NationStates Jolt Archive

Introduction:
The idea for Conquerors: The New World came to me after playing around on Age of Empires III. My idea is for Conquerors to be an Earth-ish geopolitical rp campaign, where you can roleplay your current NS nation in the past, during the Age of Exploration, as a colonial power in North America and the native tribes in any of the areas that you will decide to settle in. If enough players choose to join then, over time, South America may be added.

Claims:
To begin with, each player may only claim one (1) plot. The plots shall be divided into the current 48 contiguous states in the United States, the provinces of Canada, Mexico, the Central American nations, and the separate islands of the Caribbean. As the game progresses, players may send their armies out to invade other cities, player-controlled or otherwise. They may also gift other budding empires with their cities, or send out men to settle in uncolonized areas, etc.

Time:
The game will begin in the year 1600, during the time of the Age of Exploration. In the game, one year will be a single RL week long, as in seven RL days. Spring will be two days long, Summer will be three, autumn will be two, and winter will be one.

Rules:
and of course, the standard rules apply…

1. No power-playing (controlling other players’ cities, characters, etc.)
2. No god-moding/god-modding (making yourself invincible in-game)
3. Mods and Admins have the final word (the Admin/Co-Admin can overrule the mods, and of course the Admin can also overrule the Co-Admin)
4. You are permitted one in-game year (1 RL week) of absence, after which time you will be deleted from the game and your city-state will become open once more.
5. You are permitted 3 RL weeks (3 in-game years) of absence, with good reason.
6. All claims, including your starting one, must be roleplayed.
7. In order to claim a plot of land, you must somehow be able to travel there.

Current Time: Spring, 1600

Current Colonial Nations:
Nation/Map Color
Atruria/Red

Colonial Threads:
None

Current RP’s:
None

Moderation Staff:
Admin: Atruria
Co-Admin: Open
Mr. Moderator: Open
Mr. Moderatior: Open

Placeholder for the Map

OOC: I'd be interested in this.

I will be using The Dominion, situated as covering the Iberian penninsula, with my first claim being on the Flordian penninsula.

IC:

Captain Vázquez looked out over the prow of his flagship, the galleon Victoria, at the horizon. He and his crew had been at sea for the past seven weeks seeing nothing but horizon and waves. The men were near mutiny, and the one thing keeping the ship faced west was the, by now, popular idea that they were closer to where they were going than they were to Europe.

The captain himself now doubted the expedition, only the faith in his own estimates kept him from turning that doubt into action. They were supposed to have spotted land six days ago, going by what he knew of the area. They hadn't.

Hope was delivered two days ago by the sighting of a gull, but that omen quickly dispelled, as no further wildlife has been observed. The crew was disheartened, many were eating less and less, as the food stores began to wear thin. The three-hundred and sixy three men aboard Captain Vázquez's two ships were all feeling the same fate bearing down upon them, the slow, unstoppable advance of starvation. Aboard the Victoria's sister-ship, the Numancia, two men had already died.

Suddenly, a cry was heard, the Captain looked to the source, the crows-nest of the Numancia, where the crewman on duty was shouting the same thing over and over,

"Tierra, Tierra!"

In that instant the all the spirits were lifted, everyone aboard both ships leapt up, sprinting across the crowded decks to reack their posts, everyone was working, letting out more sail, adjusting course, among other things. The ships, which had previously been as still as a rock, was in that instant turned into a hurricane of activity.

They didn't know what land they had located, nor if it were an island, penninsula, or a larger peice of territory at all. The expedition was supposed to be looking for a location from which to raise a settlement.

After the failure of Penscola about six years ago, the Emperor was fervent that he secure a hold in this 'New World' before other such imperialist nationals devour all that is to be had here. Vázquez was curious as to why the "fervent desire" had turned into a three-hundred man, two ship expedition, but it was not his place to question.

The two ships closed in on the coast, hoping at the very least to take on supplies and coninue their search.

Hmm...interesting. I'll take New York State.

EDIT: Color--
Comatica/green

I'm interested in playing as England colonizing in Maryland; given the number of weeks it would take before we even get to 1607, I'll handle this as AH.
If England is taken, I'll take Holland instead, but will still settle in MD. AH rocks!

Nation/Color:
The Beltway/Blue

(You took English red!)

i take mississippi river valley

color gold

as i looked over many islands a decided that i need more than a mere island
then i found it! a river delta! i landed my men there and we began exploring and found natives that told us that the river stretched for 100s of miles north. so we bought the area around the delta with guns without powder.

then i sent 1 of my 10 ships back to 1010102 and began biulding a settlement there we decide to call it.... New New York{no relation}.

you can roleplay your current NS nation in the past, during the Age of Exploration, as a colonial power in North America

Did I mis-interpret this, in that I have to choose a RL nation as the mother nation? 'Cause I'm a little confused.

I'll be France/Black.


And I'll take Canada if that's ok.

Ravea/Grey

Could I take Cuba?

Pananab is an African Nation, so I could squeeze in there. The European nations are taking away people from my nation by force and a group of Chiefs have had enough and close off teh boirders, hindering the Slave import. Pananab modernizes to the best of it ability by the French/Indian War and sides with the French.

Hmmmm my Southern European Traders would like a piece of the Proverbial Pie, so to speak. I'll get the Navy and Colonists ready.
We would like to take the Island of Jamaica.
Skitsojd/Orange

IC: Colonel Felix Alexander, Commander of the Ship The Two Sands, looked at the Island with firm interest. From the deck of the ship he saw a Tropical Island well worth the chance of Settlement. He decided this was where the Skitsojd Settlement would begin.

After a couple a days the Town was up and running. Alexander named the city New Skitsojd. This was the beggining of a great Colony.

bump

I will take BC of Canada.

Cantelmium


"I'll be France/Black.


And I'll take Canada if that's ok. "

canda already taken pick agin i have the mississippi river valley. yes the WHOLE thing.

Claims:
To begin with, each player may only claim one (1) plot. The plots shall be divided into the current 48 contiguous states in the United States, the provinces of Canada, Mexico, the Central American nations, and the separate islands of the Caribbean. As the game progresses, players may send their armies out to invade other cities, player-controlled or otherwise. They may also gift other budding empires with their cities, or send out men to settle in uncolonized areas, etc

Think again

Are we making an IC thread for this? I would prefer if we did ONCE we were READY. It's easier to focus and get into your character on a Seperate Thread.

I'd also be in favor of a separate IC thread, if not separate ones for each nation, by each nation.

Yes, I agree.

In taht case I can't do anything, really.

Did this die?

Did this die?

I hope not.

I hope this doesn't die as well. Where's Atruria?

dang i think it did

Anyone wanna make a thread, start this OOC claim over?

Anyone wanna make a thread, start this OOC claim over?

I might consider doing that. Perhaps I could increase the amount of possible claims to 4 or 5?

Comatica - If you restart this, I'll continue with England. If 5 claims, then Maryland, Virginia, Massachusetts, Delaware, and the Bahamas, please. For less than five claims, remove from the right of the list.

I wonder if an rp of 17th century Europe and the Americas might not be more likely to get people to sign up.

If we do an RP as the entire WORLD in the fifteenth, sixteenth, or seventeenth centuries then people would see more of a reason to join.

In the current senario, there are only like four or five nations playable, so more would be better.

I am still Spain, and I still want Florida, and if we can have more claims I will choose them then.

Well, the way I thought, you play as your regular NS nation way back when, and the claims in the new world are colonies of your nation. I think that's what Atruria meant when he started this.

The entire world would be especially interesting. After all, during this time period, Portugal and Holland were involved in China and Japan; Portugal, England, and France were getting involved in India and Africa; and much of Europe (including Sweden, who settled in Delaware) was getting involved in the Americas.

Please replace my claim to Delaware with one to Jamaica.

Okay, my apologies but for several weeks, I'm not gonna be very active on NS, so I won't be going forward with this for at least a while. I did originally intend to have people rp their NS nations at the time of colonial expansion, as i thought it could be quite interesting. However, I'd encourage any nation to carry the idea of a colonialization of the Americas type RP and if anyone does so I've got pretty good a map of North America to use.