Explorers 1452 (Map Game)

This map game will be like no other! Rules:


 * If you wish to both explore and colonize new unexplored territories, you must give up one turn.


 * After you capture a region, revolts are sure to happen, so you must give a description of how you put it down: With either force or propaganda.


 * It must be plausible. Example: No taking-over-Russia-as-Finland in a few turns.

Here is a list of new moves you can make:
 * If a nation wants an alliance with you, your nation can bargain (example-Portugal wants an alliance with Spain, but Spain will only join if Portugal gives its land claims in South America.)
 * You can hire raiders/pirates and make them raid any nation's ship, but this greatly reduces that country's relationship with your nation.
 * You can take over a new colony anywhere but this makes you lose a turn and the opposing nation is most likely to declare war on your nation.
 * Unoccupied countries or nations led by inactive users can be invaded. If no resistance is made by said inactive users or the nation is unclaimed, you can conquer it in a plausible amount of time. Remember, the population will be angry about this, and after completely annexing a nation or a blank province players must explain how they deal with the entire populance. There are several options: Suppress them by force, massacre them, deport them, leave them as they are, etc.

Once eight/nine turns in a year are made, we can move on to the next year. This includes the turns of two separate nations controlled by one player.

Keys/Legend


NOTE: The large burgundy-like patch in Russia is the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the yellow section of central Italy comprises the Papal States.



Nations

 * Poland Lithuiania - Duchland 03:44, July 21, 2010 (UTC)Duchland


 * Castile-Fedelede 03:45, July 21, 2010 (UTC)


 * Union of Kalmar - Destroyanator 03:50, July 21, 2010 (UTC)


 * Byzantine Empire - Nationcreator 19:19, July 30, 2010 (UTC)


 * England- BoredMatt 19:40, July 30, 2010 (UTC)


 * Empire of Trebizond - Emperor of Trebizond 00:27, October 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * Papal States - Emperor of Trebizond 22:40, October 5, 2010 (UTC)


 * France - Ownerzmcown 00:52, October 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * Muscovy - Ownerzmcown 21:46, October 3, 2010 (UTC)


 * Portugal - BoredMatt 21:47, October 3, 2010 (UTC)


 * Republic of Florence - Fedelede 22:10, October 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * Ottoman Empire (octiman10 19:53, October 6, 2010 (UTC))


 * Scotland - Bob 16:46, October 7, 2010 (UTC)

Unclaimed Nations

 * Republic of Venice
 * Kingdom of Naples
 * Aragon
 * Milan
 * Habsburg
 * Tuetonic Knights

1452



 * France launches an invasion of Britanny, capturing a majority of the east this year.
 * England offers France a truce to end the 100 Years War. They also strike into Scotland, securing Ayrshire and most of the lowlands.
 * The Empire of Trebizond, seeing Georgia's states divided among themselves, launches an assault on Georgian territories. The local population, frustrated by the constant instability in the area, welcomes this as a new form of order.
 * Muscovy invades the smaller states to its south, while avoiding war with Poland-Lithuania.
 * Portugal renews its alliance with England. Eager to expand its' mercentile influence in the Mediterranean, Portugal offers Trebizond relatively large amounts of weaponry, armor, and general supplies in exchange for duty-free transactions for Portuguese merchants in any port city that Trebizond controls. Also, a strike at Grenada captures Gibraltar. Combined with the small Portuguese holdings in northern Morocco, Portugal now has complete control over the Straits.
 * Castille launches an invasion against Granada. Tarifa is captured
 * Florence makes a call for "Unified Italy", and invades Genoa. The Genoese, based on sea power, are easily defeated on land. Portions of Massa-Carra are conquered, and the Florentines offer Genoa a surrender so that Italy might be unified more easily.
 * The Papal States ask that Rhodes be ceded to them by the Republic of Venice. "In all favor of the pope and Christendom", the Papacy wishes to establish an outpost by which new Crusades may possibly be launched against the Ottoman Empire.
 * The Ottoman Empire invades and captures provinces to the East and South East (securing all of Anatolia with the exception of lands held by the Byzantines and the Empire of Trebizond).

1453

 * The Empire of Trebizond decides to grant the Portuguese the ports they want on the Black Sea. They give Portugal exclusive trade rights in Pontus and Georgia. In return, the Trapezuntine Greeks ask that the Portuguese help keep them safe from the raids of the Genoese there. The emperor also insists that they supply him with the latest in gunpowder technology, including heavy artillery (For both land and sea) and 'hand'-guns. Meanwhile, with Byzantine control over their Crimean territory weakened, Trebizond sends an invasion force there to secure it for themselves.
 * The Papacy sends its tiny fleet to Rhodes and occupies it, having received no answer from the Venetians. The pope assures the Doge of Venice that he is acting in the best interests of the church and Christendom. Meanwhile, the island itself is granted to a Papal Knightly order known as 'Knights of the Vatican'.
 * Scotland cedes most of the Western Lowlands north of the Tweed to England. Scotland begins a period of political centralisation as the King consoldiates the smaller regions into larger regions with more powerful lords. The King of Scotland also bans the use of private armies.