17-01-12 On Fortifications 1. Nunc papilonum tensionem cohortium supra scriptarum ostendimus. Papilio unus occupat pedes X, accipit incrementum tensurae pedes II, tegit homines VIII. Plena centuria habet milites LXXX; erunt…
Read more →Hello to those who still manage to find this blog. Sorry but I will not able to update this regularly. All GM tools i will be developing related to Low-Tech…
Read more →I hope visitors would answer the poll. The eras aren’t specifically tied to their emperors or leaders. There are many points in the history of Byzantium that people of great…
Read more →This is the Sins of the Crusade Genealogy. Looking at the Game of Thrones Genealogies I think I have a lot of work ahead of me to populate it. Even…
Read more →A player once proposed I use the most optimistic force numbers found in historical sources. This is a pretty big problem especially when there is a tendency for croniclers to…
Read more →the Sack of Constantinople at 1204ad can be considered the end of the centralized and perpetuating bureaucratic organism that remained since the fall of Rome. The seizing of the most…
Read more →e23: GURPS Crusades: “The Crusades lasted nearly two centuries, and their effects are felt to this day. These wars were a time of conflict, an era of secular and religious…
Read more →e23: GURPS Low-Tech Its been a while and finally its arived. I’m a month late to hear the news but still a definite buy for me. I’ve borrowed some Harn…
Read more →Harn has a manor generation system. Along with my own Historical Sources, I think I can make my own suitable for Villa, Manor, or Fief. This is one of my…
Read more →Checking the wiki about each country and using google maps I found out that Israel and Palestine: 22,000 sq km and 350 people per sq km Lebanon: 10,000 sq km…
Read more →Strategos (Military Rank 8; Status 4) The General of the Army. Strategos mentioned are Belisarius, and Narses. Hypo Strategos (Military Rank 7; Status 3) Second in Command to the strategos,…
Read more →The winds have died for my Crusader Era write ups. I’ll wait till the winds blow back at them again. Meanwhile. The translation problems are plenty in the strategikon and…
Read more →House Baldwin. There is a lot of area that makes up the relatively small but significant Kingdom of Jerusalem. In the setting, House Baldwin lived on and the kingdom of…
Read more →The title is a link to a better resource for the Kingdom of Jerusalem 15C. 4950 Villages30 towns6 Cities1 Capital city I have to organize them into “districts” where the…
Read more →Basically using the guidelines and exel sheet of Medieval Demographics Made easy I’ll work with these settlements. Basically for simplicity their major centers and the region is named the same.…
Read more →I’ve been reading up on the kingdom of Jerusalem. In the Sins of the Crusades, the altered history made for it to be one of the refuge territories when the…
Read more →The Slavers of the Horder are men that profit from the enemies of the empire: the horde that had conqured the rest of europe and control most of the north,…
Read more →antagonist behind the scenes: Baron Janos of Var-Jaqai, son of Corvin III Description: Baron Janos is always seen with his trade-mark smile, a scar drawn from the right edge of…
Read more →Strange Bandits are raiding the area.Background– The life of a soldier is a hard one, and one of the natural outcomes is to revert to banditry. Unfortunately circumstances can be…
Read more →The adventuring troupe is not complete with the non-combatant arm of an adventuring party. Before I prepare a sample adventure for Sins of the Crusade. Note the Point difference between…
Read more →The Warrior Class. The Knight is a term for the mounted warrior social class. In many ancient and medieval cultures, the warrior class is part of or composes the ruling…
Read more →Constantine XIII, won the throne almost 10 years ago. Alliances always shift, this is current one in 366th year of the New Roman Calendar (1463 in the Gregorian Calendar). Constantine…
Read more →Game Setting. (2 hours) House Komena: Resources, Families, Family Tree, Vassals, Resources, Army, and Territories. (2 hours) House Osman: (same) (2 hours) House Baldwin: (same) (2 hours) House Ad’Din: (same)…
Read more →Well i have time now. Anyway, I’m working on a 11C Crusades Dark Fantasy Campaign Setting, that I plan to run this march. It is called “Sins of the Crusade”.…
Read more →This is filler until the real Low Tech comes around. It is mostly based on the discussion on the forums. It has a simplification of the shield discussion, the bow…
Read more →Squadron or Deckarchy Equipment. (p. 138) 1st. Footman:1) Thick Tunic which extends down over the knees.2) Heavy Hiking Sandals. Note: boots are discouraged for hiking.3) Short Cloaks.
Read more →Finally Got my copy of the strategikon. I’m painting some Byzantine Figs (5century) and organizing a targetnumber based set of rules derived from Warhammer. GURPS, my own biometric research, and…
Read more →The Peoples a Player can choose for a character are as follows: Byzantine Greek Macedonian Ilyrian Armenian Latin Nomad Hun Thracian Avar Arab Sassanid (Persia) Acheamenid Assyrian Kurd Barbarian Isaurian…
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