Fantasy Wargame Design Project

The Game of Imperial Nomic shall always include at least two not necessarily distinct TISs who are office-holders: Imperial Emperor / Empress (IE) and Humble Scribe (HS). The initial holder of the post of IE and HS is Joel "Joe Java" Ricker.

The FW Design Project can contain more than one not necessarily distinct players who are office-holders: Imperial Senator(s) and Assistant Humble Scribes. Asst. HSs are assigned by HS when it becomes necessary.

• A Proposal is submitted by sending it by electronic mail or the World Wide Web to THS. A person then becomes an Imperial Senator at the submission of their first Proposal or Point of Order.
• Proposals must contain a title or will not be submitted into the proposal queue by HS.
• Proposals may contain one or more of the following marks:

{ } Text included within these marks are considered to be comments. They will be removed before THS includes the new proposal into the ruleset.

[ ] Text included within these marks are considered to be comments. They will be included into the ruleset with the new proposal. THS may at anytime remove, move, or edit these comments as e feels necessary for the clarity of the rule.

1. An Imperial Senator may submit a proposal to the voting queue at any time. A voting deadline is also attached to the proposal which is 4 days from the day THS posts the proposal. Once THS has posted the proposal, other Imperial Senators may send in a vote of YES or NO to HS. After the voting dealine has been reached and after tallying the votes there is a majority of Imperial Senators who have sent in a vote of YES, the proposal is passed to the Imperial Emporer for his judgement.
2. TIE will judge each proposal submitted and accept, veto or ignore it. To ignore a proposal, the condition by which it is ignored must be explicit elsewhere in the ruleset.
3. IE may, at any time, modify or remove any existing rule or enact new rules, by the issuing of a Proclamation. In addition, e may, at any time, issue a Directive calling for proposals in a certain area.
4. HS may rewrite a proposal to clarify its meaning, as long as the rewriting does not alter the meaning.
5. HS must publish, via the World Wide Web, the current set of rules, list of proposals, and scores of all TISs.
6. HS will collect and tally votes for proposals and post the results online.

If an Imperial Senator has submitted three undecided proposals and then submits a new proposal, the new proposal will replace the oldest of that Imperial Senators undecided proposals.

Any Imperial Senator may, at any time, submit a Point of Order to raise any issue relevant to the game.

1. All rules are deemed to be of one of two types: "A" and "B". "A" rules are always active while "B" rules are only active when IE deems that a new playtest of the sub-game (represented by the "B" rules) should then begin.
2. Rules number 1 through 20 inclusive are considered "A" rules and rules numbered 21 or higher are concidered "B" rules. B rules may also contain sub-rules.
3. Sub-rules of rule X would be numbered X.1, X.2, and so on. Sub-rules may contain sub-rules.

1. Each submission will be numbered and a new rule will apply to all submissions numbered greater than or equal to its own proposal unless it specifies otherwise.
2. When several rules apply at the same time, precedence as specified explicitly by the rules is applied first. Where there is no explicit or conflicting explicit precedence, the rules are applied from lowest to highest as far as possible without conflict
3. "A" rules have precedence over "B" rules.

21. The World

There exists the world, which is divided into hexes, represented by a map called "Flat World". This map will be a graphic reprensentation of the hexes and it will be visible on the WWW. Each hex is a regular hexagon with an edge one league in length. [Insert stuff here]
 
21.1. Territory

Hexes are either owned by a player or unowned [We can add buffer zones and so on later]. When a hex is owned by a player then that player has access to all benefits and penalties provided by that hex.
 
21.2 Initial Ownership
 
Each player initially owns 12 adjacent hexes. Included in these hexes there should be one castle and one gold mine.
 
21.3 Terrain
 
Each hex has a terrain.  It may also have one or more terrain modifiers.  Each type of terrain has a Difficulty.  The specifications of any terrain modifiers take precedence over the terrains.
 
21.3.1 Terrain Modifiers
 
The following are the terrain modifiers:

Population Center
  Any hex with a population center has a difficulty of 1

Road
 Any hex with a road has its difficulty reduced by 2, to a minimum of 1
 

21.3.2 Terrain, Types of
 
Plains Difficuly 2
Forest Difficulty 4
Jungle Difficulty 8
Hill Difficulty 4
Mountain Difficulty 12
Swamp Difficulty 6
Tundra Difficulty 4
Craigs Difficulty 8
Arctic Difficulty 8
Bridge Difficulty 2
River Water Difficulty 6
Rapids Water Difficulty 10
Deep Sea Water Difficulty 2
Reef Water Difficulty 14
Shallow Sea Water Difficulty 4

Various types of resources may exist.  They should be defined by sub-rules under this one. Each hex may be able to produce one or more resources, at a cost of labor and/or other resources.  Each turn, each player may have his hexes produce any available resources by assigning units of labor they own located in those hexes to produce those resources,
and paying any additional costs."
 
22.1 Gold
 
Gold pieces are a resource.  Gold pieces are the currency used throughout the game.  Each player starts with 5000 gold pieces.  At the end of each turn, each unit of labor located in a gold mine hex owned by the owner of the labor, and not assigned to any other duty, produces 10 gold pieces which are added to that player's total.
 
22.2 Population Centers
 
A hex may be a population center.  If so, any resources may not be accessed.  The types of unfortified population centers are village, town, and city.  Castles are considered fortified population centers.  All population centers have a population.  If an unfortified population center has a population less than 5,000, it is a village, if it has more than 50,000, it is a city, otherwise it is a town.

The game is divided into turns. Every turn each player may perform any legal game actions (s)he wishes to. All actions performed in a turn by any player are deemed to have ocurred simultaneously.

There are four religions, Ignism, Aquism, Terrism, and Atmosism.  A hex may have a temple dedicated to any one religion.  Any unfortified population center within 5 hexes of exactly one temple becomes devoted to that religion.  An atheistic population center within 5 hexes of multiple temples is religiously split, and its population growth is halved.
Population centers are atheistic until the rules specified that they become devoted or religiously split.

All nations are either agnostic or have a state religion, and are agnostic initially.  An agnostic nation may select one religion to become the state religion.  At that point all churches to other religions within that nation are destroyed, all population centers devoted to other religions go into rebellion, and all atheistic population centers become devoted to the state religion.  All population centers in a nation with a state religion act like a temple to that religion.

 Two population centers devoted to different religions are automatically unfriendly; two population centers devoted to the same god are friendly.

Each player controls a number of units of labor. These units may have a specialty or may be untrained. Types of specialized laborers include: miners [add more as we need them.] A specialized laborer counts as 1.5 units for their specialty.

Military units have characteristics values between one and twenty. All units have characteristics in the following areas: Movement, Attack, and Defennse. Each military unit belongs to at least one type.  The types are Infantry, Cavalry, Artillary, Aerial, Naval, Magical, and Special.
 
26.1 Other Characteristics
 
Military Units may also have other characteristics.  These are special abilities.  Many of them include variable scores as well.  A unitmay have multiple characteristics, or even the same characteristic multiple times (with different scores).  Unless otherwise specified, each unit may only use one characteristic per turn, and this uses a Unit Action.  The characteristics are:
 
 Bombardment (with special attack score): Only Aerial units may havethis.  Aerial units which do may attack ground units on the same hex (safely) using the special attack score.

Ranged Attack (with special attack score and range; may be specified as Ranged Aerial (with special range), Local Aerial, or Ground): May attack any unit within range hexes (safely) using the special attack score.  If it is specified as Local Aerial or Ranged Aerial, Aerials on the same hex may be attacked using the special attack score.  If it is Ranged Aerial, Aerials within the Ranged Aerial special range may be attacked.

Aerial Attack (with special attack score): Only non-Aerials may have this.  They may attack an Aerial (safely) on the same hex using the special attack score.
 

26.2 Movement
 
A Military Unit may move over hexes during a turn, but may not travel over hexes whose Difficulty adds up to more than the Military Units total Movement.  This uses a Unit Action.  All hexes are difficulty one for an Aerial.  A Naval may only travel on types of water.  Units which are no Navals or Aerials may not travel on types of water.
 
26.3 Unit Actions
 
Unless otherwise specified, each Military Unit receives one Unit Action per turn.  During a given turn, a Military Unit may not spend more Unit Actions than it has.  Whenever a Unit Action is used, it is spent by the Military Unit performing the action costing a Unit Action.  At the end of each turn all Unit Actions are destroyed.
 
26.4 When Units Attack
 
 Attacks are risky or safe, and are risky by default. When two units fight, if the attacker's attack is higher than the defender's defense, the defender is destroyed.  If the attack is risky and the defender's attack is higher than the attacker's attack, the attacker is destroyed.
 
26.5 Contested Spaces
 
Only one non-aerial unit may be on a hex at a time (this sentence defers to all rules defining military units).  If a unit stops moving on a space occupied by a unit, it backs up one space (determined randomly if necessary).  If the space is occupied by an enemy unit, it attacks (riskily) the unit in that space.  If the defender is destroyed and the attacker survives, the attacker moves into the disputed space.
 
26.6 Units
 
Descendants of this rule define the specific military units

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