The Young Eagle - A Napoleon Quest

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[X] Plan: Finishing Theodore's Mission
-[X]As a Corsican, through and through - Try as they might to beat the 'backwards, almost pagan' Corsican manners out of you, the monks have failed to subdue the love you hold for your homeland. You'll learn French, and you'll live in France, if that's what fate has in store, but deep in your heart you think of yourself as Corsican, with an accent to match.
-[X] Classics - Brienne has an extensive library, and you made use of it. You practically devoured the works of Homer and Virgil, as well as the biographies of Alexander and Caesar. Stories of ancient kings and leaders have taught you a little about how to lead, and made you a touch more refined. (+5 Charisma, +3 Intelligence, Gain trait - Classicist)
-[X] Business - Your family is, to put it bluntly, dirt poor. Business isn't exactly an honorable profession for a noble, but even on Corsica you've seen the bourgeois grow fabulously wealthy through sound investments and global trade. If this whole military thing doesn't work out, maybe coin could be a better way of achieving your destiny than lead? (+5 Subterfuge, +3 Charm, Gain Trait - Businessman)
-[X] Studied your ass off - Other students may have laughed at you for keeping your nose stuck in books all the time, but you remembered that you'd been sent here for a purpose. To achieve your destiny, you needed to learn as much as humanly possible. (+5 Intelligence, can take a second school subject, gaining another trait, but not the stat points.)
-[X] La Fere Regiment D'Artillerie - An artillery regiment, hmm? Yes, with your mathematics scores, that makes sense. (Gain Trait - Gunner)
-[X] Eye up the beauties of both genders. (Napoleon will have the option to initiate romances with characters of either gender.)

Making my own Corsican vote. If you don't know who Theodore is, it's this guy.
 
People out here acting like a naval Napoleon quest would last longer then 3 battles when the British would just call in The Hand of God Admiral Nelson and slap us worse then Trafalgar.

Although the option of being a second JPJ is always fun, which sours the mood as the quasi war probably being an unavoidable thing
 
Literally the entire plot of Master and Commander is the British are pissed about some French super ship.

It doesn't matter if we get crazy stats or a cozy little fleet to ourselves, unless we travel back in time a decade for them to start building us a navy or forward in time a century to get actual dreadnaughts we wont reach parity and the whole campaign will be us either sitting in port waiting to hear about some isolated couple of ships we could snipe without a problem or fight a single pitched battle with the entire French fleet against 5% of the British one and wait until its just us on a rowboat yelling orders

Not to mention that losing the naval war doesn't mean anything, we could lose that and suffer little repercussions, losing the land war means everything. Who cares if the British can just land people in their allies ports or interdict our trade, its what happened OTL and they did pretty well until a certain someone marched into a certain snowy death hole
 
Redneckturtle said:
Literally the entire plot of Master and Commander is the British are pissed about some French super ship.

It doesn't matter if we get crazy stats or a cozy little fleet to ourselves, unless we travel back in time a decade for them to start building us a navy or forward in time a century to get actual dreadnaughts we wont reach parity and the whole campaign will be us either sitting in port waiting to hear about some isolated couple of ships we could snipe without a problem or fight a single pitched battle with the entire French fleet against 5% of the British one and wait until its just us on a rowboat yelling orders

Not to mention that losing the naval war doesn't mean anything, we could lose that and suffer little repercussions, losing the land war means everything. Who cares if the British can just land people in their allies ports or interdict our trade, its what happened OTL and they did pretty well until a certain someone marched into a certain snowy death hole
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He marched into a snowy death hole because he needed them to stop trading with the British.

If we want to prevent the snowy death hole, we can start by not letting Tallyrand anywhere near authority as soon as we can shove him aside.
 
Perhaps we can get him up and trading with the Chinese and Japanese? Surely we could find a way around such paltry restrictions like "trade ports" and "only buy and sell goods with silver" right?
 
[X] Plan: Emperor of the...Corsicans?
-[X]As a Corsican, through and through - Try as they might to beat the 'backwards, almost pagan' Corsican manners out of you, the monks have failed to subdue the love you hold for your homeland. You'll learn French, and you'll live in France, if that's what fate has in store, but deep in your heart you think of yourself as Corsican, with an accent to match.
-[X] Classics - Brienne has an extensive library, and you made use of it. You practically devoured the works of Homer and Virgil, as well as the biographies of Alexander and Caesar. Stories of ancient kings and leaders have taught you a little about how to lead, and made you a touch more refined. (+5 Charisma, +3 Intelligence, Gain trait - Classicist)
-[X] Political Science - Overblown stories of history bore you. What interests you is the real world, the way power really works, and the kinds of things that go on behind the closed doors of Versailles. Your copies of Machiavelli's The Prince and Plato's Republic are worn from frequent cover to cover reads, and you constantly have to refrain from annoying your friends with cynical remarks. (+5 Subterfuge, +3 Intelligence, Gain Trait - Cynic)
-[X] Studied your ass off - Other students may have laughed at you for keeping your nose stuck in books all the time, but you remembered that you'd been sent here for a purpose. To achieve your destiny, you needed to learn as much as humanly possible. (+5 Intelligence, can take a second school subject, gaining another trait, but not the stat points.)
-[X] His Majesty's Ship of the Line Magnanime - Wait, what? Merde! Someone screwed up the paperwork again. You're not a sous-lieutenant in the army at all, you're a midshipman in the navy! Sorry to lose you, Buonaparte. (Gain Trait - Seaman)
-[X] Would absolutely be among them if you weren't so tired. You're a sucker for a pretty girl. (Napoleon will have the option to initiate romances with female characters)
 
bajoe9 said:
Unfortunately hes a SSS diplomat and someone that can make the other powers come to negotiations table.
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He's also a corrupt schemer who consistently undermined every government he was part of when he got the chance. And nearly started a war between France and the US.
 
Magoose said:
Talleyrand: The inner workings of my mind is an enigma. :V
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Not really. Talleyrand was certainly not the 'loyal to the death'-type for any particular Leader or Ruler, but his motivation was always consistent: Pursuing whatever cause he believed was best for France (and himself).

When that cause appeared to be the Revolution, he helped undermine the Monarchy and Nobility. When that cause changed to Napoleon, he helped him seize and hold onto power. And when Napoleons defeat became obvious and imminent, he worked out a deal with the Allies that would ensure France suffered the least amount of damage and loss of territory possible.
 
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[X] Plan: Emperor of the...Corsicans?
-[X]As a Corsican, through and through - Try as they might to beat the 'backwards, almost pagan' Corsican manners out of you, the monks have failed to subdue the love you hold for your homeland. You'll learn French, and you'll live in France, if that's what fate has in store, but deep in your heart you think of yourself as Corsican, with an accent to match.
-[X] Classics - Brienne has an extensive library, and you made use of it. You practically devoured the works of Homer and Virgil, as well as the biographies of Alexander and Caesar. Stories of ancient kings and leaders have taught you a little about how to lead, and made you a touch more refined. (+5 Charisma, +3 Intelligence, Gain trait - Classicist)
-[X] Became the target of bullies - Determined not to let them victimise you, you learned how to brawl, and how to fight off your enemies even when they gang up on you. Hell, you kind of prefer when they come in a group, now - the more the merrier, you say as you crack your knuckles. (+5 Valor, Gain Trait - We Happy Few!)
-[X] La Fere Regiment D'Artillerie - An artillery regiment, hmm? Yes, with your mathematics scores, that makes sense. (Gain Trait - Gunner)
-[X] Eye up the beauties of both genders. (Napoleon will have the option to initiate romances with characters of either gender.)

Why not to include both seriousness and frivolousness?
Early United Revolutionary European Empire/Republic Path
 
Alexander Sturnn said:
Not really. Talleyrand was certainly not the 'loyal to the death'-type for any particular Leader or Ruler, but his motivation was always consistent: Pursuing whatever cause he believed was best for France (and himself).
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That is why he will sit this one out, supervising some obscure trading post in Asia or the Americas, as it should have been.
 
Sertorius said:
That is why he will sit this one out, supervising some obscure trading post in Asia or the Americas, as it should have been.
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I cannot believe the slander in this quest against Talleyrand. The only reason France was not gutted like a pig after Napoleon ill advised return was because of his diplomatic skill. If Napoleon is in power then Talleyrand is loyal, he's not the who likes to tip the apple cart and focuses on stability and the good of France. To have him pushed to the ground is a terrible waste of his talent.
 
Nova_kaiser said:
I cannot believe the slander in this quest against Talleyrand. The only reason France was not gutted like a pig after Napoleon ill advised return was because of his diplomatic skill. If Napoleon is in power then Talleyrand is loyal, he's not the who likes to tip the apple cart and focuses on stability and the good of France. To have him pushed to the ground is a terrible waste of his talent.
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Talleyrand is the ultimate opportunist. He is loyal only to one person and that's himself. Meaning he will stick with the strongest and abandon anyone not currently at the top. You can hardly trust a man, that will betray you without hesitation at slightest hint of trouble.
 
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Sertorius said:
Talleyrand is the ultimate opportunist. He is loyal only to one person and that's himself. Meaning he will stick with the strongest and abandon anyone not currently on the top. You can hardly trust a man, that will betray you without hesitation at slightest hint of trouble.
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He's loyal to France. What was he supposed to do? Die with the royalty? Die with the revolutionaires? Die with Napoleon? He was practical and followed Real Politik or would you rather have a fanatic who will never change side's eventhough they were losing and hurting France? And he did not betray anyone at slightest hint of trouble he left these group when it was obvious they would destroy France. You also for some reason ignored my comment how he saved France from the butchering table at Vienna even after Napoleon did his stunt. He's no more evil or oppertunistic then any competant diplomat in the 19th centuary.
 
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