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Ok, i have seen some PT rp's going around but none at this present time are really peaking my interest, no offence. The resolve.....

I plan to put together a PT rp which includes about four nations total so that it don't get too wide spread and confusing. Basicly i want to have this ONE land with lots of territory, islands, and in some sections of the map there will be snow covered areas and areas below water level. All this will effect the big plan, make it more interesting and realistic.... while....

-Trying to move your armys to conquer the landmass.
-Fighting the actual battles.
-Facing the elements aswell as enemy units.


The big plan is....

ELIMINATE YOUR ENEMY!! TAKE THE LANDMASS FOR YOUR RULER, PROFIT FROM EVERYTHING IT HAS TO GIVE....

This is mainly about all those battles the PT Rp'er wants to portray but has to rp everything else dealing with economy, trade..blah blah blah..... LETS JUST FIGHT PEOPLE!.

This is just a discussion fourm for now, but there are my ideas and oh yeah..

NO FANTASY... :-)

Thank you.

I'd be interested

Awesome, i was possibly thinking of taking it back to Ancient times. The tech that was around during the Roman Empire... umm..62 BC ish.... or we could go Medieval..

I'd be all for either . . .most of the ancient stuff I already know and I'd have to read up on medieval but I'd be good for either.

Im cool with that, so basicly any tech around in the Ancient world can be used. I will be Rp'ing as Ancient Osteia which i have Rp'd with MANY times, our ancient culture resembles that of the Roman/greek RL cultures.

cool . . . I really have to create a fixed PT nation but I'll get working on that soonish. Probably something similar to ancient Greece crossed with ancient Scotland lol.


EDIT: Wheeeeee 2k posts

i might get involved,

and as you may guess I will do an Aztec based nation....

I have always wondered what would happen if Romans fought Aztecs

It will happen if you want in buddy. I can see lots of guerilla warfare.

Congrats on 2000 posts Dawoad :-P ...maybe this is a chance for you to fix a PT nation, :-P

Hmm... Eldire's going slow enough that I think I can branch off. Show me a map, and I'll make my claim.

The thing is we need a large fictional map....(Osteia is asking if anyone has one or could make one!) :-P

We need islands too, for island fortress sieges Waaahoooooooooo!!

One more thing, i ask that participants have general knowlage of the Ancient world. If you have questions or any inquires i will try to send you in the right direction,

Is there room for me?

I'm in . . .ok factbook time :D woot fixing a PT nation. lol btw what are we doing around nation sizes etc.

One more thing, i ask that participants have general knowlage of the Ancient world. If you have questions or any inquires i will try to send you in the right direction,Ancient as in Egyptian Era, Greecian Era, Roman Era, or Post-Rome Dark Ages?

Roman I think

Yes I approve I will join

Y-you don't like mine?! *cries* So you ever think about the old Aust PT RP that we had going Osteia?

Which ever Ancient civilization you are familiar with be it, Egyptian, Greek, Roman....Like Osteia's ancient history is based from Roman/greek civilizations. I have Rp'd with Ancient Osteia many times in the past in massive Roleplays of the Nationstates Ancient world.

As for Nation sizes...Umm, We can set an amount of troops dispatched to this landmass? anyone have any better ideas? We can decide how reinforcements and what not work aswell together, so we all are on the same page. One thing we must all remember,

We will have a set amount of soldiers that must be divided to conquer the land. It is up to you how you do that with your outposts, camps, and forts that will be guarding strategic points. Numbers in a single position must remain legitimate, that is a biggy, noooooo troops that appear from nowhere :-P . Not saying that any of the participants do this...just a reminder becuase it has happened in the past.

I want to do this as realistic as we possibly can in a Rp, BUT the main thing is that everyone is encouraged to have as much fun as possible.

Y-you don't like mine?! *cries* So you ever think about the old Aust PT RP that we had going Osteia?

Yeah man!! :-P i said no offence :-P me and you always rocked the PT Rp's eh??

And of course, that Rp was one of the biggest organized role plays i had the privilage to be involved in. It was awesome, and MASSIVE! lol

Yes I approve I will join

Sounds good, so your alright with the basic layout? it will evolve much more but these are just my general ideas for now...this thread will turn into the OOC when the big picture is complete. I just want to see who wants to do this because im dying to get it on the go... lol

Any more comments or questions....

Yeah, what sort of scale as far as territory available can we expect? Also, are there going to be any NPC factions, or is it going to be purely PvP as far as wars go?

NPC's...i havn't decided yet, although you would think that some may exist...

I may even offer someone to be the natives of the land caught in this mess? Also territory, I was thinking kind of a Germainia/Gaul setting with some britannia features mixed with some Scottish Highlands? lowlands...marshlands...lots of rain like Holland...fog..you know..

Thats just a bit of climate information, Scale you say...umm havn't decided, still in the works..im just hammering out ideas right now. Any comments? suggestions?

I built a pt nation with a population of around 1.8 mill check factbook for more info

I've been working on a map. I'm clearing out all the fuzzy stuff from the original coastline development process (using Paint, of all programs) and would like to know if there's an easy way to cut out a single color and paste it elsewhere. Specifically, the color of the coastline.

Edit: Problem solved. Turn the border white, switch from colors to black & white, then back to colors. Everything's black but the coastline.

Now, I just need to work on the terrain types. Plenty of space in the upper left for a key, too. Inner Right island is near the swampy looking peninsula, so that'd probably be forested or something... Inner Left is pretty inland, so rockier... Steppes? Outer Left is small and away from the Southern Mountain Range, so that'd be flatter... I'm still up in the air on Outer Right, though, and that's the biggest island.

Is there room for one more?

Yes welcome

*punches numbers*

So we're flexing the original limit of four up to seven?

Yes, I will ok will approve all those who are interested.

DaWoad
Mokastana (if he wants)
Goluan
Angenteria
Ralkovia
Conserative Morality

Thats six. Seven including myself, The highest im gonna go is 8, one reserved spot.

So everyone, How many men will we have under our control? Once we figure this out we can move on.

Hmm... Given the scale of the map and making the territory sizes roughly even among eight players, I think that whatever sort of population an Ancient civilization could fit inside a territory the size of the British Isles.

Players can only choose their landing area on the map. All else must be taken, ships must be unloaded and supplys must stream inland if you wish to advance. We will try to keep track of advances on map...

Oh ho ho... So this is a colonization sort of thing? How many people can they fit on five ships fit for oceanic travel?

Map! (http://i34.tinypic.com/2dwair6.jpg)

Blue is obviously water, Green-Blue is Swampland, Green is Plains, Dark Green is Forest, Dark Gray is a mountain range, Brown is hilly/steppes (got kinda sloppy with the middle island) and Yellow is beaches.

What do you guys think?

I would be interested if you are still looking for a number 8.

i am Shocked! Shocked and APPALLED!

Osteia, how could you not tell me you were doing this? *laughs*

the awesome bit is, if you've got room for me, the original PT Angermanland would work here. [errrr... pre getting gunpowder off of Incognitia, anyway, so no Hawks or explosives, but oh well]

the lack of metal working had pretty much stuck them in a weird sort of egyptian-early medieval state anyway.

... though if it's meant to be 'historic' moa might be pushing it a bit, so i could swap them out for horses or whatever...

i think i still have my fact book from that lying around, actually.

so, yeah. room for me?

map looks good to me :) lets kick this thing off soon
p.s. If we're able to claim landing spots I want the top left corner of the main landmass.

Map! (http://i34.tinypic.com/2dwair6.jpg)

Blue is obviously water, Green-Blue is Swampland, Green is Plains, Dark Green is Forest, Dark Gray is a mountain range, Brown is hilly/steppes (got kinda sloppy with the middle island) and Yellow is beaches.

What do you guys think?

Beaches don't go all the way round a coastline, and are also very useful in military operations. Add some grey coastline to represent cliffs.

Beaches don't go all the way round a coastline, and are also very useful in military operations. Add some grey coastline to represent cliffs.Ngh... I took that into consideration, but since we're landing here by ship, any place I make to be cliff-coast is essentially off limits as a starting point.

since this RP is mainly just going to be fighting and less on actual running nations....
I want the patch of land between the mountains and ocean on the left.

since this RP is mainly just going to be fighting and less on actual running nations....
I want the patch of land between the mountains and ocean on the left.You mean the forested area DaWoad already called, or the area due south of the westernmost island?

To have a more realistic coast, I'll state this before editting the map accordingly: The Steppes (brown) island and the coastline south of it are mixed beaches and cliffs, and the coastline of the plains peninsula off the swampy northeast is solid cliff. Let's make those three inland juts of water south of the wooded isle flanked by cliffs, too, while we're at it. I'll have a new version of the map up according to this shortly.

south area, what you said....

still wondering if im in or not.

Long time no see....Im in if theres room.

if there is no more room I will probably drop, I do not know if i will have time to finish this

Hey guys sorry. I was away for work, i tend to spend some time on the road at times. Ok, i know i still wanna do this, so....

List of reserved spots

*DaWoad
*Golugan
*Conserative Morality
*Angermanland
*Frozopia
*Mokastana? (If you want it...if not let me know.)

Thats six. I need to know if all the following players will be willing to continue. IF so, Please post on here ASAP so we can get this on the go. We still have some open spots contact if interested.

2 spots still open and waiting for those still interested to post. If this is the first time you have seen this thread please see the first page for more information.

I'm still all clear and ready to go.

lets rock and roll!

I'm still in, naturally. I'm thinking of being in the swamps in the northeast.

Wicked! Ok, i will track down all the claims and post them on here, this page and the first. I will have a good look at the map and post my claim for the landing of the Osteian Empires mighty legions!. (Muhahaha) - LOL

Ralkovia...i seemed to have missed your name the first time, are you still Interested? ... claim to come, next post....

Ost legions will land on the brown island, hilly steeps. There we will establish a foot hold and move inland from there.

well, having got involved in a much bigger RP as well....



I'm gonna have to say I'm still in :D

though i think you may have missed someone[s?] who expressed interest.

Ok Im not sure what progress this rp is making but Frozopia is definately in anyways.

My guys will be landing on the shore opposite the island (to the south) with two tiny sand islands to the north and south. We would probably build rough beach head while our outriders scouted inland.

humm, if no one took it yet, my guys will land on the green island on the west side of the bay there.

the one with the sandy mini- islands to it's north and south

humm, if no one took it yet, my guys will land on the green island on the west side of the bay there.

the one with the sandy mini- islands to it's north and southOuch, beaten by four minutes. Wait... The edit was a minute after you posted. Ach, you guys will have to settle this among yourselves.

easily done. Frozo and i were talking on msn at the time :D

his first choice place was somewhere else, but that was taken, so he chose the other side of the island from me, or something like that :)

Ah, excellent. Osteia, a question about starting off: Is it possible that we could play, rather than as colonists or conquerers, but as natives that recently had a change in leadership?

i was going to play as natives....

Im still here and i hope that we can launch this by tomorrow. This is one i hope to finish, ive been wanting to do one of these for awhile. I know i have alot of good rp'ers here that want to take part, i won't let you down :-P .

Also...natives are acceptable i guess, what did you have in mind?

a small aztec like empire, trying to fight off the colonist or making deals with them

and blood sacrifices of course :)

For me, I was thinking a sort of hunter nomad culture with a very strong clan structure. The Three Clans started out with an exile of [Tribe A] and a lover from [Tribe B] wandering north from the steppes. Along their coastal trek, they found a survivor from wiped out [Tribe C], who joined them in their journey. The Exile, who's name is forgotten but role is remembered, took them both as wives. By the time they reached the swamps, both women were pregnant. Then, they came across slavers who had taken the children of [Tribe D], and sought to take the Exile's wives. With the aid of his wives, who used slings and arrows, the Exile slew the slavers and freed their slaves. Many were young, but one was of child bearing age, and became the Exile's third wife. From these three women came the Three Clans, who bonded with the younger slaver children after they were of age to strengthen their blood.

Still thinking out the styles of the individual Clans. One's going to have a thing for reptile hide, though.