OK, I was reading through some people's Nation Sheets to give me an idea of what's going on in this world (I'm looking to make my own nation), and several areas of several people's sheets concern me. Now, I know it may seem as if I'm nit-picking here, but honestly, I am just trying to help. The reason I am bringing this up is because of this: [quote=HazmatMedic] 3. Keep it realistic. If your nation only has a couple of gold mines, gold will be unlikely to be a major export [/quote] Firstly, addressing gowia: I know full well that you've had requests to scale down your military, and you have done, I commend you for that, but what concerns me really is the quality of your troops' equipment. [quote=gowia] Golden steel armour, long spear, long sword and large square shield [/quote] Now, judging that we are in a time period roughly analogous to about the 1400s, let's see how much a suit of plate armour will cost circa 1470 (using the Wars of the Roses). Ther are records of one Sir John Cressy purchasing a suit of Milanese armour for himself which cost £8 6s 8d. Now, an English man-at-arms would expect to be paid approximately 12d a day, which works out as Sir John Cressy purchasing that suit of armour for 167 days' worth of payment for the man-at-arms. Now, obviously Sir Cressy was a knight and probably got a lot of money, but this highlights the sheer cost of such armour which is made on a professional level. Now, this of course assumes that you are using this: [url=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Italian_-_Sallet_-_Walters_51580.jpg] instead of what I'm thinking you might be referring to, which is munition armour. Munition armour, also called munitions-grade armour, refers to any mass-produced armour, historically stockpiled in armouries to equip both foot soldiers and mounted cuirassiers. It's by no means as protective of a man as full plate armour is, but it was used to equip armies starting from approximately the 15th century onwards, starting with the Hundred Years War and the Wars of the Roses. Munition armour is usually fairly low-quality iron armour, which is what concerns me when you say this specifically: [quote=gowia] Golden steel armour [/quote] Golden steel armour? OK, it's steel armour painted gold, but it's steel armour, which is the main thing. Munition was often made of iron or sometimes an alloy of iron containing a small amount of phosphorus, which gave a marginal increase in hardness, which causes me concern when you say 'steel' armour. Steel armour is hugely expensive and likely costs even more than iron plate armour of the time, which we know by now is prohibitively expensive to equip an army with. I question how you're able to finance and source the equipment for your army, as iron extraction and refining was a dangerous, difficult and quite a small-scale business - things such as cast iron would not come along until the 1700s with Abraham Darby, and the only reliable way of making steel was the Damascus process: taking a sheet of metal and hammering it over and over again to beat out the impurities of the 'steel'. Therefore, I would like to request that you rethink your army's equipment, as currently it stands at prohibitively expensive and quite possibly able to steamroller over almost any medieval army that was in existence at the time. And as for having a standardised professional army, that would also cost a lot more money as well - you would need to feed, clothe, and pay this army out of the treasury - such centralisation of power would not be seen for another 100 years or so, hence the medieval reliance on the levy system. I'm not saying you can't have a professional army, I'm just saying that it would be difficult to afford one at all, let alone one that you have equipped to such a standard. Furthermore, I'd like to highlight this: [quote=gowia] The land scape changes from vast metropolis of cities and towns to industrial hell holes filled with smoke. There is close to no nature in the land as it was all torn down for the advancement of the faith and it’s industry. There are occasional vast wheat plantations to try and feed more of the population than none. [/quote] Industrial hell holes filled with smoke? I fail to see how this is even achievable with medieval technology - industry in the medieval age was centred around small-scale localised craftsmen working in either their own workshops or in guilds if in a town. It was very rare to see anything approaching a 'factory', and each piece of armour, sword blade, and even arrowhead was individually hand-crafted, which would slow production and cost a lot of money, as well as prohibiting large-scale manufacture of said finished goods. Another factor in medieval 'industry' was the difficulty in transporting the finished goods from these industrial complexes that you seem to have in mind that are outside of towns. Roads in the medieval age were rutted, broken and very difficult to utilise, not to mention dangerous to travel on - it was often cheaper to send a cargo half-way around the world on a boat than it was to send it to the next city on a cart. Industry in the medieval world was carried out in towns by poor townsfolk using back-breaking manual labour - I do not envisage it being possible to even come close to a factory complex belching smoke into the air akin to those during the Age of Steam. As for Engimas: [quote=InnovativeEngimas] Capital Population: 760,000 [/quote] Whilst I'd love to entertain the possibility of another Constantinople or another Rome, I don't see it happening in the 15th century. I have done some research into this, and the largest city in the world at the time in 1400 in Europe was Paris with an estimated population of 280,000. (Source: P.M. Hoenberg & L.Hollen Lees : “The Making of Urban Europe 1000-1950” Harvard University Press 1985) Bearing in mind that France is blessed with ample amounts of arable land and had a population of between 25-30 million at the same time, whilst your capital has almost 3 times the population and half the overall population deems this quite improbable. Unless there is a very good reason as to the very high rate of urbanisation in your nation with 760,000 people in it's capital, and how you can support such a large population, it's probably a good idea to scale it down so that we don't have yearly famines. Now, that's all I can see is an issue at the current time. And no, I am not bitching for the sake of bitching, and yes, I will most likely join this RPG.