Lords
of the Earth
CAMPAIGN TWENTY-FOUR
Turn
80
1390 ~ 1393 Anno Domini
793 ~ 796 in the year of the Hegira
4027 (Metal Horse) - 4030 (Water
Rooster)
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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VARIOUS FEES AND
LEVIES
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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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Tiroman concerned himself about the security of the realm and so ordered the construction of forts throughout his lands. Furthermore, walls were improved in the Caliphate’s cities and fortresses. The great city of Seville was also to grow in size during these years. His missionaries in Genoa were able to convert the majority of the city’s populace to Islam, despite the ruling elite remaining in thrall to the Pope. They were not so successful in the province of Liguria where Christianity still held sway. The efforts of in Salamanca came to nothing as did Tarkhan in Badajoz but before his death in 1393, Trubal was able to improve relations with the Zirid. It was left to Hisham to gain an alliance with the city of Santiago. In 1393, Tiroman was to ail from a fever and passed away in the winter of that year. His son, also called Tiroman, was quick to take control of the Caliphate and gather the support of his father’s generals. The Maliki Mandhab deemed themselves strong enough to face the St Denis Order in Spain and rode to Valencia to reclaim the province for Islam. Twice they forced their way into the Order’s lands but found the Christians far from weakened, suffering huge losses at their hands and setting their goals back for many years. |
Arabia
and the Middle East
The
Buwayid Sultanate
(Sunni Islam Civilized Open
Empire)
Naj Muhammad, Sultan of the Buwayids
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Now fully in control of his
vast empire, the Sultan Naj Muhammad rules from the
rich and fertile lands of Mesopotamia.
His generals were commanded to watch for any incursions into his lands
or for any sign of revolt amongst the Persians or Syrians. It seemed as
though Christendom was actively thwarting the Sultan’s effort to gain their
knowledge as his agents were unable to gain any new insights. The sultan did
show his largesse by investing vast sums of gold and manpower in rejuvenating
the war-torn provinces of Syria and Persia. |
Western
Europe
Norman
Kingdom of France
(Roman Catholic Civilized Open
Empire)
Louis, King of France
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The Regent Prince Jean continued to rule the French kingdom from his palace in Paris, securing a wife for himself from amongst his Burgundian allies. During these years the city of Toulouse was founded in Aquitaine and as Jean also ordered the dredging of the Garonne from the coast all the way to Aquitaine, the city soon became an important port. Remy was dispatched to Burgundy and managed to secure an alliance with the Burgundians before his untimely death in 1391. |
The
Principality of Salerno
(Roman Catholic Civilised Open
Empire)
Duke Carlo Martello of House Durazzo, Prince of
Salerno
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Young Carlo II, Granduca di Salerno, concentrated on restoring the Salernese forces after the disastrous Ligurian campaign. Gangs of men continued to improve the Via Aemilia from Ravenna to Vincencia. As well as reviewing his forces, Carlo spent some time with the Duchy’s merchants to discuss ways of improving the gold gained from trade before continuing to rule his lands from Naples. To aid da Montefeltro was dispatched to Palermo to aid the Consignorio della Scalia in her diplomacy. The island had fallen to the Ligurians in previous years but anti-Genoese sentiment was high and was fanned by their efforts. Carlo was also alarmed by the high number of Moslem converts in Liguria but his priests could do little to stem the conversions. |
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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 city in northern Europe as it grew in size once again. Yet despite this, the death of the unpopular Einherjar after a short illness meant that the burden of ruling once again fell to Rosalind. Unfortunately for the queen, her sister Sanfrida had claimed the throne of the Svear after conspiring to kill Wulf and Erna with Wulf’s son Dalmar. Dalmar was to claim the kingdom but it was Sanfrida who was to true power behind him. Poor Brodgar was murdered in Uppsala after refusing to support Sanfrida’s claim on the Svear kingdom whilst Callanish attempts to kill Rosalind in Kirkval itself was stopped by the quick action of Rolf. The rebellious Callanish was cut down by Rolf’s guard as he attempted to gain entry to the palace. Some of the Orkney holdings decided that they would prefer to rule their own people and included Brittany and the Faroes as well as the cities of Caithness and Amsterdam. After the rebellion was quickly put down, Rolf reaffirmed his support for Rosalind and went on to gather more support from the Marteau Order. Catholic missionaries had some success at converting the Jumali infidels in Ventapalis and Musa. In far Naskapi, supporters of Le Marteau were to raise a house for the Order. |
Saxon
Kingdom of England
(Roman Catholic Civilized Open
Empire)
Aethelhard, King of England
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Quiet times. |
Eastern
Europe
The
Varangian Rus of Kiev
(Orthodox Civilized Open Empire)
Fedor, King of the Rus
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Atelzuko was finally cultivated and the tribes pushed out further to the edge of the southern province. King Fedor was desperate to secure his dynasty and to that end married a princess from Romans. Princess Aelia was rather plump and plain, not at all like her likeness sent to Fedor months earlier. Undaunted, Fedor attempted to sire an heir with Aelia but his efforts proved fruitless. Georgi was to die early in 1390 from a fever but Brother Andrew of the Vladimir Order managed to complete the integration of the Atelzuki into the Varangian Kingdom. Mikhail aided the Brother until his death in 1390. To organise his growing domain, Fedor ordered Vanya to leave the city of Pechnograd and request aid from the Vladimirans. |
The
Oriental Roman Empire
(Roman Catholic Civilised Open
Empire)
Romanos, Emperor of East Rome
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Romanus ensured that the great city of Constantinople would survive any attack by rebuilding its great walls after the city grew in size. The island port of Corfu was also to have its walls improved. It was early in 1390 that the Roman army took delivery of the first cannons, freshly forged in Constantinople’s newly built factories. The dour princess Aelia was dispatched to the Rus to marry King Fedor of the Varangians, sealing an alliance between the two nations once again. Princess Zoe was married to the elder son of the Byzantine Trading House to increase Romanus’s influence there. Romanus himself travelled to Malta where he was to improve the Roman influence in the Order. He was to leave Prince Michael in change of the Empire and the young prince was to father a child before his with sadly died in childbirth in 1393. Before his death in 1393, Alexius was granted lands in Attica and swore to defend them for the Empire. Roman missionaries had little success in converting the Moslem influx in Rhodes |
The Order of St
Vladimir
Eric spend all his time and resources building a Preceptory in Pechnograd with Anatoli whilst Georgi was left to ensure the cities defences held against any possible attack.
India
Pratihara Kingdom of Kaunaj
(Hindu Civilised Open Empire)
Rajeesh, Raja of Kaunaj
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Before his death in 1392, Rejeesh had continued to pour resources into increasing the prosperity of his Kingdom. The line of succession was clear as Prince Suresh was present at his father’s deathbed. The Prince was blessed with a young son by his wife Aneeta in 1393. Vanaya was dispatched to Punjab to sway the Moslems there to Hinduism but had little success. In fact, the whole of the Rajputi state was continuing an ongoing a loss of faith. Wayra did have some small success converting the tribesmen of Om’Chu during the years he spent there. Missionaries were also dispatched to Islamabad as Rejeesh pushed further north. The deaths of Thole and Usram in 1390 were unconnected but caused Anush to take command of the Kaunaj army in Rajput. |
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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Quiet times. |
Manchu’ko and
Nihon
The
Minamoto Shogunate
(Shinto Civilised Open Empire)
Junji Yasumori,
Shogun of the East
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Throughout the Shogunate cites grew in size, from Aomori in the far north to royal Edo. In Tigil, the port city of Omu was funded. Before his death in 1390, the Shogun had arranged the hand in marriage of his daughter Myia to his loyal general Yokata Hiroshi. He was to prove a popular choice and was to gain the full support of Junji’s other warlords. The wilderness of Ostroma was cleared and new farms settled in the colony. In 1390, Azuma Eizo led an expedition to Magadan to escort shiploads of settlers to the new frontier. Although still a wilderness, a small colony was established on the coast. |
The
Land under Heaven
The Kingdom
of Chiang’Ning
(Buddhist Civilised Open
Empire)
Ban Ao, King of Chiang’Ning
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Ban Ao and Tsai Zhek were set to continue their diplomatic mission to the Sung when they were set upon in the palace of Shensi itself; it seemed that not all the Song were pleased with the Chang’s advance. Despite a desperate fight against the assailants, the King and Zhek were killed as the assailants managed to overwhelm their guards. During the same month, Ning Tang was ambushed whilst travelling in Hupei and killed along with his guard. The Kingdom turned to Ban Zheng after his father’s death but Ma Yuan in far Tai-Pei declared that his claim to the Chang was as great as the Ban dynasty. Taking control of the city, he marched on the capital. General Buwai was camped just outside Tai-Pei but was unaware of Yuan’s treachery and fell to the rebel’s knife. Now in control of Buwai’s men, Yuan continued his march to Anhui to force Ban Zheng from the throne. The prince had not been idle though and had enlisted the support of Kai Yuan, who had remained in the capital to support the prince. Together with the loyal Kai Yuan, the prince managed to wrest control of Buwai’s army from the traitor who fled his vengeance. However, Ma was quickly captured, dragged in chains to Anhui where he was put to death. The short-lived rebellion caused few disruptions except for the provinces of Taiping and Shangtung. All of the kingdoms swearing fealty to the Ban dynasty were to remain loyal. Isolated from the disruptions, the cities of Jinan and Jingdezhen were to grow in size. The Chang priests were unable to improve the standing of the Greater Wheel within the kingdom. . |