The entire nature of the left/right dichotomy in modern societies happens to be an outgrowth of the particular fallout of the French Revolution, not some unalterable natural law. There's thousands of years for societies to develop in entirely different ways, with entirely different ideals and governance and religions and philosophies.
Godwinson, let's give kilopi a break. It may be unrealistic to imagine that Mussolini, personally, will be born in this timeline and found blackshirts and take over Italy.
As we all know, Mussolini is actually gestating deep below the surface of the earth in his Pod, waiting for the moment of his dread, second rate awakening.
I mean seriously, sometimes you just want to see when the point is to have a cool fight, does it really matter if an Eretrian soldier is fighting the black shirts or a British Navy Captain fighting Napoleon on Dragonback? We just want to punch bad guys.
Yes, that would be awesome, I just need my nonsense to make sense!I mean seriously, sometimes you just want to see when the point is to have a cool fight, does it really matter if an Eretrian soldier is fighting the black shirts or a British Navy Captain fighting Napoleon on Dragonback? We just want to punch bad guys.
Both are possible, though I think that under the new Demes-system we can no longer just go for these things directly via write-in. Instead we probably have to keep electing the faction that is most likely to prioritise what we want.
What roads exist are probably basically just tracks. Paths that lots of people and pack animals follow, that are physically convenient and safe in the "you won't accidentally slip and fall into a ravine trying to go this way" sense. They almost certainly don't have any pavement whatsoever except possibly when passing through the towns themselves. Notably this means that carts can't use them when the ground is wet.
The way @Cetashwayo runs his games, such an action is possible mechanically, but it would basically require us to support the right choices for the proboulos and xenoparakletor. Doing it as a user motion ("WHO WILL LIFT MY ROCK?") might not fly, simply because it would represent a big diversion of effort from the priorities of the faction-aligned governments.
It seems potentially possible, at least. Picking the Drakonian faction netted us the colony of Ankon as well as trading posts (unmarked on the map) at Iadar in Liburnia, Etruscan Adria as well as Rhyzon (near Lissos in Illyria). This was done over a substantial period of putting Italian issues apart from the anti-Syracuse coalition on the backburner, though. The Drakonians were in favor of getting an Amber monopoly from the Enetoi via a trading post in modern day Venice, raiding pirates and upgrading the harbor to make more trade routes (and thus trade posts) possible, but they've been defeated pretty thoroughly in the recent elections and all of those policies probably need to be implemented before further Adriatic colonization/trade becomes possible. As to the costs of that, raiding was set to cost 52 talents (with potential to bring in up to 30 talents and reducing piracy for ten years) though it may be more now that the piracy is having more and more time to develop and establish itself. The Enetoi probably need some hefty bribing to grease their willingness to allow us a trade colony and the expanded harbor was to cost some 550 talents spread over five years, after which we would have two more trade routes and a trade route limit incremented by ten.
I think Kymai relations were positive but they're really far away so that's probably decayed to positive neutrality if anything. We should be on pretty good terms with the northern Etruscans as they've permitted trade in pottery and possibly olive oil (not sure where in "Northern Italy" we're sending that too, precisely), but I don't think the southern Etruscans have all too much reason to care about us. Bear in mind that the southern Etruscans and Kymai seem to be somewhat at odds, the first news update says that Kymai have been plagued by "interior shepherds" raiding far inside and growing more confident and given their location I think they must mean the Etruscans.OFF: long-time fan of the quest, I hope I can contribute
I also support the Adriatic Trade Plan, in fact I envisioned a trader character with Etruscan connections. Eretria has a luxury (pottery) trade route with them and that is sadly underrepresented.
To kickstart my character: @Cetashwayo what is our current connections with Kyme? They were fairly amicable, right? Also, what is our disposition with the northern and southern etruscan leagues (if the Capua area is still in etruscan hands, last time they looked for help, maybe we can use this, to gain an ally there or strenghten Kyme)? And lasty, having a foreigner wife isn't really a reputable thing, right? And childrens of such a marriage are not citizens, am I correct?
Just note that the two Dauni settlements that have directly asked for our annexation are in a segment between the Ofanto and another river that they share with the Dauni Capitol.
Ideally, I'd like to push our hegemony out to the Tinky Winky Mountains.
A Dauni rump that's lost two or three of its component cities to us is a rather less formidable threat, set against our enhanced hegemony. Sure, having someone more amenable on the throne than the current occupant would be handy, but not if we then have to send troops up into the hinterland to help protect them from the Samnites.
