Category:The Raj

Progress log[edit | edit source]

According to S M Stirling himself, on faceBook:

"Well, there’s the question of ‘path dependency’, so it won’t be exactly the same technology. Overall, [the world of the Peshawar Lancers reaches 1920s-era tech in] about twenty years [after the book]."

• No Towers - only Kraals are permitted.
• Tech are done but these are mostly rehashes of old ideas for a post-apocalyptic Steampunk world.
• Mercenaries and regulars. Regular units are few and far between. The war if The Raj of Steam and Steel takes place primarily between mercenaries.

Issues?[edit | edit source]

Mercenaries??[edit | edit source]

Temple / Sanctuary / Church: Balkans, Europeans, Jungle units.

• New skins need to be developed for the former two.

Merc Quarters:

• Arabs

Fort: Beidi / Native Americans.

• New skins will have to be developed
• Ranged units should all be removed

Buildings & Architecture[edit | edit source]

While most buildings will be retained, there are several distinct differences:

• Defensive structures. These are based off Rise of the Moderns. We expect Persia and Syria to be capable of building only Blockhouses, but people like Angrezistan and Japan - the most developed naions - can build ALL of them.
• Warrior Hall is mostly blocked, except for primitive nations. Corral, Barracks and Provinng Grounds replaced by Drill Square, Armoury and Arsenal.
• Armoured units/vehicles. Unknown but probably come out of Armoury and Arsenal. This will allow Arabs to upgrade away from steam rams.

What will the architecture of this world look like? clearly it won't resemble the past.

1. Tropical
2. Colonial American
3. 666 Tibetan
4. AXP Japan
5. Vanilla eindian
6. AXP Middle Eastern
7. 666 Khazar
8. Native American?????
9. Central Asian?????

Fallen Giants needs to be finished first before we can make a move.

What's the premise?[edit | edit source]

It's 20 years since the events of The Peshawar Lancers. The world has recovered, and things are reaching pre-Fall levels. The main weapons of war continue to be 19th century vintage equipment -- leavened with armoured cars and blimps. Mechanise in order to get better units!

So,

• Continuous friction has resulted in the rise of the New Chinese Commonwealth - essentially a somewhat backward state who is at war with Dainippon..
• Democracy is pretty much gone - most nations are either military juntas (Brazil), oligarchies (China, Poland, ), theocracies (California and Syria) or absolute monarchies
• Russia has lost most of its national character thanks to the Fall. While it retains some of its units, it is more likely to rely on the use of Central Asian cavalrymen to do its bidding.

• Technology is gradually picking up, but peace and stability have meant that military technology has stagnated somewhat, because most nations are interested only in recolonisation and recovery, not attacking one another, many of the inventions of past years, so military technology is somewhat backward, because there are easier pickings.
• Most of the modern French and British empires were reconstituted, but they are more interested in redeveloping North America and Europe, not Africa.
• Egypt is the most powerful faction in Africa and all of the Islamic world, with control over Libya and Sudan, and allied with the Saudis and the Ethiopians
• A power struggle has broken the Caliphate into several parts, Caliphal Syria (linked to Russia), Persia (Britain), and the Saudi Emirate (Egypt).
• Africa is still underdeveloped but the British, Egyptians and French have made gains in West Africa, so that leaves central Africa open. So while Egypt is a very powerful and modern nation, other nations like Kongo and Somalia are still dirt poor although they have mastered the ability to build rudimentary balloons. Europeans control most of the coast except for Somalia, Ethiopia and littorial Central Africa.
• Air travel has become more prominent, global empire is based on treaties not conquest. The British are liked by most nations, especially by Chile and all African nations save Somalia and Egypt, but there is near-continuous conflict between them, Russia, and Dainippon and their buffer states.
• Japan has expanded into Alaska, the British ialong the American seaboard
• The sahara has greened slightly, so African nations aren't too bad - there is more savanna than desert in the northernmost fringes of North Africa.

So how does the mod work?[edit | edit source]

Mechanise it all -- move away from steam to oil.

Wonders[edit | edit source]