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Epoch: A Grand-Strategy Quest

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[X] [Gender] Matriarchal Society
[X] [Government] Elder Lead
[X] [Religion] Many Gods
[X] [Region] B​
 
PastaSentient said:
How do you see the Middle East being very weird? Understand the aversion to Desert.
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You end up being a crossroads between Africa, Asia, and Europe to some extent and while you could pull off some sort of center of the world merchant thing more likely you get hit by nomads, religious conflicts, imperialism, crazy Vlad the spike enthusiast, and mother nature her self (you called the desert bit).

I could be wrong but I still am more interested in other stuff.
 
[X] [Gender] Egalitarian Society
[X] [Government] Direct Democracy
[X] [Religion] Nothing Supernatural
[X] [Region] C

Let's enact a communist paradise from day 1 XD.
 
Current Tally (Contentious votes are religion and location.)
Adhoc vote count started by Corripere on Jan 16, 2019 at 9:45 PM, finished with 156 posts and 25 votes.
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Adhoc vote count started by Corripere on Jan 16, 2019 at 11:54 PM, finished with 178 posts and 31 votes.
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[X] [Gender] Egalitarian Society
[X] [Government] Elder Lead
[X] [Religion] Our Ancestors
[X] [Region] D
 
I would like to suggest Region D - Becoming the Steppe People, a nomadic sort, will greatly increase our ability to GTFO if, as seems likely, we encounter something we cannot handle.
 
I'd still like to make the argument that C is superior to B in terms of long-term potential. B is cornered on all sides by not-so-great territory--in the North by the Himalayas, in the East by jungles, and in the West by deserts (which isn't exactly prime land to settle on and which is also pretty open to invasion). Choosing C is by far the easiest way to expand: we can be both a land power with resources and also exert control over F and G which are close over the sea (and unlikely to be as powerful as us given their status a being on islands with all that entails in the agricultural age). To the South, we can expand into SE Asia--to the North there's Korea and Siberia (which China also historically occupied until Russia took it).

Heck, we can immediately head North to take control of the Yellow River and secure ourselves a second breadbasket. B's options of SE Asia, Tibet (crossing the Himalayas), and desert to the West aren't really as great.
 
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Corripere said:
I'd still like to make the argument that C is superior to B in terms of long-term potential. B is cornered on all sides by not-so-great territory--in the North by the Himalayas, in the East by jungles, and in the West by deserts (which isn't exactly prime land to settle on and which is also pretty open to invasion). Choosing C is by far the easiest way to expand: we can be both a land power with resources and also exert control over F and G which are close over the sea (and unlikely to be as powerful as us given their status a being on islands with all that entails in the agricultural age). To the South, we can expand into SE Asia--to the North there's Korea and Siberia (which China also historically occupied until Russia took it).

Heck, we can immediately head North to take control of the Yellow River and secure ourselves a second breadbasket. B's options of SE Asia, Tibet (crossing the Himalayas), and desert to the West aren't really as great.
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Clearly, sir, you have not heard of the Tocharians, the Saka, or the Uighurs. :lol (no offense)

That desert is the Taklamakan, which is the center of the Tarim basin.

the Tarim has several rivers in it, and historically has supported fair-sized populations before.

Of course, there's also the Tian Shan Mountains to think of, since the form a neat Northern wall.

EDIT: Hm. I may be sleep-drunk. You're talking about India....Not D.
 
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King Tharassian said:
Clearly, sir, you have not heard of the Tocharians, the Saka, or the Uighurs. :lol (no offense)

That desert is the Taklamakan, which is the center of the Tarim basin.

the Tarim has several rivers in it, and historically has supported fair-sized populations before.

Of course, there's also the Tian Shan Mountains to think of, since the form a neat Northern wall.
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Granted, those areas will be hard to expand to (and weren't really taken until relatively recent history) but it's not like B has any higher chance to expanding in there either (and will probably have an even harder time given geographical barriers). The only distinct characteristic B has expansion-wise is to the west, and I don't think it matches up to C's advantages.
 
Could we have rolled a 1 or 2 for population or Male/Female and just lost immediately? Not very fun.
 
Shard said:
Could we have rolled a 1 or 2 for population or Male/Female and just lost immediately? Not very fun.
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*coughs*

If you go back to the rolls you'll see the one was for a 45 sided die. That was initially supposed to be the number of the minority.

So if I'd kept purely to mechanics you'd likely have had 1 female and 92 males.

But I don't believe that pure luck should kill you guys off before we even get to official turn one. So manipulated it a bit.
 
[X] [Gender] Matriarchal Society
[X] [Government] Chiefdom
[X] [Religion] Many Gods
[X] [Region] B
I want to try a matriarchy guys :(
 
Arthellion said:
*coughs*

If you go back to the rolls you'll see the one was for a 45 sided die. That was initially supposed to be the number of the minority.

So if I'd kept purely to mechanics you'd likely have had 1 female and 92 males.

But I don't believe that pure luck should kill you guys off before we even get to official turn one. So manipulated it a bit.
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That'd be bad qming if you let that happen XD
We just up and die before we even get to DO anything and were not even in Antarctica or someplace uninhabitable.
 
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