Re: (TFT) Hirst Arts Melee/Wizard Arena

["maou_tsaou1@netzero.net" <maou_tsaou1@netzero.net>]

I hear you Sarge and thank you bunches for the additional background and corrections.
I'm setting up a Civ map of the area currently, as well as looking at the Nomic structures of the Races/Nations involved.
I represent a number of relationships Illuminati style.
A Figure can be a citizen of a nation, a "foreigner", a member of a group, a controller of a group, an employee, a boss, a follower, or the controller of a follower.
This determines how and where NPC's are to be found on a players "power structure" and which NPC's power structures the player's Figure appears on and how.

My World Almanac gives the Earth population total at around 500 million in 1650.
If 80% are involved in agriculture, then there's only about 100 million people worldwide involved in everything else.
How many on the antipodes?
Of each Nationality/Race?
Loose your "invincible" armada, and it may be many generations before such a loss could be replaced, if at all.
Especially if the "Cedars of Lebanon" have all been felled so to speak.

So if that "Iron Century" thing was at all correct, then I would expect a number of factors to be involved.
1 - I'd think there would be technological issues involved, like a period of developing agricultural and transportation (including ships) technology.
2 - Wasn't the Mondiuer (sp?) minimum during this period?
3 - Still a little woods left in Europe?

I look at this stuff as "initial conditions".
I make general notes about the course of the next few generations, but once you cut players loose in it who knows which way things might go?

Those guys from the Caves of Chaos might show up at any moment.
THEN what?


Dugout canoes, log rafts, hide and reed boats before 3000ish B.C. 
(Mainly river craft, Tigris/Euphrates and the Nile)

Circa 3000 B.C. Egyptian planked boats with sail.
100 to 150 feet long

Greek galley 700 B.C.
~75 feet long

Greek trireme 400 B.C.
~180 feet long

Roman warship A.D. 50
180 feet long

Roman grain ship A.D. 200
130 feet long

Mediterranean lateen-rigged ship A.D. 1000
75 feet long

Viking Knorr A.D. 1000
75 feet long

Viking long ship A.D. 1000
80 feet long

A.D. 1200 Northern European shipbuilders develop the stern rudder.
Italian two-masted lateener A.D. 1200
75 feet long

Northern European cog A.D. 1300
100 feet long

Italian two-masted carrack A.D. 1400
100 feet long

around A.D. 1450 Mediterranean shipbuilders develop the full-rigged sailing ship.

Then we get into the period mentioned before.

I have a list of 37 sails for a full-rigged ship, but THAT should probably wait for a picture I think huh?

Then they go to Fulton



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