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Ryuuji Kurenai: 17/17 Stamina | 17/17 Reason | Location: Downtown, Ryuuji Kurenai's Home
Tatsuya Sekizawa: 17/17 Stamina | 17/17 Reason | Location: Downtown, Ryuuji Kurenai's Home
Joji Soma: 17/17 Stamina | 17/17 Reason | Location: Downtown, Ryuuji Kurenai's Home
Hanaka Yoshida: 17/17 Stamina | 17/17 Reason | Location: Downtown, Ryuuji Kurenai's Home

INTRODUCTION:

The Empire of Zhou is no more, and the region is heavily decentralized.

A Player (maximum of 12) picks a State, a Color (Red, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Orange, Silver, Purple, White, Teal, Pink, Blue, Grey), a Philosophy (Legalist, Taoist, Confucian, Mohist, Militarist) and from there, they must take control of neighbouring lands and declare their own Kingdom.

Only then can they start a campaign to reunite the lands of Han, and start a new dynasty of Emperors!

If any Player gets eliminated, they can take a different color (if still available), pick an independent State, and try their hand in the fight for the throne. You cannot start adjacent to another Player's territory if that Player has already sent orders for the current Turn.

If a Player joins later in the game, their State's Rice is increased by 2 per Turn, minus 2 (for example, if they join at Turn 3, they start with 10+(2x3)-2 = 14 Rice total)

Players cannot join/rejoin the game after Turn 5 begins.

TURN ORDER:

The turns of all Players are SIMULTANEOUS. Orders can be sent through Personal Messages to the GM (Haspen), or if you're not caring about what people see, in the game thread itself.

For your orders to be valid, they must be bolded using the forum bbcode.

A simple example of a Player's turn:

5 Rice for Defense of Tang.
5 Rice for Investing of Tang.
10 Rice for Conquest of Sui.

You cannot edit your orders once you've send the post! Think twice before posting!!

STATES, KINGDOMS, AND THE EMPIRE:

The map is divided into 70 States, each with its own name. A Player starts with one State. Note that said State can be located in a KINGDOM-type State (underlined). The only off-limits state at start is Zhou, seat of the weak and puny descendants of former Emperors.

Each Player starts with 10 Rice, which is used to support their forces when conquering and defending, and can be used to invest into states so that they generate more Rice.

To create a Kingdom, one must control a KINGDOM-type State (underlined, ZHOU also counts) plus minimum of 4 States adjacent to it, and notify the GM you want to create a Kingdom when sending your orders!

All of the KINGDOM-states have more than 4 States adjacent to them, allowing for some wiggling room when it comes for planning your diplomacy and conquests.

There's special Rice bonus for being a Kingdom: a non-State dependent +5 to your Rice count, and this bonus persists until end of the game (or your early demise).

Once you create a Kingdom, you're viable for creation of a new Empire. The process is more time- and rice-consuming than making a mere Kingdom.

IMPERIAL VICTORY:

First, you need to conquer the independent State of Zhou, where the imperial palace is located.
Second, you must control at least 6 other KINGDOM-type States: QI, ZHAO, JIN, SONG, WU, CHU, SHU or QIN.
Third, your dominion must be continuous; any gaps between your provinces (whether due to neutral states, or other Players' conquest) must be filled up with your glorious state color!

INDEPENDENT STATES:

Non-Player States will always dedicate themselves to defense of their borders, meaning that 10 Rice will always be spent on Defense. Zhou, being the capital of the former Empire, is much more developed, and has 20 Rice to spend on defense.

The independent States will never use Rice for Conquests, nor they will Invest Rice to improve their economy. Fools, all of them!

RICE AND INVESTMENTS:

Rice is used twofold; to supply soldiers fighting abroad or defending the states, or to improve the economy of the state.

If you do not dedicate any Rice to defense of a province, any opportunistic Player can simply walk their well-fed soldiers into it and automatically take control of the state!
The more Rice you dedicate for defense, the greater chances of repelling the enemy. Same with conquering your neighbours; the more Rice you set aside for the conquest, the greater chances of success.

You can also Invest your Rice in a State that you control. Each State at start lets you use 10 Rice per Turn.
For each 4 Rice Invested into a State, the State will provide you with 1 extra Rice, starting from next Turn. Partial Investments are not allowed.

Example: You have 90 Rice, and your home State, Lai, provides you with 15 Rice. If you invest half of your Rice, 45, into Lai, this will raise Lai's Rice output to 24 (15 + [45/5=9] = 24).

The maximum amount of Rice a Province can reach is 30.

CONQUESTS, DEFENSE, DEVASTATION, AND THE DIE OF WAR:

Once you decide to conquer some of your neighbours, you must know that each combat is resolved using a d10 die. You can only Conquer States adjacent to the ones you control.

Combat formula is simple: d10 + Rice = your number. If you roll higher than the opponents' defending force, you win and the State is yours!

Example: You decide to conquer State of Cheng, and dedicate 19 Rice to the task. State of Cheng can afford to dedicate only 12 Rice for defense of its borders. You roll is 4, their roll is 6. 19+4 = 23, 12+6 = 18. State of Cheng loses the fight and its lands are now yours!

If a State is attacked by more than 1 Player at once, the Rice spent on Defense is spread as equally as possible with any leftover spent against the Player with highest amount of Rice dedicated to the conquest.
If a State is defeated by more than 1 Player at once, the control of the State falls into the hands of the Player that dedicated more Rice into the State's Conquest. If Players invest same amount of Rice, then a coin toss will determine the new owner of the State.

Once a State is conquered, inevitably there will be looting, pillaging and destruction at hands of victorious soldiers. The Rice output of the State is thus HALVED, and the new owner of the pillaged land will need to re-invest into it. This can lead to Devastation:

Devastated States are those States that have 0 Rice output; it is not possible to launch attacks from Devastated States, and one must first Invest in them to be able to launch attacks from it in the next Turn.

THE SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT:

When creating your State, you must decide which School of Thought you follow; all 5 bestow certain benefits on you.

Legalist: +2 Starting Generals and General Cap; +5 Rice extra from each KINGDOM-state (including ZHOU) controlled after 1st.
Taoist: Pillaging will lower Rice of a conquered Province by 1 Rice less (to minimum of 0 Rice pillaged).
Confucian: Investing in Provinces and Recruiting a General requires 4 Rice instead of 5.
Mohist: Bonus +3 Rice when Defending (still requires at least 1 Rice to Defend); At end of a Turn, all 0 Rice Provinces ('Devastated') owned gain 1 Rice.
Military: +1 General per Turn except 1st; +2 to General Cap; Generals are guaranteed to have a Trait.

You cannot change your School during the game, so choose carefully!

THE VIRTUOUS GENERALS:

Renowned and respected leaders who can join your Armies on your Conquests and Defenses, providing bonuses (up to +3 per General!). The cost of Recruiting a General is 5 Rice; you can recruit Generals until you reach the General Cap.

You can send up to 3 Generals along with 1 Attack/Defense order, and of course you cannot send the same General to perform several tasks simultaneously. Note that the Generals provide a BONUS; meaning you can't send 3 Generals to attack or defend a Province without assigning at least 1 Rice per General sent!

There's a limit on amount of Generals you can have, and the base value is 5 Generals, increased by:
*Becoming a Kingdom: +2
*Owning Zhou, the Imperial Capital: +2
*Being a Legalist/Militarist: +2

Once you hit the limit, you cannot employ new Generals until they are dismissed or killed in action. You can dismiss Generals whilst sending your actions; however a General slated for dismissal cannot be used for Attack or Defense that Turn! A Dismissed General has 50/50 chance (Coin Toss) to either join a random Player or disappear forever.

Generals also come with their personal Trait: a random Trait is chosen when a new General is created. Possible Traits are:
*Brave: +2 Skill Levels when sent to Conquer a Province.
*Cautious: +2 Skill Levels when sent to Defend a Province.
*Elusive: Only 25% chance (2x Coin Toss, both Tails needed) to be killed when failing an Attack/Defense.
*Just: 1 Rice pillaged less when successfully conquering a Province (this stacks with Taoist bonus).
*(no trait): no bonus.

Generals can be killed; this can happen when the Attack/Defense they were assigned to fails. A Coin Toss is used to determine if your assigned General survives (Heads) or dies (Tails).

Example: You send 10 Rice and Brave General Sun Ce (SL+1+2) against State of Liao, which could only dedicate 5 Rice but was defended by Cautious General Cao Ren (SL+1+2) and Cautious General Lu Zhou (SL+1+2). With your roll of 4 and Liao's roll of 8, and adding Skill Levels of Generals, we have: 10+4+3 = 17 vs 5+8+3+3 = 19, meaning you lost the fight, and Coin Toss result is Tails, meaning General Sun Ce died during the failed Attack.

Every Player is given 3 random Generals (Legalists get 5) at start of a Game. Each General is given a Name, a Trait and a Skill Level; the latter is determined by up to 2 Coin Tosses; the first is to determine if they have Skill Level 1 (Tails) or Skill Level 2 (Heads); if the result was Heads, another Coin Toss is performed to determine if they have Skill Level 2 (Tails) or Skill Level 3 (Heads).
At start of each Turn except 1, one random Player will gain another General; you can also spend 5 Rice to Recruit an additional General, up to 5 per Turn, which will happen during the Turn Summary; you can spend extra Rice to get extra Generals. For all these extra Generals, the above rules of determining Skill Level and Traits apply.
If a Player is eliminated and he/she had any Generals left, these Generals will be distributed to all Players EXCEPT the one(s) who eliminated the Generals' previous master; if it is not possible, these Generals will disperse, never to be seen again.

THE BOUNTIES OF THE GREAT RIVER:

It flows from beyond the western borders of Han to the Eastern Sea. It separates the map into two parts.

The Great River provides two bonuses to States adjacent to it:

A) Sparse river crossings and river forts grant +5 Rice Bonus when Defending the River-adjacent Province from Attacks ACROSS the River; this stacks with Mohist bonus to Defense. For example, if you attack neutral Dun Province from Zheng, they will have 15 Rice on Defense instead of usual 10. This bonus does not apply if you have a Province that is both across the Great River AND Adjacent to the target; for example, if you attack neutral Dun Province from Chen, they won't get the bonus.
B) Ease of transporting goods and merchandise across the different States means that River-adjacent Provinces can prosper easily. Investing Rice in River-adjacent Provinces costs 1 Rice less; this stacks with Confucian bonus to Investments.

INTRODUCTION:

The Yamato are weak, and the government is heavily decentralized.

A Player (maximum of 12) picks a non-Barbarian Province, a Color (Red, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Orange, Silver, Purple, White, Teal, Pink, Blue, Grey) and from there, they must take control of neighbouring lands, depose the corrupt government officials, establish a new capital and reunite Japan!

If any Player gets eliminated, they can take a different color (if still available), pick an independent Province, and try their hand in the fight for the throne. You cannot start adjacent to another Player's territory if that Player has already sent orders for the current Turn.

If a Player joins later in the game, their Province's Rice is increased by 2 per Turn, minus 2 (for example, if they join at Turn 3, they start with 10+(2x3)-2 = 14 Rice total)

Players cannot join/rejoin the game after Turn 5 begins.

TURN ORDER:

The turns of all Players are SIMULTANEOUS. Orders can be sent through Personal Messages to the GM (Haspen), or if you're not caring about what people see, in the game thread itself.

For your orders to be valid, they must be bolded using the forum bbcode.

A simple example of a Player's turn:

5 Rice for Defense of Shima.
5 Rice for Investing of Shima.
10 Rice for Conquest of Ise.

You cannot edit your orders once you've send the post! Think twice before posting!!

PROVINCES OF THE YAMATO:

The map is divided into 69 Provinces, each with its own name. A Player starts with one Province. The only off-limits state at start is Yamato, seat of the corrupt government officials currently in nominal power.

Each Player starts with 10 Rice, which is used to support their forces when conquering and defending, and can be used to invest into states so that they generate more Rice.

There are numerous Provinces that, due to coastal proximity, are considered adjacent to each other despite having water between them. Such adjacency is denoted on the Map with black lines.

IMPERIAL VICTORY:

First, you need to conquer 35 Provinces, including Yamato.
Second, you need to bring one of your Provinces to 30 Rice; this Province cannot be Islands or fully Mountainous (thus Tane, Iki, Tsushima, Oki, Sado, Iga, Hida, Shinano and Kai are disqualified).
Third, your dominion must be continuous; any gaps between your provinces (whether due to neutral states, or other Players' conquest) must be filled up with your glorious state color!

INDEPENDENT PROVINCES:

Non-Player Provinces will always dedicate themselves to defense of their borders, meaning that 10 Rice will always be spent on Defense. Yamato, being the capital of the former Empire, is much more developed, and has 20 Rice to spend on defense.

There are two Barbarian tribes - Emishi in northeast, and Hayato in southwest. Their provinces are slightly discolored compared to other Independents, and CANNOT be chosen by a Player as their Starting Province.

Yamato Independents are followers of Shinto religion, therefore receive +5 Defense bonus against attacks from across any Mountains. Hayato Provinces have 7 Rice, while Emishi Provinces have 13 Rice. Both follow their own folk beliefs, thus do not receive Shinto bonus to Mountain defense.

The independent Provinces will never use Rice for Conquests, nor they will Invest Rice to improve their economy. Fools, all of them!

RICE AND INVESTMENTS:

Rice is used twofold; to supply soldiers fighting abroad or defending the states, or to improve the economy of the state.

If you do not dedicate any Rice to defense of a province, any opportunistic Player can simply walk their well-fed soldiers into it and automatically take control of the state!
The more Rice you dedicate for defense, the greater chances of repelling the enemy. Same with conquering your neighbours; the more Rice you set aside for the conquest, the greater chances of success.

You can also Invest your Rice in a Province that you control. Each Province at start lets you use 10 Rice per Turn.
For each 5 Rice Invested into a Province, the Province will provide you with 1 extra Rice, starting from next Turn. Partial Investments are not allowed.

Example: You have 90 Rice, and your home Province, Hizen, provides you with 15 Rice. If you invest half of your Rice, 45, into Hizen, this will raise Hizen's Rice output to 24 (15 + [45/5=9] = 24).

The maximum amount of Rice a Province can reach is 30; such Provinces, if not fully Mountainous or Island, are marked with a tiny * on the map (required for Imperial Victory).

CONQUESTS, DEFENSE, DEVASTATION, AND THE DIE OF WAR:

Once you decide to conquer some of your neighbours, you must know that each combat is resolved using a d10 die. You can only Conquer Provinces adjacent to the ones you control.

Combat formula is simple: d10 + Rice = your number. If you roll higher than the opponents' defending force, you win and the State is yours!

Example: You decide to conquer State of Noto, and dedicate 19 Rice to the task. State of Noto can afford to dedicate only 12 Rice for defense of its borders. You roll is 4, their roll is 6. 19+4 = 23, 12+6 = 18. State of Noto loses the fight and its lands are now yours!

If a State is attacked by more than 1 Player at once, the Rice spent on Defense is spread as equally as possible with any leftover spent against the Player with highest amount of Rice dedicated to the conquest.
If a State is defeated by more than 1 Player at once, the control of the State falls into the hands of the Player that dedicated more Rice into the State's Conquest. If Players invest same amount of Rice, then a coin toss will determine the new owner of the State.

Once a State is conquered, inevitably there will be looting, pillaging and destruction at hands of victorious soldiers. The Rice output of the State is thus HALVED, and the new owner of the pillaged land will need to re-invest into it. This can lead to Devastation:

Devastated States are those States that have 0 Rice output; it is not possible to launch attacks from Devastated States, and one must first Invest in them to be able to launch attacks from it in the next Turn.

HOUSEHOLD SPIRITUALITY:

The ambitious Lords wanting to restore the unified Japan need to follow a spiritual path that guides their actions and morals. Shinto, the animistic belief in millions of Kami is traditional religion of Yamato; however, in recent decades Buddhism has taken roots, therefore allowing a Lord to choose:

Shinto: Investing in Provinces costs 1 Rice less. Mountain Defense Bonus increased by +5.
Buddhism: +2 Bonus to Foreign Trade Roll. Pillaging will lower Rice of a conquered Province by 1 Rice less (to minimum of 0 Rice pillaged).

You cannot change your spiritual path after you join the game.

THE BEAUTY OF MOUNTAINS:

The archipelago of Yamato is very mountainous; indeed, there's very few plains and rivers to traverse, forcing any strategist to rely on available passes and chokepoints.

Any Defense fielded against an Attack sent across Mountains gets an automatic +5 bonus (this bonus applies to both Player and Independent Provinces; following Shinto religion boosts this bonus to +10 total).

Note however, that if the Defending Province has a non-Mountain border with Attacker's Province, the Mountain bonus is negated, as it is assumed the Attacker simply takes the easier route in.

TRADING NEAR AND FAR:

If you are adjacent to another Player by sharing a land border or maximum are 5 Provinces apart along the Coastline, you can establish a Trade Route with them. This requires both Players to declare establishing a Trade Route with each other through the commands they send.

A Trade Route provides +5 Rice to both Players, and prevents the two Players from attacking each other. Players who have a Trade Route can swap Provinces at 1:1 ratio, provided the Provinces are be adjacent to the Receiving Players (for example, you cannot give away Mutsu if your trade partner isn't adjacent to it, and vice versa).

As with establishing a Trade Route, a Province Swap occurs if both Players declare the swap with each other through the commands they send.

To stop trading, simply notify the GM about your wish to do so when sending orders. (remember to specify which trade route you wish to cancel if you have several!)

You can also trade with distant lands of Silla and Tang, provided you own a Province adjacent to the western seas (any Province from Dewa to Satsuma counts). However, these distant lands have their own rulers and governors, which need to be 'persuaded' with gifts to open trade.

These gifts are equivalents of 10 Rice; once you send it, a 1d8 Roll occurs, which is the amount of Rice you shall receive from Foreign Trade from next Turn onwards. If you're unsatisfied with the amount, send another gift package, and the roll will be redone (higher result prevails). Buddhists, being foreigners, grant you +2 Bonus to this roll.

INTRODUCTION:

The Yamato are weak, and the government is heavily decentralized.

A Player (maximum of 12) picks a Province, a Color (Red, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Orange, Silver, Purple, White, Teal, Pink, Blue, Grey) and from there, they must take control of neighbouring lands, depose the corrupt government officials, establish a new capital and reunite Japan!

If any Player gets eliminated, they can take a different color (if still available), pick an independent Province, and try their hand in the fight for the throne. You cannot start adjacent to another Player's territory if that Player has already sent orders for the current Turn.

If a Player joins later in the game, their Province's Rice is increased by 2 per Turn, minus 2 (for example, if they join at Turn 3, they start with 10+(2x3)-2 = 14 Rice total)

Players cannot join/rejoin the game after Turn 5 begins.

TURN ORDER:

The turns of all Players are SIMULTANEOUS. Orders can be sent through Personal Messages to the GM (Haspen), or if you're not caring about what people see, in the game thread itself.

For your orders to be valid, they must be bolded using the forum bbcode.

A simple example of a Player's turn:

5 Rice for Defense of Shima.
5 Rice for Investing of Shima.
10 Rice for Conquest of Ise.

You cannot edit your orders once you've send the post! Think twice before posting!!

PROVINCES OF THE YAMATO:

The map is divided into 64 Provinces, each with its own name. A Player starts with one Province. The only off-limits state at start is Yamato, seat of the corrupt government officials currently in nominal power.

Each Player starts with 10 Rice, which is used to support their forces when conquering and defending, and can be used to invest into states so that they generate more Rice.

There are numerous Provinces that, due to coastal proximity, are considered adjacent to each other despite having water between them. Such adjacency is denoted on the Map with black lines.

IMPERIAL VICTORY:

First, you need to conquer 33 Provinces, including Yamato.
Second, you need to bring one of your Provinces to 30 Rice; this Province cannot be fully Mountainous (thus Iga, Hida, Shinano and Kai are disqualified).
Third, your dominion must be continuous; any gaps between your provinces (whether due to neutral states, or other Players' conquest) must be filled up with your glorious state color!

INDEPENDENT PROVINCES:

Non-Player Provinces will always dedicate themselves to defense of their borders, meaning that 10 Rice will always be spent on Defense. Yamato, being the capital of the former Empire, is much more developed, and has 20 Rice to spend on defense.

All Independents are followers of Shinto religion, therefore receive +5 Defense bonus against attacks from across any Mountains.

The independent Provinces will never use Rice for Conquests, nor they will Invest Rice to improve their economy. Fools, all of them!

RICE AND INVESTMENTS:

Rice is used twofold; to supply soldiers fighting abroad or defending the states, or to improve the economy of the state.

If you do not dedicate any Rice to defense of a province, any opportunistic Player can simply walk their well-fed soldiers into it and automatically take control of the state!
The more Rice you dedicate for defense, the greater chances of repelling the enemy. Same with conquering your neighbours; the more Rice you set aside for the conquest, the greater chances of success.

You can also Invest your Rice in a Province that you control. Each Province at start lets you use 10 Rice per Turn.
For each 5 Rice Invested into a Province, the Province will provide you with 1 extra Rice, starting from next Turn. Partial Investments are not allowed.

Example: You have 90 Rice, and your home Province, Hizen, provides you with 15 Rice. If you invest half of your Rice, 45, into Hizen, this will raise Hizen's Rice output to 24 (15 + [45/5=9] = 24).

The maximum amount of Rice a Province can reach is 30; such Provinces are marked with a tiny * on the map.

CONQUESTS, DEFENSE, DEVASTATION, AND THE DIE OF WAR:

Once you decide to conquer some of your neighbours, you must know that each combat is resolved using a d10 die. You can only Conquer Provinces adjacent to the ones you control.

Combat formula is simple: d10 + Rice = your number. If you roll higher than the opponents' defending force, you win and the State is yours!

Example: You decide to conquer State of Noto, and dedicate 19 Rice to the task. State of Noto can afford to dedicate only 12 Rice for defense of its borders. You roll is 4, their roll is 6. 19+4 = 23, 12+6 = 18. State of Noto loses the fight and its lands are now yours!

If a State is attacked by more than 1 Player at once, the Rice spent on Defense is spread as equally as possible with any leftover spent against the Player with highest amount of Rice dedicated to the conquest.
If a State is defeated by more than 1 Player at once, the control of the State falls into the hands of the Player that dedicated more Rice into the State's Conquest. If Players invest same amount of Rice, then a coin toss will determine the new owner of the State.

Once a State is conquered, inevitably there will be looting, pillaging and destruction at hands of victorious soldiers. The Rice output of the State is thus HALVED, and the new owner of the pillaged land will need to re-invest into it. This can lead to Devastation:

Devastated States are those States that have 0 Rice output; it is not possible to launch attacks from Devastated States, and one must first Invest in them to be able to launch attacks from it in the next Turn.

HOUSEHOLD SPIRITUALITY:

The ambitious Lords wanting to restore the unified Japan need to follow a spiritual path that guides their actions and morals. Shinto, the animistic belief in millions of Kami is traditional religion of Yamato; however, in recent decades Buddhism has taken roots, therefore allowing a Lord to choose:

Shinto: Investing in Provinces costs 1 Rice less. Mountain Defense Bonus increased by +5.
Buddhism: +2 Bonus to Foreign Trade Roll. Pillaging will lower Rice of a conquered Province by 1 Rice less (to minimum of 0 Rice pillaged).

You cannot change your spiritual path after you join the game.

THE BEAUTY OF MOUNTAINS:

The archipelago of Yamato is very mountainous; indeed, there's very few plains and rivers to traverse, forcing any strategist to rely on available passes and chokepoints.

Any Defense fielded against an Attack sent across Mountains gets an automatic +5 bonus (this bonus applies to both Player and Independent Provinces; following Shinto religion boosts this bonus to +10).

Note however, that if the Defending Province has a non-Mountain border with Attacker's Province, the Mountain bonus is negated, as it is assumed the Attacker simply takes the easier route in.

TRADING NEAR AND FAR:

If you are adjacent to another Player by sharing a land border or maximum are 5 Provinces apart along the Coastline, you can establish a Trade Route with them. This requires both Players to declare establishing a Trade Route with each other through the commands they send.

A Trade Route provides +5 Rice to both Players, and prevents the two Players from attacking each other.

To stop trading, simply notify the GM about your wish to do so when sending orders. (remember to specify which trade route you wish to cancel if you have several!)

You can also trade with distant lands of Silla and Tang, provided you own a Province adjacent to the western seas (any Province from Dewa to Satsuma counts). However, these distant lands have their own rulers and governors, which need to be 'persuaded' with gifts to open trade.

These gifts are equivalents of 10 Rice; once you send it, a 1d8 Roll occurs, which is the amount of Rice you shall receive from Foreign Trade from next Turn onwards. If you're unsatisfied with the amount, send another gift package, and the roll will be redone (higher result prevails). Buddhists, being foreigners, grant you +2 Bonus to this roll.

INTRODUCTION:

The Yamato are weak, and the government is heavily decentralized.

A Player (maximum of 12) picks a Province, a Color (Red, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Orange, Silver, Purple, White, Teal, Pink, Blue, Grey) and from there, they must take control of neighbouring lands, depose the corrupt government officials, establish a new capital and reunite Japan!

If any Player gets eliminated, they can take a different color (if still available), pick an independent Province, and try their hand in the fight for the throne. You cannot start adjacent to another Player's territory if that Player has already sent orders for the current Turn.

If a Player joins later in the game, their Province's Rice is increased by 2 per Turn, minus 2 (for example, if they join at Turn 3, they start with 10+(2x3)-2 = 14 Rice total)

Players cannot join/rejoin the game after Turn 5 begins.

TURN ORDER:

The turns of all Players are SIMULTANEOUS. Orders can be sent through Personal Messages to the GM (Haspen), or if you're not caring about what people see, in the game thread itself.

For your orders to be valid, they must be bolded using the forum bbcode.

A simple example of a Player's turn:

5 Rice for Defense of Shima.
5 Rice for Investing of Shima.
10 Rice for Conquest of Ise.

You cannot edit your orders once you've send the post! Think twice before posting!!

PROVINCES OF THE YAMATO:

The map is divided into 63 Provinces, each with its own name. A Player starts with one Province. The only off-limits state at start is Yamato, seat of the corrupt government officials currently in nominal power.

Each Player starts with 10 Rice, which is used to support their forces when conquering and defending, and can be used to invest into states so that they generate more Rice.

There are numerous Provinces that, due to coastal proximity, are considered adjacent to each other despite having water between them. Such adjacency is denoted on the Map with black lines.

IMPERIAL VICTORY:

First, you need to conquer 32 Provinces, including Yamato.
Second, you need to bring one of your Provinces to 30 Rice; this Province cannot be fully Mountainous (thus Iga, Hida, Shinano and Kai are disqualified).
Third, your dominion must be continuous; any gaps between your provinces (whether due to neutral states, or other Players' conquest) must be filled up with your glorious state color!

HEGEMONIC VICTORY:

Sometimes 2 or more Provinces are simply too strong to find a 'true' ruler of the Yamato. To resolve the game without making it an endless string of Turns, the game is stopped after End of Turn 20.

Player with highest Rice owned multiplied by amount of Provinces they own is declared the winner, without taking Imperial Victory requirements into consideration.

INDEPENDENT PROVINCES:

Non-Player Provinces will always dedicate themselves to defense of their borders, meaning that 10 Rice will always be spent on Defense. Yamato, being the capital of the former Empire, is much more developed, and has 20 Rice to spend on defense.

All Independents are followers of Shinto religion, therefore receive +5 Defense bonus against attacks from across any Mountains.

The independent Provinces will never use Rice for Conquests, nor they will Invest Rice to improve their economy. Fools, all of them!

RICE AND INVESTMENTS:

Rice is used twofold; to supply soldiers fighting abroad or defending the states, or to improve the economy of the state.

If you do not dedicate any Rice to defense of a province, any opportunistic Player can simply walk their well-fed soldiers into it and automatically take control of the state!
The more Rice you dedicate for defense, the greater chances of repelling the enemy. Same with conquering your neighbours; the more Rice you set aside for the conquest, the greater chances of success.

You can also Invest your Rice in a Province that you control. Each Province at start lets you use 10 Rice per Turn.
For each 5 Rice Invested into a Province, the Province will provide you with 1 extra Rice, starting from next Turn. Partial Investments are not allowed.

Example: You have 90 Rice, and your home Province, Hizen, provides you with 15 Rice. If you invest half of your Rice, 45, into Hizen, this will raise Hizen's Rice output to 24 (15 + [45/5=9] = 24).

The maximum amount of Rice a Province can reach is 30.

CONQUESTS, DEFENSE, DEVASTATION, AND THE DIE OF WAR:

Once you decide to conquer some of your neighbours, you must know that each combat is resolved using a d10 die. You can only Conquer Provinces adjacent to the ones you control.

Combat formula is simple: d10 + Rice = your number. If you roll higher than the opponents' defending force, you win and the State is yours!

Example: You decide to conquer State of Noto, and dedicate 19 Rice to the task. State of Noto can afford to dedicate only 12 Rice for defense of its borders. You roll is 4, their roll is 6. 19+4 = 23, 12+6 = 18. State of Noto loses the fight and its lands are now yours!

If a State is attacked by more than 1 Player at once, the Rice spent on Defense is spread as equally as possible with any leftover spent against the Player with highest amount of Rice dedicated to the conquest.
If a State is defeated by more than 1 Player at once, the control of the State falls into the hands of the Player that dedicated more Rice into the State's Conquest. If Players invest same amount of Rice, then a coin toss will determine the new owner of the State.

Once a State is conquered, inevitably there will be looting, pillaging and destruction at hands of victorious soldiers. The Rice output of the State is thus HALVED, and the new owner of the pillaged land will need to re-invest into it. This can lead to Devastation:

Devastated States are those States that have 0 Rice output; it is not possible to launch attacks from Devastated States, and one must first Invest in them to be able to launch attacks from it in the next Turn.

HOUSEHOLD SPIRITUALITY:

The ambitious Lords wanting to restore the unified Japan need to follow a spiritual path that guides their actions and morals. Shinto, the animistic belief in millions of Kami is traditional religion of Yamato; however, in recent decades Buddhism has taken roots, therefore allowing a Lord to choose:

Shinto: Investing in Provinces costs 1 Rice less. Mountain Defense Bonus increased to +5.
Buddhism: +2 Bonus to Foreign Trade Roll. Pillaging will lower Rice of a conquered Province by 1 Rice less (to minimum of 0 Rice pillaged). Devastated Provinces will recover 1 Rice at start of the next Turn.

You cannot change your spiritual path after you join the game.

THE BEAUTY OF MOUNTAINS:

The archipelago of Yamato is very mountainous; indeed, there's very few plains and rivers to traverse, forcing any strategist to rely on available passes and chokepoints.

Any Defense fielded against an Attack sent across Mountains gets an automatic +3 bonus (this bonus applies to both Player and Independent Provinces; following Shinto religion boosts this bonus to +5).

Note however, that if the Defending Province has a non-Mountain border with Attacker's Province, the Mountain bonus is negated, as it is assumed the Attacker simply takes the easier route in.

TRADING NEAR AND FAR:

If you are adjacent to another Player by sharing a land border or maximum are 5 Provinces apart along the Coastline, you can establish a Trade Route with them. This requires both Players to declare establishing a Trade Route with each other through the commands they send.

A Trade Route provides +5 Rice to both Players, and prevents the two Players from attacking each other.

To stop trading, simply notify the GM about your wish to do so when sending orders. (remember to specify which trade route you wish to cancel if you have several!)

You can also trade with distant lands of Silla and Tang, provided you own a Province adjacent to the western seas (any Province from Dewa to Satsuma counts). However, these distant lands have their own rulers and governors, which need to be 'persuaded' with gifts to open trade.

These gifts are equivalents of 10 Rice; once you send it, a 1d8 Roll occurs, which is the amount of Rice you shall receive from Foreign Trade from next Turn onwards. If you're unsatisfied with the amount, send another gift package, and the roll will be redone (higher result prevails). Buddhists, being foreigners, grant you +2 Bonus to this roll.

INTRODUCTION:

A Player (maximum of 12) picks a State, a Color (Red, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Orange, Silver, Purple, White, Teal, Pink, Blue, Grey), creates their King (read below!) and from there, they must take control of neighbouring lands and declare their own Kingdom.

Only then can they start a campaign to unite the lands of Generia, discover the sacred Stone Circles and survive The End!

If any Player gets eliminated, another can take their color, pick an independent State, and try their hand in the fight.

PLAYER KINGS:

When creating your State, you need to make a King; he needs a Name and a Positive Trait.
He also has Command Value (CV) randomly set between 1 and 3; you can assign your King to personally Lead an Attack or Defense to increase the roll result by that value.
If the Attack/Defense they were Leading fails, a Coin Toss is used to determine what happens; on Heads, your King returns home; on Tails, he dies.
Also, every Turn, a Coin Toss is made; if its Tails, a randomly chosen King dies 'of natural causes' and a new one is immediately created for the Player; these randomly generated Kings have 1 Positive Trait and 50% chance (via Coin Toss) to get 1 extra Trait, which can be Positive or Negative.

King's Traits (positive/negative, mutually exclusive listed in pairs):
Arcanist/-: +3 Grain for each owned Stone Circle.
Beastslayer/-: +5 to Attack rolls vs monsters.
Conqueror/Weak: +2/-2 to all Attack rolls.
Defender/Unprepared: +2/-2 to all Defense rolls.
Frugal/Hedonist: -1/+1 Grain required when Investing.
Just/Cruel: Pillaging lowers Grain by 1 less/Pillaging lowers Grain by 1 extra.
Rich/-: +5 Grain score.
Sailor/-: Naval Attacks cost 5 Grain less.
Shrewd/-: Extra +3 Grain from Trade Routes.
Unifier/-: +3 to Attack rolls against NPCs (starting Region only).
Warrior/Coward: King CV is increased by 2/King cannot personally Attack or Defend.

TURN ORDER:

The turns of all Players are SIMULTANEOUS. Orders can be sent through Personal Messages to the GM (Haspen), or if you're not caring about what people see, in the game thread itself.

For your orders to be valid, they must be bolded using the forum bbcode.

A simple example of a Player's turn:

5 Grain to Defend Chausis.
5 Grain to Invest in Chausis.
10 Grain to Conquer Frisis.

You cannot edit your orders once you've send the post! Think twice before posting!!

STATES, KINGDOMS, EMPIRES:

The map is divided into 74 States, each with its own name. A Player starts with one State.

Your starting State gains the special Capital modifier; Investing in this State costs 1 Grain less, and Defending it gets +5 Grain bonus. You can move your Capital to another State you own by 'spending' 20 Grain; if your Capital has been captured, you can declare a new one for free.

Each Player starts with 10 Grain, which is used to support their forces when conquering and defending, and can be used to invest into states so that they generate more Grain.

You State can be further expanded to become a Kingdom, and from there, an Empire.

To create a Kingdom, you must own 4 States. Once that is fulfilled, inform the GM about your decision to create a Kingdom. Becoming a Kingdom will grant you a +5 Grain bonus, independent from your States' Grain.
To create an Empire, you must have a Kingdom, own 10 States, and have at least 100 Total Grain (this includes Kingdom bonus, trade gains, Rich modifier etc). Becoming an Empire will upgrade your Grain bonus to +10.

Once your State becomes a Kingdom or an Empire, you will never lose the bonus Grain, even if you no longer fulfill the requirements.

THE SACRED STONE CIRCLES:

There are 7 Sacred Stone Circles located somewhere on the map; location of 1 of them will be shown at start of the game (in random NPC state). Owning Stone Circles is vital to survival of your population during The End!

To discover the remaining 6, you must sponsor an Expedition(s) to find them. Each Expedition targets 1 State, but nothing stops you from sending several Expeditions to search several States in the same Turn.

An Expedition 'costs' 10 Grain. Results will be described at start of the next Turn; States where a Circle was found will be marked with an 'o', those without a Circle in them will be marked with an 'x'.

THE EVENTS HERALDING THE COMING OF THE END:

There's almost 30 different, horrific Events that can take place; some target a Player's King, one or entirety of their States, and some affect the entirety of the continent.

Each Turn, starting from the 2nd, one pre-rolled Horrible Event will take place. These might reduce your Grain, spawn horrific monsters, add an eldritch monument, mess with the Map, or more!

Some modifiers gained by Events can be removed and will be noted as such, all you have to do is 'spend' the required amount of Grain; some go away on their own, but their duration will NOT be noted down. Good luck!

THE END AND THE VICTORY:

After Turn 20, a great calamity known simply as 'The End' shall befall Generia, obliterating those unprepared for it. Players who do not own at least 1 Stone Circle are inelligible for Victory!

The game is concluded after The End, and Players are allocated score according to this table:

1 point for each 1 Grain in every Province.
5 points for each owned Province.
50 points for each owned Stone Circle after the 1st.

Example: You own 7 Provinces, which have 118 Grain amongst them, and you have 2 Stone Circles total. Your point tally is thusly: (7x5=)35 + 118 + 50 = 203 Points.

The Player who has the highest score is declared the winner.

INDEPENDENT STATES:

Non-Player States will always dedicate themselves to defense of their borders, meaning that 10 Grain will always be spent on Defense.

The independent States will never use Grain for Conquests, nor they will Invest Grain to improve their economy. Fools, all of them!

GRAIN AND INVESTMENTS:

Grain is used twofold; to supply soldiers fighting abroad or defending the states, or to improve the economy of the state.

If you do not dedicate any Grain to defense of a province, any opportunistic Player can simply walk their well-fed soldiers into it and automatically take control of the state!
The more Grain you dedicate for defense, the greater chances of repelling the enemy. Same with conquering your neighbours; the more Grain you set aside for the conquest, the greater chances of success.

You can also Invest your Grain in a State that you control. Each State at start lets you use 10 Grain per Turn.
For each 5 Grain Invested into a State, the State will provide you with 1 extra Grain, starting from next Turn.

Example: You have 90 Grain, and your home State, Thracia, provides you with 15 Grain. If you invest half of your Grain, 45, into Thracia, this will raise Thracia's Grain output to 24 (15 + [45/5=9] = 24).

The maximum amount of Grain a Province can reach is 30.

CONQUESTS, DEFENSE, AND THE DIE OF WAR:

Once you decide to conquer some of your neighbours, you must know that each combat is resolved using a d10 die. You can only Conquer States adjacent to the ones you control (or across Seas, look into paragraph below).

Combat formula is simple: d10 + Grain = your number. If you roll higher than the opponents' defending force, you win and the State is yours!

HOWEVER! The maximum of Grain you can dedicate to a single Attack or Defense command is 30.

Example: You decide to conquer State of Saxon, and dedicate 19 Grain to the task. State of Saxon can afford to dedicate only 12 Grain for defense of its borders. You roll is 6, their roll is 4. 19+6 = 25, 12+4 = 16. State of Saxon loses the fight and its lands are now yours!

If a State is attacked by more than 1 Player at once, the Grain spent on Defense is spread as equally as possible with any leftover spent against the Player with highest amount of Grain dedicated to the conquest.
If a State is defeated by more than 1 Player at once, the control of the State falls into the hands of the Player that dedicated more 'raw' Grain into the State's Conquest. In case of draws, a Coin Toss decides the victor.

Once a State is conquered, inevitably there will be looting, pillaging and destruction at hands of victorious soldiers. The Grain output of the State is thus HALVED, and the new owner of the devastated land will need to re-invest into it. This can lead to Devastation:

Devastated States are those States that have 0 Grain output; it is not possible to launch attacks from Devastated States, and one must first Invest in them to be able to launch attacks from it in the next Turn.

TRADE ROUTES:

If you are adjacent to another Player by sharing a land border or across a Sea, you can establish a Trade Route with them. This requires both Players to declare establishing a Trade Route with each other through the commands they send.

A Trade Route provides +5 Grain to both Players' counts, and prevents the two Players from attacking each other.

To stop trading, simply notify the GM about your wish to do so when sending orders. (remember to specify which trade route you wish to cancel if you have several!)

THE SCARY SEAS OF BRITTANIA THAT IS NOT BRITTANIA:

Seas are numbered 1 to 8, allowing launching attacks between Generia, Island Archipelago in the north, and Insular Peninsula in the south. Oversea conquest require preparations and preparations require extra Grain; to launch an attack across a sea, you must spend extra 5 Grain on the attack.

Note that this requirement is NOT in effect if you have a land state adjacent to the target - then its assumed your attack simply comes through that land state instead.

Example: You own Ponte on the peninsula, and decide to attack Lusania on the continent, and spend 15 Grain on this attack. This means only 10 Grain will be used to attack Lusania, while 5 Grain will be spent on 'preparations'.

INTRODUCTION:

A Player (maximum of 12) picks a State, a Color (Red, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Orange, Silver, Purple, White, Teal, Pink, Blue, Grey), creates their King (read below!) and from there, they must take control of neighbouring lands and declare their own Kingdom.

Only then can they start a campaign to reunite the lands of Brittania, and forge a new Empire!

If any Player gets eliminated, another can take their color, pick an independent State, and try their hand in the fight for the throne.

PLAYER KINGS:

When creating your State, you need to make a King; he needs a Name and a Positive Trait.
He also has Command Value (CV) randomly set between 1 and 3; you can assign your King to personally Lead an Attack or Defense to increase the roll result by that value.
If the Attack/Defense they were Leading fails, a Coin Toss is used to determine what happens; on Heads, your King returns home; on Tails, he dies.
Also, every Turn, a Coin Toss is made; if its Tails, a randomly chosen King dies 'of natural causes' and a new one is immediately created for the Player; these randomly generated Kings have 1 Positive Trait and 50% chance (via Coin Toss) to get 1 extra Trait, which can be Positive or Negative.

King's Traits (positive/negative, mutually exclusive listed in pairs):
Conqueror/Weak: +2/-2 to all Attack rolls.
Defender/Unprepared: +2/-2 to all Defense rolls.
Frugal/Hedonist: -1/+1 Grain required when Investing.
Just/Cruel: Pillaging lowers Grain by 1 less/Pillaging lowers Grain by 1 extra.
Rich/-: +5 Grain score.
Sailor/-: No Grain cost for Attacks across Seas.
Shrewd/-: Extra +3 Grain from Trade Routes.
Unifier/-: +3 to Attack rolls against NPCs (starting Region only).
Warrior/Coward: Doubles CV value of King/King cannot personally Attack or Defend.

English names: Alfred, Aethelred, Aethelstan, Aethelwulf, Eadred, Eadwig, Ecbert, Edmund, Edward
Irish names: Aed, Brian, Congalach, Diarmait, Domnall, Donnchad, Flann, Mael Sechnaill, Muirchertach, Niall, Toirdelbach
Northumbrian names: Aelfwald, Aethelred, Alhred, Ceolwulf, Coenred, Eadberht, Eanred, Eardwulf, Egfrith, Osberht, Osric, Osred, Oswiu, Oswulf
Scottish names: Aed, Causantin, Cinaed, Cuillen, Domnall, Dubh, Eochaid, Giric, Ildulb, Mael Coluim
Welsh names: Aeddan, Anarawd, Cadell, Cynan, Geraint, Gruffyd, Hywel, Llywelyn, Owain, Rhodri

TURN ORDER:

The turns of all Players are SIMULTANEOUS. Orders can be sent through Personal Messages to the GM (Haspen), or if you're not caring about what people see, in the game thread itself.

For your orders to be valid, they must be bolded using the forum bbcode.

A simple example of a Player's turn:

5 Grain to Defend Essex.
5 Grain to Invest in Essex.
10 Grain to Conquer Kent.

You cannot edit your orders once you've send the post! Think twice before posting!!

STATES, KINGDOMS, HIGH KINGDOMS, AND THE EMPIRE:

The map is divided into 81 States, each with its own name. A Player starts with one State. Note that said State can be located in a KINGDOM-type State (underlined).

Your starting State gains the special Capital modifier; Investing in this State costs 1 Grain less, and Defending it gets +5 Grain bonus. You can move your Capital to another State you own by 'spending' 20 Grain; if your Capital has been captured, you can declare a new one for free.

Each Player starts with 10 Grain, which is used to support their forces when conquering and defending, and can be used to invest into states so that they generate more Grain.

To create a Kingdom, one must control a KINGDOM-type State (underlined) plus minimum of 3 States adjacent to it. Some of the KINGDOM-states have more than 3 States adjacent to them, allowing for some wiggling room when it comes for planning your diplomacy and conquests.
Two special cases are The Isles and Galaibh; the first is considered adjacent to Ross, and the second to Moirebh, for purposes of KINGDOM-making. These connections have been noted on map with dotted lines across the seas.

There's special Grain bonus for being a Kingdom: a non-State dependent +5 to your Grain count, and this bonus persists until end of the game (or your early demise).

Once you create a Kingdom, you might want to create High Kingdom, which upgrades your Grain bonus to +10 and grants your nation a new name:
High Kingdom of England requires you to hold 10 Provinces in England, including 3 of these: NORFOLK, WESSEX, ESSEX, MERCIA.
High Kingdom of Ireland requires you to hold 10 Provinces in Ireland, including 3 of these: UI NEILL, CONNACHTA, MUMHAN, LAIGHIN.
High Kingdom of Northumbria requries you to hold 10 Provinces in Northumbria, including DEIRA, BERNICIA and LONCASTRE.
High Kingdom of Scotland requires you to hold 10 Provinces in Scotland, including 3 of these: ROSS, MOIREBH, FIFE and STRATHCLYDE.
High Kingdom of Wales requires you to hold 10 Provinces in Wales, including GWYNEDD, GWENT and DEVON.
Once a High Kingdom is created, another Player can take the title if they manage to push the current High Kingdom out of the required Provinces.
HOWEVER, a High Kingdom cannot create or take over another High Kingdom (example: High Kingdom of Wales cannot become High Kingdom of England, even if they own the necessary lands).

Your main goal, however, is to create the Empire of Britannia. There are two requirements for this:

First, you must control at least 12 KINGDOM-type States, out of total of 18: NORFOLK, WESSEX, ESSEX, MERCIA, DEIRA, BERNICIA, LANCASTER, DEVON, GWENT, GWYNEDD, STRATHCLYDE, FIFE, MOIREBH, ROSS, UI NEILL, CONNACHTA, MUMHAN, LAIGHIN.
Second, your dominion must be continuous; Provinces across Seas are treated as connected.

If no Player fulfills these objectives by end of Turn 20, game ends via Economic Victory; Grain from your States only is multiplied by amount of KINGDOM-type States you own. The Player with highest score is declared winner.

INDEPENDENT STATES:

Non-Player States will always dedicate themselves to defense of their borders, meaning that 10 Grain will always be spent on Defense.

The independent States will never use Grain for Conquests, nor they will Invest Grain to improve their economy. Fools, all of them!

GRAIN AND INVESTMENTS:

Grain is used twofold; to supply soldiers fighting abroad or defending the states, or to improve the economy of the state.

If you do not dedicate any Grain to defense of a province, any opportunistic Player can simply walk their well-fed soldiers into it and automatically take control of the state!
The more Grain you dedicate for defense, the greater chances of repelling the enemy. Same with conquering your neighbours; the more Grain you set aside for the conquest, the greater chances of success.

You can also Invest your Grain in a State that you control. Each State at start lets you use 10 Grain per Turn.
For each 5 Grain Invested into a State, the State will provide you with 1 extra Grain, starting from next Turn.

Example: You have 90 Grain, and your home State, Oxford, provides you with 15 Grain. If you invest half of your Grain, 45, into Oxford, this will raise Oxford's Grain output to 24 (15 + [45/5=9] = 24).

The maximum amount of Grain a Province can reach is 30.

CONQUESTS, DEFENSE, AND THE DIE OF WAR:

Once you decide to conquer some of your neighbours, you must know that each combat is resolved using a d10 die. You can only Conquer States adjacent to the ones you control (or across Seas, look into paragraph below).
There's a special case in region of Wales; despite having some water between them, Glywysing and Somerset are treated as if adjacent, and their connection was marked by a straight line.

Combat formula is simple: d10 + Grain = your number. If you roll higher than the opponents' defending force, you win and the State is yours!

HOWEVER! The maximum of Grain you can dedicate to a single Attack or Defense command is 30.

Example: You decide to conquer State of Mide, and dedicate 19 Grain to the task. State of Mide can afford to dedicate only 12 Grain for defense of its borders. You roll is 6, their roll is 4. 19+6 = 25, 12+4 = 16. State of Mide loses the fight and its lands are now yours!

If a State is attacked by more than 1 Player at once, the Grain spent on Defense is spread as equally as possible with any leftover spent against the Player with highest amount of Grain dedicated to the conquest.
If a State is defeated by more than 1 Player at once, the control of the State falls into the hands of the Player that dedicated more 'raw' Grain into the State's Conquest. In case of draws, a Coin Toss decides the victor.

Once a State is conquered, inevitably there will be looting, pillaging and destruction at hands of victorious soldiers. The Grain output of the State is thus HALVED, and the new owner of the devastated land will need to re-invest into it. This can lead to Devastation:

Devastated States are those States that have 0 Grain output; it is not possible to launch attacks from Devastated States, and one must first Invest in them to be able to launch attacks from it in the next Turn.

TRADE ROUTES:

If you are adjacent to another Player by sharing a land border or across a Sea, you can establish a Trade Route with them. This requires both Players to declare establishing a Trade Route with each other through the commands they send.

A Trade Route provides +5 Grain to both Players' counts, and prevents the two Players from attacking each other.

To stop trading, simply notify the GM about your wish to do so when sending orders. (remember to specify which trade route you wish to cancel if you have several!)

THE SCARY SEAS OF BRITTANIA:

Seas are numbered 1 to 7, allowing conquest of islands and between Britain and Ireland. Oversea conquest require preparations and preparations require extra Grain; to launch an attack across a sea, you must spend extra 5 Grain on the attack.

Note that this requirement is NOT in effect if you have a land state adjacent to the target - then its assumed your attack simply comes through that land state instead.

Example: You own Ulaid, in Ireland, and decide to attack Ayr, in Scotland, and spend 15 Grain on this attack. This means only 10 Grain will be used to attack Ayr, while 5 Grain will be spent on 'preparations'.