Simon Woodward
New Zealand
Hamilton
-
I read some comments that the theme is a bit thin in this game.
I think it's actually not too bad, the players apparently are powerful but subtle politicians working the Palace to gain influence among the nobles of the land.
But why are said nobles wandering in the gardens of Versailles? What the heck are they doing there? (Maybe they came for a cocktail party?)
I think it would have worked better with the nobles laid out on a map of France, maybe, and you're trying to buy their influence to support you (using gold, blackmail and violence! of course, a la Revolution!!)
This would make sense of the regions earning victory points, and the discounts for neighbours who have already been won over. The garden seems a bit thematically weak to me.
-
Richard Ham
Malta
Msida
One of our beagles (Taloula) is a bit of a camera hog
-
From Wikipedia
Quote: By moving his court and government to Versailles, Louis XIV hoped to extract more control of the government from the nobility, and to distance himself from the population of Paris. All the power of France emanated from this centre: there were government offices here, as well as the homes of thousands of courtiers, their retinues, and all the attendant functionaries of court (Solnon, 1987). By requiring that nobles of a certain rank and position spend time each year at Versailles, Louis prevented them from developing their own regional power at the expense of his own and kept them from countering his efforts to centralise the French government in an absolute monarchy
So actually, seems pretty thematically on the nose to me 
-
Simon Woodward
New Zealand
Hamilton
-
rahdo wrote: From Wikipedia Quote: By moving his court and government to Versailles, Louis XIV hoped to extract more control of the government from the nobility, and to distance himself from the population of Paris. All the power of France emanated from this centre: there were government offices here, as well as the homes of thousands of courtiers, their retinues, and all the attendant functionaries of court (Solnon, 1987). By requiring that nobles of a certain rank and position spend time each year at Versailles, Louis prevented them from developing their own regional power at the expense of his own and kept them from countering his efforts to centralise the French government in an absolute monarchy So actually, seems pretty thematically on the nose to me
Ha! Nice one So why are we bothering with these guys?
-
Simon Woodward
New Zealand
Hamilton
-
Maybe it should be a map of the village of Versailles then?
-
John Shepherd
United Kingdom
Corbridge
Northumberland
-
manukajoe wrote: But why are said nobles wandering in the gardens of Versailles? What the heck are they doing there? (Maybe they came for a cocktail party?)
Quite likely. Louis XIV was famous for holding extravagant garden parties at the palace. One famous example -- "Les Plaisirs de l’Île Enchantée" -- went on for a week, and due to lack of space in the palace the attending nobles had to resort to sleeping in their carriages.
-
|
|
