Fragmenting of an Empire- OOC Thread of wonders

[SilverLine]

Also, to everyone doing maps... YOU GUYS ARE FLIPPING AWESOME!

[Lord Monbodo]

I believe Rocket has misrepresented the Nordic armies in his latest page. Nordic levies wear very little armor of course, but those who can afford armor wear quite a lot of it. Even minor clans usually maintain at least 20 warriors armored as thanes.

[The Dark Man]

That's kind how I envisioned Nordic soldiers as well- low grade soldiers wearing the hides of seals and bears, the higher ups wearing a lot of mail and plate (mostly salvaged from the corpses of their fallen foes).

[Rocket]

My bad. I just assumed Nordic armies were basically Vikings, and that they wouldn't tend to use anything heavier than mail. I'll change it.

[The Dark Man]

My bad. I just assumed Nordic armies were basically Vikings, and that they wouldn't tend to use anything heavier than mail. I'll change it.

I don't really see anything wrong with it, myself.

[Rocket]

Would any of the lovely map people mind doing something special for Frankmark, I and I'm sure Palamon will be very grateful. We'll pay in love.

I'd be happy to do it if Auto doesn't want too.

[Automatic]

I finally finished messing around with backgrounds and stuff so now I got this enormous photoshop file. All you need to do is tell me where to put cities and if you want divide your place in counties and I can have it done in an hour or so.

Also Dark, can you tell us about our naval numbers?

[Cerrus Talbeit]

Ok, so I'm going to have a character sheet up soon, but I just need to talk to Dark Man about my character because it may or may not work.

[Mars SnR]

Looking great, guys. IC will be up tomorrow, and troop numbers will be posted today.

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And yay, troop numbahs

Troop Numbers: This is not the size of a Kingdom's army, but the max number of soldiers they can levy. Each time a faction levies an army, they must subtract the number of troops of said army from their max army (shown below). Hiring mercenaries does not subtract from your max army count, though it will cost a lot of money.

Pontetate Empire: 100,000

Ayreth: 35,000
Celland: 10,000
Frankmark: 15,000
Estradee: 20,000
Borksvto: 20,000

Nordic Empire: 45,000

Volgaland: 9,000
Jaltmalljur: 9,000
Icegale: 6,750
Ravenkrak: 13,500
Haljmaltgard: 6,750

Laodecia: 10,000

Stonehelm: 5,000

Perhaps an example is in order? Just to make sure there are no confusions.

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A 5000 maximum is just sitting there, staring at me, taunting, challenging. When I think about it, it does make sense, but seeing how Laodecia is even smaller, but can still pull out 6000 troops, even with its militant nature, perhaps a small increase is in order, maybe around 8000? It's not like Stonehelm can't afford it, I mean, and they are pretty stable overall.

It means your characters will be more valuable in other areas, such as diplomacy and perhaps espionage. You make up for in skill what you lack in numbers.

[The Dark Man]

Fie! Naval numbers have escaped my thoughts... you'll get those soon enough... and what do you mean by "an example", mars?