This is a very raw idea, so many things are not polished or even thought of.
Main Idea
You are a Prince and you play your Warband (Druzhina). Each member of Druzhina has a name, age, face and attributes that are trained by experience.
Mechanics - Hillforts
Each Warband (Prince) occupies one hillfort. The greatest hillfort being Holmgardr, next Konugardr and other great predefined hillforts like Palteskja, Smaleskja, etc. Minor hillforts are generated when new player joins and names them. You can develop your hillfort, but to the limit (perhaps?).
Main trick is - you may conquest a better hillfort, in which case loser Prince is demoted to yours. So, basically in the end everyone is going for Holmgardr. Taking Holmgardr and holding on it for number of Summers is the ultimate goal and glory. But ruling Konugardr (or other predefineds) would also have its share of fame.
It will be near impossible to conquer Holmgardr from minor Hillfort. Because [some] part of your war power comes from it. So, you make your way top, slowly but surely jumping from worse Hillfort to better.
Mechanics - Warband
Your men are first young and promising, then mature into battle studs, then grow old and try to die glorious in the battle. As a result it is hard to stay on top longer than for one generation. Or you need to figure out how to replace them sooner one by one by keeping warband competitive. And lower Princes get their chance to climb the vacant ladder.
Battles have two types;
Raid - attacking other Hillfort for experience (to improve warband members) and resources (to improve war potential of ones Hillfort).
Conquest - conquering better Hillfort, exchanging it with ruling Prince.
Mechanics - Battle
Not figured out yet. Conceptually - 12 druzhina men are leading whatever (semi-peasant) forces could be gathered at Hillfort. Druzhina skills matter way more than numbers of support forces.
Miscallenous
Factions - Norse, Slavs, Finns, Balts, (maybe Turks/Khazars), (maybe Scythians/Alans). At first perhaps just for flavor (naming of war bands, persons, head gear/hair for faces, etc).
Problem - not sure how to limit say poor Holmgardr Prince from constant wars with pretenders.
Druzhina Training - when old man dies, you promote 16yo youngsters with attributes. You may get lucky to pull potential champion or just an average dude. Best years would be ca 25, so after 9 game years of experience.
Druzhina Skills - *not there yet. (But
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I am aware that region of Russia use to be referred to as Gardariki (that's how it is being translated in the sub that I am watching) prior to the state being formed by Varangians in Novgorod (Holmgard). Could they in some way relate to this?
What about places like Leiden, Kazaly or Enciel? Could they resemble some real life places or is it just pure coincidence? Architecture seems European in a way although environment at times even reminds of South East Asia.
(There is Leiden in Holland, Kazaly in Kazakhstan)
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies π
It really does, I swear!
Theyβre on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Nothing, he was gladiator.
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
When I got home, they were still there.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
I won't be doing that today!
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This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
You take away their little brooms
There hasn't been a post all year!
It was about a weak back.
Where ever you left it π€·ββοΈπ€
Why
Itβs pronounced βNoel.β
After all his first name is No-vac
What, then, is Chinese rap?
Edit:
Notable mentions from the comments:
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Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits
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French/Finnish art
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Country/Canadian rap
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Chinese/Country/Canadian rock
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Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap
There hasn't been a single post this year!
(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)
Nothing, it just waved
Him: I can explain everything!
(It's his best joke yet I think)
