The Age of Enlightenment. Game 9.

A good question I would be tempted to ask Agema for some guidance. My understanding that 'natural science' can cover a lot of disciplines

Jason wrote:A good question  I would be tempted to ask Agema for some guidance.  My understanding that 'natural science' can cover a lot of disciplines

I assume it would be for the study of the natural world around you. Collecting, studying, counting various living and non-living specimens to figure out how they work. I assume you just Select a what they should study and set them to work.

I have a team of botanist out collecting plant samples from across the nation. With another group back at a Academy trying to cataloguing them.

And have you had any interesting advantage doing this or it is youst to keep in touch with the spirit of the century (Wich is of course more than perfect)

I suppose some interesting advantage may show up but I started the project just for fun. And to assemble the botanical knowledge of the nation in the Great book of Botany.

I once had a Science Acadamy and did not know of any project they could start on, so I told them to start working on anything they like and they came up with Improved knowledge of hunan anatomy.

Cool

In game 8, I have an academy working away on cataloging microscopic life.

I have Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek working for me, father of the microscope.

I don't really expect any advantage out of it at all, but my king is quite interested in science, so it seems something he would do.

I think the game is richer when you play it as more than just a war/economy game.

Deacon wrote:
In game 8, I have an academy working away on cataloging microscopic life.

I have Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek working for me, father of the microscope.

I don't really expect any advantage out of it at all, but my king is quite interested in science, so it seems something he would do.

I think the game is richer when you play it as more than just a war/economy game.

I agree with you

Taking on a different aspect; in this particular game things ar going very easy. But a war game isn't a war game without a war.

Wich will be, in your opinion, the next war in game 9?

I think there are plans in the offing which will appear over the next few months. I do agree, fundementally this is a war game. We just like to stack up the advantages, but I cannot see how having a succesful botanist programme helps. That being said I tried in game 9 to have a naturalist explore Newfoundland but that seemed to just get me into diplomatic problems.
I did try to engage in philosophy and the age of enlightenment in game 9 but just ended up in a seventeenth century style religous slanging match. Which I think other players with a 21st century set of sensibilities did not like. Personally, I have a pope Francis mug at work, but it seemed to be the right thing as a beligerent Sweden to have a go at catholic dogma.
I have been reading too much from the list of Horus Heresy (warhammer 40,000) books recently and having Prince Eugene executed in game 7. So on the spectrum of being restrained and exploring natural philosophy or outright war -its blood for the blood god as far as I am concerned.

Basileus wrote:I think there are plans in the offing which will appear over the next few months. I do agree, fundementally this is a war game. We just like to stack up the advantages, but I cannot see how having a succesful botanist programme helps. That being said I tried in game 9 to have a naturalist explore Newfoundland but that seemed to just get me into diplomatic problems.
I did try to engage in philosophy and the age of enlightenment in game 9 but just ended up in a seventeenth century style religous slanging match. Which I think other players with a 21st century set of sensibilities did not like. Personally, I have a pope Francis mug at work, but it seemed to be the right thing as a beligerent Sweden to have a go at catholic dogma.
I have been reading too much from the list of Horus Heresy (warhammer 40,000) books recently and having Prince Eugene executed in game 7. So on the spectrum of being restrained and exploring natural philosophy or outright war -its blood for the blood god as far as I am concerned.

Most of the speech is way too "slang" for me to understand. What you are saying is that the game itself push you on war?
(Sorry but many elements of your post are really hard for me to translate.)

I think our game 9 is too badly impacted by the fact that we are few players, and many important positions in central Europe seems to be missing. I find it hard to crete a net of diplomacy when most of the main position are missing (I think that Prussia, Hannover and UP are not active, and i have doubts concerning Poland (which is silent from a long time), the whole of Italy, all Ottoman and Persian positions.

How many are we active players? (I do not even know if this question is correct to ask)

some not all players come on  the forum some players do not even answer in game letters, I had a french player do that to me, never answered any ones mail but was waging a war

I really can't get the point of playing without interacting with other players "in game". To me it's half of the fun!

I do agree, interaction with other players is what makes this game so much fun. Having said that, there are a couple of times I have kept a low profile-when in positions I felt were weak and I wanted time to develop them so didn't want to attract attention to myself for a bit

Goldstar wrote:An interesting month.
1.  King Charles XII is taken ill during a visit to France, poison or a dodgy garlic eclair.
2.  A large number of heavy armed French Tourists land in New Orleans just in time for Mardi Gra.
3.  The Orthodox Church generously offers to employ unemployed Streltsy in the Church Militant.
4.  Emperor Leo is offering cash for Volunteerers for his Reicharmee.
5.  Prince Eugene is enjoying the beer in Pilsen Whilst his Army marches around and shoots up some canvas target.
6.  The Swedes look to bring a legal cases before the Imperial judicial court, Judge Judy?

Goldstar i'm missing you comments on this turn, can you...

More interesting Events this month.

1.  The Swedes bring a case before the Reichskammergericht, claiming the Spanish Netherlands based on a son of King Canute IV being Count of Flanders in 1119 AD!!!!!! Talk about opening a can of worms.
2.  Tsar Peter is most displeased with the Orthodox Church's scheme to employ former Streltsy and has threaten to get all Ivan the terrible on their asses unless they bow before the supreme Autocrat.
3.  Heir to the HRE King Joseph of Germay is visiting the various Electors, Dukes, etc of the Reich, bestowing generous gifts on the rulers and alms to the poor.  The current tour is in no way connected the Emperor constant recruiting drive for the Reicharmee.
4.  The Elector of Bavaria visits the Holy Father in Rome, determined to prove himself the most devoutly papist monarch in Europe.  Not that he has much competition. King Louis XIV has granted toleration to the Huguenots and freed the serfs, whilst the HRE openly supports the peace of Westphalia settlement in the Reich Diet.  Perhaps young King Phillip of Spain will be a true son of the Holy Church.
5.  The Emperor enquires if the Duke of Wurttemberg will allow him to build the 18th Century equivalent of an Autobahn from Ulm to Bresiach, purely to help trade you understand.

Goldstar wrote:More interesting Events this month.

1.  The Swedes bring a case before the Reichskammergericht, claiming the Spanish Netherlands based on a son of King Canute IV being Count of Flanders in 1119 AD!!!!!! Talk about opening a can of worms.
2.  Tsar Peter is most displeased with the Orthodox Church's scheme to employ former Streltsy and has threaten to get all Ivan the terrible on their asses unless they bow before the supreme Autocrat.
3.  Heir to the HRE King Joseph of Germay is visiting the various Electors, Dukes, etc of the Reich, bestowing generous gifts on the rulers and alms to the poor.  The current tour is in no way connected the Emperor constant recruiting drive for the Reicharmee.
4.  The Elector of Bavaria visits the Holy Father in Rome, determined to prove himself the most devoutly papist monarch in Europe.  Not that he has much competition. King Louis XIV has granted toleration to the Huguenots and freed the serfs, whilst the HRE openly supports the peace of Westphalia settlement in the Reich Diet.  Perhaps young King Phillip of Spain will be a true son of the Holy Church.
5.  The Emperor enquires if the Duke of Wurttemberg will allow him to build the 18th Century equivalent of an Autobahn from Ulm to Bresiach, purely to help trade you understand.

Thank You!!!!!

[quote="Goldstar"]More interesting Events this month.

4.  The Elector of Bavaria visits the Holy Father in Rome, determined to prove himself the most devoutly papist monarch in Europe.  Not that he has much competition. King Louis XIV has granted toleration to the Huguenots and freed the serfs, whilst the HRE openly supports the peace of Westphalia settlement in the Reich Diet.  Perhaps young King Phillip of Spain will be a true son of the Holy Church.

Are you implying that the "Miracle Baby"....... young Phillip of Spain.........he of the suspect parentage is actually the Son of Cardinal Portocarrero? Or some other Churchman?

Whilst the Venetian puppet Cardinal Portocarrero is certainly capable of Borgia style degeneracy, I do not believe that the Dowager-Queen would have debased herself with a 65 yrs old corrupt cleric. King Phillips birth was indeed a Holy miracle, brought about by the sincere prayers of the Spanish people. I merely commented that it must be hoped that King Phillip will be a devout servant of the Holy church, as King Louis XIV and the Emperor have become surprisely ecumenical in their old age.

Goldstar wrote:Whilst the Venetian puppet Cardinal Portocarrero is certainly capable of Borgia style degeneracy, I do not believe that the Dowager-Queen would have debased herself with a 65 yrs old corrupt cleric.  King Phillips birth was indeed a Holy miracle, brought about by the sincere prayers of the Spanish people.  I merely commented that it must be hoped that King Phillip will be a devout servant of the Holy church, as King Louis XIV and the Emperor have become surprisely ecumenical in their old age.

Portocarro? Please. Handsome young stable boys are all the rage in Spain.

Deacon wrote:

Goldstar wrote:Whilst the Venetian puppet Cardinal Portocarrero is certainly capable of Borgia style degeneracy, I do not believe that the Dowager-Queen would have debased herself with a 65 yrs old corrupt cleric.  King Phillips birth was indeed a Holy miracle, brought about by the sincere prayers of the Spanish people.  I merely commented that it must be hoped that King Phillip will be a devout servant of the Holy church, as King Louis XIV and the Emperor have become surprisely ecumenical in their old age.

Portocarro? Please. Handsome young stable boys are all the rage in Spain.

Stable boys? I think you slander the Dowager-Queen of Spain & the morals of the Hapsburg Family in G9.

I was told it was a handsome young Noble who did the dirty deed.

The real mystery was why a baby and the Queen's maid then shipped out to the America's. My guess is that the Queen gave up a baby girl to stop the French screaming "Salic Law".

So who the hell is King Phillip?

King Phillip is a convenient excuse for Austria and France to avoid the war of the Spanish succession.

Well, Just got the turn, two things:

1)Goldstar, You aldready know what i'm waiting for.

2) Oh, dear! I'm screwed!

Another Turn passes.

1. The former 1st Minister of Spain and Prince of the Holy Catholic Church, Cardinal Portocarrero has decided to retire in deepest darkest Yorkshire, under the protection of the staunch Calvinist King William III. The Holy Spanish Inquisition is known to very keen to have a quiet chat with the former Cardinal.
2. The German speaking rulers of the Reich are selling off their spare manpower in a manner that would make a Crimean Tartar blush. The Emperor, the English and the Dutch are engaged in a bidding war for extra recruits and the various Electors, Dukes, Landgraves, etc are eager to sell. The youth of Germany can look forward to fighting the Turk on the Danube, getting scalped in North America or dying of various tropical diseases in the West / East Indies.
3. The Finance Minister of Spain has been sacked for being a drunkard, apparently this is considered bad form, will his sober replacement prove any better?
4. The Monastic communities in Russia have funded a Brigade of former Streltsy to free the Tsar from the clique of evil advisors and foreign devils who surround him. How they plan to achieve this is unclear, but Knots and hot pokers may be involved
5. The Holy Father in Rome has agreed to support the new catholic order of St George in Germany, with the Elector of Bavaria as its Grandmaster. The Holy Roman Emperor is too busy Hunting and funding Operas to match the devoutness of the House of Wittelsbach.

all good stuff