The King is alive, down with the King!

[Ignoramus]

This is a rough idea that I have recently thought up for a MTWII Hotseat Campaign.

Most hotseats tend to take forever to finish, and usually stall waiting for players to be available to take their turns. Not only that, but unless the Hotseat uses Kingdoms, games rarely ever get finished.

On the other hand, interactive PBM's such as LotR and WotB, base their fun(and believe me, it is fun) around the politics and intrigue of a single state, but don't face a challenge from other factions.

So I thought why don't we combine the two?

The result is as follows:

There will be 4 or 5 player-controlled factions: England, France, Holy Roman Empire, Spain, and Venice(Venice will be dropped if there are insufficient players).

Each one of these factions will have their own set of starting rules appropriate to their historical rule. These rules will be similar to the rules for LotR and WotB.

All other factions will be played by the Moderator of the game, who will be me if no one else volunteers.

Players can choose which faction they will join and will be assigned an avatar and join in the rule of that particular faction.

In order to keep the game running quickly, timelines will have to be enforced. But as there will be multiple players per faction, there will always be someone available to play the save, and so there delays should be kept to a minimum. With only 5 factions, one turn could be completed in under a week, or even less with 4 factions. As a result, the game won't feel so disjointed.

I'll start accepting players immediately, and I'll gladly take anyone who wishes to moderate the game, although it will require being available most of the time to keep the game flowing quickly.

England:(3) Carlos Matthews
France:(5) Ibn-Khaldun
HRE:(6?) Cecil XIX, deguerra
Spain:(3) Ramses II CP, Zim, Dafuge

*Brackets indicate number of starting avatars.*

Possible players:
deguerra
Ibn-Khaldun

We will be either using MTW 1.3 or Kingdoms depending on people's preference.

[deguerra]

had a similar idea to this once igno. sorry but i dont have the time now, but if it gets going, ill join eventually.

[Ibn-Khaldun]

I also had something like this in my mind once!
I planned England-France-HRE struggle against each other but left that idea.
But I'll join this once I have a little more time!

Edit: If people want to use Kingdoms then I'm out since I don't have it(and not planning to get it since I'm waiting ETW!)

[Ignoramus]

I'm probably leaning towards using vanilla, because it would increase our player base.

[Cecil XIX]

Such a unique and potentially awesome idea deserves to be tried once or twice. Count me in.

And, you should really consider getting Kingdoms. I just got it today, and the mini campaigns are more expansive then I thought. I was pleasently surprised at the size of the Teutonic map (70 so provinces), and I'm sure I'll be able to get a lot of gametime out of the other campaigns too. Definitely a great deal.

Since whether or not to use Kingdoms would be an important decision, why don't we all say whether or not we have it?

[Ignoramus]

I have it, but I know that some people don't like the SecuRom and for that reason haven't purchased it. I really don't mind which we use.

Which faction do you wish to join, Cecil?