[Discuss] Claims

[Timothy Collett]

On May 26, 2007, at 10:41 AM, Christopher Subich wrote:
> Additionally, "make multilateral armies hard" just advantages large  
> realms more.  If two small realms can't combine their armies to  
> fight against a larger one, then the large realm will be able to  
> crush them individually.

Yeah...that definitely occurred to me, too.  I really don't want to  
make it harder to destroy large realms.

Perhaps (more brainstorming here) what's needed, then, is more  
penalties for *being* a large realm.

Now that we can set taxes at the region level, it'll be easier to  
make a decent amount of money in a large realm, and still not make  
the outlying regions mad at you.  Perhaps we need to change that--by  
making outlying regions (more than a certain distance from the  
capital in realms of a certain size) *never* fit in well with the  
rest of the realm...make it nearly impossible to raise control there  
above Province, for instance.

Or make recruitment slow down a LOT for larger realms, so that if  
you've got 5 regions each with 2 recruitment centers, you might get  
5-10 men/day from each...but if you've got 25 regions each with 2  
recruitment centers, you're lucky to get 5-10 men/*week* from each.   
After all, if there's already such a large army, why bother signing up?

Or add something new for large realms: the capital demands the kind  
of protection due such a large realm--hundreds or thousands of  
soldiers as militia.  And, of course, the other cities wouldn't want  
to be left out (though they wouldn't demand *quite* so much).   
Perhaps that should kick in when the realm has 4 or more cities...or  
something like that.

Or perhaps such a large realm can't effectively be governed by  
democratic methods, and any government other than a dictatorship will  
have serious difficulties preventing revolts, both in the outlying  
regions *and the capital*...because revolutionaries would always look  
to the capital, whether nobles or peasants.  (That might increase the  
number of dictatorships in BM, too, which has dropped off drastically  
over the past year or 2)

Again, just some ideas, and I'm sure other people can come up with  
other good (and bad!) ones.  Brainstorming is fun!

Timothy Collett
Anaris Family

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"If you suffer your people to be ill-educated and their manners  
corrupted from infancy and then punish them for those crimes to which  
their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded but  
that you first make thieves and then punish them?"
-Thomas More



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