M2 Test Imperial Orders Thread

[Lucjan]

(OOC - Hopefully Ignoramus will take Bologna, so I'm not really worried about an autocalc there, but if Venice or Milan start to make some sketchy movements around there before Ignoramus gets back to us we'll see.)

[Strappy Horse]

Don't know about Ignoramous, but I'll be bold and assume control of Bologna.

Orders for the Bologna region:

1. Increase taxes to high.
2. Build a small church in Bologna.

No recruitement or movement orders.

[econ21]

Don't know about Ignoramous, but I'll be bold and assume control of Bologna.

Yes - go for it. We still have the Crown Prince as an avatar if Ignoramus wants to join as a full blooded participant.

[Lucjan]

Ok, I'm ending this turns orders thread now. After I carry out the orders, calculate the finances, deal with the edicts (I don't think we really need a poll for 4 players, do we?), I'll advance to next turn and proceed with my chancellory duties.

[econ21]

Sounds good - we definitely don't need formalities like polls.

[Lucjan]

Ok...I'm stuck.

No matter what I seem to do, I can't make our projection match up to the projection in the game.

Econ, you said you got it to work out for Scotland? I'm going to try it with Spain and see if I can get it to work there. In the meantime can you show me what you did with Scotland? Certain things like the army upkeep, and where the heck the "king's purse" income is supposed to come in are driving me up the wall.

If we can't figure this out, I think we might be reduced to a simpler approach.

[econ21]

What I posted earlier about HREs accounts was probably wrong - for example, I did not factor in the free upkeep of militia units (yet another financial benefit of cities); is that a factor?

But because I could get Scotland's accounts to add up, I thought we should be able to manage things with HRE.

Did you keep a record of what was spent by the Dukes and the Imperium? If you've post that, and a start of turn 2 savegame, I could see what I come up with for the new balances. Then we can see if we concurr.

For Scotland:

The faction financial details says:

Income = 2639
360 farming
725 taxes
54 corruption (really admin)
1500 King's purse

Expenditure:3316
2416 army upkeep
900 wages

Edingburgh has income of 1139 - that equals the faction's income excluding the King's purse.

There are three armies:

Edmund = 850 upkeep
Prince = 833 upkeep
King = 958 - 375 free upkeep = 583
fleet =150 upkeep
Total army upkeep = 2416

For wages, we have:
Cardinal 150
Spy 100
Diplomat 50
Three generals 300
Total wages = 600