STGOD 2 OOC

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Wed May 26, 2010 4:59 pm

DarkSilver, you can't have Guard units in the reserve. They are always standing formations.

Also, your Active and Ready Reserve units cannot exceed 40% of your Army points. You are Army 4, at 3,000 Army Points, your caps are 1,200 points of Active forces and 1,200 of Ready Reserve.

Post by **Dark Silver** » Wed May 26, 2010 6:09 pm

I'll fix.

Hadrianvs · Post by **Hadrianvs** » Fri May 28, 2010 12:55 am

Turns out that building a nation using a backstory you know next to nothing about is really, really hard. After days of research and agonizing over trivial decisions, I have the basic rubric of the Mongol Khaganate done. All that's left is buying an army and a coastal defense force. I already know what I want to do with my money and industry.

Charon · Post by **Charon** » Fri May 28, 2010 5:57 am

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 and has plenty of information on the Mongols.

Simon_Jester · Post by **Simon_Jester** » Fri May 28, 2010 8:54 am

Well, if the Bourbons aren't ready, I'll miss them, but if I have to I can rewrite my backstory around their absence.

Charon wrote: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 and has plenty of information on the Mongols.

I think she means the time between the days of the early Mongol conquests in the 1200s and the present. For the Golden Horde to have become such a dominant feudal empire in western Asia, you'd need a point of departure some time before 1450 (by which time the Golden Horde was already starting to crumble and the Muscovites were on the rise), and possibly as early as the late 13th century.

That's a big gap in the backstory to fill in, much more so than the gap for my China, which has a point of departure of around 1830-55, and no truly relevant divergences from history until 1860-65 or so.

Hadrianvs · Post by **Hadrianvs** » Fri May 28, 2010 2:17 pm

The point of departure is the 1340s. Historically the Golden Horde's power peaked during the reign of Uzbeg (after whom the Uzbeks are named). Uzbeg's third son, Jani Beg, murdered his two older brothers to seize the throne, which set off a chain of events that severely weakened the Golden Horde. In my timeline Jani Beg's trachery is discovered by Khan Tini Beg. This sparks a devastating civil war, which Tini Beg wins. Therefore murdering the Khan does not become an acceptable way to move up the line of succession. Then in the 1380s and '90s the more united Golden Horde is able to defeat the incursions of Timur the Great, albeit at great cost. Its heartland is thus not devastated nor its trade lanes disrupted.

Hadrianvs · Post by **Hadrianvs** » Sat May 29, 2010 11:26 pm

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

Charon · Post by **Charon** » Sun May 30, 2010 8:32 am

Damn, and I thought the Panama Canal was a big project.

Simon_Jester · Post by **Simon_Jester** » Sun May 30, 2010 1:15 pm

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]

Hadrianvs · Post by **Hadrianvs** » Sun May 30, 2010 3:03 pm

General Havoc, the points you have spent on active forces add up to 1412 points. You are 12 points over.

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 11:03 pm

Uh, hello? We've been in Quarter 2 1910 for almost a week now....

frigidmagi · Post by **frigidmagi** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 9:33 am

I'm sorry Steve, I got distracted. But is it already April in the game?

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 9:44 am

Yeah, turned that way last Saturday by my original timescale, though I don't mind giving an extra week so everyone can catch up.

Post by **Dark Silver** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 5:00 pm

hey hey hey

I turned in my budgets last week >.<

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