[Discuss] Discuss: Implement differences in government types orjust have one style?

[Jeff J. Wilson]

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[mailto:discuss-bounces at news.battlemaster.org] On Behalf Of Anthony Anderson
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 2:42 PM
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Subject: Re: [Discuss] Discuss: Implement differences in government types
orjust have one style?

Not enough time to read everything, but it did make me think.  Wouldn't a
dictator be much more likely to appoint something akin to Provincial
Governors, rather than utilize landed nobles who may or may not support
their regime?  Perhaps when a new Dictator comes to power, they should have
the option to remove all current positions and reappoint people as they see
fit?  To some varying degrees, this would work for a few of the other
government types as well. 

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I believe Tom has stated more than once that BM is based on the feudal
system which underlies everything, so I do wonder why he put in different
gov't types.  The way I've been thinking about it is to append Feudal- to
all the types so that you have Feudal-Democracy, Feudal-Republic,
Feudal-Monarchy, and Feudal-Dictatorship.  A Feudal-Dictatorship does give
more power to the dictator, but it is still based on the ideas of feudalism.
Think of it as Richard III.  Richard couldn't just tell the Duke of York
that he is out of a job.  He might assassinate him in order to install a
different York that he liked better though.

Was that entry in the BM wiki written or even endorsed by Tom?  If it was
then he must have changed his thinking since that time.



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