin, Kei in Da Viet, and Amichan in Mison, all port cities to expand trade.

Prince Obee died in 936AD while mounting his horse to attend a royal marriage, a snake reared up in front of the horse, and it took off, causing Obee to fall, and his head landed on a jagged rock, killing him instantly
 

Toowomba -  Ahar of the Fishermen  Diplomacy: None

Open for a new player.

INDIA AND TRANS-ASIA - -- /  TROOPS: 16I, 7C, 5S  AQRS: C3 I2 W1 S1  LEADERS: LEADERS: HUNAN MABO (M886)

 

Gurjara -  Shiasta Queen, Ruler of the Ganges, Heir to the Gupta Empire, Reader of books, Protector of Knowledge  Diplomacy: Dhala (F)

Shiasta finally named herself and settled in to the day to day details of running a large empire. The following cities were expanded to 4gpv's; Tripuri, City 1, City 2, Lahore, Samantha, Dheli, Thanesar, and Kalajara. In addition she had three more royal road's built, one connecting Lahore and Multan, another connecting Lahore and Dheli, and the final road connected Bihar to City 1.
 

Rastrakutas -  Khali, Peacelord of India, Finder of the Weird, Teacher of the Hindu way  Diplomacy: None

No turn was received.
 

Samanids -  Cassandra Rok Mann, Queen of the Turkish Hindu's  Diplomacy: None

New player did not turn in a turn, hopefully next time she will. Many people looked towards the north west, after hearing that a horde had attacked Und
 

Sunni Primate  Caliph Elijah-Ali, Disciple of Allah, Teacher of the five pillars, Commander of the faithful  Diplomacy: None

New player dropped out, so we are still looking for a new player to lead this nation.
 

Buryat -  Juchi the Harsh, Terror of the Sunni's, Sacker of Baghdad  Diplomacy: None

Juchi and his band or hairy men have settled down into comfort, the land is rich, the women pleasing and the areas around them are easily bullied. In 937AD the region of Azerbajian was looted, the army then committed genocide on the region, the city was assaulted, sacked and burned to the ground all within a 3 month span. The only disturbing thing was on their first night heading home lieutenant Ogedai was killed, they found him the next morning with his neck slit from ear to ear, and in his blood a message was written, 'Convert heathens, or next time Allah's revenge will be more then a single death'
 

Saffarid -  Shifobra, Allah's chosen, Follower of the truth, Grand Illuminator  Diplomacy: None

New player next turn, Neil Joice (SP?)
 

EUROPE - N / NNN  TROOPS: 7I, 3C, 5B, 8W  AQRS: C2 I2 S1 W3 B1  LEADERS: THOMAS ERIKSON (M772)

 

Norman Empire -  Roland Prince of Wales, Enjoyer of many Soft, Pink, French Peasant Girls, Raider from the North, King of Britain, The Conceited  Diplomacy: Vermandois (F), Nivernais (T), Brabant (T)

Henrick and his band of merry men grow tired of all the problems they inherited from the Western Franks. To try to lessen the problems they moved their capitol from Normandy to London, bringing with them many of their loyal underlings. A town in Wessex called Southampton sprung up, as did the city of Cambridge in Anglia. To show the new direction of his nation, Henrick declared themselves the Normal Empire, instead of the Danes
 

Norse -  Gunnbjorn Hrolfgarson, Lord of Amlodhi's Quern, Keeper of the Eye of Surtur, Dragon of the North  Diplomacy: Skane (F), Denmark (A)

The Norse finally got off their duffs and built two city; in Skane the City of Lund was built, and in the Orkneys a port city named Kirkwall. To go along with these new cities new trade routes were opened and sea zones were explored.

To lessen the burden on his feeble government the region of Fjordane was degraded to Ally status, and his army was let loose to play in the Eastern Prussian regions.

The old religion is still strong, and there has been a kind of fusion of Norse Gods and Christianity which many of the peasants are taking to. This religion appears to be growing by itself, and so far there has been no bloodshed or anything more then condemnation from the few ordained Eastern Orthodox ministers.

"Call for my historian, I need to ask him a question."

"You called sire?"

"Yes, is the city of Kreigsburg gone?"

"Ummm, yes Sire, your father died during the looting and torching of the city some years ago, I can find the whole story if you wish…", Gunnbjorn quickly cut off the rambling bookworm. "No, that is not needed, Wormsworth"
 

Umayyads -  King Abbas, King of Spain, Finder of strange Caves  Diplomacy: Valencia (NE)

Abbas found that he did not know what to do, the Eastern Orthodox Pope, while doing good for his nation, they were doing it without consulting him. Then the majority of his nation converted, see below.

Abbas opened the waters around his nation to the Vikings from the north, an increase of furs and blond women in his ports seemed to make everyone happy, or at least that is what his trade advisors claimed anyway.

Princess Sereem was sent to investigate Madiera and was later found, alive, but in a coma, she now rests comfortably in the castle.

Lt. Nassir, after seeing the 25,000 Cavalry in Tuscany, decided that he would not try it, and instead sailed the sea's fishing, which he didn't do a good job, all he caught was a case of the crabs.
 

Murabit -  Nassir Al Murabit, Infidel killer, Allah's Arm  Diplomacy: None

When Nassir came back to Granada he was disgusted to see that the Eastern Orthodox primate had turned Andalusia to their heathen ways, and even more disgusted to find out that in order to try to keep some sort of peace King Abbas converted also. Nassir Al Murabit quickly found that he was not alone in these feelings, within a month he and his supports caused a massive civil war to break out, the regions of Portugal, Estremadura, Talavera, Murcia, and Granada joined under his Flag,, while Abbas had Andalusiia, Galacia, Leon, Salamanic, and Valencia. The regions of Aragon, Navarre, Catalonia, Limousin, and Orleans all revolted and stayed out of the war.
 

Frankish Kingdom of Germany -  Maxmillian, King of the Last Roman Catholic Kingdom, Heir to the Holy Roman Empire, and all around nice guy  Diplomacy: Meissen (F), Lausatia (EA)

Frederick again shook himself into action, overseeing the building of two cities, one in Alace, on the Rhine, named Defiant, and in Westphalia named Frederick's-Fort. After the celebrations, Frederick enlarged his military in case any of the Vikings decided to try anything like their last attempts to destroy his nation.

In an attempt to win an ally, the region of Dalmatia was released for the Byzantine Empire to take if they wish. Dalmatia was under Frankish rule for 58 years before being granted their freedom.

The peasants in Meissen through out all the priest of the Eastern Orthodox church, and a majority of them converted to the new Norse Christianity as they call it. Frederick would have preferred them to convert to Roman Catholic, but one takes friends where one can when in between a rock and a hard place.

In 937AD the Norse came, but not in the way they did last time, this time they came with loaded boats and wagons full of trade, while Frederick was a little suspicious at first, by the end of that year he was convinced that perhaps the Norse were not as evil and misguided as his father believed.

Frederick died in his sleep in July of 938AD, his only nephew stepped up to be the regent for Frederick's eldest son, and no one could think of a better solution.
 

Byzantine Empire -  Emperor Cartiphilus, Destroyer of the Catholics  Diplomacy: Serbia (EA), Pamphyla(EA)

Cartiphilus grow tired of sitting on his royal butt in his palace and doing royal paperwork, and doing all the royal things that gave him a royal head ache, so in 936AD he lead a small army into Serbia and did the diplomacy himself. As you can imagine the Serbian's were more then just a little impressed that Emperor Cartiphilus himself came to talk to them about joining his nation, and quickly agreed to merge economically with the powerhouse.

The 5 postal roads connecting various cities were once again expanded, and they are all almost halfway built now. As many other nations have done, the Byzantine Empire saw three new cites built, Sinope in Galatia, Trebizond in Pontis, and Heraclea was rebuilt in Thrace. The original Hercalea was burned to the ground by the Eastern Franks almost 50 years ago
 

Orthodox Church -  Father Andrew I, Head of the Orthodox church, Defender of Constantinople  Diplomacy: Kiev (AB), Chernigov (AB), Pereaslavl (AB)

Father John grew weary in his old age and sent four young Bishops full of zeal to Spain to try to convert them to following Christ. Little did he know his actions would spark a holy war.
 

Rus Vikings -  Viga Brand, The River Raider  Diplomacy: None

Viga looked over the war torn nation of his and knew he needed to do something to improve the slumping economy, so like the Norse and the Eastern Franks, he built a city in the region of Latvia, named Vikenberg. In an attempt to boost the food supply he also started cultivating the regions of Novgorod, Latvia and Estonia, and to lessen the strain on his government the region of Kostroma was granted its freedom.

Lieutenant Hafnor was commanded by his King to search around and see if the traitor Olaf acted alone, or if he had help from other people. Hafnor found far more then anyone expected, but soon after he sent his second report to his king, an angry mob formed around him and accused him be being in league with Satan, and he was burned at the stake, after he was disemboweled and drowned in holy water.

In his last report he claimed he had found proof of a war between two cults going on at this very moment, and while neither have armies, they have managed to manipulate the normal countries into doing their dirty deeds for them, but while one of the cults is Christian based, the other is Muslim based.

After hearing the news, Viga tiredly sank into his thrown and bleakly starred off into the night sky.

Kyraghz Khanate n  Chief Arslan, Big chief  Diplomacy: Ghuzz (NT), Uze (NT), Kazan (NT), Ob (NT), Tabolska (NT), Tarhain (NT), Betpak (NT)

King Sid II, now with the Rome firmly under his control moved his military around to protect himself from anyone who might have gotten any idea to attack his nation. Sid III lead a small army of siege troops from city to city to see what could be done to strengthen the walls, and he left a few troops in each city so they could start enhancing all aspects of defense.

While taking stock of what the Ligurians had conquered in Rome, King Sid II found a small shrine, and within this shrine were the remains of Saint Peter, or so the writing on the walls claimed. So overcome with religious fervor, King Sid II built a great Basilica in the name of Saint Peter around his shrine
 

Kyraghz Khanate n  Chief Arslan, Big chief  Diplomacy: Ghuzz (NT), Uze (NT), Kazan (NT), Ob (NT), Tabolska (NT), Tarhain (NT), Betpak (NT)

The Avars now roll towards China. Looking for a player
 

AFRICA - -- / N  TROOPS: 10I, 14C, 4B  AQRS: C3 I1 S1 W2 B3  LEADERS: BABO (M866)

 

Idrisids -  Fatima Ibn Idriss, Queen of the Western Sands, Allah's holy arm  Diplomacy: Aghlabids (F)

Fatima, dreading being alone in her later years mad a visit to her old friend Sallah, King of the Aghlabids. While visiting they came across an idea, and they were married in the week. Originally they were going to co-rule, but Sallah died in 938AD, leaving the united empire to be run by Fatima.
 

Oghuzvid Empire -  Dassan, Thunder maker, Big man on the Nile  Diplomacy: None

Dassan continued silently building up his nation, the cities of Erivan, Ermenic, and Ezurum all expanded to level 5 cities. Dassan also continued showering the Sunni Primate with gifts and asking for advice on small issues, probably just to get on his good side, or so the rumors go.
 

Axum -  Phil, Truth Seeker, Second biggest man on the Nile  Diplomacy: Kavalava (F), Rowsi (T), Maldives (EA)

Emperor Phil was very untrusting of the sudden peace that befell his empire last turn, caution was still called for, yet luck favors the bold, as his father once told him. The first order of business was to pay back the Oghuzvid's for the loan they gave him 10 years ago. While he was devising a new goal for his nation, now that Aden had fallen. He noticed something for the first time, he noticed the looks his Ally from Kavalava and his Daughter Kizmat were giving each other. Silently he laughed at himself, for while he was busy worrying about gold and government policy, his little girl and ally were struck by Eros.

Phil took them both, and sailed to his country and he oversaw their wedding, the exiles from India were so impressed with Kizmat and Phil that they pledged themselves to Axum.

While he was relaxing his nation sent men under the Tesse fly line looking for materials for trades and found a large supply.
 

Ghana -  Tillabery, Chief of Africa, Him with the strange name,  Diplomacy: None

Tillabery oversaw the completion of his fathers dream, a Royal road connecting Kumbr-Saleh to Khalem. Not only that, but a city in Khalem sprang to life, called Tanza.

In a stirring speech Tillbery reminded his people about the wonders of technology and advancement. This speech caused a mass influx of people applying for government jobs, so much in fact, Tillbery now is the ruler of an Imperial Empire.
 

Moli -  Mandela, War Chief of Africa, Slave Trader extraordinary, The royal Ivory Throne  Diplomacy: None

Mustafas, Emperor of the Lower Niger River Valley declared a public holiday on the occasion of Mandela, son of Simba, becoming heir to the Ivory Throne of Moli. In other news, Mustafas once again sent warning to the Fayan Horde that the united forces of Ghana and Moli will stand for no aggression on their territories. Mustafas declared "Our mutual friendship, Ghana, has made our combined armies the strongest military force in the world. But, we will only use it to defend our homeland."

After the celebration Mustafas was found dead one morning at the ripe old age of 55, the newly crowned heir Mandela stepped up and took over the nation

The regions of Kano, Sokoro, Kanurfi, and Asante were slave raided to help boost the wear effort in case the Fayan Horde attacked.
 

Faya Marauders -  Muhammad Ak'law, The Humbeled One  Diplomacy: Ennedi (NT), Kerkoure (NT), Salmat (NT), Kreda (NT)

The Faya's turned from the east and started drifting west, to what ends no one knows. Looking for a new player to lead the mighty horad.
 

THE NEW WORLD - --/--  TROOPS: 20W, 5I, 5B  AQRS: I2 W1 S1 B2  LEADERS: SOARING EAGLE (M887)

 

Timuca -  Innamed, Chief of the Timuca  Diplomacy: None

Open for a new player
 

Iroquois -  Unnamed  Diplomacy: None

Open for a new player
 

Chippewa -  Still Unnamed, Leader of the Chippewa Warriors  Diplomacy: None

Open for a new player
 

Chickasaw -  Dark Tree, Trainer of Bison  Diplomacy: None

Open for a new player
 

Hopewell -  Watkuweis, King of the Western Skies  Diplomacy: None

No Turn was received
 

Auum -  Celeste, Queen of South America, The Learned One  Diplomacy: None

Celeste finally got around to housing the Zapotec refugees that migrated down to Auum from their failed nation. Many were farmers and were offered land if they promised to give the extra food back to Auum for the next 20 years.

Leaders were dying left and right, Hot-Damn just vanished without a trace, Lolitia was last seen when a slimy tentacle reached out from a cave she was walking by and yanked her in, the guards who were with her, heard her shrieks, and within thirty seconds they were in there looking for her, they never found her body. Daymeon was researching some undisclosed topics when he went insane, screaming "The time is near, they are awakened! They are coming into our world! All is lost!", he is currently changed to a wall in the prison. Sue was exploring Atuari, the locals thought she was a witch and burned her at the stake.

All in all not many people want to become a leader in this nation now.
 

Maya -  Tzextec, Lord of the Sea, , Reunify of the Maya Tribes  Diplomacy: None

Open for player
 

Rank Nation Name MSI ESI PlayerName Phone TR Email address and Notes

1 Buryat 275.3 3 Rick Rhinehart 01-612-823-1890 12.2 triplemuncher@isd.net

2 The Liang Empire 238.3 2 John Parks 01-612-437-5636 26.6

3 Gurjara Empire 234.1 1 Greg Tronnes 01-612-922-1629 44.9

4 Oghuzvid Empire 210.3 5 Ludd Gaxson 01-800-not-4-you 13.2

5 Byzantine Empire 166.7 6 Les Nielsen 01-218-739-0820 19.1 diadochi@hotmail.com

6 Auum 156.6 10 Zephalinda Baker 01-612-609-9020 12.8

7 Ligurian Confederacy 140.3 7 Papa Bear 01-666-Khanman 4.8

8 Champa Empire 126.2 13 Charles Hurst 01-503-653-1178 9.2 charlesh@teleport.com

9 Norse Vikings 124.5 22 Craig Smith 01-612-721-7302 5.3

10 Saffarid Caliphate 104.2 16 Neil Joice 01-813-531-5164 6.4

11 Eastern Orthodox Church 101.3 12 Ken McGee 01-360-687-0421 0.3 Keng@pacifier.com

12 Samanids 98.1 11 Open For A Player! None 9.4

13 Ghana Empire 97.6 15 Jim Cochran 01-612-892-6049 12.8 James_cochran@sostpaul.k12.mn.us

14 Kingdom of Axum 97.1 9 Bob Chase 01-813-738-1451 11.0

15 Yamato Pirates 96.7 8 Chris Riga 01-612-378-9581 10.1 riga0002@tc.umn.edu

16 Idrisids 92.0 17 Jim Moffet 01-612-377-5181 5.4

17 Rastrakutas 90.5 4 Chris Dorn 01-612-975-3923 12.9 chrismdorn@aol.com

18 Rus Vikings 85.2 20 Bob Jacobson 01-612-699-4531 6.5 jacob076@tc.umn.edu

19 Mali Empire 82.6 14 Austin Williams None 10.5 caprycron@hotmail.com

20 Norman Kingdom of England 76.3 18 Brit Murry 01-612-872-9236 7.0 britten_murray@students.mcad.edu

21 Hopewell City States 67.0 26 Don Deutsch 01-507-645-2479 2.4 102470,2001@compuserv.com

22 Maya Empire 65.4 19 New Player Next Turn None 9.4

23 Frankish Kingdom of Germany 62.5 23 Charles the Bold 01-not-available! 3.0

24 Umayyads 56.6 27 Rob Nicoles 01-704-648-4574 2.3

25 Al Murabit 51.9 24 Open For A Player! None 2.7

26 Toowomba Island Hoppers 51.8 25 Brian Whiffler 01-612-827-0802 4.3

27 Faya Maunders 40.9 32 Open For A Player None 0.0

28 Sunni Primate 33.5 20 Open For A Player! None 1.0

29 Avar Horde 30.8 33 Open For A Player! None 0.0

30 Chickasaw 23.2 29 New Player Next Turn None 0.8

31 Chippewa 17.2 28 Open For A Player! None 1.0

32 Iroquois 10.2 30 Open For A Player! None 0.0

33 Timuca 9.3 31 Open For A Player! None 0.0