[PBW] A House Divided - Discussion thread (PBW Setup Online!)

[astruskustuvas]

i wana play this game too. Sign me in.

[General Woundwort]

1. Alneyan
2. Randallw
3. TerranC
4. Loser
5. Joachim
6. astruskustuvas

OK - all slots are filled! Just to review, here are the steps to set-up...

1) Get The BALANCE Mod and the Ultimate Strategies Mod. Copy the defaultstrategies and formations files from USM into the Balance Mod data folder. Also, change this line in the settings file...


quote:
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Damage Points To Kill One Population := 10
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to this...


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Damage Points To Kill One Population := 100
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2) Make your race's Main and Race pics. If you don't/can't make one, I'll make a race/main for you based on your empire file (use stock terran as a default in step 3), and send it to you for approval. Also, indicate if you want to use a shipset OTHER THAN the stock Terrans.

3) Make your race's empire file using Balance Mod - 2000 points, rock/oxygen, no racial abilites or techs that are not "human". A little background on your faction would also be helpful (more on that below).

4) E-mail me the EMP file and pics. I'll set up the shipsets and post them to PBW for you. Then I'll set up the game in PBW for you to join.

Background - I'm trying to keep it as "generic" as possible, but the basic outline is that a human world inhabiting an isolated star cluster sent out 6 colony ships after astronomically surveying their surroundings. These ships colonized the most desirable worlds in the cluster, and formed the core of the competing factions. At the time, travel and communications were primitive, so they had a chance to "develop" with a certain degree of freedom, but they still owed allegiance to the Empire back on homeworld (think feudalism). Now, communications and travel are much faster, and there is a power struggle between the regional governments and Homeworld (think transition from feudalism to modern nation-state). A particularly power-hungry (and also inept) Emperor has recently attempted to consolidate power - and got removed in a spectacular fashion (watch for upcoming story thread). This leaves the players to fight out who will run the show, and the game begins...

[ May 01, 2004, 11:02: Message edited by: General Woundwort ]

[Joachim]

OK, got the mods, all good (I hope!)

Will email you what I would like for a race pic and empire flag. I would do it myself but I have no ability in that department.

[Joachim]

Can I have some more background on the empire so as to develop my renegade House?

It would be good if we can have a quick history, name of race/empire etc.

[Loser]

Originally posted by Joachim:
Can I have some more background on the empire so as to develop my renegade House?

It would be good if we can have a quick history, name of race/empire etc.

I'm all for taking the FASA, Battletech, Inner Sphere for our background.

Basically the Star League resulted from the unification of distant colonial empires under the Terran Hegemony. It was a Golden Age of Man, but all things come to an end, you know.

SOme traitor kills the young ruler of the Star League at some point and tries to take over. There is a spilt in the military, and a war that this traitor loses. He is killed.

At this point the various Great Houses of the Star League, remnants, I belive, of the colonial empires, begin to war amongst themselves at the head of each house declares him or herself ruler of the Star League.

The Star League military gathers itself under its great leader, Kerensky, and just leaves, buggs out and heads for uncharted space. They left so they could not be used in the succession wars that followed.

For the most part the Great Houses kept to a rule, for many ages past, agianst orbital bombadment and nuclear weapons, and fought amongs themselves with limited space battles and extensive ground campaigns featuring great war machines called Battlemechs.

The territories of the five Great Houses of the Inner Sphere are layed out like slices of a pie from the center, Earth. This reflects the spread of people of similar ethnic and national backgrounds that made up the pre-Star League empires. The worlds that were once part of the Terran Hegemomy were taken by whatever House could hold them in the beginning. Earth itself is held by a quasi-religious decendant of the Star League Communications Authority, calling itself ComStar.

I'm sure, if we take this route, I can find more links for further details on the matter.

The five Great Houses of the Inner Sphere are as follows.

House Davion, the The Federated Commonwealth

House Liao, the Cappelan Confederation

House Kurita, the Draconis Combine

House Marik, the Free Worlds League

House Steiner, the Lyran Alliance

Of course, we don't have to take this path. We could be much more vague on the background and let each player build their own history... at least build it back to the point of our common place in the Old Empire.

[Randallw]

Originally posted by Loser:


The five Great Houses of the Inner Sphere are as follows.

House Davion, the The Federated Commonwealth

House Liao, the Cappelan Confederation

House Kurita, the Draconis Combine

House Marik, the Free Worlds League

House Steiner, the Lyran Alliance

Been ages since I looked at my Battletech books but...House Davion is the Federated wolds who merged with the Lyran Commonwealth, House Steiner, to form the Federated Commonwealth. By this time Liao had split into the Capellan confederation and another, Liao I think, and The Rasalhauge republic left the Draconis Combine. Then of course the Clans turn up. Basically the houses are as such
Davion- Federated worlds- America
Steiner- Lyran commonwealth- Europe
Kurita- Draconis combine- Japan.
Liao- Capellans- China
Marik- Free worlds- Africa (I always thought. Also the weakest house who basically do nothing)
Rasalhauge, who form later, are Scandinavia.

All that said I would prefer something other than Inner Sphere. All the houses are basically the same technologically (culturally they are different) and they all use the same weapons.
It would be more interesting to develop our own houses.

[Loser]

Originally posted by Randallw:
House Davion is the Federated wolds who merged with the Lyran Commonwealth, House Steiner, to form the Federated Commonwealth.

They spilt back up again. I guess it just didn't work out.

I've no problem with taking a strictly non-Inner Sphere route. But I would like to see a few things nailed down.

Especially this "no glassing" thing.

Oh, and some history.

Just to keep things simple, let's say we're human. Maybe some of us and a little different, a little changed with time. But we all started human.