Year 459 of the holy mother, February

Another supply ship has arrive with new settlers and supplies! They bring word that Verina and Acra signed a land sale, signing some of Verinan Colonial assets over too the Republic of Acra, marked on the map. Everything east of the red dotted line is Acran territory. In addition to supplies and settlers, a larger military detachment has also been sent along with A Fessian Baron, a historical ally of Verina. The baron is there to ensure that the Acrans don't try to sabotage the settlement of serenity.

Finally, a dock and a small ship builder have been built, exhausting our current wood supplies we had stockpiled, but we cannot begin building any larger ships than our current until we train some shipbuilders

+cattle, sheep
+70 settlers
+1 baron
+20 Fessian mercenaries (Polearm troops also armed with pistols)
+21 polearms
+21 pistols

Settlement Name:serenity
Population:169 men, 140 women, 28 kids
Food stuffs: 9 months
Equipment: 60 muskets
21 pistols
21 polearms
gunpowder for 5,000 shots
150 swords
50 sythes (farm equipment)(in use)
25 wood axes
25 pike axes
building tools for 30 workers
47 cows, 4 bulls
78 sheep
107 chickens, 12 roosters
29 horses
9 wolves
10 dogs
3 units of iron ore

skilled settlers
2 doctor/barbers
20 royal marines
20 fissian mercs
25 hunters
15 scouts
4 veteran settlers
15 woodsman
120 farmers
2 blacksmiths
34 miners
7 fishers
1 brewer
1 Duke (leader of the settlement)
1 Baron (leader of the settlement garrison)
1 priest of the holy mother
2 tanners


crops:capable of sustaining 700 settlers for 6 months
january, 459

1 town hall
several houses
stone walls
market place
14 farms
1 windmill
woodsman huts
watch tower
mining camp

You have a total of 80 free settlers doing odd jobs around the settlement

>>10655745
what is our pop count/job disposition?
how many cows/sheep/chickens do we have?
How many wolves do we have domesticated?
did we start work on our barge yet, or did we decide to do the dockyards first?

also, get a decent waste removal system going... preferably something that would foul the waters to our East, preferably outside of the bay we're set up on

set some of the new settlers to chopping wood, another group learning how to build ships, and the rest should go to the mine.

the chickens and cows are good to eat now, we need the sheep for wool. try not to let our critter numbers get too low

>>10655808
gah, typed to slow... sorry

>>10655857

Just a warning, other jobs may open up in the future as the colony expands and further events happen. Are you sure you want to put ALL settlers into jobs?

Our ship is here? FEAST TIME!!! invite the Orcs for sure again... not sure about the Gobbos. also ask for word about haw far west the goblins are LEGALLY allowed to go. we stomp their asses as soon as they go past that point. And we need to get our barge up ASAP so that we can set up a fort on that island...

>>10655908
I said some, leave like 15 unassigned for now

Does the colony have Sovereignty? Can the Duke operate semi-autonomously regarding local politics?

Also, get pigs. Virtually self-maintaining, high growth rate compared to cows or sheep.

year 459 of our holy mother, march

You train up 30 settlers in the art of shipbuilding, and can now create medium sized civilian ships until the shipyard itself is upgraded. They will have a range of 1000 miles, capable of reaching other colonies, but not able too reach the homeland. 5 settlers are sent off to the mining camp and another 10 to the forest to become woodsman.

A glorious feast is held in the name of lasting over a year, and we invite the Dothclyde Orcs for it. This time they loosen up slightly more and begin to join in the celebrations. You also discover that their number has increased in women and children now, they deciding to make a permanent camp to keep watch over the colonials.

the priest did not have a fun time.

The treaty says that the goblins are allowed to cross the border (red dotted line) but are not permitted to build anything on that side without permission from serenity. In addition, every few days goblins appear in the markets, trading some of their goods for some of ours

+30 shipbuilders
+5 miners
+10 woodsman
+Medium sized transporter in 2 months

>>10656071

The colony is owned by the king, the duke is essentially the governor general of the colony, but, it has autonomy in almost everything it does due to its isolation, ships taking around 6 months to travel to and from europa and the new world.

That's A LOT of shipbuilders. Is that specialists, or just people assigned to building? Really, you only need a few specialists, while others are reassigned carpenters or even unskilled.

>>10656071

You'd need to wait for the supply ship to return to requisition them, or trade with the goblins.

>>10656167
awesome. Have the Mercs and Marines that dont have an assigned duty (town watch, guarding the mines ect) go out on patrols with the scouts periodically. about 1/3 of the unassigned soldiery with their scout, lets just go as far as the junkstone deposit for now, make it a 3 or 4 day loop, and bring a tamed wolf or two as well

>>10656230

it takes alot of people to make a ship, and shipbuilders can work on other projects as well, considering they are just glorified carpenters.

>>10656230
we have no rare ore, no spices and no valuable furs. in order to maintain our usefullness to the homeland we need to have SOMETHING of note. so until further notice thats gonna have to be bitchin' ships

oh, by the way, as you may have noticed, i'm including many races, but i haven't said what race that you are. Its been assumed you are humans, naturally, but if you folks want you can make yourself any other race as long as its not too connected to magic and isnt orc or goblin.

The Fessians, however, are humans, as is the baron.

Weren't we going to get the natives to attack the other colony?

we need to get on better waste management. does the current to the east of the bay we're on head inwards or back out to sea??

you have no compass, why is there no compass?

>>10656287
Shipbuilding is an art in and of itself, beyond what a regular carpenter can do. That said, You really only need one or two masters, and the rest of the builders can be carpenters and stuff. Any sailmakers around? How about rope? Hemp crops for canvas and rope. Fortunately, hemp only takes a couple months to mature. You can also use it in clothing and paper. You'd probably need carpenters just to prepare the incoming lumber. Sawmill?

>>10656383
How about we're... ogres.

The dapper, intellectual variety.

year 459 of the holy mother, april

You send out some of your marines and fessians out with the scouts, both teaching them about the local wild life and keeping an eye out for danger. You've encountered a few Goblin patrols as well on your side of the border, which is allowed by the treaty. The patrols discover the goblins now have 36 pigs, 14 cows and a bull, and 14 horses.

Tracks have also been found of natives, but the Dothclyde Orcs say that they have not been moving in numbers in that region. Oh, also, your hops fields are ready.

>>10656458
still no compass, this map needs a compass!

>>10656388
thats what the patrolls are for. as soon as we catch those greedy gobbo bastards on our side of the line, we warn them. the second time we catch them we become justified to open hostilities, as they have willingly and knowingly broken the treaty establishing that border. giving us the moral highground

I wanna see if we can get or something tobacco from someone. Do the locals have a unique plant like tobacco was in the early America's?

Ah finally some dogs! But wth are they for? If its open for suggestion i suggest we train them in herding? And what are we using as a beast of burden?

I'm thinking a fort/outpost with long range cannon would be excellent about here-ish (see red X), to control the nearby shipping and ensure any fleets of ours don't get trapped in the harbor in the future.

>>10656448

Ok, let me rephrase that. The race can only be as short as a hobbit and high as a elf/tiefling

>>10656439

The shipbuilding facilities included a sawmill for just that. Your colony has stockpile cloth and rope that can be used. There are alot of things you colonists have which i haven't included, such as shovels, buckets, etc Unless its ultra specialized i wont include it, but if your not sure just ask.

>>10656419

Well, if you don't know if north is up, then you shouldn't be here. Oh, that brings up another question. If anybody would like to create a world map, it'd be much appreciated for when i decide to start scaling this game up. As you can see, i can only do so much with paint.

>>10656539
Ok, not only are maps not typically made in dark ages with north being "up" but that's not the fucking point! A compass is as to a map as a hat is as to a captain! it's fucking important!

Are captain is hat-less you communist bastard!

>>10656500

Read above, treaty states they are allowed on your side of the border, they are just not allowed to expand their colonial assets on your side.

>>10656522

The colonies plan is still to get a fort going on that central island once the ship is ready.
>>10656511

You have noticed the natives smoking pipes, although your people have no idea what the effect is.

>>10656588
*our*

>>10656595
Trade for some of that shit and try it the fuck out!

>>10656588

This is not the dark ages, this is an entirely different world that has 17th century technology.

>>10656620
ok so, there's no satellites or sustainable flight? How do you make a map? you fucking go for a walk and record what you see to the best of your abilities. "up" is the direction you're walking when you start.

>>10656669

a wizard did it

>>10656539
/tg/ will always vote for dwarves though. No exception.

Not that dwarves aren't awesome.

>>10656691

the first race to get 8 votes will be the defacto race of Verina.

>>10656690
Then we should ask for our money back, cause he fucking jew'd us out of a compass.

DWARVES

Send a scouting party north and west. They're to return in a weeks time.

>>10656715
human

Batmen

>>10656715
Half-vampire half-dragon half-elves.

Totally within the height and magic restrictions.

>>10656612
seconded
>>10656522
seems like a good spot to me. we can make it a stone fort too, using the excess junk stone from our mine as well!
>>10656516
I'm gonna second the herding option, have some unasigned settlers work the dogs, and take a few more of the domestic wolves to fight fire with fire, have them move the herds west, as sheep are dirty, smelly stinky animals that should clean up our village, and give us more eyes on any gobbo treaty-breaking

>>10656725
If the supply ships are navigating around the world they probably have compasses and sextants, or a wizard did it.

>>10656730
seconding that all-round. a few spare woodsmen, scouts, some soldiery and a handful more of the unassigned settlers should do

year 459 of our holy mother, May

The ship is complete! She is now ferrying materials from the mine camp and serenity now, causing natural growth in the minecamp. In addition, the baron landed on the island and claimed it for Verina, and it now requires a name, as does the ship.

The goblins have approached your colony with a proposal. They want to build a quarry on Verinian Territory to the east of our colony. In return, they offer 20 pigs, 10 cows and 1/4 of the quarries production. In addition, they quarry will technically be owned by the kingdom, but be under management of the republic of Acra.

Additional, role 1d4 for random events

+5 iron ore units
+territory

>>10656809
>>10656730
Yes. We're dwarves.

send the human mercenaries on the scouting mission. let the filthy humans risk their lives.

Dwarves.

Humans.

rolled 3 = 3

>>10656816
They can build the quarry. But we get 1/3 of the rock. We get to choose the 3rd to make sure they don't swindle us.

Name the island St. Loki's Isle.

rolled 1 = 1

>>10656861
>>10656737
>>10656747
Sorry dudes, we're totally dwarves.

Rolling for event

>>10656730

a few week journey means you'll travel roughly 100km out in both directions. In addition, they may face unknown dangers, as it would be a hazardous trip.

A ONE week journey. That the human mercenaries do. Starting north, bending westward, coming back south and then East to return home.

ONE WEEK ONLY. And since they're mercs, it's no big deal if they die.

by the way, if you are dwarfs, you wont be sterotypical dorfs. You'll be more like regular 17th century Germanic people is all, but you get to keep the beards.

human

>>10656941
Fantastic.

>>10656919

one week is 40km and is much less risky.

DWARVES DWARVES DWARVES!

>>10656816
Unacceptable, we want at least half the production of the quarry. We can afford to play hard ball with these guys. They need the stone more than we do and if they are coming to us then it means there aren't any good spots near their colony.

humans

mother fucking humans

>>10656863
seconding. and we should put our fort roughly lined up with the southernmost tip of the east rock outcropping, and use both the stone from the gobbo's mine and stone from our mine to build it. try to get some cannon sent to us from the homeland on our ships next return, also we now heed to set up a smithy

It seems pretty even between humans and dwarves, with dwarves taking the lead.

How about Dwarf majority with human minority.

>>10657007
good point, but half seems mighty greedy and their likely to say no, being greedy themselves. go 40%

>>10657030
agreed.
also
DWARVES!!!!!!

HUMANS NOW

>>10657106
I like this. Humans and dwarves working together.

/tg/ is ALWAYS dwarves, so it'd be cool to have a changeup.

Timinits.

Set plans for the construction of 3 stone watchtowers/forts in the marked locations. The plan will be for these to be built like lighthouses, with large cannons on top.

Send a request for several cannons and cannon balls the next time a ship leaves for home.

>>10657193
Forgot my hat.

>>10657181
sounds cool to me.
and yea, I'm likin the multiple (beefy) cannontowers over the fort, maybe put a barracks at a point equidistant between the tree for the poor sods manning the island?

Here's an idea, they obviously need stone, but don't have access to a steady supply within their territory so they want some of ours. Let's not let them have it and instead build the quarry ourselves. We can then sell them the stone at exorbitant prices and basically squeeze them for cash and hinder their growth by denying them stone if we feel like it.

>>10657223
Each lighthouse/watchtower/cannon tower should have a small barracks on the bottom floor with space for 5 soldiers. They can have 2 or 3 day shifts.

When their time is up, they return home and are replaced with other soldiers.

It will take time for these towers to get built, so it gives us time to increase our soldier base.

>>10657240
to overtly belligerent. lets exploit their labor at 40% stone plus the payment they suggested. as that gets us pigs and cows as well. and pigs = more meat on the menu which means happier dorfs/humies

year 459 of our holy mother, june

You send off 10 fessians, 4 veteran settlers, 5 scouts and the baron off to scout off to the north for a week. They come back and tell you on the north coast there is another settlement, a tiefling settlement of the Supreme Empire of Dorova. The tieflings have fallen on hard times, despite having a population of around 1400, are having trouble feeding their people. They lost 2 scouts to wolves.

The goblins grudgenly agree too sending half the stone, resulting in an upkeep of half a unit of stone per year. Saint.Lokis fort is set up on St.Loki's island, but due to low numbers just 10 of the mercenaries are stationed there.

The smoking material is most interesting indeed. When smoked, it makes a person turn a light blue color, as well as causing them to feel lighter, but capable of thinking perfectly well.

Finally, odd news today. Wilhelm kaufmann, a fisher came running back from the river, telling of how a fierce creature attacked him and his fellow fishers, around 8 feet long that burst out of the water onto land which killed all but him.

+fort
+half a unit of stone per month
-2 scouts
-6 fisherman
no fish income.

>>10657240
Ive been suggesting finding a good stone quarry from the beginning, but yea i second that. We cant afford to have stone be a factor, whether we exploit the fact they dont have stone is fine by me but we really should build that quarry.

Humans, not dwarves

dwarfs are over rated, seriously

>>10657308
I was afraid somethign would happen with somethign being in the water. I say we have a group of men hunt down whatever attacked the fishermen, maybe it can prove to be a good source of leather, and who knows maybe we can use its teeth for ivory decor which can go for big bucks.

fuck a carp

>>10657308
Damn ask him if it looked anything like this. Send an emissary to the tieflings and food and resources in exchange for either more land or some tools or whatever they can offer.

>>10657430

He says roughly, but about 2m tall and as fast as a charging bull

HUMANS, FUCK YEAR

>>10657308
look into growing that native herb to trade/sell back to the homeland, send an emisary w/some of our spare food to the teiflings and try to get something good in return (maybe some cannons for our fort?) let it be known that any willing volunteers can join the 1st colonial infantry at the fort (start getting more of our own profesional soldiers). try to get the fishermen replaced and get rid of the critter in the water. is our ship still in harbor, or is that the one we built I see sitting there?

>>10657333
>>10657393
>>10657534
HUMANS AND DWARVES!!
UNITY FUCK YEA!!!!

yeah, i vote humans

>>10657502
Six feet tall and eight feet long. That's some weird dimensions for a crocodile. Weird dimensions for a crocodile, if it were some dire variant you'd think it'd be longer, but whatever. We'll need to start sending armed guards with the fishermen. A couple good musket rounds to the eye should take down the beast. Make sure they keep an eye out for any eggs while fishing too.

>>10657547

Thats yours, capable of traveling to the tiefling colony easily. The tieflings are willing to offer you two cannon and 30 Orc slaves in return for food for 300 people for one month.

>>10657616

its not a crocodile, just similar. I said id be making up my own animals.

>>10657616
>good musket rounds... eye
So... wild luck, then?

Counting votes, it looks like the colony is HOOMAN. FUCK YEAH!

>>10657643
Do this. Give them the food. Talk to the Orc we know who is highest up. Tell him we'll give him the Orc slaves so they'll be free.

oh, also, humans win, Varina is a human kingdom, but has a dorf minority, so 1/5 of the colony are dwarfs.

>>10657688
cool beans. also, we need a smithy up now that we have a decent supply of iron. and we should start looking into making steel as well...

>>10657688
Bullshit

>>10657679
excellent plan sir!! get us in even better standings with the locals!

>>10657721
Well, if you're at about 17th c. tech, should have blast furnaces. Any coal? Charcoal will do, though.

year 459 of our holy mother, july

After sending away some of our excess food stocks, the tieflings are very grateful for what we have done for them, giving us 2 cannon and 30 slaves. After recieving the slaves, we take up talks with the dothclyde tribe to return the slaves to them, but they inform us these are Orcs from a tribe hostile to their own, but would be willing to put them down for us if we would give them to them.

Fort Loki has had two stone towers built with a cannon in each, both capable of a range of 500m. Trade begun with the natives, they presenting us with this new smokable plant they call "Durthweed" in exchange for 5 of our horses.

A small black smith has been set up in town, capable of producing 10 breast plates a month or 20 swords, both using one ore. In addition, we've recieved settlers from the tielfing colony, who have flocked to our own due to hardships in theirs. While it is good to have an extra helping hand. some of the people are wary over having a tiefling quarter in the south east corner of town.

Finally, the baron lead a party of 5 Fessians and killed the beast at the river, hauling it back to town, stuffing it and mounting it in the town hall

+30 orc slaves
+45 tielfings (24 males, 21 females)
+2 cannon
+durthweed supplies

So the monster looks something like this?

Give the slaves to the Orcs. We need the natives on our side.

>>10657869
Have anyone experienced with wildlife examine the body of the beast There has to be something that we can "harvest" from it that is valuable, and if so i hope theres more of em.

here are the current stats

Settlement Name:serenity
Population:166 men, 138 women, 28 kids (Varinian)
24 men, 21 women (tiefling)
30 Orc slaves
Food stuffs: 9 months
Equipment: 60 muskets
21 pistols
21 polearms
gunpowder for 5,000 shots
150 swords
50 sythes (farm equipment)(in use)
25 wood axes
25 pike axes
building tools for 30 workers
61 cows, 6 bulls
84 sheep
124 chickens, 17 roosters
41 pigs
26 horses
11 wolves
18 dogs
4 units of iron ore

skilled settlers
2 doctor/barbers
20 royal marines
20 fissian mercs
25 hunters
13 scouts
4 veteran settlers
15 woodsman
120 farmers
2 blacksmiths
34 miners
1 fishers
1 brewer
1 Duke (leader of the settlement)
1 Baron (leader of the settlement garrison)
1 priest of the holy mother
2 tanners


crops:capable of sustaining 700 settlers for 6 months

1 town hall
several houses
stone walls
market place
14 farms
1 windmill
woodsman huts
watch tower
shipbuilder
blacksmith
dock

>>10657869
We don't need slaves that much, maybe we could sell them to the goblins. Set the smith to producing armor, we have plenty of swords as it is. Perhaps set a cap on the amount of tieflings we are willing to take in.

>>10657869
put the slaves to work in the mines I guess. get the teiflings going as scouts and fishers, anything that keeps'em outa town,therefore making the others happy.

Also breastplates, we need to start raising our own local army, volunteer in, one year service after training at Ft. Loki.

Finally, a gunsmith would be a good idea as well...

>>10657915

A veteran settler tells you he saw one of these at a failed colony once, and that they usually tend to travel either
1. the males are alone
2. the females are alone til they have a litter of 1-5 babies, at which point the children follow the mother for 2 years.

This was a male. He also mentions that alot of nobility in europa like too use the skin of the beasts as a sign of status

>>10657939
defianately, also expand the farms, if the tieflings keep coming we're gonna need more food. And start eating some of the cows, chickens, and pigs

Give the slaves to the natives to improve our relations.

>>10657946

Gunsmiths are more complex and first require steel, and steel requires a larger mine.

>>10657985

read the stats, you can support 700 people currently, your sending a fair amount of your production back to europa.

>>10657996
>doesn't know shit about metallurgy. Shouldn't pretend like he does.

>>10657979
lets get to hunting then!!! also we need to figure out how to grow Durthweed so we can trade that back home as well. And yea, more food production, slaves mining, and tieflings capped and out of town for their work

>>10658023

You're right, i don't, but im not giving you guys the ability to make guns just yet until you work for it.

It's a blue jew. You cannot unsee it.

>>10658063

oh sweet baby jesus what have i done.

>>10657996
What do we need to do to build a large mine then?

>>10658057
>implying I was talking about the construction of guns, rather than the smelting of steel.

>>10657979
have fishermen travel lightly aremd because of those things. And hey we need a school, have the priest baron or duke (im assuming there the only ones who have a good grasp on knowledge) teach the kids basic education.

>>10658096

just wood and pop, which your slaves can be used for.

>>10658134
Well fuck, put those Orcs to work then. Don't work them too hard or treat them harshly though, just make sure they get their jobs done at good pace.

Damnit, now I want to play Colonisation again.

>>10658170
seconded

year 459 of our holy mother, august

Supply ship has arrived with more settlers and military personal, but thats about it. The mine is expanded and the slaves put to work in it, increasing your output too 1 iron unit a month, enough to start smelting half a steel unit.

Durthweed is begun to be grown south of our fields, and a new use has been found for it. When grinded up, it releases an oil which can be used as an Anaesthetic, and some of the last durthweed in the settlement is loaded onto the supply ship to be sent to Europa.

A school house is built in the town, with the duke acting as the teacher until the supply ship comes back with one.

+100 settlers (60 men, 40 women)
+30 marines
+30 muskets

>>10658170
>>10658215
A cunning ploy is to let them choose if they want to work in the mine. And those that do get better food.

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I forgot, did the duke make any progress with the widow, and did we give the dead fishermen a service?

well, that was a sudden death

>>10658380

fisherman was burnt, so yes. You guys have maid no move on the widow, but its been like a year and a half, im sure you got a chance now bros.

>>10658219
soldiers to the fort now, FEAST!!!!! as our ship has returned, once again invite the Orcs. lets get going on steel and doing a proper Durthweed crop, orc slaves to the mine

>>10658460
If we have a feast lets smoke a Durthweed weed peace pipe together.

>>10658460
Do we really need guns that much? Why make guns a priority. Ammo creation, gun smithing, and such will be difficult, and will scare the natives that we've been allying.

>>10658446
go for it!!! OPERATION POLYGAMY IS A GO!!!!!

Duck murderer, how important is the divinities in your roleplay?

Only send processed durthweed, retain nominal control of its cultivation.

>>10658522
I said soldiers should be stationed at the fort now, that should make us seem LESS threatening, as we are simply guarding ourselves. Also, start a more permanent non-militia army for volunteers from the city

>>10658522
I agree. We should focus on increasing our food/currency production not getting guns. Make more goods to send to Europa.

>>10658542

I'm glad somebody finally caught on. The people are starting to get bothered at the fact theres no chapel to the holy mother, while the tieflings are bothered theres no alter to the emperor. The king is also un-impressed you've failed to spread the word of the holy mother in serenity.

oh also, i am still looking for people too help me create background fluff for nations.

>>10658615
Lay out plans for the creation of these two structures. Priority on the church to the Holy Mother.

>>10658615
I actually proposed building a church with one of the four units of stone we got a while back, no one listened.

>>10658636
Also, perhaps call for the transportation of some priests from the motherland? I don't know if we have the technology for such a request yet, though. Priests would be helpful in making more perfectly accurate churches/alters.

>>10658552
seconded

>>10658668
yea, lets take some excess stone and build a nice, big, church. if the tieflings want an alter they can pay for the supplies and build it themselves in their own quarter, as they cam here from a different colony

year 459 of the holy mother, September

A mostly boring month this month, work went on with the durthweed crops which will be ready in a month. An altar to the emperors soul was put up in the tiefling quarter and a chapel of the holy mother built by the water as tradition dictates.

the 30 new marines were stationed at the fort along with the 10 Fessians.

roll 2d4

>>10658668
Second. And before anyone bitches, YES you want well-made temples to them dwarf gods.

>>10658732
Actually, I'm liking the Tiefling idea you have there. Pay for 1/4 of the alter, though. Keep them lovin' us.

>>10658732
I agree but dont make the church a requirement.

rolled 3, 2 = 5

>>10658756
Rolling some bones.

rolled 6 + 5 = 11

Rollin

>>10658796
What? xD Anon, you've made my day.
Duck. I declare this to be our roll.

Send people out into the woods to hopefully discover some new and hopefully useful flora and fauna.

Can we have scouts explore the woods way to the left, north of the orc camp?

>>10658826
Send some scouts and some woodsman. Oh, and a few mercs.

>>10658826
>>10658837
>>10658845

you've done that like 2 times now, why do it again.

>>10658815
He used the wrong dice. Duck said roll 2d4, he rolled a 1d20+5 for some reason.

>>10658861
I know. I just think this Anon has outdone himself in terms of idiocy and randomness. He deserves a medal.

>>10658857

So we can know if the orcs get more orcs.. or if they are sending anything back to their homeland

well aren't you guys going to give orders for this month, or what?

>>10658923
Don't. Just don't.

I say we get that church going.

>>10658923

well considering that their homeland is to the west, not east, that may be a problem.

>>10658941
I'm not seeing anything that needs to be done. I'm gunna think through, feel free to write-up the next month.

>>10658901
That doesn't make any sense if you're the same person that I just replied to, it just seems like you're trying to save face after not noticing something obvious.

>>10658940

Church is built

>>10658940
That church IS done.

Can we get a compass rose on the map?

Do we have access to brewing materials? If we do let's get a brewery up, sell the alcohol to the orc tribes for more supplies or the tieflings for more slaves.

>>10658987
That's something we can have done this month. Study and create a compass rose for the map. Maybe the orc homeland to the west, is actually to the right.

>>10659006

thank fuck somebody noticed. You've had Hops for like, 6 fucking months and haven't used them.

>>10659027
Compass Rose + Brewery this month. That'll work.
This is what we desire, Duck.

>>10659027
Do we get a bonus to the brews quality due to having some dwarfs?

>>10659044
maybe upgrade our dockyards and mines again? get going on making bigger/better ships perhaps...
maybe a long-range scouting part IS in order now...

>>10659055
Some Dwarfs? We are a Dwarf majority, with a Human minority I thought.

>>10659061
Send all the Tieflings. All of them. Scout for a month and a half.

>>10659078
I'm pretty sure we're human majority with a dwarf minority.

year 459 of our holy mother, October

Good and bad news today from serenity. A brewery has finally been set up to start making Ale for our new colony. Everybody, especially the Tieflings, are happy with this, with three bars/taverns being set up. 1 near the docks, one in the Varinian Quarter, One in the tiefling quarter. In addition, we've recieved 14 goblin settlers from the Acran colony, which prohibits alcohol.

Out dothclyde friends have come under times of trouble. It seems their camp has been raided by a more hostile tribe, the stathborn. Half the camp is dead or wounded, and the remaining warriors ask the duke and baron for men to help destroy the butchering Orcs.

+14 Goblins (4 men, 10 women)
+taverns, brewer

>>10659090
Seconded. If they all die in the scouting party; we reaid the Tiefling's colony.

>>10659090
This seems kinda like a bad idea.

Begin brewing with hops. See if we can make an infusion/ferment some of the local herb (the stuff the orcs showed us). Set one or two dedicated villagers to brewing. Put up semi-strict rules with when alcohol can be made available / consumed (not on job, etc.).

Otherwise expand mine and fort on St.Loki.

i SAY WE HELP

>>10659107
Offer to take them on as a protectorate if they convert to the church of the holy mother.

Then fuck some shit up. (Slaving enemy natives can only end well, right?)

>>10659107
Round up all of the Dothclydes. State that they are being relocated to another town just for them. Give them to the Ogres.

>>10659122
Really? This can't possibly end badly in your mind?

> ...

>>10659107
Ok millitary scouts are in order now, i say we scout out this hostile tribe and if open warfare isnt an option then maybe we should consider sabatoge.

>>10659107
Send trained men equipped with armor, swords, and muskets. We can't afford to lose the tribe we've sunk so much time into, especially if they'd be replaced with a hostile tribe.

>>10659159
>>10659159
>>10659159
>>10659159
>>10659159
>>10659159

>>10659186

Set up and ambush for the raiders in the Dothclydes camp.

>>10659186
I say we send an emissary to this new hostile tribe.

>>10659189
>>10659159

this would work, if there were any ogres.

>>10659152
>>10659152
this works. if they say no, tell'em thats cool and help anyways, we have all this military and nothing to use it on!!!

>>10659227
i mean orcs.

>>10659240
You want us to give the orcs to the orcs?

what?

>>10659256
I think he's saying to give the Dothclydes to the Orcs. I'll pass. I'm still liking the emissary idea.

year 459 of the holy mother, november

The duke offers the dothclyde tribe to become a protectorate of serenity, and although they dont refuse, they dont accept.

You send out scouts and eventually find the Orc camp in the northwest, about 12km away in the forest, and tell you they number between 150-200 orcs. You send out an emissary along with 4 marines as guards. Four days later the heads of all of them are found on stakes outside our western watchtower.

-4 marines
-1 veteran settler.

Tell me, OP. How is your relationship with your father?

>>10659316


the original map had ALOT more penises, so i had to modify it.

>>10659315
It can be war time now?

Practice subjugation. Try and minimize are losses as priority one, but take as many slaves as possible.

Potentially night raid the hell out of them?

See if we can get advice, work with our orc alli- friends to rock this shit hardcore?

>>10659186
Even better:
Send a small militia slightly north of the hostile tribe's camp. Send an emissary, and invite the new hostile tribe (Orcs?) to a feast at our main city. When the Orcs arrive, have our militia attack the hostile tribe's camp. Make our feast full of booze and alchol. When those who attended the feast leave, have the militia hide in the hostile's town. Kill them as they arrive, drunken.

>>10659343
>>10659315
duck_murderer: This works perfectly. Let's have it happen.

Can we get a total of our military assets?

>>10659315
Can we get an update on things that pertain to our military, like a count of our muskets, soldiers, and other things? I say we build some portable canons, mount some musketeers, and go on a warpath against the enemy orcs.

>>10659343
Interesting...
I do not feel bad towards this idea.

>>10659343
Wasn't our first emmisary killed by them no questions asked?

Why would we make this mistake again?

>>10659343
>>10659354
>>10659383
They'll just kill him again, don't you guys learn?

>>10659400

yeah, im not sure how you would get one to contact them alive.

>>10659358

50 marines (Musket and sword infantry)
16 Fessions (Polearm and pistol infantry, light armor)
1 Baron (polearm and pistol, 'hero unit')

200 swords
90 muskets
21 pistols
21 polearms
26 horses

>>10659343
This or we get whatever cannons we have and bombard their village for as long as possible, if they retreat have our men move in and take whatever prisoners we can if not have a line of soldiers ready. Also i hope our soldiers are trained in line firing.

>>10659428
I thought we had 2 cannons?

Lets send 20 marines, 5 mercs and our hero to set up and ambush for the next raiding party.

>>10659437

their warcamp is car too deep inside the forest to utilise the cannons. Oh, also, the Dothclyde have 40 able bodied warriors left, armed with bows and hachets.

>>10659428
Start training unassigned settlers. Its time to raise the 1st colonial

>>10659428
Send scouts to the hostile's encampment. Find our their numbers. Our military report isn't as important as their military report. Send emisarries to the allied Orcs, and the Tieflings, asking for their help against this hostile tribe. Find out how many units the Dothclydes will be able to send.
tldr; Emisarries --> Tieflings + Allied Orcs + Dothclydes, asking for military numbers and amount they'll send. ((And/or, what they want in return.))
Scouts --> Hostile camp

I require numbers.

oh, also, dont forgot, you can call up militia men

>>10659428
Do we have any hunters good at long range kills? Or are our weapons not that refined yet?

If yes, send some to hide behind our main force and act as sharpshooters. Stagger our musketers behind our polearms, with civilian volunters to speed reload an alternate for all but 10 musketers who we should hold in reserve to charge in if things look rough.

But this really depends on what kind of terrain we fight on. In the woods we want to flank with polearms, if theres room for them to fight properly with scout teams of three relaying info to the main force. Until battle can be drawn.

Perhaps break off a stealthier battlegroup that we use to flank?

>>10659428
Can we make twenty more marines and five more fessions by next month?

>>10659460

We could use those 40 orcs to lure the enemy out.

Do the orcs know of any good ambush spots?

>>10659483

i already said, 150-200 units.

the tieflings themselves have their own problems, but your tieflings in serenity volunteer 15 men.

>>10659428
The GM is giving us the option to utilize the Baron. Don't do it, I'm sure we'll see his death. Again, let's get those numbers before doing anything irrational.

>>10659483
Other than involving the tieflings this seems like a good idea.

No reason to bring them in when we don't have to. We don't want to have to share the spoils of war / owe them a debt.

>>10659522
Perfectly acceptable. Don't send that emissary to the Tiefs, then.

I dont suppose its too late to research rifling? I know 17th century tech but im just asking, it would help a whole lot.

>>10659502

you cant make marines, and fessians are european mercs. All you can call up are militia units.

as for ambush spots, the dothclyde know of two potential spots. One is at a ford in the river near their camp, another further up stream in a small part of the forest.

hunters are the best shots you have, and are able for too hit a target from 75m away 50% of the time.

>>10659508
Still. The discrepancy of 50 orcs is quite large. Let's also search to see what weapons/armor they'll be using. I still vote for the scouting against the hostile orcs.

>>10659547
I think we're still working on being able to produce guns in any form.

Though that would be a good infrastructure improvement. Along with developing a public waste disposal system. Perhaps using abandoned mine segments to bury our waste (and watch it slowly leach into the water supply.) Would give us something to send back to the mines when they deliver iron...

>>10659516

The baron is your military leader, thats why you can use him. He's a veteran of many europan conflicts. He wont die if you do it right.

>>10659568

just hatchets and bows

>>10659568
You read where op said we've already scouted them.

Though what is there tech level is a fair question, assuming about equal to our friends, which is pretty low compared to us.

>>10659554
Ambush upstream.
Keep the hunters closer than 75 meters.

>>10659598
Sounds fair, though keep a few of our trained soldiers with our hunters (who should be set up a bit away, though within decent range of the ambush sight). In case they attempt to out flank us.

>>10659586

How many trained militia can we call up exactly?

>>10659598

how many professional troops and how many militia do you want to use?

>>10659554
Call up the militia. start prepping the ambush spot (hidden explosives, ect) have the Marines and Fessians do some more serious training. Raise a proper Line Infantry regiment out of volunteers from the Militia/others. Have the hunters train the Tieflings in marksmanship, hopefully w/in a month we'll have a fairly skilled albeit green as fuck line infantry regiment backed up by veteran/skilled Fessians and Marines (who can play melee combat screen for the Line regiment). Offer food, pay and housing in the barracks, (own hose for officers) to any man who stays on in the 1st Colonial

>>10659650

you could call up the entire town if needed, but your economy would suffer, you have about 95 free settlers, 80 Varinian, 15 tieflings.

>>10659660
30 Marines, 15 Fessions, 50% of our militia, and the Tiefs in our fort. Keep the rest of our fort's troop in the fort. Keep the Tiefs in front of every battalion, act as a meatshield; nothing lost if they die.

>>10659699
>>10659698
call up militia from the free settlers, send the tieflings to marksmanship "school" with our hunters. then do as the other post I linked said for having a standing army in case this happens again.

>>10659699
Attempt to train a 'volunteer' fighting force. Offer free barracks housing + better rations. In exchange they must train for combat several hours daily (they have a reduced workload to compensate) and fight when called upon. Think of them as a volunteer fire brigade. That throws fire.

>>10659729
>>10659698
Combine these. Everything the first post says, plus the Tief meat shield idea.

>>10659698

Thats a lot more than we can afford.

I say we call up 75 militia.. send all our professionals and 50 militia to the ambush and keep 25 in town ready to defend it in case those other colony decides to make a move.

>>10659729

what about the baron? you get a leadership bonus.

>>10659698

I like this. Also, how do we know that the gobbos arent behind this? we need to be prepared for the greedy bastards making a move on us through our allies with their allies...

>>10659750

Really bad idea to train slaves to fight.

>>10659785
>>10659785
>>10659785
Too far. Don't send that many troops and waste that much resources. Tone it down a little, duck.

>>10659766
he should lead the ambush force

>>10659762
Why do we keep trying to antagonize our minorities?

Seriously.

Devote a majority of our trained troops to it if we can, try to keep militia troops to a minimum at this point, as there largely untrained / a potential liability. Use our baron. Use sharpshooters. Use orc friends who we're helping.

>>10659796
Agreed. They are meat shields, nothing more. Don't train them.

>>10659796

tieflings aren't slaves, just minorities.

>>10659807
>>10659807
>>10659807
The GM *WANTS* use to the the Baron. That's why he posed it as an option. Do not use the Baron, something will happen.

>>10659785
We have gobbo settlers cause of our booze.

Get them hammered and see what we can get out of them?

>>10659813
I'm curious. Who has the better shot?
Untrained Tiefling.
Untrained Human
Untrained Dwarf
Untrained Orc

>>10659796
tiefs arent slaves. the slaves are our bate to get the raiding orcs to our ambush spot. we can pad out the lost mine production with additional captured slaves or other free settlers if necesary
>>10659698
I'm with a toned down version of this. we need our own local standing professional military, but we dont need to be blasting extra powder for the hell of it, and we should limit the size of the starting Regiment (probably down to what would be considered pretty harshly understrength back in Europa)

>>10659832
>>10659832
Do this.

Someone compile a list of everything we want done this month.

The priest should start preaching to the soldiers, there gonna need all the morale they can get

Train Tief volunteers as marksmen
Beef up our militias skill/size
-----MAYBE keep some on as permanant soldiers as a 1st Colonial regiment
Booze up gobbos to see if the gobbo colony is behind this
ambush and crush raiding orcs
...
did I miss anything?

>>10659915

this

I say the wolves and their handlers should be sent in battle too, it might not be that affective but im pretty sure it would strike fear in the enemy to see a comrade being ravaged by one.

459 of our holy mother, december.

To keep the colony safe, the baron lead out a total of 30 marines, all 16 fessians, 40 militia and 20 hunters and marched onwards to the dothclyde camp through the snow. Eventually a plan was made for the dothclyde to attack and withdraw so we could ambush the hostile tribe.

Lining up his troops in the tree line, the baron readied his men, before sending off the dothclyde raiders in the middle of the night. They returned two hours later at only half their strenght, with a grand total of 120 warriors following them. He had his troops hold fire until they were finally within 30m of the forest, before bellowing out 'FIRE', unleashing hell on the barbarians. The volley cut down 25 of the enemies number, sending them into a panic and before they realized what had happened, another volley was fired. 20 more of them fell, at which point they finally charged. The baron lead a bloody defense, killing over 5 of the savages with his bare hands. By the end of the battle, over 80 bodies littered the ground, 65 of them the stathborn. A great victory has been scored for serenity today.
-4 marines
-2 Fessians
-9 settlers

>>10659966
Any spoils?

>>10659966
Defiantly going to need to have a feast to celebrate.

>>10659857

tieflings come from a very hostile enviroment, the majority of their empire either frigid forests or scorching deserts. Every citizen of the empire is inducted into the military for 6 months, so tieflings tend to be better shots and fighters than an average civilian, but not by much.

>>10659915
spend a month giving the militia better training. train SHOOTAN with the Marines and CHOPPAN with the Fessians, but focus on the latter.
Have the Tief volunteers learn MARKSMANSHIP from our hunters/sharpshooters.
Have our Orc allies, and Fessians be the first part of the trap (using Orc slaves as bait). Have Baron Lead the Militia and Marines for the killing blow part of the ambush. Marksmen in prime killan spots for the whole thing. not sure on the numbers for it, but most of our pro soldiers, and the more skilled half of the militia should be about good, have the rest of the militia on guard in case of counteratack at the city.

>>10659999

Lets train up an elite unit made of tieflings then.

>>10659987

you haven't pushed into their camp yet, but you captured 6 orcs in the melee.

>>10659987

>>10659966
Cut off the heads of the corpses. Carve into them our nations symbol and stick them on pikes outside what was once our friendly orc tribe's camp grounds. No one fucks with our colony or our friends.

>>10659966
It may not be over have scouts check out the hostile tribe again, if asll looks good then have the soldiers go in and take what prisoners and items they can

>>10659999
Nice quads, duck.

>>10660042
This is exactly what I desire.

>>10660048

Second

>>10659966
FEEEEEAAAAAST!!!!!!! also any spoils? let our allies take a decent chunk of the spoils, and see if they want to press the attack home to the belligerent orcs home. Have the Tief voluntiers stay on as marksmen, and see about 20 or so of the militia staying on to form the 1st colonial. If something like this or worse happens again we'll be more prepared to deal with it, and it wont punch our economy as much since the militia will be able to stay at home

>>10660048
>>10660042
>>10660083
these all get seconded

>>10660021
Persuade them to give us information. Then roll onto village while their retreating. Try to outflank it.

Blitzkreig time.

>>10660206
Oh, then Feast, of course!

>>10660212
>>10660212
Always feast. Cheers to our first feast with Alcohol!

year 460 of our holy mother, January

After the victory at the battle of the ford, the baron lead his units into the forest a week later to clear out the camp, and discovered it had mostly been abbadoned, assides from a few dothclyde orcs who were freed and returned to their tribe, which, after this conflict, became a protectorate. The heads of all the dead were cut off, with a winged wolf carved into them, stuck on stakes outside the dothclyde camp.

Due to the victory, several cows were slaughtered for a grand feast held in serenity with a celebration lasting 2 days long, with 2 settlers dying from alcohol posioning/accidently jumping off the town walls.

Finally, the shipyard upgrade has been upgraded and is now capable of building large transports, capable of traveling to europe and small warships, with a range of 1000 miles.

Might be a good idea to set up some small watch towers in the woods in land.

>>10660229
Start building armed merchant ships, designed to scout the coastline and develop trade routes with our known neighbors + any new ones we can find.

Also; should've sent invites to the tieflings for the feast... coulda ended interestingly.

Any luck on plying the gobbos?

Send a scout to check on the rock mine. Check production, make sure we're not being stiffed. Make sure their not building a settlement.

>>10660274

If you want to start setting up a standing navy, you'll need to start assigning sailors from your settler pool.

>>10660261
This is true + clear cutting within, say, a mile of our village with fire stops/trenches at the edge of the forest.

Visibility is pretty key. And if we can develop preknown artillery targets for our cannons that'd be immensely helpful.

>>10660229
Have our farms start growing local herbs and crops to set up trade with our homeland.

Send an emissary to the other colony and tiefling town to see if we can set up trade.

>>10660310
I'd be fine with that, especially if there's potential trade benefits?

Plus sailors lead to fun hijinks...

oh, also people, thats the end of the session for now, but, i may start back up in about...6 hours or so? Anyway, i still require people to help me write background fluff as well as a world map for when the game really starts to expand. Anybody willing to help?

becuase of the chance for any future battles a military academy should be set up to train aspiring officers (preferably at our island fort), proper cavalry horses need to start being bred, and wolves should be trained for war (as for what specificaly i dont know)

>>10660329
If you'd write up a brief synopsis of what we've met so far I can maybe work on some fluffing.

Tiefling Empire
Gobbo ???
Us - Humie and Dwarf kingdom + holy mother

Any significant history I should work in?

>>10660332

You're colony is only got a population of just over 500, it wont need a military academy for a few years, it must rely on its colonial marines, any mercenaries it hirers, and raising militias. I mean shit, by time the american revolution they still mainly depended on militias, and this colony is DECADES before it becomes that well developed

>>10660332
I'd agree, but would suggest as a volunteer militia like I outlined earlier; means we don't have to commit settlers and can keep them flexible.

Though maybe have it be a requirment for our naval forces... and then turn our merchant ships into Privateers (pirating time, if done right we can even blame missing enemy colony ships on the ... weather, ya the weather.)

>>10660329

That sounds like fun. Do you have a dump e-mail?

Is this archived?

>>10660354

tieflings are from the Supreme Empire of Dorova, which is basicly a huge empire with little colonial assets, but what assets it does have are strongly guarded. Think the Russian empire. Its one of the strongest nations in the entire world, with the largest army but lacks a real navy.

Golbins are from the Most Serene Republic of Acra, a small but rich merchant republic with a fair amount of colonies in the south (which is like asia), but not many in the new world (west of europa). Shes a major player over seas and commands powerful navies and has well trained line infantry, but lacks in numbers.

The kingdom of Narina is a combination of the Batavian Republic and any sort of germanic duchy. Its a significant player on the world stage and has significant colonial assets in the new world, but lacks holdings in the far south (asia)

The fessians are related to the Varinians, and they come from many small kingdoms and principalities. They usually offer themselves up as mercenaries to alot of nations. No fessian nation has colonial assets. Fessians are purely human.

In addition, feel free to make up any sort of nation you please containing other races, such as elves, drow, halfings, dwarfs, whatever.

>>10660382

liamspence2000@yahoo.com.au

either send me an email or add me on MSN. Feel free to voice complaints too

Which nation is our homeland?

>>10660518

The homeland of serenity is Narina.

oh by the way, there were 13 children born this year, too

Damn, this quest seems like it's going to grow to Lord Quest levels of complexity, but as far as I'm concerned that's a god thing.

>>10660466
Nice place to start with this, thanks.

Any rivalries you want us to play up, or is it pretty much a blank slate beyond 'well everyone's rivals for the money.' type of set up.

>>10660642

I plan to add some rivalies in further, as an empire based off england that tried to invade Verina several years ago, but right now all the nations ive included are far enough away from each other in europa they just don't really give to much of a shit about each other.

anyway, ANYBODY is free to email me with submissions of nations or peoples, as it wouldn't hurt. If i could get somebody willing to make a world map, i can't describe how much id love you.

OP is a fag for not including dorfs

>>10660834
but like 15% of our current population is dwarfs.

>>10660834

.....our nation is about 1/5th Dwarven, same with our colony.

yeah, i was about to say...

by the way, should i give the duke and baron a name?

>>10661010

ill take that as a no then.

>>10661066
Eh, either way. I'd say let players give 'em a name when we feel they've earned them.

Also; working on some fluff now for the Empire. Commie Tiefling Imperium-esque setting going on. Though... hopefully not as bad as that sounds.

>>10661332
And... done.

Gonna send you an e-mail and throw it up in a writefag thread. Hopefully its not completely terrible...

>>10661664
Posting here, if anyone's still reading even though this is in autosage

>>10661802

Fuck. I overslept and missed the entire part two of colony quest.