Lords
of the Earth
CAMPAIGN TWENTY-FOUR
Turn
79
1386 ~ 1389 Anno Domini
789 ~ 792 in the year of the Hegira
4023 (Water Dog) - 4027 (Fire Tiger)
New for T73
Noble House rules have
been added – please take a look at these here.
New Spreadsheet
for the Renaissance has been created – this can be found here and must be used
from now on.
Some
tinkering with the Religious
Order rules.
I’m going back to standard
movement rules – sigh – as it is just taking too much time to rewrite these.
Please continue to give your orders in year chunks though – The newly created spreadsheet
should help with this
New for T59
Paths to victory: There are several options open to a player when an NPN has been defeated
- Take the victory conditions (see NPN rules) available for NPNs and allow the NPN to go its own way. This is a useful option if you do not want to increase your imperial size or bother with the NPNs internal affairs.
- Keep it as either Pacified or Pacified Tributary. You will not get victory conditions but will get income from the NPNs Homeland/Friendly regions and cities. Also, as the years from conquest marker goes up it may turn Friendly or Tributary. Using this option treats the NPN as a super-region.
- Old school, you will have to take the regions you want and conquer each in turn. If the capital is taken then some of the NPNs ratings will be added to yours if higher. The NPN will cease to exist.
Dealing with hordes: Hordes can be dealt with a number of ways rather than just an outright battle. These are
- Threaten them. Hordes respond to a show of strength and may leave you alone if confronted with enough force.
- Bribe them. They are looking for gold and lands to settle or pillage so if you offer them it on a plate they may well go away. They may also just take it and attack anyway.
- Use diplomacy. It does work and I suggest chucking in a royal princess or two.
You can also use a combination of the above. If the horde
becomes a FA or A, you can direct its attacks or its path of migration.
New for T57
Non-player rules update: I’ve updated the NPN
rules to fit better with the Lord’s system. Please check them out.
New for T53
Restrictions on Royal Marriages: Due to the complications
arising from these rules only K, H or P leaders can benefit from a Royal
Marriage. Members of the Royal Family that have not come into play are not
considered eligible. Also, Primate, Order and Secret Empire positions are not
eligible for marriage bonuses. These are meant to be diplomatic arrangements
between sovereign states.
New for T52
East – West Split: I’m going to try to
split the East and the West parts of the game so that I can process the orders
quicker – don’t know if or how it will work yet but lets
see if it’ll happen
New for T51
No Orders: If I don’t get any orders in for a
position and the player doesn’t answer my emails then I’ll put the position
back to a NPN and put aside the players cash (if any) until they pick it or
another nation up again.
New for T50
Request Royal Marriage: Used to ask a NPN
nation for a bride for one of your Princes or a suitor for one of your little
Princesses. Cost is 6AP, Charisma based. The leader doesn’t have to be in the
NPNs capital but if he isn’t then he needs to be in your homeland/capital.
New for T49
Naval Reaction and Blockade: Naval Reactions can
only occur when there is action in a Sea Zone that the fleet is based at. The
fleet has to be based from a port and not the Sea Zone. Also, the Reaction can
only occur when your own lands or those of an ally benefiting from a Defensive
Pact marriage bonus are attacked. It also applies to any merchant fleets you
operate through the Sea Zone in the case of piracy. Naval Blockade’s only work if your fleet is
based in the same Sea Zone as the target port and you spend all (every single
one) of your APs in the blockade. The fleet must be based from a port and not a
Sea Zone.
New for T48
The use of fleets for Reaction and mitigating
the effects of Pirates: My understanding has now changed since we GMs have had some
discussion on the list. The use of Reaction has been explained on the Wiki and
Patrol is no longer used in the Base Rules.
Reaction
- Take a look at this link for more info http://www.throneworld.com/wiki/index.php?title=Basic_Rules_Leaders_and_Army_Actions#Reaction
Trade Route Escorts
- This is specific to Lords 24. Units can be assigned to a trade route to act as static convoy escort using the G type leader. Note this is not as good as patrol as the warships assigned will only reduce the effects of piracy, not capture or destroy the pirates themselves.
Updated NPN and Primacy rules: Yep, been tinkering again but I feel a almost serene sense of satisfaction with my latest offering. See what you think.
Added the ability to hire mercenary captain when there is no mercenary company available: See the mercenary tables
New for T47
Improved cultivation at TL5: If a nation has reached the dizzy heights of TL5 than it can benefit from improved cultivation. You can Improve a cultivated homeland region from 2GPv to 3GPv, or any other controlled cultivated region from 1GPv to 2GPv. This is a level one megalithic construction.
New for T46
NPNS: I’ve tweaked the NPN and Primacy/Order rules a
little to make them fit better with the 24 game. I’ve also reduced their overall
RRV to make diplomacy easier.
New for T45
New Rivers: I’ve added in some new possible rivers
onto the map. These are rivers that were once passable by light traffic
(remember Cogs cannot travel on rivers) and have now become silted up. You can
dredge a stretch of the river (along one region border edge) as a 0.5 level
project.
Gripes:
Agro as
conversion – this has restrictions (see 2.11.5.3) which I will be enforcing
from now on.
Rivers can
only support light ships – as far as I know Cogs cannot travel on rivers. This
also includes Cogs built for trade.
New Primates: We have two new Primate positions this
turn. Jumal Skyfather,
which is an Estonian god and the Coptic Church based out of Axum.
New for T44
Minor islands and City States: I’ll be allowing minor
islands (Corfu, Jerba, Wight etc)
and city states to be used as locations from T44. Just let me know the
rationale behind why you want it separate and if reasonable I’ll add it in.
Once they are created as locations, they obey all the rules of islands etc.
However, their Gpv cannot go above 0.
Flooding: The last few turns have seen a massive
increase in the amount of flooding that has occurred. It appears that the years
are getting warmer and wetter. As a result of this some of the minor rivers on
the map are once again becoming passable to river traffic.
Denmark: Following on from the Minor Islands stuff, you
can see that Denmark is now separated out to Jutland and Syaland
(Zeeland).
Announcements
and items of note
General Stuff: Please use my Paypal account (stephenbrunt@yahoo.co.uk)
for all Lords’ 24 payments. If you cannot use this facility then please let me
know and I will see what I can do about filtering US funds to my account. I may
also stop using the throneworld email address due to
the mass of spam I’m getting!
Order Form: Please use the standard excel order form
from now on. I’ll update the site with a link
to it next week when I get some time. This is important as it helps me process
the turn more quickly. THIS IS NOW MANDATORY.
Non-Payment: some of you still owe
me some cash. Although it may come as surprise that this is not my main source
of income, I see it only polite that you pay for the occasionally night out.
So, if you’re under zero next turn I’ll not process you orders.
Version 6: Lords 24 uses version 6 of the basic rules
The Map: The map now includes
India as well as Europe, Central Asia and Africa. I’ve greyed out repeated
areas on the maps to make my life easier. However, this means some player
nations are split across more than one map. I may increase the size of the main
map but I’ll have to think on this.
Tithes and Tribute: I think these are
automatically updated by the stats program, so no need to declare them in your
orders.
Control
of the Papacy and Religious Orders: In Lords 24 we will not always have
a player Pope (or Caliph etc for that matter) and the
following rules are used to determine which player faction controls the Pope’s
actions, Papacy Rules.
I’ve also added some stuff about gaining support from their armies
How
to make your GM happy (PLEASE READ! REALLY!):
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North
Africa and Moslem Spain
The
Akramid Caliphate
(Sunni Islam Civilized Open
Empire)
Tiroman IV,
Caliph of the Akramids
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The city of Seville was to outgrow its walls and the stone from them used to provide more housing. However, the Caliph oversaw a period of fortification of the Akramid lands and most cities and fortresses had their walls expanded. Ruling from his Andalusian estates, Tiroman was to father three young sons, two of which were identical twins. His missionaries saw some success in both Genoa and Liguria, converting the infidel Christians. The Andalusian envoys to Salamanca and Talavera saw great successes in their diplomatic missions, however Trubal was unable to gain any status in Zirid. Zacharias travelled north-west to Faroes to explore a route to the Americas but was caught in fierce winter storms and never seen again. |
Arabia
and the Middle East
The
Buwayid Sultanate
(Sunni Islam Civilized Open
Empire)
Naj Muhammad, Sultan of the Buwayids
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Naj Muhammad was determined to finally remove the Persian threat from the Sultanate. Over twenty thousand infantry and sixteen thousand horse were raised in the Buwayid heartlands and assigned to General Saied Al’Jafar. The Sultan remained in Mesopotamia to oversee the Sultanate, however despite his physicians best efforts, his wife was to die in childbirth in 1389 along with her unborn child. General Al’Jafar took control of Syria from the Emirate whilst General Ibin Adai marched into Persia with the main Buwayid force. Hamadan simply opened its gates to Adai after the Buwayids had overrun the fortress in Media. The Persians put up a token fight in their fortress before surrendering completely to Adai; the city of Qom also giving themselves to his forces. As Adai was quelling any opposition in Persia, Al’Jafar completed his conquest of the Syrian lands. After defeating the Syrians and capturing their king, Damascus, Jordan, Faras, Levant, Jerusalem, Petra and El’Aqabah also fell and were garrisoned with troops from the Sultanate. |
Western
Europe
Norman
Kingdom of France
(Roman Catholic Civilized Open
Empire)
Louis, King of France
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The plague now well in the past, the French were able to recover further form its effects. The cities of Antwerp, Metz, Bruges and Aachen grew in size and a new city of Orleans founded in the province of the same name. Missionaries were sent from Languedoc to restore Sardinia to the true faith but could find little or no converts amongst the islanders. Louis II ruled from Paris and commanded that Prince Charles ensure the realm’s security from the southern province of Aquitaine. However, both were to die in 1389 from fevers caught in the particularly bad winter of that year. Young Prince Louis declared himself as regent to his cousin Prince Philippe and took over from his uncle’s rule; the army in Aquitaine being given over to Enguerrand to command. The efforts of Lord Remy in Burgone saw that city ally itself with Paris during these years. |
The
Principality of Salerno
(Roman Catholic Civilised Open
Empire)
Duke Carlo Martello of House Durazzo, Prince of
Salerno
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The death of Duke Roberto early in 1386 meant that his dreams of being crowned King of Naples by the Pope came to nothing. Young Prince Carlo was elevated to the Principality on his uncle’s death. A solitary and sickly child, the young Duke was a celebrated scholar and poet with a keen mind for affairs of state. Tomaso di Molise’s attempts to hire a more able Captain from amongst the mercenary scum that applied for the role was to prove unsuccessful. He was able to recruit a few thousand of the sellswords to bolster his army in Naples though. Travelling to Venice, di Molise was able to recruit further mercenaries that included some siege engineers. His army mow comprising of the mercenaries and various garrisons gathered from amongst the Principality’s cities, di Molise camped in the rich farmlands of Verona. While di Molise gathered the Salernese army in Verona, Galeazzo Visconti travelled to Petropolis to cement an alliance with the city state. He later travelled to Carinthia to improve relations with the province but was to fall foul of bandits in 1388. The Duc di Benevento had spent a profitable year raiding deep into Savoy from Lombardy before he attacked Liguria in concert with the Duke of Amalfi in 1388. The Salernese army led by de Molise comprised of nearly thirty thousand men and several engines of siege. They moved into Liguria from Lombardy after a hard haul through the mountains. Hector was aware of their advances and although reluctant to commit his forces to defend against the Savoy raids, led his twenty thousand men to the defence of his homeland. Luck was with the defenders as Hector’s forces met the attackers as they were still strung out after the hard march into Liguria. Despite their numbers and quality, di Molise panicked and failed to bring his forces into line. One of Duke Roberto’s last acts was to order the improvement of the road from Taranto to Pescara and the Via Canalis to Venice. Salernese missionaries attempted, and failed, to stem the Imams preaching into Liguria; the mercenary foot simply ran. Di Molise finally quelled the rout only to be hit again by Hector’s forces. This time the Salernese fled back to Lombardy, their force in tatters. The Ligurians had lost only a quarter of their number. |
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Scandia
and the Out Isles
Kingdom
of Orkeneyjar
(Roman Catholic Seafaring Open
Empire)
Einhenjar I, King of Orkney
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Kirkval once again became the premier northern city as it population expanded. King Einhenjar continued to rule from the city and was to dispatch missionaries to Caranook and Gronland, fully converting the pagans in Gronland to Catholicism. The king was assisted in his rule by Queen Roselind but no child was forthcoming to the royal couple during these years. Birgitta had gained some support from the Bretons before travelling to Ireland and Gaillimhe. The Orkneys reinstated their ties with Le Marteau through the efforts of Rolf. He spent these years with the Order’s council and gaining their support for Einhenjar’s government. Princess Sanfrida was left to oversee the Svear and was able to raise a small group of mercenaries in the city of Stockholm. These new recruits were assigned to Brodgar who remained in charge of the Stockholm garrison. |
Saxon
Kingdom of England
(Roman Catholic Civilized Open
Empire)
Aethelhard, King of England
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More resources were poured into the English lands to improve their prosperity. King Aethelhard ruled from London and was blessed with a young son in 1386. Sadly, the boy caught a fever and was to perish in the winter of 1389. Lord Allastaire was dispatched to Asturias to improve relations with the province whilst Lord Eadwald was to attempt the same in Navarre. Old loyalties ran deep in the Navaresse and Eadwald found difficulty in removing their ties to Olbia and Aragon. |
The Kingdom of Svear
King Wulf Olafson’s rule saw the Svear gain influence with Le Marteau although his attempt to convert the Jumalis in Kymia and Viipuri came to nothing. Emmerik led a delegation to Turku to persuade the easterners to commit to rule from Stockholm. After many years of effort, the Turku were persuaded to join the Svear kingdom completely.
Eastern
Europe
The
Varangian Rus of Kiev
(Orthodox Civilized Open Empire)
Fedor, King of the Rus
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The steppe of Atelzuko was put to the plough by farmers loyal to the Rus. Prince Fedor, Regent of the Rus kingdom, was also to travel to the Atelzuko lands to improve relations with the overlord of that region. He was accompanied by Georgi and Mikhail and was to gain an alliance before his return to Kiev. Young Prince Peter dies suddenly in 1389 and with no heir to the throne, Fedor declared himself King of the Rus; there was no dissent as the Rus had tired of unrest. Vanya’s attempts to raise a Preceptory in Pechnograd came to nothing as the Order was still reviled in the city from its inaction against the Cossack. |
The
Oriental Roman Empire
(Roman Catholic Civilised Open
Empire)
Romanos, Emperor of East Rome
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The Order of St
Vladimir
Eric, Prelate of the Order of St Vladimir, was to finally improve the status of his Order with the Rus of Kiev. He was aided by Siegfried before his untimely death from the pox. Brother Anatoli had travelled through the Hungarian lands and onto Buda-Pesht where the Order was recognised by the Hungarian king.
India
Pratihara Kingdom of Kaunaj
(Hindu Civilised Open Empire)
Rajeesh, Raja of Kaunaj
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The cities of Mandvi, Kaunaj and Tamralipti grew in size and their mighty walls torn down to accommodate the new population. However, Rejeesh was a careful man and ensured that the walls were soon rebuilt back to their original strength. As the Kingdom grew in prosperity, so did the piety of the Rajputs begin to wane despite conversions of Moslems in the Punjab and Islamabad. Rejeesh was content to rule from Kaunaj along with Prince Suresh while despatching Vanaya to preach in the Punjab and Wyra to Om’Chu. Thole remained in Sahis were he continued to improve relations with the conquered province. . |
South
East Asia and the Islands
The
God-Empire of Sri Vijaya
(Buddhist Seafaring Open
Empire)
Agung Eko, God-Emperor of the
Sri Vijaya
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The God-Emperor continued to improve the prosperity of the Sri Vijayan lands as the nations’ gold and manpower was spent. Singhasari was to rule his empire until the winter of 1387 when a fever took him. His son, Agung Eko, became the new Emperor on his father’s death. |
Manchu’ko and
Nihon
The
Minamoto Shogunate
(Shinto Civilised Open Empire)
Junji Yasumori,
Shogun of the East
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Quiet times Japan. |
The
Land under Heaven
The Kingdom
of Chiang’Ning
(Buddhist Civilised Open
Empire)
Ban Ao, King of Chiang’Ning
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The great city of Pienching, now in the hands of the Chiang, grew in size as did the city of Jinan in Tsainan. To ensure that the legacy of his dynasty endured throughout time, Ban Ao ordered the construction of several great works. The Imperial Tomb of the Chiang was built in Chiangning opposite a great palace named “The Palace of the Ancients” by Ban Ao. To commemorate the losses on both sides during the great war of unification with the Yen, a monument was built on the Honan border. Finally, to further commemorate his successes, Ban Ao constructed an Arena in Zhengzhou to host games. Ban Ao was also to enjoy great success in his negotiations with the Song as they consented to a formal alliance with the Chiang. While Ban Ao remained in Shensi with the Song, Prince Ban Zheng was left in Anhui to rule in his stead. The kingdom of Chang’Ling was to also offer its support to Chiang through the diplomatic efforts of Ning Tang who had travelled to Hupei. . |