sitting at my job waiting for the last fifteen minutes i realized that twiddling my thumbs was not the answer where productivity was the question
so i got out a pen and paper and decided to round out some new kingdom card ideas.
going to add a couple of specific kingdom cards that play well with the total culture of your deck should you choose to go single empire-minded.
let's say: "if all cards in play are X then Y."
X = rome, china, huns, egypt, greece, persia, maurya... etc...
Y = all strategy cards that cost more than 3 resources now all cost 2 resources
Y = chose one tactic card that was just played, discard it, no actions on tactics card may occur. this card trumps all actions on any one tactics card played and being discarded.
Y = entice an attacking unit, this unit is now controlled by you but must stay in the battlefield.
Y = etc...
so... that kind of thing
i think that will be cool to try to get back in the groove of single empires.
i might call them "dynasty" cards with the text in the middle upper between the empire and the type of card. i think this would be nice. so, a proposed four or eight new kingdom cards are on the way.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Sunday, May 12, 2013
05/12/13 Trumping
added trumping to the glossary as such:
Trump - After playing a card, often another card is played on top of it, negating the effect or ability of the first card. This is called "Trumping" and is often confusing for the new card player. When something is Trumped, the last card played (the one on top) is active and the activities of the last card are not used. When something "Can not be trumped" then that cards effect or ability goes on no matter what any other cards say. The card that "can not be trumped" has the dominant authority in the final outcome of the turn resolution.
Trump - After playing a card, often another card is played on top of it, negating the effect or ability of the first card. This is called "Trumping" and is often confusing for the new card player. When something is Trumped, the last card played (the one on top) is active and the activities of the last card are not used. When something "Can not be trumped" then that cards effect or ability goes on no matter what any other cards say. The card that "can not be trumped" has the dominant authority in the final outcome of the turn resolution.
Friday, May 10, 2013
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
empiresandgenerals.com 1 year recap
april 2012 - 20 unique visitors on empiresandgenerals.com
may 2012 - 131,511 unique visitors (434,403 pageviews) on empiresandgenerals.com
memorial day 2012 - the pirate bay ad
june 2012 - april 2013 628.18 average unique hits per month on the .com and the .tk
april - merged the .com and the .tk to repoint to the blogger
total april unique visitors - 941
so, that's just the average.
looking forward to exponential growth with these new cards and your new friends!
spread the word and...
GAME ON!
may 2012 - 131,511 unique visitors (434,403 pageviews) on empiresandgenerals.com
memorial day 2012 - the pirate bay ad
june 2012 - april 2013 628.18 average unique hits per month on the .com and the .tk
april - merged the .com and the .tk to repoint to the blogger
total april unique visitors - 941
so, that's just the average.
looking forward to exponential growth with these new cards and your new friends!
spread the word and...
GAME ON!
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Attila (1954) vs. Attila (2001)
Settling in to watch the 1954 version of Attila with Anthony Quinn, Sophia Loren and Henri Vidal.
Filmed in Italy and France, it seems to be a much more "realistic" than the 2001 version.
Pretty frikkin awetastic so far. A lot of drama and Rome diplomacy...
I would like to say that, right now, even as I watch it in Turkish on Youtube, it is looking better than Gerard Butlers TV flick.
That was pretty dumb in my opinion.
Whoops, the one on Youtube is not actually the full movie. Around halfway in, it repeats the first part of the movie.
Oh! found a better copy...
Here is the full movie that can be watched, though you might not understand it unless you speak Attilastani, which I am sure is not a real language...
http://go2films.ru/video/dWlkPS00OTUyMjMwOSZnaWQ9MTY0NDk0Nzc1
Below are some stills from the movie that I just might use on the cards.
Filmed in Italy and France, it seems to be a much more "realistic" than the 2001 version.
Pretty frikkin awetastic so far. A lot of drama and Rome diplomacy...
I would like to say that, right now, even as I watch it in Turkish on Youtube, it is looking better than Gerard Butlers TV flick.
That was pretty dumb in my opinion.
Whoops, the one on Youtube is not actually the full movie. Around halfway in, it repeats the first part of the movie.
Oh! found a better copy...
Here is the full movie that can be watched, though you might not understand it unless you speak Attilastani, which I am sure is not a real language...
http://go2films.ru/video/dWlkPS00OTUyMjMwOSZnaWQ9MTY0NDk0Nzc1
Below are some stills from the movie that I just might use on the cards.
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Roman Republic Tactics Joke Cards
ok so i get to show my goofy side for a minute. i was changing the title of the roman "limes" from "walls" from the old card and i wondered if anyone actually thought i meant the citrus fruit. well... so here you go. a little humor goes a long way. if you're first among your friends to play with these new cards, i assure you they are legal, they have an actual ID at the bottom right (the same ID as the real card) so you can use them, but not double stack your deck with these cards and the ones with the real picture.
the only card on roman republic tactics that i didn't make a joke card about is the crucifixion card, because i don't really think that's funny no matter how you slice it.
but you can slice the limes.
enjoy!
-pauly
the only card on roman republic tactics that i didn't make a joke card about is the crucifixion card, because i don't really think that's funny no matter how you slice it.
but you can slice the limes.
enjoy!
-pauly
the only good part of "master of disguise" in my opinion. it's a classic reference if you don't know it.
i haven't seen the second "alternate universe" star trek yet, but i liked this picture more than the others from the original series or tng. eric bana gave this a great performance even though i never fully understood the layout of their ship with all of the platforms and jumping about... aren't miners supposed to be fat?
lol the battleship game is actually a pun as well as a joke card. any lover of board-games is going to realize that battleship is one of the worst strategy games ever devised and is pure luck and math.
how do i know this?
my dad and i used to play this on graph paper for hours. my "guesses" never beat his pure math. once you establish the prime tactic of the every-third-checkerboard, then you will win on a statistical level more often than lose to the guesser.
5/5/13 - comments are live again! post away!
fiddling with rgb qualifications and messing with stuff that is 13/128ths off is just some of the things that i do to make the cards look nice. i really do try to create beautiful art for all who are involved in playing this wonderful game of mine.
i put a lot of time into the game and don't experience a lot of feedback except on facebook.
if you would like to say thanks, or give props, or tell me what i am doing wrong:
post a comment!
it would be nice to hear from you!
i would love to hear your voice!
you are important!
i put a lot of time into the game and don't experience a lot of feedback except on facebook.
if you would like to say thanks, or give props, or tell me what i am doing wrong:
post a comment!
it would be nice to hear from you!
i would love to hear your voice!
you are important!
Watch Dacii
Dacii (The Dacians) is a 1967 historical drama film about Domitian's Dacian War fought between the Roman empire and the Dacians in AD 87-88. This film was directed byRomanian director Sergiu Nicolaescu. It was released on 31 May 1967 in France. It was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival.
The great King of Dacia, Decebal (Decebalus), is disposed to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to keep the integrity of his people. His own son, Cotyso, is given to the god Zamolxis to the dismay of the King and his daughter Meda. Septimius Severus a young roman devoted to his adopted country, must make the choice between his blood origins and the culture he was raised to.
Decebalus or "The Brave" (originally named Diurpaneus) was a king of Dacia (ruled the Dacians 87–106) and is famous for fighting three wars and negotiating two interregnums of peace without being eliminated against the Roman Empire under two emperors. In the later short peace (end of 102–105) granted by Trajan, Decebalus continued to act as an independent king, rather than a conquered client and repeatedly annoyed or infuriated the Romans.
Consequently, the Legions under Trajan's orders went on the offensive again in 105 AD, reducing the Dacian capital Sarmizegetusa in 106. After that, Decebalus committed suicide.
After the death of Great King Burebista, Dacia split into four then five smaller states. The situation lasted until Diurpaneus managed to consolidate the core of Dacia around Sarmizegetusa, in today's Hunedoara county. Though not yet king, he reorganized the Dacian army, which in 85 began minor raids upon the heavily fortified Roman province of Moesia, located south of the Danube under Dacian king Duras.
In 86, the Duras ordered a more vigorous attack south into Roman province of Moesia. Emperor Domitian personally advanced into the province with legions and relief supplies, reorganized it, and planned an attack into Dacia the next campaign season. It did not turn out well.
In 87, Emperor Domitian sent his prefect of the Praetorian Guards, Cornelius Fuscus, to punish the Dacians. His four or five legions suffered a major defeat when ambushed by the forces of Diurpaneus. Two Roman legions (among which was the VAlaudae) were ambushed and defeated at a mountain pass the Romans called Tapae (widely known as the Iron Gates along what is the modern Romania-Serbia border). Fuscus was killed. Diurpaneus dubbed himself Decebalus, meaning "with the strength of ten [men]" or simply "The Brave," and was crowned king.
“At this time the Romans became involved in a very serious war with the Dacians, whose king was then Decebalus. This man was shrewd in his understanding of warfare and shrewd also in the waging of war; he judged well when to attack and chose the right moment to retreat; he was an expert in ambuscades and a master in pitched battles; and he knew not only how to follow up a victory well, but also how to manage well a defeat. Hence he showed himself a worthy antagonist of the Romans for a long time. I call the people Dacians, the names used by the natives themselves as well as by the Romans, though I am not ignorant that some Greek writers refer to them as Getae, whether that is the right form or not; for the Getae of whom I myself know are those that live beyond the Haemus range, along the Ister.”
In 88, Tettius Iulianus commanded another Roman army under Domitian against the Dacians, who defeated the Romans at the Second Battle of Tapae. Since German revolts along the Rhine were requiring augmented military force in Moesia, the Romans were compelled to pay large sums in tribute to the Dacians for maintaining peace. This humiliating situation lasted until Trajan became Emperor in 98. Immediately he began preparations for wars that would expand the Roman Empire to its maximum extent.
Decebalus was defeated by the Romans when they invaded Dacia beginning March 25, 101 AD, again in the fortifications of Tapae. After accepting harsh peace conditions including losses in territory, he was left as a client king under a Roman protectorate and a small local garrison.
Three years later, Decebalus destroyed the small Roman garrison in Dacia, and the Romans were forced again to send reinforcements, and this time Trajan decided to definitively conquer Dacia.
After a long siege of the Dacian Capital, Sarmizegetusa and a few skirmishes in the greater region, the Romans conquered Dacia. Decebalus managed to escape with his family.
Hunted, having his army defeated and finally cornered by Roman detachments seeking his head, rather than being captured to be exhibited and humiliated at Rome, Decebalus committed suicide by slashing his own throat, as depicted on Trajan's Column.
It is likely, however, that in the process of dying, Decebalus was captured by a Roman cavalry scout named Tiberius Claudius Maximus from Legio VII Claudia as is claimed on the funerary stele discovered at Gramini in Greece. His head and right hand were then taken to Trajan in "Ranisstorium" (an unidentified Dacian village, perhaps Piatra Craiului) by Claudius Maximus when he was decorated by the emperor, and the trophy sent to Rome where it was thrown on the Gemonian stairs. Tiberius Claudius Maximus' tomb cites two occasions where the legionary was decorated for his part in the Dacian wars, one of which being the acquisition and recovery of Decebalus' head.
Decebalus is considered a national hero in Romania and has been portrayed in numerous literary works, movies (e.g. Dacii, directed by Sergiu Nicolaescu), sculptures, etc. His first known portrait has been preserved on Trajan's Column, the commemorative stone column completed in 113. Trajan's Column depicts the key moments of the last two wars between Dacia and the Roman Empire in carved bas relief. During the 1990s, a team of sculptors carved a 40-meter tall statue of Decebalus from a stone outcrop near the city of Orşova, Romania.
The great King of Dacia, Decebal (Decebalus), is disposed to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to keep the integrity of his people. His own son, Cotyso, is given to the god Zamolxis to the dismay of the King and his daughter Meda. Septimius Severus a young roman devoted to his adopted country, must make the choice between his blood origins and the culture he was raised to.
Decebalus or "The Brave" (originally named Diurpaneus) was a king of Dacia (ruled the Dacians 87–106) and is famous for fighting three wars and negotiating two interregnums of peace without being eliminated against the Roman Empire under two emperors. In the later short peace (end of 102–105) granted by Trajan, Decebalus continued to act as an independent king, rather than a conquered client and repeatedly annoyed or infuriated the Romans.
Consequently, the Legions under Trajan's orders went on the offensive again in 105 AD, reducing the Dacian capital Sarmizegetusa in 106. After that, Decebalus committed suicide.
After the death of Great King Burebista, Dacia split into four then five smaller states. The situation lasted until Diurpaneus managed to consolidate the core of Dacia around Sarmizegetusa, in today's Hunedoara county. Though not yet king, he reorganized the Dacian army, which in 85 began minor raids upon the heavily fortified Roman province of Moesia, located south of the Danube under Dacian king Duras.
In 86, the Duras ordered a more vigorous attack south into Roman province of Moesia. Emperor Domitian personally advanced into the province with legions and relief supplies, reorganized it, and planned an attack into Dacia the next campaign season. It did not turn out well.
In 87, Emperor Domitian sent his prefect of the Praetorian Guards, Cornelius Fuscus, to punish the Dacians. His four or five legions suffered a major defeat when ambushed by the forces of Diurpaneus. Two Roman legions (among which was the VAlaudae) were ambushed and defeated at a mountain pass the Romans called Tapae (widely known as the Iron Gates along what is the modern Romania-Serbia border). Fuscus was killed. Diurpaneus dubbed himself Decebalus, meaning "with the strength of ten [men]" or simply "The Brave," and was crowned king.
“At this time the Romans became involved in a very serious war with the Dacians, whose king was then Decebalus. This man was shrewd in his understanding of warfare and shrewd also in the waging of war; he judged well when to attack and chose the right moment to retreat; he was an expert in ambuscades and a master in pitched battles; and he knew not only how to follow up a victory well, but also how to manage well a defeat. Hence he showed himself a worthy antagonist of the Romans for a long time. I call the people Dacians, the names used by the natives themselves as well as by the Romans, though I am not ignorant that some Greek writers refer to them as Getae, whether that is the right form or not; for the Getae of whom I myself know are those that live beyond the Haemus range, along the Ister.”
In 88, Tettius Iulianus commanded another Roman army under Domitian against the Dacians, who defeated the Romans at the Second Battle of Tapae. Since German revolts along the Rhine were requiring augmented military force in Moesia, the Romans were compelled to pay large sums in tribute to the Dacians for maintaining peace. This humiliating situation lasted until Trajan became Emperor in 98. Immediately he began preparations for wars that would expand the Roman Empire to its maximum extent.
Decebalus was defeated by the Romans when they invaded Dacia beginning March 25, 101 AD, again in the fortifications of Tapae. After accepting harsh peace conditions including losses in territory, he was left as a client king under a Roman protectorate and a small local garrison.
Three years later, Decebalus destroyed the small Roman garrison in Dacia, and the Romans were forced again to send reinforcements, and this time Trajan decided to definitively conquer Dacia.
After a long siege of the Dacian Capital, Sarmizegetusa and a few skirmishes in the greater region, the Romans conquered Dacia. Decebalus managed to escape with his family.
Hunted, having his army defeated and finally cornered by Roman detachments seeking his head, rather than being captured to be exhibited and humiliated at Rome, Decebalus committed suicide by slashing his own throat, as depicted on Trajan's Column.
It is likely, however, that in the process of dying, Decebalus was captured by a Roman cavalry scout named Tiberius Claudius Maximus from Legio VII Claudia as is claimed on the funerary stele discovered at Gramini in Greece. His head and right hand were then taken to Trajan in "Ranisstorium" (an unidentified Dacian village, perhaps Piatra Craiului) by Claudius Maximus when he was decorated by the emperor, and the trophy sent to Rome where it was thrown on the Gemonian stairs. Tiberius Claudius Maximus' tomb cites two occasions where the legionary was decorated for his part in the Dacian wars, one of which being the acquisition and recovery of Decebalus' head.
Decebalus is considered a national hero in Romania and has been portrayed in numerous literary works, movies (e.g. Dacii, directed by Sergiu Nicolaescu), sculptures, etc. His first known portrait has been preserved on Trajan's Column, the commemorative stone column completed in 113. Trajan's Column depicts the key moments of the last two wars between Dacia and the Roman Empire in carved bas relief. During the 1990s, a team of sculptors carved a 40-meter tall statue of Decebalus from a stone outcrop near the city of Orşova, Romania.
Saturday, May 4, 2013
New Soldiers
Evening up the decks to bring the total count of each of the four family decks to 10 Soldiers each, I have added three cards to even out the remaining three decks that only had nine.
Have a great day and let me know if there are any questions on their effects or abilities!
GAME ON!
Have a great day and let me know if there are any questions on their effects or abilities!
GAME ON!
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