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NATIONAL SHEET:

Nation Name, Leader Name: Go wild but not too wild, pls.
Starting Supply Point Allocation: You start with 10. Spend them on extra Provinces (3 points for Province with 'natural' Supply Point, 2 points without), or extra tech ranks, or expensive Traits (list them below). Unspent SSPs will be used as Supply Points for Turn 1.
Nation Traits: If you decide to buy any of these, please list them separately here and not at Supply Point Allocation line, pls.
Capital Province: Your seat of government. Grants 1 Supply Point per Turn for free, and, if you didn't buy Provinces with SPs above, its the only Province you start with. Capital always starts with a Castle and 2 Soldier's in it.
Color: Something not blending muchly with black, silver or pale green, pls.

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NATION TRAITS:

These Traits cannot be obtained in any other way than during Nation Creation. They are expensive, costing 4 SP each, meaning a Nation won't be able to acquire more than 2.

Equestrian: Cavalry +1 combat dice.
Mercantile: +1 Supply Point each Turn per 10 Supply Points (+2 at 20, +3 at 30 and so on).
Militaristic: Soldiers and Cavalry +2 to combat ROLLS.
Silvertongued: 'Free' Supply Point for every Diplomatic Annexation attempt.
Stone-Men: Castles provide +1 combat dice for your Soldiers.
Thalassocratic: +1 Supply Point each Turn per 3 Provinces with Ports (+2 at 6, +3 at 9 and so on).

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TURN ORDER:

The turn order equals the sheet application order; first to join the game will move first. After the last player on the list moves, the first player can move again.

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SUPPLY POINTS:

Supply Points are two things; places on the map, and units (wealth, resources, money) produced by these places.

Provinces starts with or without a 'natural' Supply Point. At start of the game, there's 13 such 'natural' Supply Points. You can force a Province to provide more Supply Points by building stuff in them.
These Supply Points are crucial to development of your nation, constructing buildings, fielding armies and annexing minor nations.

Costs:
Placing Soldier or Cavalry token: 1 Supply Point.
Raising Tech Ranks: 1 Supply Point per Turn.
Building Castle/Port/Farms: 1 Supply Point each.
Diplomatic Annexation: Depends, look below.

You can accumulate Supply Points if you wish; any unspent SPs will be carried over to your next Turn.
You gain new Supply Points when its your 'new' Turn.

Supply Point colors and shapes:

Octagon: Capital Province of a nation, +1 Supply Point per Turn and +1 combat dice for Soldier units in it. Capital can be moved to another Province at cost of 5 Supply Points.
Circle: Normal Province.

White: Province provides 1 Supply Point per Turn.
Yellow: Province provides 2 Supply Point per Turn.
Red: Province provides 3 Supply Points per Turn.
Purple: Province provides 4 Supply Points per Turn (only instance of this will be a Purple Octagon: a sea-adjacent Capital Province with Farms, Port and 'natural' Supply Point).

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BUILDINGS:

Each require spending 1 Supply Point. You can build 1 Building per Province each Turn.

Farms: Increases Supply Points of the province by 1.
Castle: Increases dice by 1 for Soldier stationed in the province; enemy Cavalry gets 1 dice less against Soldiers in the province.
Port: Increases Supply Points of the province by 1; can only be built in sea-adjacent Provinces (silvery borders).

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UNITS AND ARMIES AND COMBAT AND RAIDS:

You can move your Units one Province per Turn.

Soldier: Has 2 combat dices each (3 if the Province he's stationed at has a Castle).
Cavalry: Has 3 combat dices each (2 against enemy Soldier in a Castle).

You can put 1 Soldier or 1 Cavalry unit per Turn per Province; so if you have 3 Provinces, you can buy 3 units per Turn (one for each Province).

Combat is very simple: proper amount of 6-sided dice is rolled, and sum of the rolls is weighed against the rolls of the enemy. The unit with lower sum is destroyed; in case of a draw, the attacking unit retreats to where it started.
This continues until all attacking or defending armies are destroyed; if the province is conquered by the Attacker, 1 building is destroyed (this applies even if the Province is captured without a fight. Pillagin', ho!).

Raiding is an alternative way of gaining wealth. You can send Cavalry units on a 'raid' against enemy Province; during Raids, enemy Soldiers do not benefit from Castles' bonus nor your Cavalry suffer from it.
If defeated, the Cavalry is destroyed. If victorious, instead of destroying enemy troops and conquering the land, you instead gain 1d6 of enemy's accumulated Supply Points (the maximum of course will be lowered if the enemy is poor).
You can raid Independent Provinces, but they only cough up 1 Supply Point per Raid, and nothing more.

REMEMBER to CLEARLY state whether you send your Cavalry on ATTACK or a RAID.

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INDEPENDENTS:

NPC Nations that exist in the myriad of unclaimed Provinces at the start of the game. Each occupies 1 Province, which serves as the Capital of the nation, and has a Castle. Independents start with 1 Soldier, and never buy more.

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TRADING:

Players can freely trade accumulated Supply Points with each other.

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DIPLOMATIC ANNEXATION:

You can spend Supply Points to attempt to 'conquer' the neighbouring Nations without fighting (whether you fluff it as hiring assassins, forming a personal union, funding a coup d'etat or bribing the nation's ruler is up to you!).
You can annex ONLY those Provinces that are adjacent to you - this limitation is negated when you reach Administration Tech Rank 25.

You can spend maximum of 6 Supply Points on Annexation attempt; this is weighed against the Supply Point worth of the Province. Then, a single 6-sided die is rolled; if you roll equal or under the 'weight' of the land, the nation surrenders to you.

'Silvertounged' Trait and Administration Tech Rank 15 do NOT ADD to the above; instead, they free up 2 Supply Points for you, simply making diplomatic annexations cheaper.

Example:
You spend 6 Points on an attempt to annex a Province whose worth is 3 Supply Points (Capital + Farms + Port in this example); the 'weight' of the attempt is 3.
This means you must roll 3 or lower to successfully annex this particular Province.

You CAN annex a player-ruled nation this way - but because most players will (probably) have more than 1 Province, you will first need to reduce them to a single Province.

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PLAYER ELIMINATION AND VICTORY CONDITIONS:

You eliminate a Player when you capture his/her Capital Province. All conquered Provinces remain with you; all other are released as one-province Minors (which you can then conquer or annex diplomatically).

Current victory conditions are:

1. Eliminate all other Players by capturing their Capitals.
2. Accumulate 500 Supply Points.
3. Control 27 Provinces.

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TECH RANKS:

There are 3 Tech Rank Groups; Soldier, Cavalry and Administration. Most of them are 'empty' ranks; you gain nothing by reaching those ranks except getting closer to the levels that matter.

Soldier Techs:
Rank 1: Starting rank for all Nations (unless SPs were spent here during Nation Creation)
Rank 8: Soldier +1 combat dice.
Rank 12: Soldier +1 combat dice vs Cavalry.
Rank 19: Soldier +1 combat dice vs enemy Soldiers with Castles.
Rank 23: Soldier +1 combat dice.
Rank 30: Soldier +1 combat dice.

Cavalry Techs:
Rank 1: Starting rank for all Nations (unless SPs were spent here during Nation Creation)
Rank 9: Cavalry +1 combat dice.
Rank 15: Cavalry +1 combat dice.
Rank 22: Cavalry +1 combat dice.
Rank 30: Cavalry +1 combat dice.

Administration Techs:
Rank 1: Starting rank for all Nations (unless SPs were spent here during Nation Creation)
Rank 5: Extra +1 Supply Point per Turn.
Rank 10: Castles provide extra +1 combat dice for your Soldiers.
Rank 15: 'Free' Supply Point for every Diplomatic Annexation attempt.
Rank 20: Extra +1 Supply Point per Turn.
Rank 25: You can now Diplomatically Annex Provinces no matter their position on the map.
Rank 30: Extra +1 Supply Point per Turn.

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Nation Name, Leader Name: The Land of Nothing, The Keeper of Nothing (FallacyoffUrist)
Starting Supply Point Allocation: Provinces (Ibex, Rosilyon, Tvenn)
Nation Traits: Militaristic
Capital Province: Gijou
Color: Purple

Nation Name, Leader Name: Zuidendberg Republic, Councillor Inji (Kashyyk)
Starting Supply Point Allocation: Provinces (Selmy)
Nation Traits: Thassalocratic, Mercantile
Capital Province: Zuidendam
Color: Yellow

Nation Name, Leader Name: Duchy of Acria, Duke Acrin (ctsun)
Starting Supply Point Allocation: Provinces (Vastagen, Koprenland, Rubeck)
Nation Traits: Silvertongued
Capital Province: Jotland
Color: Red

Nation Name, Leader Name: Ceodwell, Imic Greymane (Imic)
Starting Supply Point Allocation: Provinces (Champais, Britonne, Burgunde)
Nation Traits: Mercantile
Capital Province: Moribant
Color: Deep blue?

Nation Name, Leader Name: Kheme, Harsiese I (Maximum Spin)
Starting Supply Point Allocation: Provinces (Pomeria, Slesia)
Nation Traits: Mercantile
Capital Province: Mazovki
Color: Turquoise

Nation Name, Leader Name: The Parshi Horde, Sprinen Khan (Criptfeind)
Starting Supply Point Allocation: Provinces (Breden)
Nation Traits: Equestrian, Militaristic
Capital Province: Appelstadt
Color: Orange

Nation Name, Leader Name: Principality of Rhun, Prince Midra (Cnidaros)
Starting Supply Point Allocation: Provinces (Dalmia, Bechemia, Krimsk)
Nation Traits: Mercantile
Capital Province: Radovica
Color: Brown

Nation Name, Leader Name: Aristocracy of Garrul, Anton della Stronzo (Sl4cker)
Starting Supply Point Allocation: None
Nation Traits: Silvertongued
Capital Province: Fleutzberg
Color: Magenta