Forum:Viking Age Map Game ideas?

I've been reading up on Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian history lately, and was inspired by Guy Gavriel Kay (great author btw) to make a map game centered on the British Isles around 800 AD. Anybody interested in making/modding the game with me?

Random Thoughts on the Game
Keep territories divided/overdivided so as to ensure some level of plausibility and to prevent the game from degenerating into a big mess of three or four superpowers.

High level of intervention by mods so as to make sure nobody gets ahead of themselves.

A map every turn. Too many of the games going now are more of an open-source timeline than a true Map Game.

Several official, canonized "support maps" showing religions, ethnicities, etc. updated every 10-15 turns. This would enable us to have one source of info for our decisions so that we don't use two or three equally valid but conflicting maps we found on the 'net and get in a whole big argument about something.

Tech will be heavily regulated, no superadvancements (nor any advancements from over 30 years into the future, for that matter).

Thoughts? BoredMatt 02:33, January 23, 2011 (UTC)