Lords of the Earth

Wander Games

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Campaign #7

Turn 3, 865AD

Turns Due: February 4

Announcements:

Lord of turn 3: Tony Riga

Peon of turn 3: Brit Murry

1) Welcome, all the misspellings, are planed.

2) See the Ed's Lords Supplement hand out for some new info, and fun toys, yes they are here, so shoot me.

3) If you drop of your turns at the Uptown Phoenix, PLEASE get turns in on time, since I don't get off of work until after 5:00 during the week, its a bitch to make 2 or 3 trips up there for turns. Thanks

4) PLEASE DO NOT CALL PHOENIX LOOKING FOR TURNS!!! From what I have been told, there have been many calls to Phoenix asking about this Lords game or another, and I was asked to tell players to call the people running the games. Thanks

5) Please get turns in on time! Late turns are becoming a major problem.

6) The Indonesia area is now kinda a training area for some first time areas, give them a break the first few turns, please?

7) My printer is starting to have problems, if you have any questions, or can't read the Player sheet, give a call.

 

Fees:

$2.50 - Local Turns

$3.50 - Mailed

$0.50 - Per each additional BL

$0.50 - Additional Maps

Drop Policy:

Players will be dropped if they are delinquent in paying for three turns, unless ok'd by me, I am reasonable.

Troop Conversion:

Infantry, Cavalry, Siege: 500 Men

Warship: 5 Boats with 100 Men

Transports: 10 Boats with 50 Men

Field forts: 5 Forts 100 men garrisons

Citadels and Wall points: 20 feet of Stone and 500 men

Elephants: 100 men and 20 big beasties

Others Lords Games:

Lords #1: Thomas Harlan (602)323-8570

Lords #2: Sean Harding (612)377-8440

Lords #3: Colin Dunnigan (602)881-1402

Lords #4: Thomas Harlan (602)323-8570

Lords #5: Scott Chatham

Lords #6: Scott Michael (505)296-4454

Lords #7: What?!? That's me!

Lords #8: Niel Stolkes

Lords #9: Thad Plate (602)952-8929

Lords #14: Fernado Bellizzi

Lords #15: Jack Wagner

Lords #69: Chris Dorn

 

Northwestern Europe

Mercenaries: 14mi, 4mc, Leader: 737

Scotts

Sean MacGregory, Exking of Scotland

DIPLOMACY:Dosen't matter anymore

Sean was in Ireland when the Danes came and pillaged all his lands. There was just too many of the vikings all around.

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Anglo-Saxtons

Raymond II, The Last true English

DIPLOMACY: None

Raymond put together a plan to pull his country together, but just before he set it into motion he was found dead in his war room, only evidence that was found was a Danish coin.

Danes

Hafdan the Black, Raider from the North

DIPLOMACY: None

Hafdan mused amongst his royal court, "You would think that these overzealous scotsmen would think ahead, I really wished they would." He then summoned his faithful Thorfin to his side, and said, "Dispose of this pauper who would be king, and bring me the stone of Destiny for I shall use it as a footstool for my throne. There shall be no more Scottish kings, proclaim it, and rejoyce", Thorfin marched through all of the Scottish lands on England, and met with only miniumal resistence. The only bad thing was when an overzelous ally tried to turn the Anglo-Saxtons homeland to the Danes, he is still in a London Prison.

Norse

Unnamed Regent

DIPLOMACY:None

Earily in 863 Thorkell died while eating some freshly made Venison. The Norse fleet raided the Lowlands, and Wessex, others were planed, but had to be aborted due to too many land troops.

Sweeds

Thor

DIPLOMACY: Uppsala (F), Turku (A),

Thor continued in the tradtion of raiding people, he hit Estonia, Poland, Little Poland, and Prussia. A Eastern Orthodox bishop wander though some of Thor's land in late 764.

Western Franks

Charles the Bald

DIPLOMACY: Vermandois (F), Limousin (A)

The Western Franks spent a quite 5 year span strenthing his country from within. Roumors of the Vikings raiding from above proved yet again, proved false.

Umyyads

Abu'l Hassan, Destroyer of Christians

DIPLOMACY: Esremaduvamu (A)

King Abu'l Hassen sent his ally alGhafiqa to rearranging his armys, and then left on a ship to explore the sea, in a freak accident he somehow drowned. Abu'l son Mohammed was promoted to hier.

Burgandy

Unnamed

Open for play

Eastern Europe

Mercenaries: 12mi, 7hc, Leader:763

Eastern Franks

Unnamed Regent

DIPLOMACY : Alsace (F), Franconia (NE), Bavaria (NE)

Otto, who yet again stayed in bed with his wife, its warmer at home anyways, or so he claims. In 764 Otto failed to wake up, his cousin is the regent until his eldest can take over the daily running of the nation. Workers were sent to Swabia to see what could be done to improve thier harvest. Bavaria degraded, thanks to Moraviaa's DPing it.

Moravia

Max

DIPLOMACY:Bavaria (EA for Eastern Orthodox), Silesia (F), Meissen (F)

Max started the fun right away, he started by trying to take Bavaria from Eastern Orthodox. Then he sent his allys out to strength his country from within.

Bulgar Empire

Vlad I

DIPLOMACY: Croatia (FA), Bosnia (FA), Dalmatia (EA)

The Bulgars have been runninfg around, trying to get everything ready for the mareriage of Vlad's child and a deaughter of the Byzintiens. Allies were sent out to slave raid Moldavia, and Gal, when they got back, they were put to work to build a bathroom fit for a princess. People are still not sure what they got when it was finished.

Holy Roman Church

Unnamed

DIPLOMACY: Paris (AB), Genoa (AB), Kriegsburg (AB)

The unnamed Pope gave Romagna, and Latium to the Italians, and then extened thier Abby's. The Pope's administers expressed some concern about loosing Romagna, and Latium.

Italy

King Vittiorid

DIPLOMACY:Lombardy (A), Verona (F), Calabria (T)

Vittorid married his daughter off to the ruler of the Verona, they are now dedicated to the Italy's cause. They also payed the Pope for use of the thier scibes.

Byzantine Empire

Emperor Basil I

DIPLOMACY:Morea (F)

Basil stayed home, with some allies, all trying to keep up with the paperwork that comes with running a large empire. Alexius, while wondering about, found some things that most people would love to have, unfortunitily he spent the all of 764 in bed, recovering from a battle. The regions of Ilyria and Dolmatia were given thier freedom.

Easter Orthodox

Father Basil

DIPLOMACY: Galatia (AB), Lydia (AB), Thrace (AB), Macedonia (MN), Serbia (AB)

Father Basil toured lands, errectiong Abbys as he went, he couldn't help but look back and be happy at where the Eastern Orthodx are now. Archbishop Alexander whent to the north to try to get the Vikings to convert, Livonia, Smaland, Uppsela, Halland, Kupperberg, and Norway all converted, but while in Agder, the King of the Norse ordered this man to talk to him personally. He is still being held there now.

Rus Vikings

Queen Sonja, the Beautiful Basher

DIPLOMACY: Tver (A), Polotsk (F)

 

Sonja was promoted to Queen, since her father died in 759, Everyone seems to agree tht she has has what it takes to rule this country. After much running around, trying to catch up on goverment junk, the Rus Vikings are back in the black.

North Africa

Mercenaries: 6mi, 9hc, 2s ,Leader 756

Idrisids

Regent Mohammed Al Abul

DIPLOMACY: None

Mohammed continued with his brothers plans of raiding for cash, and exploring. Moulay's son came of age, and will now lead his nations.

Aghlabids

Ibn Baffuta, Terror of the Mediterainian

DIPLOMACY: Sicily (F), Kabilya (T)

Ibn Baffuta sent men to Italy, to Raid and Slave raid Apulia and Calabria, thise two poor countries are just getting pumeled. What will Ibn Baffuta do next?

Tulunids

Budra, Friend of Basil,

DIPLOMACY:Lebanon (EA), Jordon (F),

Budra, continuing his habit of staying home heard about the Abbisids, and had to give a chuckle. Leaders were sent all through his country to improve his holdings. The Bank of Egypt was payed back some of what was barrowed last turn.

Axum

Unnamed

Nothing happening

Heart of Africa

Mercenaries: 7mi, 4mc Leader 784

Ghana

GhanaZu, Chief of Africa, Crusher of the little countrys

DIPLOMACY: Jenne (NT), Senegal (NT)

Ghana Zu was busy planing his newest get rich quick scam, when he recieved word that Boure was just totally over run, "I thought that might have been a bit on the overkill side, but it worked". Ghana is truily a large empire now.

Moli

Regent Mansa

DIPLOMACY:Goroul (F), Benin (F)

Mansa managed to undo most of the damage done in 759 when the nation split, the new King, Simba, will have a better nation to run if Mansa continues in this way.

Akan

Unnamed

Open for Play

Middle East

Mercenaries:9li, 7lc Leader 7A5

Fars

Unnamed

DIPLOMACY: Fars (HM), Kuwait (EA), Ahvaz (T), Abaddan (F)

The Far's Kingdom declaired thier independence when tAl-Abbas died of strange sercemstances

Abbisids

King Ibrahim Abbas, Defender of the Faithful, Rightful hier to Al-Abbas

DIPLOMACY:Azerbaijan (A), Kurdistan (T)

All was going as planed, until 763. Al-Abbas was walking aroun Bagdadd, looking to see what he couldn't see while in the palace, with a few guards. The story gets confusing after that. Some say a guard killed the king, others say he was assassinated by someone, yet others say a monster came out of the shadows and killed him. When the Leitenit Ibrahim, crowned Hier of the throne took over, the allies from Fars, and Mosul declaired thier freedom.

Mosul

Unnamed

DIPLOMACY: Mosul (HM), Arbiliq (A), Carhae (F), Palmyra (EA)

Mosul declaired thier independence with the death of the Abbisids king.

Saffarid

Unnamed

DIPLOMACY:None

Open for play

Samanids

Al'Bib Rak-Mann,

DIPLOMACY: Ferghana (A), Kara-Khitai (F), Singanakh (EA)

Rock-Mann built a city in Bokhara, named Chardzhou, and sent everyone out to improve the country, much to everyones delight, neather Horde headed twards them. Mothers are sleeping well again.

Ghuzz

Ertu Grul the Good; Leader of too many to count, Thunder maker

DIPLOMACY: Chitin (NA), Liao (NA), Humahe (A), Higgan (NT), Helionkang (NT), Sungari (NT)

Ertu Grul continued to wander the norther Steps, getting bigger, and meaner as he goes, China looks like it may be his new home soon.

Buryat

Uzbek One-Eye the Ugly; Terror of Mongol

DIPLOMACY: Tartar (NT), Yenisey (A), Housgol (NT), Tamarin (NT), Uigur (NT), Gaxum-Nur (NT), Tanggut (NT)

Uzbek rode away from Ertu, and ended up on the other side of China. Could both hordes be looking at China like a zit that needs to be poped?

Sunni Primate

Unnamed

Open for the war against the Christians

Shi'a Primate

Unnamed

Open to smash the Buddhist.

India

Mercenaries: 6mi, 5mc Leader 886

Gurjara

Fung Dat, Heir to the Gupta Empire

DIPLOMACY:Edrosia (NT), Sahis (F), Sukkur (EA)

Fung Datn hired 5000 Libarians, and added a new wing to his University. Fung Dat also over saw the beginnings of 3 Great Walls to keep the hordes away. Military was rearanged, to better hold off the Horde, or so the thinking goes.

Rastrakutas

Bulla, Peacelord of India

DIPLOMACY: Maduria (F), Seylan (F)

Bulla continued his plain to take out Chola, without a battle. Its slowing down, but his goal is within reach, or so it appears.

Chola

Unnamed

The Chola's are being peacefully wiped out, they need help.

China

Mercenaries 7mi, 4mc, 4s Leader 783

Champa

Unnamed, Leader of the Champa

DIPLOMACY: None

The king died, and a civil war broke out. The Heir managed to kill off the rebels and take back control of his nation

Later Shu

Unnamed

Just waiting for someone to lead them to the unification of China.

Liang

Hsiao-Wen-Ti, General of the Heavens, Destroyer of Steps

DIPLOMACY: None

Hsiao-Wen-Ti crowned his Lietenit Hier, many wonder why. Massive armys were sent into Yun, and Shangtu, with orders to turn them into Deserts. Both areas were looted, and then Regional Genicide was done. After that they spred salt and the dead body all over the place, and then went home. It sure looks like a desert right now.

Wu

Unnamed

Wu finially fell apart, after barily managing to hold together after the assassination of thier king, and the civil war that fallowed

Nan-Han

Hawwi Wu

DIPLOMACY: Hmong (T), Surin (T), Siam (NT), Lingan (FA), Hainan (FA), Lingnan (FA), Lingtung (F)

Hawwi Wu spent this turn again, trying to catch up with the big boys. He is doing fairily well, at least thats what his people seem to think.

Yamato

Emperor Oda Nabungawa

DIPLOMACY: Toyama (F), Nigata (A), Kagoshima (F)

Oda continues in his quest to uniting Japan under one house, he also continues in his govermental problems. A large cloud appeard on the horizen one day and a bout was sent twards the cost north of Korea, the boatmen cam back claming he saw thousands of horses being riden by men.

Min

Unnamed

Yet another open country, just waiting for someone to take 'em home.

Yanzhi

Unnames

Yanzhi was destroyed when the Buryat walked through thier homeland.

South Pacific

Mercenaries: 4I, 3W Leader 955

Moluccas

Unnamed

DIPLOMACY:None

In the central Indonesia the Moluccas is kinda the central hub for the whole area.

Pajajaran

Unnamed

the Pajajaran control basically the Island of Java, a greek-like city state system is currently the trend for government at the moment.

Subah

Unnamed

The Subah is kinda a strange mix, they are Hindu Island hopping barbarian, Strange people.

Toowomba

King Dundee

DIPLOMACY: Taree (A)

King Dundee counted how many people do what he says, there 370,000 people who fallow him.

New World

Mercenaries: 8I Leader 773

Hopewell

Malagut

DIPLOMACY: None

Malagut raised taxes so that they could build up Cahokia. His son, Talagut was promoted to Hier.

Anasazi

Richard

DIPLOMACY: None

Richard counted his people, there are 1,300,000 people who worship him

Mixtec

Airfric

The Mixtec were smashed by the Maya's, have a nice day.

Huastec Maya

Huastec the Great

DIPLOMACY: None

Huastec stayed home and played with numbers, his wife, and his many childeren.

Tiahuanaco

Maulaxlal

DIPLOMASY: Pucara (FA)

Laulaxlal hired some friends to help count his people, they counted to about 1,500,000 or so. Maybe on Wednesday they will know for sure.

Zapotec

Cacaxtal, Ruler of Mexico

DIPLOMACY: None

A city named Monte'Albane was built in Nahuatl. Cacaxtal stayed home and prayed for help running his goverment, none ever came.

Maya

Tlaxcala, Lord of the Sea, Trickster of the Ages

DIPLOMACY:Atakapa (F)

Huave was passified, and then looted, and then left. Tlaxcala walked around and moved his mighty military around, before going home to hear of the news from around the nation. The whole of Atakapa was moved to Maya, after roumors of an Hopewell army were heard, but never seen.

Moche

Synxt'Pal, Master of the City States

DIPLOMACY: None

Moche but a halt on the expantions until thier true King came of age, they sat home and played games.