04-15-2021, 01:25 AM | #61 | |
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04-15-2021, 02:50 AM | #62 | |
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04-15-2021, 07:27 AM | #63 | |
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GURPS Realm Management, like the rest of GURPS, portrays reality by looking at - reality, not at form and theory. If I were intentioned to portray Palatinate and Bohemia in 1619-20, I'd never, ever consider them as being overseen by the Emperor at that time. I wouldn't represent them as an integral part of an empire, nor as non-independent states that paid tribute or vassalage to the empire. YMMV, naturally. That said, yes, I'm going to provide a sample empire. A simpler one than the HRE. |
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04-15-2021, 07:28 AM | #64 | |
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"Aroint thee, and accept my tender of coin!" ~ Frye, holding out ducats
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One thing I'm having to struggle with is the default assumption that a military element is a unit of about 10 individual soldiers. This is causing quite a bit of mathematical work for costs, etc. as well as some Googling of key historical battles to see what's a realistic number of people in a fighting force. |
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04-15-2021, 07:55 AM | #65 | |
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04-15-2021, 09:05 AM | #66 | |
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The HRE lacked both for most of its much longer history. The various estates making up the HRE had their own coins and mints, even though they had a common reference in the thaler. In times of crisis, all princes played the old game of debasing-the-thaler (the CSA notes also were devalued over the course of the war, but mainly as a general consequence of the war affecting all Southern states). The Imperial army almost always remained a thing made up of contingents contributed, by mutual agreement, by the various estates' armies. Or not contributed by mutual disagreement. |
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04-15-2021, 11:19 AM | #67 | ||
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As for the CSA "State treasuries were also actively engaged in financing the war and state economies. They, too, printed money without regard for gold and silver specie on hand" - Banking and the Civil War The Historic New Orleans Collection Quote:
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04-15-2021, 12:12 PM | #68 |
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Eh, there was the normal stuff behind fiat currency -- the credibility of the issuing authority. Fundamentally, when people accept currency they're making a guess about the ability to later spend that currency, and being on the losing side of a war is not something that makes people confident in the ability to later spend that currency.
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04-15-2021, 02:49 PM | #69 |
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Even gold backed paper money gets worthless if people figure the people you are fighting are going to capture the gold reserves real soon now. And if you flee and take the gold with you there tends to be suspicions that you'll use the gold to buy new stuff not repay it to the people that hold the old currency.
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04-15-2021, 02:51 PM | #70 |
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I'm tempted to try to do the Duchy of Grand Fenwick in Realm Management. What are the military stats for 20 longbowmen and a Q bomb that can destroy a quarter of Europe?
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