Realpolitik CIV: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''"Danke. I've been missing you guys. You're like a family to me if by family I mean bitter political rivals." ~ Sonereal''}}

{{quote|''"'''BANGS. HEAD. ON. DESK. .... REPEATEDLY.'''" ~ Whosit''}}

Realpolitik is a forum game played on CFC based on the Paradoxplaza Realpolitik series. A Realpolitik is where the [[Game Master]] plays a turn-by-turn strategy game (in this example [[Civilization IV]]). The players role play as immortal politicians living in a democracy who want to become rulers of the said nation. An election would take place every turn set, where player characters (and sometimes non-player characters) would vote on who should rule the nation for the next turnset. Each player was awarded two votes to put into parties created by themselves or other players - with one catch: only one vote per party. Parties were thus encouraged to band together in "Coalitions" to unite voters. Some of the elections got quite vicious. After the second turnset, there would be another election. Elections were entirely thread-based affairs, taking about a week.

LH's current game is [http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=448247 'Star of the Shogun'] in which the players are running Japan. A lot of the rules have been refined for this one, allowing the players more freedom with their options as politicians.

=== This series of games provides examples of: ===

## [[RP 3]] seems filled with them. Nepthirna, Nadia, Laiin, Agente, Esther - not all have appeared, but they've been confirmed by the GM as Heroes of the Light for the players to oppose.

## Arya during the Battle of Sidon.

## Arya complaining about how England's people were better educated then to rise up against their government if it exterminated all the Irish and resettled because they were . . . uppity.

## In [[RP 2]], when LH was starting to feel it had failed, heard about a new patch coming out that allowed hotseat(and thus his Civil War mechanic) and asked the playerbase if they wanted to restart after the patch and leave this game in the dust.

{{quote|DT: I'm of the opinion that, having got this far with [[RP 2]], we might as well Continue. It's not like we were using those anyway.

## Athers and Arya taking out two pirate ships at the same time in the Ukraine narrative.

##--> Ravus: That would make Catherine Caesar's daughter then . . . .

{{quote|Lighthearter: Cathy's not the leader of Russia.

Ravus: Really?

Lighthearter: That makes PETER Caesar's daughter! }}

##Red Spy using an explosion spell against a barrel of pancakes.

* [[Evil Brit]]: (Almost)Everyone (except Fargle)at various times IC. DT and Captain Fargle OOC.

##Arguably, Arya at times.

## LH, Nuke, Ravus, Whosit, Captain Fargle and WIM all at times felt that way. Actually, come to think of it at least one of them felt this way ''at all times.''

##Lord Archibald Tyrons in the Epilogue, talking about the attempt to [[Too Dumb to Live|execute Catherine when Athers and his troops were all still out there]].

## He's also [[The Pope]].

##Makes a return in [[RP 3]] as one of the three members of the Dark Empire (which includes the Aztecs and Mongolia)

##Players on Quests.

##Sonereal's decoy plan started with faking a heart attack in the middle of a city so the other players can steal Dragonbane and ended with him wiping the entire city off the map with magic and nearly causing the underground tunnels in the mountain (where the others were) to collapse.

## Also one of LH's signature moves in chat.

## Notable example: During [[RP 2]] near the opening election, to Nuke and DT talking about plans to Arya - but stopping when Sonereal(a NEW opposing party member) appears.

## Ilduce349's Ukraine plans

## Arya's Irish plans.

## LH's reaction to 65% of the player-made plots.

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