Viking Invasion-Map II: The Other Resurrection

[natty dread]

City mogul doesn't have any conditional autodeploys, because those are impossible to do currently. Trust me on this one.

The only territories that get autodeploy on it seem to be "house" and "shop" and the legend says nothing about conditions there. I think the "any other shop" on the legend refers to shops that are in the neutral areas.

Autodeploys and decays on the XML are defined by adding a "bonus" element on the territory element, unlike normal bonuses which are defined by "continent" elements. Thus you cannot specify any conditions for the autodeploy/decay, it is simply given on the territory it is on, if you own that territory.

[Balsiefen]

Maybe you're right then. So what has to be decided is whether to use some other method-I like the idea of getting a bonus for ships if Viking lands are held-or whether I should try to get conditional autodeploy added to the xml, I can see it being useful in a lot of other maps aside from this one.

And I think I may change the Danish city to Ribe on the next update, there are no references to attacks being launched from near there but it was the most important city in Scandinavia and it's a lot more convenient graphically.

[theBastard]

I think the best could be to add any bonus for ships if you held Viberg or Bergen...

I´m not sure if is possible to set up that if player not hold Viberg or Bergen and he hold ships each gives any penalty.

[theBastard]

I thought about this map a little and here are some my ideas:

1, Ireland could be also (as rest of Britania) divided to two/three Kingdoms. Mumhain, Ui Neill, maybe Leinster or Connacht.
2, it is Viking Invasion - did you think about Vikings colonies in Ireland (Dublin. Cork, Wexford, Waterford)? later Vikings established Kingdom of Dublin here...
3, what about Danelaw in England?

[00iCon]

I looked at this a while back and thought it was a great idea. Now I look and the graphics are great!
One word comes to mind:
QUENCH!!!!!!!!!!!

[tokle]

A suggestion;
Bergen wouldn't have been founded yet at the time of the viking invasions. The region should be called Gulen or Gulaþing, where the law assembly of western norway took place.

[theBastard]

A suggestion;
Bergen wouldn't have been founded yet at the time of the viking invasions. The region should be called Gulen or Gulaþing, where the law assembly of western norway took place.

Bergen was meant as town, I think. if it was not founded in these times, maybe Stavanger or Eikundarsund would be better...?

to Balsiefen, about ships for me is the best to make them deacay (also if player holds Bergen or Viberg - sea was dangerous so also Vikings lost any men), but if player holds Bergen or Viberg (or both?) he gain bonus +1 for any nu,ber of ships which he holds. this should be any trade bonus for Vikings...

[TaCktiX]

I've got a few things you could think about turning this map into, based on one major critique: Either the map is too small for conquest, or there are too many players. Note that when I say too small I am referring to number of territories.

Option A: Make the map bigger to better suit 8 players. Right now, it'll either be a balancing nightmare or not enough to make it true conquest.
Option B: Ditch conquest entirely. This map, with some rejiggering of the fleets to be a bonus and maybe some conditionals if you hold Danmark or Berghen, could easily be a standard gameplay map.
Option C: Split out the nordic powers to be 4 players a la New World. This would be easier to balance, but would require a decent amount of graphical changes.
Option D: Lobby for it to be 6 players, 4 defenders, 2 invaders. You'd be able to keep the same map size and do more with it than your present situation.

[Balsiefen]

Okay folks.

I think the best could be to add any bonus for ships if you held Viberg or Bergen...

I´m not sure if is possible to set up that if player not hold Viberg or Bergen and he hold ships each gives any penalty.

to Balsiefen, about ships for me is the best to make them deacay (also if player holds Bergen or Viberg - sea was dangerous so also Vikings lost any men), but if player holds Bergen or Viberg (or both?) he gain bonus +1 for any nu,ber of ships which he holds. this should be any trade bonus for Vikings...

How about a +1 bonus for every two ships if you hold Viborg or Berghen. (Or whatever they end up being called) With any luck this should even things out. Actually, I really wish it was possible to set up quick test games, With a map as different as this one It's often hard to tell what the gameplay is going to do.

I thought about this map a little and here are some my ideas:

1, Ireland could be also (as rest of Britania) divided to two/three Kingdoms. Mumhain, Ui Neill, maybe Leinster or Connacht.
2, it is Viking Invasion - did you think about Vikings colonies in Ireland (Dublin. Cork, Wexford, Waterford)? later Vikings established Kingdom of Dublin here...
3, what about Danelaw in England?

Dividing ireland up in to more kingdoms may be awkward (Unless I am adding more territories in general) as there hasn't been a time where Ireland was divided up between two or three kings and most kingdoms are the size of territories rather than continents. I'm also a little cautious of giving the Irish player too large an empire to build before he has to go and attack one of the other players-in this game land is power and if Ireland had a large number of territs and only one player then it would become unbalanced.

The game itself is set before the Viking Invasion, Danelaw does not exist yet-the Anglic kingdoms of Mercia, Northumbria and East Engle still preside-but the Danish player is encouraged to create it by given an easy route into East Engle, the first Danish conquest. Likewise with Ireland, the Norwegians are encouraged to take Orcades, Inse Gall before landing somewhere around the Irish Sea-though they have other options as well.

A suggestion;
Bergen wouldn't have been founded yet at the time of the viking invasions. The region should be called Gulen or Gulaþing, where the law assembly of western norway took place.

Bergen was meant as town, I think. if it was not founded in these times, maybe Stavanger or Eikundarsund would be better...?

I'll put some research into this when I get time, both of the Scandinavian towns will probably be changing their names.

I've got a few things you could think about turning this map into, based on one major critique: Either the map is too small for conquest, or there are too many players. Note that when I say too small I am referring to number of territories.

Option A: Make the map bigger to better suit 8 players. Right now, it'll either be a balancing nightmare or not enough to make it true conquest.
Option B: Ditch conquest entirely. This map, with some rejiggering of the fleets to be a bonus and maybe some conditionals if you hold Danmark or Berghen, could easily be a standard gameplay map.
Option C: Split out the nordic powers to be 4 players a la New World. This would be easier to balance, but would require a decent amount of graphical changes.
Option D: Lobby for it to be 6 players, 4 defenders, 2 invaders. You'd be able to keep the same map size and do more with it than your present situation.

Right, this is interesting. Myself, I'm not entirely sure If it is too small. It's defiantly smaller than anything that has been tried before which is a disadvantage in that it is impossible to tell how a game will work out on it. This does not necessarily mean that it has bad gameplay, but it will certainly be more intense than your average conquest map. Really there isn't anything to compare it to in saying small conquest maps do or do not work.

If it is necessary however, the best thing would be to add more territories to add space between the kingdoms, though that would be a complete graphical nightmare. I can't really see how adding more Nordic players would help with balancing to be honest, it could easily make it a lot worse. Also I really don't want to ditch conquest lest this become just another GB map.

[theBastard]

How about a +1 bonus for every two ships if you hold Viborg or Berghen. (Or whatever they end up being called) With any luck this should even things out. Actually, I really wish it was possible to set up quick test games, With a map as different as this one It's often hard to tell what the gameplay is going to do.

this sounds good. but still have ships as decay, I think....

Dividing ireland up in to more kingdoms may be awkward (Unless I am adding more territories in general) as there hasn't been a time where Ireland was divided up between two or three kings and most kingdoms are the size of territories rather than continents.

Ireland was all time divided between small kingdoms. the title High King (crowned in Tara) was given to powerfull King of these small kingdoms. but it was often that if High King was from Ui Neill clan that Kings of Leinster or Mumhain did not accept him, and vice versa...

I'm also a little cautious of giving the Irish player too large an empire to build before he has to go and attack one of the other players-in this game land is power and if Ireland had a large number of territs and only one player then it would become unbalanced.

I do not know if you will folow TaCktiX advice to add more territories to map, but now Ireland has 6 territories. so now player could have +3 for all Ireland. if you divided it to two kingdoms there will be only +2 for them...

The game itself is set before the Viking Invasion

this chages things...

The game itself is set before the Viking Invasion, Danelaw does not exist yet-the Anglic kingdoms of Mercia, Northumbria and East Engle still preside-but the Danish player is encouraged to create it by given an easy route into East Engle, the first Danish conquest. Likewise with Ireland, the Norwegians are encouraged to take Orcades, Inse Gall before landing somewhere around the Irish Sea-though they have other options as well.

...but than Strathclyde is aliasign in this time. the Kingdom of Strathclyde was founded later. maybe Ystrad Clud could be better? also Kingdom of Alba was not founded before Vikings come to Scotland. there were several Pictish kingdoms and Gaelic kingdom Dal Riata... and also after foundation of Kingdom of Alba the Kings of Alba did not control northern highlands, Mormaerdom of Moray...

Orsades were settled by Vikings in the late 8th century.

o.k., I do not know how accurate (by history) you want be

If it is necessary however, the best thing would be to add more territories to add space between the kingdoms, though that would be a complete graphical nightmare. I can't really see how adding more Nordic players would help with balancing to be honest, it could easily make it a lot worse. Also I really don't want to ditch conquest lest this become just another GB map.

I think that add little more territories could help. maybe it is not necessary to have 8 forts as capitals (and starting positions). there could be more of them...?

[Industrial Helix]

Well, why don't you see about making this map a 6 player map then? I believe Tacktix got approval for Research and Conquer to be 6 players.

The other thing we need from you is a new map showing different rules for the ships, as what is proposed on the map simply isn't possible.

And finally, can you decrease the opacity on the flags some and but some sort of white/tan/black glow around the territory names?

[tokle]

A suggestion;
Bergen wouldn't have been founded yet at the time of the viking invasions. The region should be called Gulen or Gulaþing, where the law assembly of western norway took place.

Bergen was meant as town, I think. if it was not founded in these times, maybe Stavanger or Eikundarsund would be better...?

to Balsiefen, about ships for me is the best to make them deacay (also if player holds Bergen or Viberg - sea was dangerous so also Vikings lost any men), but if player holds Bergen or Viberg (or both?) he gain bonus +1 for any nu,ber of ships which he holds. this should be any trade bonus for Vikings...

Stavanger would probably be the better choice in my view. It would haven been called Stafangr, if you are using contemproary names.

[Balsiefen]

New map is coming up folks, time is a little short at the moment though so I may work on getting the medieval denmark update finished first.

Ystrad Clud and Strathclyde appear to be different names for the same entity, the first I think is Brythonic and the second is Gaelic which has since come into common usage. As I'm aiming for the names to be as contemporary as possible I will switch to Ystrad Clud.

As for Alba as a whole, I fear you are right but I think it would be beneficial as a whole to keep it as one territory.
(Actually a thought just came to me- if we used Dal Riata and some grouping of the pictish kingdoms, it might solve the Irish thing as well. On the other hand it may create more gameplay disturbance than it is worth)

Click image to enlarge.

As for losing two kingdoms, it is possible but I'm still not convinced it's absolutely necessary. Mercia would probably have to be one if we did, though it was by far the most powerful for much of its history-I'm not sure about which other.

The graphical and legend changes I will also make in the next update.

[theBastard]

New map is coming up folks, time is a little short at the moment though so I may work on getting the medieval denmark update finished first.

I´m looking forward on it...

Ystrad Clud and Strathclyde appear to be different names for the same entity, the first I think is Brythonic and the second is Gaelic which has since come into common usage. As I'm aiming for the names to be as contemporary as possible I will switch to Ystrad Clud.

basicaly it is right. Strathclyde (kingdom with this name) was founded later as Viking invasions started. but kingdom of Ystrad Clud was during this time...

As for Alba as a whole, I fear you are right but I think it would be beneficial as a whole to keep it as one territory.
(Actually a thought just came to me- if we used Dal Riata and some grouping of the pictish kingdoms, it might solve the Irish thing as well. On the other hand it may create more gameplay disturbance than it is worth)

it is on you. just it is not historic accuracy...
about Ireland, I can not see how it could works with Dal Riata... the Ireland will be not divided. btw, I´m afraid that map posted by you is not from time when Viking invasion started, it looks a little earlier.

As for losing two kingdoms, it is possible but I'm still not convinced it's absolutely necessary. Mercia would probably have to be one if we did, though it was by far the most powerful for much of its history-I'm not sure about which other.

why losing two kingdoms? you can have more kingdoms, more "capitals" as eight. the rest could start as neutral, I think...

[shocked439]

Sorry, this is a little hard to follow: you like the decay being cancelled by holding Norway and Denmark or don't? It seems to be somewhat essential in terms of gameplay at the moment anyway.

This is impossible. A decay is a negative autodeploy, and autodeploys cannot be conditional, currently. So you cannot cancel a decay by holding other territories.

What if it's not cancelled but neutralized by an additional bonus, like conquer man. +2 if you hold a ship and port city -1 fir each ship as two seperate bonuses having the effect of a conditional auto deploy.