Current Year: 1207

Honourary Host: fr steve
Current Host: Taichud
Current Co-host: Popeychops
Map Makers: Popeychops, Jetkill Fastmurderer

Hi everyone! The game has begun but you can still join it!

The game starts in 1200 AD, and occures from Western Europe to Ural/Caucasus, and from Iceland to Maghreb. Here is the map:

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How to play?

• First, you must choose a nation. All coloured nations can be chosen, but you can only choose one. Some nations aren't totally independent or united but you can still choose them since they historically could have become independent during the Middle Ages and remain interesting enough to deserve to be played separately.

• You cannot choose a nation in white. The reasons are multiple: rather unexciting, not at all or almost not a united nation, no historical logic chance to forge an empire in 1200, etc.

• Once your nation is chosen, the game begins. You will be given a summary of what just happened in your nation in 1200 and useful information about it. Then, you will have to write some actions you wish to do in your nation, as if you were its ruler. These may be administrative reforms, recruitment of an army, invasion of a country, suppression of insurgency, trading, construction of a war fleet...

• Every time you do important actions, I, the Host will write the consequences of your action, which can be various. Although I'll surely be a bit subjective, these consequences will rely on historical and logical probability.

• The Host will often describe events happening in the world, like a non-playable/non-played country invading a territory or suffering from an invasion, riots happening in your country, a revolutionary invention, etc. It will be up to you to decide what to do depending on these events.

• Once enough actions are done, or if all players have done actions, a year will elapse, and new events will occure, following what happened during the new year in real history.

• The game will end:
-if the game lasts long enough to reach year 1492 (generally admitted to be the end of the Middle Ages);
-when only one religion remains and if all members of this religion aren't warring;
-when countries forming an unbreakable alliance have vanquished all other players and playable countries.

Additional rules

1) All playable nations don't require a player for the game to begin. Nevertheless, the more you are, the nicest it will be!

2) Even when the game has begun, you can still join it.

3) The Host IS the master of this game. All he says must be taken in account. However, if he makes a statement and more than 50% of players think the Host is doing wrong, he will revise his statement.

4) This game is a fun but historical game. Fun means you are not forced to follow History to perform your actions and may do things that didn't happen in history. Historical means you cannot do things that History would have never retained. This is linked to logic. For instance:
-when a battle occures, size of armies, equipment, historical tactics (if there are), etc. will be taken in account;
-when you invade a country, the might and historical context of the country you invade will also affect your invasion (religion, feeling about the invader...). This may depend on what you did before though, so the Dungeonist won't necessarily be harsh with you.

5) There are things you obviously cannot do: using anachronistic inventions, conquering a land off the map, invoking godly powers, using magic... If you doubt about the plausibility of an action while I accepted it, please tell it.

How about no technologies invented more ten years before real history?

6) If you are not sure about the plausibility of an action you wish to do, you can tell me so that I answer you or make researches about it. The Dungeonist may however not find an answer to your question.

7) You must talk in 3rd person when doing your actions, like this: 'The king does...', 'Poland sends troops over...' or even 'Der König attacks...'.

8) You must bold your actions such as I do.

9) If more than 50% of players think the game is being unfinishable, they may vote in order to end the game.

10) A defeated player may re-play as another playable nation if he wishes to.

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Now, enough rules! You can choose among the 45 coloured nations on the map. Again, remember some of them aren't united yet, so I may ask you what entity of the nation you wish to play initially (Powys in Wales, for example). It will then be your job to unite all other entities, which is easily feasible.

If you don't know where's a country or want more info about it, please tell me and I'll tell you what you need to know.

And now, let the game begins!

Players:

-den cekke: Duchy of Brabant
-Mozzarella Man: Kingdom of Poland
-HockeySam18: Kingdom of Hungary
-TheIanOakley: Bulgarian Empire
-Popeychops: Kingdom of Italy
-Julius999: Papal States
-Excelsior: Kingdom of Scotland
-Jetkill Fastmurder: Holy Roman Empire
-Sarn: Kingdom of France
-RedHandedJill: Kingdom of Aragon
-Edorix: Kingdom of Wales
-HenryCabotLodge: Livonian Brothers of the Sword
-WindchILL: Republic of Novgorod
-Mazares: Kingdom of Denmark
-Commander Scipio: Republic of Venice

[This message has been edited by Taichud (edited 03-20-2013 @ 10:38 AM).]