OOC Thread

[Cecil XIX]

Bump.

I need your opinions guys, so I can judge where to take this next.

[TheFlax]

Sorry about that, meant to write something but I kept pushing it back.

Rulewise I haven't seen many problems, except maybe a little confusion about unit ownership. I doubt the rules can help much in that department, players simply have to be vigilant. A part from that, I found that everything ran pretty smoothly.

As for a Civil War, well I'll admit I'm not a big fan of PvP myself, especially when there are no real stakes. Since this is a test game I care little about my character and since the PvP will be like KotR/LotR (right?), I wouldn't think it needs much testing. Then again, if you and Ramses want to duke it out, I have no problem with that.

For a main game, I'm not too keen on France, the starting avatars having already too much history for me (from two test games). Anywhere else though would be fine by me, Poland and Hungary sound like great choices to me. As you said we are three for now and other people can join easily enough as we expand.

Finally, as I haven't invested myself much in my character, I'd much rather start a new game. I usually approach the test games from purely a rule testing standpoint and not a story standpoint. In a new game I promise to be much more involved.

[Ramses II CP]

With limited involvement and slim character development a civil war scenario would really only be a single PvP battle at this point. I think we know how that would come out, but I'm totally up for trying it.

As far as the faction for the actual game, France would work fine for me, but I think Poland would be fun as well. More of a rough and tumble background and potentially a more difficult path to expansion. France has lots of room to grow, like the Byz in LotR, and so it may be awhile before real conflict begins within the player base.

[ULC]

I'd also vote for Poland, on the basis that it is essentially one theater, not several which are separated by large expanses of water and vast movement killing mountains.

Hungary is another great choice

[mini]

england! or maybe the teutons or the templars? :D

anyway, this looks interesting. When the main game lifts up, i'll read up on the rules (and probably join :D)

[Cecil XIX]

All right, I think now is the time to stop the test game. I'll get the main game ready, and post it tomorrow.

[Cecil XIX]

All right, I've decided that the we're going to play as the Kingdom of Hungary in an Early Era Campaign. There are three avatars: King Laszlo, Prince Kalman, and a general named Istvan. The King will start with the settlements of Budapest and Zagreb, the Prince with Bran, and Istvan will have Ragusa.

I'll be playing as Istvan. I'm giving Ramses II CP first pick of the other two, because he hasn't played a FL yet. Since this is just a regular campaign in LTC, you both can just start a campaign to get a sense of things. Once Ramses makes his pick I'll post the first save and we can start the first turn.