| Chapter VI: Claiming Land |
Territories must increase their borders if they wish to grow in
any sense. Claiming is a peaceful option for gaining land, while
combat is an aggressive one (see Combat). More land will allow construction
of more buildings, hence allowing increased production. It is only
possible to claim land if there are acres available in your kingdoms
land pool.
Topics covered in this chapter:
- The kingdom land pool
- Claim requirements
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| The kingdom land pool |
A significant tie with your kingdom lies in the formation of a
kingdom 'land pool'. This is simply a combined knowledge of inhabitable
lands. Certain spells may be cast to increase your knowledge of
the surrounding areas and hence increase the kingdom land pool (see
Spells). Still other spells are available to ruin inhabitable land
thus reducing a kingdoms land pool (see Spells).
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| Claim Requirements |
Claiming land requires certain investments. Firstly no ordinary
serf or vassal is capable of wandering into the wilderness and expanding
your boundaries. The wilds of our world are no field of dandelions
and venturing outside guarded areas is hazardous for those untrained.
For this reason trained sentries must be used for any expedition
sent. Basic sentry training affords them enough knowledge to navigate,
survive and find land. Upon claiming land the sentry party will
become serf laborers to work on establishing and managing the new
areas.
In addition to the training sentries you must fund the
search party and cover all land development costs with gold pieces. Costs associated
with claiming land will increase with your landmass as the land
remaining in the claim pool is of lower quality requiring more and more preparation
before use.
Main points:
- Claimable acres in the land pool are necessary before
any claiming can occur.
- Sentries and gold pieces are required to claim land.
- The number of sentries and gold required to claim an
acre will increase as you increase in land.
- Sentries sent
on a claim mission revert to serfs upon finding and establishing
the new areas.
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