Rules (Greater Americas)

Basic Rules

• One Turn is a year
• Game Starts in 1200 AD
• One Player Per country, One player may choose a colony if the colony has more than 100 px.
• Game is Archived every 15 years
• Be Plausible, No one will take Eurasia in three turns

Expansion

Any nation has an specific expansion rate, depending on their status, In civil disarray can Expand by only 5 px, but Nations In an stable stand can expand by 10 px per turn and depending on how organized and powerful by 25 px per turn.

Colonization

Any nation with a coast to a water in which they can send ships to colonize or settle a region far from the nations mainland core regions and the Colonial Expansion will be specific depending on how much has Nation been colonizing since the first Colony was made

Age	Size (px)
0- 25 years	10 px
25 - 50 years	20 px
50 - 75 years	25 px
75 - 100 years	40 px
100 - 125 years	50 px
125 - 150 years	60 px
150 - 200 years	80 px

However Nations Colonial expansion may be decreased if some sort of crisis or Important conflict occurs (if France Is Annexed for a small period of time to Germany it loses some of its colonial rate or reverts to the previous Stage of Colonial Expansion

War or Bellic Conflicts

Algorithm

it means any conflict between one or two nations for an specific motive

 Location 

• Isolated Nation: of the nation has not been contacted nor Explored previously and its Separated from the Attacker's Mainland or Homeland region by Different Seas and or if its Heavily defended (Island only) +10 for Defendant, -5 for attacker
• Mountainous: if the nation Attacked(Defendant) is or present considerable amounts of Mountain Systems which in some way mean a difficulty for the attacker to invade, +9 For defendant, -5 for attacker
• Flatlands: if a nation has a flat consistent surface or Easily takable land +8
• on Enemy Soil: if the Attacking nation has troops in the Defendants territory, it can be accounted if there's civil disarray, or an intervention or a previous alliance with the Defendant nation Ex: French Troops in Spain to invade Portugal During the Napoleonic Wars +7
• In the Country Within yours: if the Nation its been invaded by Enemy troops in the Borders +6
• Nearby:Neighbouring country: the attacker has a Common Border with the Defendant +5
• Desertic or Selvatic Environment: if the Defendant Nation has a Great amount of Desert Regions or Forest and Selvatic Environment +5 for defendant, -5 for attacker
• Island: the Homeland or War front is Situated in an Island, well defended yet already known or Explored Ex: Britain, +4, for defendant and -2 for attacker
• On another landmass: if the attacker nation is situated in a whole different land mass, separated by One or More Water bodies (Ex, Spain and the Aztec Empire's) +3 for defendant -1 for attacker
• Bordering the Same sea: if the nation has a coastline with by example the Mediterranean, to the Coastline of the Defendants Ex, France And Algeria attacker gets +2,
• On the Other Side of the World: it means that if the attacker nation (say Great Britain) invades a nation on the Other side of the World (Say Qing Empire) the Attacker nation Receives -1 and the Defendant +1
• Antarctica: if the Weather of the Invaded or Occupied Regions are or Present Low Temperature Ex. Russia

 Strength 

• Side with greater Industry: it means more Infrastructure +10
• Side with Greater Population: it means +8
• Control of the Seas: It means that a Nation has Most if not all of its fleet in an specific sea or Coastal region (+6 For Defenders, +2 for attackers), +0.3 per ship
• Size of the Army: It means the Size of the pending on its Historical Supposed time army number of the era
  • Big Army +8 (more than 100,000 men)
  • Huge Army +6 (80,000 to 100,000 Men)
  • Medium Army +5 (60,000 to 80,000 men)
  • Small Army +4 (30,000 to 60,000 men)
  • Tiny Army +3 (from 100,000 to 30,000 men)
  • Small states armies (City-states - 1000 to 10,000 men)
• Allies in war: +5 per each ally in war, +4 in Vassals, +3 in Supplies
• Tired Military: -2
  
• Development: 3 points per each infrastructure Economic and Military Build up done in the last 15 turns, and if the three are done 6 points (2 per infrastructure, 2 per economy and 2 for build up)
• Expansion: -1 point per each turn invested in National expansion outside colonial

 Tactical Advantage 

• Attacker's advantage: +2 its Granted to the nations  that started the war
• Defender's Advantage: +5 its granted to the nations on defendant position or attacked nations
• Hard Lands: it means any land that Represents a Difficult (by any reason) that are not mainly environmental if not by the lack of paths or Infrastructure +6 for defendants -3 for attackers
• Island +6: it means any Landmass separated from mainland (e.g Britain from Europe)

 Random 

• ==== there are two options for this the normal Random number or a 2 digit code, divided between each other (e.g 5 / 6 = 0.83 = 8.3)====

Motive

• Life or Death: +10 it means that the nation existence is threatened by an outside threat
• Provoked: +8 it means that the nation its been attacked
• Revenge: +7 it means a nation that its attacking an enemy to recover its "Honor"
• Religious: +7 (if its Religion Based) +4 if not: any campaign that face's peoples of two different religions
• Social Moral: +6 if it enters the war due to some minority or Social group being attacked or to aid an Ally in war
• Political: +5 to aid a similar-Friendly nation
• Economical: +4 if the war is to gain a highly producing region of the enemy Empire
• To gain land: +2 it means that the only motive is to gain  land or expand
• To Gain Prestige: -4 it means the war is done for prestige in front of the World Powers
• Subjugation: +1 Means that the motive is to make the other nation a vassal

Casus Belli

the Casus belli points are given to All states and can only be given one specific depending on the reasons in-game of the War, its similar to the Motive points but Specifically based in In-game information

• Reconquest: +10 - it means any Campaign that Refers to one single nation facing another nation that Represents the Opposite or that are seen as enemy (Say the Caliphate of Cordoba and Castile or the Franks)
• Crusade:+8 it means any Religious based assault at an Enemy of the Opposite religion (Ex Spanish-Venetian coalition against the Ottomans) of two or more Nations against one or more nations
• Throne Claims:+6 - +2, Six if the Nation claiming the other's throne has actual grounds (say Aragon and Naples) +4 if the nation has no grounds at all,
• Intervention:+5 it means any state intruding an ally or enemy state to Keep or aid the current Government (mainly used for Vassals or Allies in Civil war)
• Self Defense: +5 it means if the nation is invaded or attacked by a enemy without reason
• Imperial Manifesto: +4 , it means any sort of Pro imperialist movement that portrays one nation as Superior to all
• Irredentism-Nationalism: +2 though not Present in this specific era it can be said as any movement that enforces the believe to unify an ethnic group under one same banner (Say the French taking over the Gaul,Spain taking over Hispania and Venice doing the same with Italy)
• No Casus Belli: -2, it means that if there's no real reason outside pure expansionism the player will be given -2 in the algorithm

Bonuses

Most nations have bonuses, and the policy will be that all the bonuses added up will be divided by a number between 1 and 3, and be decided by RNG. Decimal results will be used.

Total:

• It means the result, the result will be ((60/(60+55)*2)-1) = 0.0434782 =4.35% of land can be taken by the attacker, by the way i would like to say that at difference that most of the other map games to topple the government there would only be needed 30% of land taken, and to vassalize between 23 to 25% of land and if a nation has faced a war where 21 % of its land has been taken but more than 10 years have passed even if you take the other 9% you can't annex the nation, because, depending on how strong the nation was prior, (Ex Eastern Roman empire during the Arabian invasion of North Africa) to the war, the government is likely to have already recover of the war, this is mainly to avoid a Over expansionism of Nations and to be as much plausible as possible, as well as to avoid powerful nations to be annexed by smaller nations just because they took the 30%
• another thing is, that a city-state, or a small state (Luxembourg - Venice) Can't annex a Local power, even if they get 30% this is to avoid the Ottoman Empire becoming Venetian or France falling to the Luxembourgish

Example War

Ottoman Caliphate

• Location: Nearby +5, Mountainous -5,
• Strength: Side with Greater Population +8, Huge army +6, tired military -2, Control of the Seas +2, Develop Zero (Ottoman Empire +5, Egypt +5)
• Tactical Advantage: Attackers advantage +2
• Random: 2/4:0.5 -- 5
• Motive: To gain land +2
• Casus Belli: No casus belli -2
• Total:31

Dulkadir-Ramadanids Sultanates

• Location: In the Country Within yours +6, Mountainous +9
• Strength:Small army +4, Develop: +3, Allies (Dulkadir +5, Ramadanids +5)
• Tactical Advantage: Defenders Advantage +4
• Random:1/1 = 1.0 - 10
• Motive:Life or Death +10, Ramadanids +5 to aid a friendly nation (two motives for the two nations)
• Casus Belli: Self Defense +5
• Total:66

Result

• The war ends with ((66/(66+31)*2)-1) :0,360824 -- 36 % of the Ottoman Empire falls to the Dulkadir and Ramadanids Dynasty war lasts ((21*66)/31)=44.7096/8)5.5887*1.5) = 8,38305 -- the war last Eight years

Like the Previous example, the war will last ---- and the land taken will be ----, the important thing is that the algorithm is done considering any possible factor that may help or Make harder to defend a nation, this is to bring Plausible results to the game, in a war there can't be more than one motive, or more than one Casus belli.

Bonus

it means any Punctuation given to a nation after facing a Specific situation or given that it is In a Specific situation

• Revolution Bonus: It means a Special Bonus that is given to nation which have faced a Revolution that has Changed Entirely the Politics and Government that used to rule in it, E.g The French Revolution, it gives a 1.5 multiplier to war algorithms
• Discovery Bonus: it means that its the First Nation to Discover and Unique previously unknown landmass, e.g., Britain discovering Australia, it gives a 5 year exclusivity expansion over that territory and gives 15 points to any war algorithm for five years.
• Republic Bonus: it means any nation that recently changed its government to a Republic it gives 0.5 multiplier plus to the result so E.g Britain gets 25+(25*0.5) = 12.5

Background story

will be written later Sine dei gloriem (talk) 00:59, March 4, 2013 (UTC)