I think with Vimes on the case we would also who is behind the Apollo Brotherhood... (should I admit I've always felt Vimes was an alter ego of mine) Oh and well done, the pizza express...o...
France has declared war on Genoa and a mighty fleet has arrived off that City. This is gunboat diplomacy at its finest.... For its part, Austria is keeping well away. Its a struggle to find an em...
It is with sadness and some embarassment that I'm posting here to say that as of this turn (April 1707) I'm dropping from Game 10. There are farewell letters in the post to my established corresp...
https://agema.darkbb.com/t1053-an-apology-to-all-our-investors-in-africa
Hi, Thinking of joining the game full time- having watched for a few weeks but i'm quite daunted by how it even works. I gather some of you guys have been playing for quite a while so i was wonde...
Dear All - first of all apologies for a long absence from the Forum. I have been playing all the while! (just in a position not much affected by many of the topics raised and discussed). But now ...
https://agema.darkbb.com/t1051-apologies-and-cantonment-question
who is still active in the game just out of interest?
I wouldn't think he would have a seperate set of formulas for each "world" but a standard one that Game 8 might have found the combination for. I know that in Scramble for Empire the investment i...
Your Excellences. Just thought I'd start a post to find out what you are all doing to further this enlightened age we live in. I myself have started by building a Music Academy to encourage tal...
https://agema.darkbb.com/t549-the-age-of-enlightenment-game-9
Just a pondering about whether the games are slowly dying out? Activity dropping? Seeing quite a few incentives from the organisers to invite players back?
Greetings gentlemen, Hope all is well in you lands far and near, and you are all satisfied and having fun with the game. I was reviewing the economics of the game (well, of playing the game) sinc...
Hi all, would you use AI in your game research? I just got access to Google's Bard AI and the first question I asked was: What were the short term economic effects of the ending of serfdom in Rus...
Hi Lads, just to chat a little. I was taking some consideration regarding the economic part of the game, and by my personal experience plus what I can see in the forum, many of us are more orient...
https://agema.darkbb.com/t1043-tgok-players-and-mercantilism
Are potholes only governed by poor relief payments or are there other aspects affecting this? I'll be asking my advisors for input, but wondering if I've overlooked anything in the rules as I ...
In all these years of playing, I've never before had to deal with a crop-failure (! I know - stay lucky!) so I am somewhat unfamiliar with the mechanics of the impact. However, I am sure almost e...
Looking at past income turns in game 10 I've noticed there's been some non famine related movement on population figures that I don't understand. Does anyone know if Richard uses a variable for c...
Hi Lads, I'm actually active on two positions, Russia in G9 (my historical one) and UDP in G8. The first position is usually handled with care, having devoted time&money, but i can see i get a li...
https://agema.darkbb.com/t1033-question-regarding-a-fun-position-to-play
Any ideas on how Agema/Richard deals with PC/NPC death? Is there a random chance each month/year of something happening, wondering more about from old age or random events? For example Peter The ...
Hey ho everyone, does EH have an effect on the harvest? Just wondering if high EH means less labourers to help bring it in and low EH means more people to help.
I can't see to find the official entry on Wolfram - what is it good for? That may be because a few pages of my pdf of Carte Blanche have been corrupted, or it may just be incompetence. But I'm su...
Can anyone make sense of the following for me? - "Roads E (next £300,000) - to D by December 1705" Or am I just being dense? (Answers on the back of an envelope...)
Hi Lads Russia Here. I've received the fair price for road and canals improvements for Siberia, and it goes astronomical! We are talking about more than 10 millions £ per level if you want to pu...
https://agema.darkbb.com/t1022-cncerning-canals-roads-and-trade-investments
If recruits were no object which professions would you level up and why? Talking about profession in supplements that you can level up with trained professionals to poor, reasonable and good. W...
https://agema.darkbb.com/t1020-which-professions-are-best-to-level-up-to-good
Is it my imagination or does game 10 seem to have a lot more Sick List units than in previous games.? Are other players spending more time and money repairing Sick Lists than in previous games.?
Is this the most expensive class of Warship built to date in a game of Glori? - 120 Gunner drill bored brass 42 pounders, improved gun sights, naval flintlock gun mechanisms, screw thread elevato...
Hi Lads, hope to find all of you good in health and mood. I was investigation into how to build a new settlement, and the only reference i've found is in Book of Revelation Pag.14, i quote: "Sett...
https://agema.darkbb.com/t1016-to-estabilish-a-new-settlement
This is a rough Index to some of the Supplements available to us all in Games of LGDR, If someone has time to add the other supplements please, please fell free to do so. I hope it will be of som...
https://agema.darkbb.com/t1011-a-rough-index-of-lgdr-supplements
Hi all below are the indexes for TGOK supplements with the books in alphabetical order of title. Let me know if you think anything else should be included. Advice for Princes Mobile Mortar Batter...
I've forgotten whether or not Colleges (which can produce 2,000 trained specialists) can also (if not doing anything else) perform research (or is that just Academies?). I could root around tryin...
Hi, just looking for abit of advice and guidance as stated above. Looking at the possibility of running a large position and have a few worries due to being very inexperienced and never being inv...
https://agema.darkbb.com/t1010-advice-major-power-large-position
If only two parties out of four sign a treaty, are the two parties that signed still bound by the terms, or is the whole treaty void because not all four parties have signed? Short and to the ...
Hi all, what's your thoughts about how trade is implemented in the game? My assumption is that if Russia invested in Siberian fur trade and opened up trade missions in say Europe then that would ...
Read with interest that following the rather civilized siege and now Naval Blockade of Genoa in G10.......another Louis XIV is getting ready to show them how a siege/bombardment/punishment beatin...
Good evening gents, Hope everyone is keeping well in these awful times. I have been away from the game for a while now having previously played Portugal in game 10. I am returning to play a...
Objective, but not exactly hypothetical. I thought I'd pick the collective brains-trust. So:- You have a nation with Minus 150K sterling in the Treasury, 100K positive in "personal wealth", 350K ...
May 1708 Gloire du Roi has shown up and apart from some stuff about Sweden & Russian Diplomacy and The Holy Roman Emperor's daughter marrying the Elector of Bavaria the Glori du Roi should really...
Hello Lads Joining a new game has made me aware of a different approach regarding named units. Playing only one game I had inherit a nation were previous player (if existing) choose to not give a...
I've been re-reading the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles during my stay in Loch Doon (yes that was a pun) for a personal research project and notice how often the passing of comets is recorded in there. I...
Based on my comments in another thread, I thought I would share some additional information on my position in G8, the restored Hanseatic League. My intention is to give start-up details of this m...
https://agema.darkbb.com/t982-mirco-positions-their-setup-and-development
In the main rule book, one of the types of merchantship is the Schooner. Has anyone got much experience of these and in particular using them to support trade? They are quite expensive (compared ...
https://agema.darkbb.com/t991-schooners-worth-the-time-and-money
What with Lockdown and being on furlough...and using working on the games as a reason not to do the gardening or DIY 24/7...I have been thinking about fortress cannon. What are people's thoughts ...
https://agema.darkbb.com/t985-fortress-cannon-in-peacetime-active-or-stood-down
Game 10 has just played out the May 1700 game turn and I was looking over my own position. Rozwi (an African Tribal Kingdom) started with a number of trade investments already in place and genera...
https://agema.darkbb.com/t716-trade-investments-financial-returns-not-going-bankrupt
Hello all... With plenty of time on my hands I thought I would give this game a go. Having read through the basic rules and seen my 1st player turn I have lots of questions but here are just a fe...
Hi Lads, I hope you are all safe and in good mood! I was wondering to join another game in tGoK and rather than try around I thought it could have been a good idea to ask for suggestion. Here are...
https://agema.darkbb.com/t984-suggestion-req-game-and-position-to-join
Hey People I'm celebrating my first year as a tGoK player, and a few dozen of pounds after signin (and two years after acquiring a position) i' ve come to understand that the more i play, the les...
https://agema.darkbb.com/t768-a-bunch-of-silly-newbie-questions
A little time to think and reflect in the aftermath of Christmas. My previous position was France in Game 8, which I eventually surrendered into more energetic hands because it seemed to have got...
In latest edition of The Glori du Roi - James III has decided to a) Unite his three Kingdoms of England, Ireland and Scotland & b) prove he is one of the good Guys by means of the introduction of...
Hi Lads Since I’m locked at home all day i have plenty of time to read various manuals, and I’ve come out with a curiosity that has probably been faced by others. Many of you will have acquir...
Hi all, Have any of you got any links/details of resources to share that can help me with planning an Orthodox Wedding fit for a Tsar and future Tsarina? Just planning the next few months orders ...
Following recent discussions on the G7 thread about England's lack of a special musket, I thought I'd open up a discussion on muskets to allow those with more knowledge about such things to share...
I have recently been considering "grand canals" in-game, based on the positions I play. When I say "grand canals" I am using that as a short-hand for canals that in some way make major sea-goin...
https://agema.darkbb.com/t964-grand-canals-are-they-worth-it