Colonialisation. A forum RP. Try not to catch Malaria.
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You give out troop movements, that's pretty much it.
Only Van Kaeo is left.
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This will be the turn African slaves will hate the most, I bet.
[b]Nova Orbis: Anno Domini 1524[/b]
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Players: Mr Face - England (Crown Colony) - (Red, Newfoundland, Maine)
Mountainwatcher – Portugal (Private Colony) - (Green, Recife, Suriname, Southern Brazil)
Van Kaeo - England (Private Colony) – (Light Red, Southern Ontario)
Kamikaze - France (Private Colony) - (Blue, Puerto Rico, Northern Venezuela) *
Ruskie – France (Crown Colony) - (Dark blue, Uruguay)
Canuhear – Spain (Private Colony) – (Dark Yellow, Cuba) *
Asantos – Portugal (Private Colony) – (Dark Green, Baja California) *
(Players marked by an * indicates this is a state supported by/helped strongly by slavery)
Player colours have been changed, with some native ones. Players are now represented by a variant of the base colour of their motherland. Original base colour means this is the oldest/main colony of their nation.
Portugal (Green)
France (Blue)
England (Red)
Spain (Yellow)
GOODS IN DEMAND:
New World: Manufactured goods, guns, horses, slaves.
Europe: Tobacco, Sugar, precious metals, preserved food, spices, porcelain, silk, alchohols.
Africa: Manufactured goods, guns.
Asia: Precious metals, tobacco, sugar.
EVENTS OF 1520-1524
-The pope issues a papal bull threatening Martin Luther with excommunication.
-Martin Luther burns a copy of the bill, the popes jimmies have been rustled.
-Revolts against the catholic church begin to erupt in the Holy Roman Empire.
-The Kalmar Union comes to an end.
-A revolt in 1522 is put down, but in 1524 300,000 peasants rise up as the reformation comes in.
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Flag_of_Milan.svg/300px-Flag_of_Milan.svg.png[/img]
[b]Kingdom of England – Mr Face, Van Kaeo[/b]
-The King of England and France meet at the field of cloth of gold to do some diplomatic silliness.
-They go to war anyways.
[b][I]English Crown Colony – Mr Face[/I][/b]
-The Crown colony drops support for the Irish colonies as relations get colder.
-The weather is likewise getting colder, forcing the English colonists to start colonising warmer areas to the south in the now termed “New England”.
-A few slaves are imported, but there is little use for them in these parts for no plantations exist.
-Fishing villages and hamlets begin to crawl down the coasts along with some explorers and fur trappers, reaching an area called “quinatucquet”.
-A town is set up called “New Haven”, the southernmost port possessed by England.
-As fishing growth slows down, fur trappers begin to set up in the area to take advantage of the proliferation of beavers and other animals throughout the Northeast of America and Canada.
-Another convoy is sent to Peru, this one is greatly successful at acquiring Peruvian flora and fauna.
-Even more gold is acquired this time by the convoy, and the King sends a full fleet and army, with the intent of conquest now.
-Back in England, potatoes are planted for the first time in several estates. They are cultivated mainly for the flowers they produce. The fruits produced by them attempt to be integrated into medicine, for it is noted to be similar to the nightshade plant.
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[b][I]Helical Medicinal Solutions – Van Keao[/I][/b]
-With increasing tensions with the English, help stops being given to colonists. As the winters get increasingly severe and colder, the Irish are forced to stop cultivating tobacco. 2 bitter winters in a row leads to the colony severely depopulating and the roads of New Dublin and Corq filling with weeds.
-Some Irish colonists begin to swap to fur trading in the English colonies to the east, or set up trading posts under those colonies instead.
-By the end of 1524, conditions have worsened to the point that the company has started to lose money and is under increasing strain.
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Flag_Portugal_%281495%29.svg/320px-Flag_Portugal_%281495%29.svg.png[/img]
[b]Kingdom of Portugal – Mountainwatcher, Asantos.[/b]
-Smoking has become a pastime common throughout Portugal, and demand is pushed ever higher as merchants travel outwards selling it across the world.
-By 1524, China and India now have begun to import tobacco. The Mughal emperor shocks his advisers by being one of the first to smoke.
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[b][I]Companhia das Quinas Americanas - Mountainwatcher[/I][/b]
-Slaves begin to be imported in fair numbers, slaves infected with malaria are refused however. This problem ends up becoming pointless by 1523, when by this point malaria diseases have effectively established themselves in most of the New world anyways.
-The crown is asked for monetary support, but it does not give very much for it is a private colony.
-Exploration continues inland, with large areas of land becoming mapped. Some zones become infested with malaria however, and the once salubrious Amazon is now a death trap.
-The sugar plantations more or less cease action, with the company deciding to focus on tobacco. -Massive swathes of land begin to be planted, and soon harvested. The relative number of slaves needed when compared to sugar allows much more land to be managed. Eventually as the price of labour declines and land is effectively free, tobacco production starts to skyrocket as sugar production declines.
-Natives begin to be assimilated by the Portuguese. A number however start to trade Brazilwood with them in return for guns and horses as the arms race of South America grows.
-Tensions on the border with the French crown colony continue to rise massively. Eventually some Portuguese farmers and ranchers are outright giving the natives horses to raid the French and to steal cattle.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/EtppI.jpg[/img]
[b][I]Cienia of Niesmiertelni - Asantos[/I][/b]
-A trading post is set up by the company in Costa Rica, and the company (Seeing the success of other colonies) has begun to import livestock and slaves to their colonial possessions.
-Despite the measures taken, travel overland takes a long time and is quite difficult. This is made worse by the presence of malaria that takes a toll on numbers.
-Colonists and supplies manage to trickle into the La Paz colony to the point that population growth has begun to outdo population decline.
-Rice and wheat is planted around the colony, followed soon by maize after the natives introduce them to the plant. With the 3 crops, and arrival of livestock, the colony begins to produce enough surplus food to maintain itself.
-The land is explored extensively, with a search conducted for wild horses. However horses have yet to spread in North America to such an extent.
-The La Paz colony becomes a mainly agricultural community, leaving some land aside for tobacco. -The colony managing to cling on convinces investors to continue backing it, despite losses during shipping.
-The Spanish are asked to let the Portuguese pass at Panama, they agree on the condition a toll is paid which the colonists reluctantly accept.
-Diplomacy continues with the Tarascan empire, which has become involved in the events to the south as Spain conquers the Aztec Empire. The Spanish send an army in 1522 to annex the Tarascan empire, which is now jointly ruled by the Tarascan ruler and the Spanish.
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_New_Spain.svg/200px-Flag_of_New_Spain.svg.png[/img]
[b]Kingdom of Spain – Canuhearme[/b]
-Spain declares war on France after Navarre is invaded.
-Cortes, in a series of campaigns, manages to conquer the Aztec Empire and then submit it to Spanish administration.
-The Vittoria arrives back in Spain, after the first circumnavigation of the globe. The original captain and most of the ships are missing however. Nevertheless this is a huge step in exploration.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/yDuHZ.png[/img]
[b][i]El gremio de comerciantes en el Nuevo Mundo – Canuhearme[/i][/b]
-A deal is struck between the Company and the Spanish King with regards to conquest of native empires. In return for providing assistance to the monarch, the company will be granted all lands to the east of the Aztec Empire.
-The company sends a military force and a myriad of other persons to the mainland to carry out the bloody business of conquest.
-Assisting Cortes, the company carves a bloody path through Mesoamerica, setting up puppet rulers and looting whatever is light enough to be carried.
-Colonies and trading posts begin to be set up in their new conquered lands, Jamaica and Bermuda.
-Despite the ever increasing number of colonists, these colonies are stretched quite thinly and prone to frequent privateer raids by the French.
-Exploration for El Dorado is conducted along the coast of Florida, but yields nothing.
-It is granted the right to hold increasingly larger military force in order to safeguard and advance Spanish interests in the area as foreign competition increases.
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Pavillon_royal_de_la_France.svg/200px-Pavillon_royal_de_la_France.svg.png[/img]
[b]Kingdom of France – Kamikaze, Ruskie[/b]
-The King of England and France meet at the field of cloth of gold to do some diplomatic silliness.
-The French invade Navarre, kicking off yet another Italian war.
[b][i]French Crown colony – Ruskie[/i][/b]
-With a steady and fair income made from livestock, the next logical step of the colony is to buy construction materials to begin building a more formal military for the colony.
-Border fences for rances begin to appear along the border with Portugal.
-Exploration pushes ever further inland, but is slowed as natives begin to raid increasingly from horseback armed with bows and a few guns.
-The French respond with a wave of terror by showing no mercy to natives and pushing them out further.
-Roads, watchtowers, blockhouses, inns and the such begin to be constructed alongside rivers and between colonies. They prove to be moderately successful at keeping natives at bay.
-The construction of military structures puts more pressure on the natives and Portuguese as tensions escalate to form a loose Portuguese-Native alliance against the French. Rustling of livestock (And jimmies) becomes a frequent and common problem.
-The existing economy is invested into further, with wool and leather exports increasing to the stage that now much of the New World is now being supplied by here. English merchants and the remains of the Hanseatic league begin to lobby for laws to control the price and movement of goods. It does little to help.
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[b][i]Nouvelle-France – Kamikaze[/i][/b]
-Venezuela is now known as Cumana.
-To help with rising labour shortages, slaves begin to be imported in significant numbers from West Africa to work on the plantations.
-Some of the military goes on an expedition into Guyana to survey the lands, followed by claiming it for the company and setting up trading posts.
-A mandatory law is passed which forces plantation owners to implement fair housing and diets for their slaves along with some basic dignities. A large portion of the clergy approves of this motion for it may help to Christianise these people.
-Heavy culverins are set up on the coasts of Jean Baptiste to protect against foreign vessels. This proves initially successful, but they can still attack ships outside of the guns range.
-The remaining natives are assimilated into the colonies due to the work of missionaries.
-The rather fair approach to colonial matters is initially quite expensive, but proves very successful as the relative number of runaways and slave dissent is much lower on this island than elsewhere.
-The colonies begin to grow coffee, an interesting Arabian export that makes a lovely beverage. -Most gets exported back to the Arabian world, but Europeans have begun to sample it for themselves.
-Slaves make a habit of eating the coffee fruits, which rot rapidly after picking and are a byproduct of coffee bean production.
[b]Ecological/Misc events[/b]
-Native tribes of the Uruguay area now commit frequent raids on each other mounted on horseback and armed with bows and a few matchlock guns.
-The gradual deforestation and planting of masses of tobacco has sucked the ground of nutrients and water, with stagnant pools of water vanishing. Along with the sugar mills mostly closing down in Portuguese Brazil, the areas planted with tobacco or pasture land is now gradually becoming less dangerous. Malarial mortality rates in Brazil decline by roughly 10% during this period.
-By now the little ice age has become an all too inconvenient truth. As forests and animals struggle to adapt to this rapid change, agricultural output in Ming China begins to rapidly decrease.
-By 1524, the Chinese are breaking even on agricultural output and consumption, leading to fears of a famine coming.
-Sugar and tobacco plantations continue to exert their influence on the environment as before, the earthworm is soon introduced as well, and provides another huge change to the Americas.
-The earthworm spreads outwards from various colonies, helping to fertilise the soil somewhat. -Good news for plantations, bad news for the old natives way of life.
-Due to coffee requiring trees to shade the plants, some ecology manages to stay alive in these areas, with the soil being firmly kept in place without easily being washed away by the rains.
-Maize has begun to supplement the diet of many Europeans in the New World. It spreads outwards from Mesoamerica to all Caribbean colonies by 1524.
[b]Music of 1520-1524 - Padoana Alla Francesa - Vincenzo Capirola[/b]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NV__3MV6LQ[/media]
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[editline]18th April 2012[/editline]
Btw as most of you are reading, it would be very helpful if you could have all your turns in by 4PM GMT 0+ tomorrow. (In 17 hours)
That is when I return home from school, and if I have all the turns I can work on the turn reasonably early and have it all ready by around 6PM.
Ruskie, we need to fix this, any suggestion?
If the Netherlands are accessible I might actually consider throwing my hat into this chaos
Sobotnik, did my *unforgivable thing* I planned to do in regards to the Spanish monarchy prove successful? Partially? Or will it take a couple more turns until I find out if it worked.
I take it since the King isn't asking for the Governor's head the plan worked.
[QUOTE=Sunny Dei;35626590]If the Netherlands are accessible I might actually consider throwing my hat into this chaos[/QUOTE]
Would Denmark be acceptable instead?
If so, I will add Greenland to the map.
i will plant potatoes in the memorie of van kaeo.
[QUOTE=asantos3;35627930]i will plant potatoes in the memorie of van kaeo.[/QUOTE]
Ven Kaeo becomes our game's Roanoke.
When I'm done potatoes won't grow anywhere
When i'm done you can't even go to a beach.
[QUOTE=asantos3;35628099]When i'm done you can't even go to a beach.[/QUOTE][img]http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-iceburn.gif[/img]
These are ecological disasters on the scale of modern world catastrophes, won't someone [I]think of the children.[/I]
Someone should plant poison ivy in huge swaths across the land. Whole fields of poison ivy as defenses. Think of it, man.
Ven's general finally snapped. The loss of taters was too much.
Everybody hurry up and send in their turns I can't wait to show everybody Van Kaeos brilliant strategic and diplomatic skills.
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[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;35628126]won't someone [I]think of the children.[/I][/QUOTE]
Nah
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[QUOTE=MountainWatcher;35628154]Ven's finally snapped.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;35628309]Nah
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Just wasn't feeling it for this turn guys, it's kind of underwhelming.
Oh, I disagree very much, so. We're going to have the first player war. mr. face's englishmen against the incas
vs. honey badgers
[QUOTE=MountainWatcher;35628490]Oh, I disagree very much, so. We're going to have the first player war. mr. face's englishmen against the incas[/QUOTE]
Not by my design by the way.
I simply had a voyage down there to get potatoes. The King is like GOLDEN CITY? WAR TIME!
That's because the king is an idiot.
[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;35628573]That's because the king is an idiot.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=Sobotnik;35628201]Everybody hurry up and send in their turns I can't wait to show everybody Van Kaeos brilliant strategic and diplomatic skills.
.[/QUOTE]
How many are left? It'd be awesome if we could squeeze in 3 turns in a day.
6:12 PM - Shazbotnik: Imma have the turn ready for tomorrow evening
6:12 PM - Kamikaze: aw
6:13 PM - Shazbotnik: 3 players havent sent in their turns
6:13 PM - Shazbotnik: and they are all asleep
6:13 PM - Shazbotnik: Hence must be delayed
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