New "1600" Diplomacy game?

Your stripes are going the wrong way. This looks nicer from an Anglo-Scandinavian point of view:

Edited by gcle2003

These colours you posted are very good for my practice game (i'm France).

Let's look at the historical characters of this period:

Spain:


Phlip III reigned in Spain, Portugal, Naples and Sicily in 1598-1621


Philip IV, his son succeeded him.


Francisco G�mez de Sandoval y Rojas, Duke of Lerma was both kings' Valido (Chief Minister), until he was substituted in 1625 by Gaspar de Guzm�n, Count-Duke of Olivares, a honest and hard-wroking but limited statesman.

France:


Henri III of Navarre and IV of France, originally a Huguenot but converted to Catholicism in order to inherit France (Paris is well worth a mass) was a very popular and tolerant monarch.


In 1610, his son Louis XIII (Louis I of Navarre) inherited both thrones. He revoked the rights and privileges granted to the Huguenots by his father.


His Chief Minister since 1616 was Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu.

Ottoman Empire:


Mehmet III ruled the Ottoman Empire until 1603.


Ahmed I, his son, succeeded him until 1617.

Mustafa I reigned briefly in 1617-18 and later from 1622 to 1623. He was mentally retarded or at least psychologically ill. He was succesively displaced by:


Osman II (1618-22)


... and his brother Murad IV (1622-40)

Austria - Holy Roman Empire:


Rudolph II, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia and Hungary, Arhchduke of Austria (until 1612)


His brother Mathias succeede him until 1619.


More famous is Ferdinand II (1619-37), whose interventions in Bohemia caused the Thirty Years' War.

England:


Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen, ruled England and Ireland until her death in 1603.


James I Stuart inherited her. He was initially King of Scotland (James VI). He died in 1625, leaving the kingdom to Charles I.

Poland:


Sigismund III of Poland, ruled this country from 1587 to 1632. Briefly also King of Sweden, he tried to regain his rights to that throne and unify both crowns.

Russia:

At the start of the Century, Russia was inmersed in the Time of Troubles (1598-1613), in which several tsars ruled for short periods in the midst of civil wars and conspirations.


Boris Godunov, born a simple boyar (low nobility), ruled until 1605, when he was briefly replaced by his son Feodor II, who was assasinated in a coup.


He was (also briefly) replaced by the first False Dimitry, an imposter, supported by Poland.


Vasili IV, a descendant of Novgorodian princes, succeded him in the period 1606-10.

After a troubled interregnum of three years, finally...


Mikhail I Feodorovich Romanov ruled Russia until 1645


Sweden:


Charles IX, ruled first as regent and later as king, from 1599 to 1611


Gustav II Adolf (Gustavus Adolphus), the Lion of the North, son of the former.

Denmark:


Christian IV ruled Denmark from 1588 to 1648.

Red tape interferes with the wishes of our French neighbour. The inquisitorial process requires that all due procedures be applied to the suspect before trial. The process will last exactly 5 years, as the law and the Domincan Order requires. After trial we expect that no head will be left... but we can send you the ashes and a copy of the process.

Fray Torquemada will keep you updated on the details as the suspect starts confessing.

It would be so cool if actually a partition would be made between three cities and territories would be left as a flag would come out...

Ofcourse we will overthrow them and step as their governors but no one knows of this plan.

Bon jour (Good Day)Hugoestr:

I just want to make sure that you received my e-mail. I certainly don't want anyone else taking over my country...VIVA LA FRANCE!!!!

Let's get the game started.

Couldn't you say who they are? Just in case they sent one, you didn't get it, and they think you did?

You have no chance for the fact that TheDiplomat also is in the game