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The religious wars had nearly ruined Charles University. Most of the faculty, the entire nations of the Bavarians, Poles, and Saxons, had packed up and left long before the fighting started, over the very debates that touched off the great reformation that had swept Bohemia and Moravia since. There ...

I for one am just plain short on mental energy and time, but to do a quick summing up: Yes, the Bohemians of 1478 are basically directly descended from the direction the Hussites were going up until the Utraquists (in real life) accepted reunion with the Catholic Church in exchange for a few concess...

2) I am well content with that historical outline, insofar as it touches on Bohemian history- not very far, but it hits the key points and explains the origins of the Hussite dissent. Havoc might have some comments on the supposed case in 1451 of Roman-pope interactions with Bohemia. Well, I mean, ...

1) A pleasure to have you with us, Your Grace. 2) I am well content with that historical outline, insofar as it touches on Bohemian history- not very far, but it hits the key points and explains the origins of the Hussite dissent. Havoc might have some comments on the supposed case in 1451 of Roman-...

I think I must have misread the rules; could you go back and check that the formulas are written in an unambiguous way?

Kingdom of Bohemia [/u] Persons of Interest King Victor I of Podebrady ... (pending) State Religion Unitas Fratrum History ... (pending) Major Statistics 3 Size 7 Resources 8 Connectivity 8 Economy 9+1 = 10 Technology Between the radical tactical departures of the Taborites on the military-technolo...

I think Cavalier has a point about it being a little premature to say "Everything is cast in concrete now." We can start writing stuff, sure, but hammering out a consensus history and making sure no one's likely to jump into the game from outside next week are worthwhile. Which is, again, not to say...

Crazy explosions aside... I'm sorry, this completely slipped my mind last night. I'll get at least a basic nation lineup to you later tonight- where I am (slightly greater Bohemia under the son of George of Podebrady), who's in charge, what my stats are, as much as I've got. A military order of batt...

Yeah, that's true. I can easily enough define fundamental 'units,' then scale them upward. Obviously things will look totally different for Bohemia than they would for the Hansa. I can do it; I just felt a bit daunted because it's not something I've done exactly before. And I definitely need to talk...

I've only really looked at the rules just now, and one thing I have to say concerns me is the detail level. Comparing this game to the other STGODs I've participated in (SDNW4 and the abortive 1910 game here), the rules for just how you raise and equip armies are far more detailed. In SDNW4 you just...

With the divided papacy, I'm honestly not sure that both popes (pope and antipope, and it's an arbitrary sign convention which is which) would agree on policy toward the Hussites. Historically, it was Alexander V, a 'third candidate' appointed pope by a council which was trying to resolve the Wester...

A Hussite Bohemia will be enemy number one for the Holy Roman Empire and subject to constant attempts to destroy it coming from Germany and Hungary, and quite possibly Poland. It will be surrounded and besieged from day one, and it will face serious internal disruptions from the large German popula...

I've been discussing a Hussite Bohemia with Comrade Tortoise, but I'm nowhere near ready to write something up. Still thinking about the Hansa, but Bohemia interests me for some reason.

Hello, everyone; some of you know me from SDN or chats. I'm... considering joining, if there's time. Although frankly most of my creative juice is either diverted elsewhere or dried up at the moment. My other misgiving is that it's not an era I really know very well, in terms of being able to captur...

The really critical thing that doesn't happen in the Otreraverse, in terms of setting the course of the future to come, is that the idea of "human rights," rights you enjoy by virtue of being a person independent of your status in the community, never really emerges. Being a Roman citizen in Steam A...

Basically, the classical Greco-Roman world evolved straight into the Industrial Revolution. Religion wound up mutated beyond recognizability (at least, by the equivalent of whatever year AUC it is in the Otreran timeline). A few terrestrial societies were able to catch up with the Greco-Roman indust...

Good point. The reason honourable is put in as a 'flaw' is the inflexible part of it, which can lead some to be antagonistic towards someone with a code of honour. So it's not a personal 'flaw' as such, but rather it colours people's perceptions - most will find it positive, some will find it annoy...

November 18, 1909 Forbidden City, Peking, Zhili Province Prince Regent Fu leafed through the duplicate blueprints at a speed that would have surprised those unfamiliar with his ways. The commodore before him, though, was quite well aware of the Prince Regent’s reputation as a polymath. He stood qu...

Far as I can tell, nothing's changed from Q1 for China. Imperial China: 1910 Q2 Budget Quarterly Income: $680/quarter ($600 from Econ, $80 from Colonies) Military Upkeep Costs: $417/quarter Trade Agreements: United Kingdom of the Pacific: Give 50 IBPs for 50$ Available Funds: $313/quarter Available ...

November 17, 1909 Hechuan, Hezhou District, Sichuan Province Heng waved goodbye to the rivermen as he stepped off the gangplank. They would be going back upriver under tow from a steamer; he had to make his way to the offices of the district government. The waterfront along the mouth of the Jialing ...

Hadrianvs wrote:I have implemented the crash industrialization program to end all crash industrialization programs.

Oh sweet merciful yompin yiminy.

[reviews plans to build Hindenberg Line clear across the entire width of the Gansu Corridor]

Well, if the Bourbons aren't ready, I'll miss them, but if I have to I can rewrite my backstory around their absence. If you're still looking to pick up information on the Mongols, I'd suggest Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford. I thought it was a pretty good book an...

November 13, 1909 "But Grandfather, one tael every six days is good money." The reigning patriarch of the Zhou family was nearly convinced, or he would have given the idea a flat "no!" But Heng knew from experience that Grandfather wouldn't let anything this important be decided without asserting hi...

Look on the bright side; we didn't kick you into a pit. Besides, since we have so little artillery of our own, obviously we're in the market for the world's finest. As we like to say, "crisis" is made up of "danger" and "opportunity." Well, actually we don't like to say that. That's just something b...

Since my sphere of interest butts up against both Hadrianvs's Mongols and Steve's Pacificans, who would I go to on issues like this?