My game Idea is to play a game where you are not the little man against some large corrupt empires bent on taking over the world like so many other games{ ff7, suokeden, vandal hearts ex....} but you are the huge corrupt empire trying to line your pockets with gold , protect yourself from assassinations ,and terrorist {like in ff7} {personally in ff7 I agree with shirna inc.}but back to the game. You would start out as one general in an old empire on the brink of collapse where many small rebel groups are bent on destroying it and the king has no heir,in the beginning you would fight wars against these rebels for the king, gain favor over the other generals by winning the wars or plotting against them {for they to have dreams of becoming the next leader} ex: secretly fund a rebel group so a certain general will lose and you can come to the rescue after a few wars your reputation is established as a great general or if you lost most wars your reputation is not so good.

Then one day the king of your empiror is poisoned by a servent, the servents are put to death ten off the most powerful generals claims the throne {yet there can only be one} 8 generals desert the empire and try to unite the rebels in there cause and become the next emperor under an new empire.

there will be 113 different generals in the army each with there own style of play so each game the generals will be randomly selected so you don't play the same generals each time you play. This is where the game really starts because based on your reputation you must try to either do one of two things, first if you have a good reputation you can claim the throne. If you don't have a good reputation you must try to unite some rebels. If you claim heir to the throne you must chose which providence you would like to rule from, based on the percentage of people that support you in each providence and that is based on you reputation.

If you chose do dessert the empire you must chose from many different rebel groups who will support you if you did not slaughter them in the beginning wars and your reputation is low but not to low.

And if your reputation is too low you lose the game because you cant get any one behind you. Your reputation would be based on a percent of battles you have won, there would be 20 battles and here is the breakdown of the required percent or reputation.

100%-75%=you can claim heir to the throne.
74%-60%=you can claim heir and rally the rebels.
59%-26%=you can only rally the rebels.
25%-0%=game over no one will follow you.

Once all the territory is divided up, there should be 19 different countrys now {including you} and you must plan what to do next. You can play as the general when some one is trying to assassinate you and defend your self or go out and gain experience because once you defeat another general you will have to fight him yourself.

You can send spies to figure out what other generals are up to and what there planing. You can buy arms and raise an army to attack or defend yourself. You can tax the common people to fund your war and now and then they may rebel and take up arms against you ,but if you rally the rebels you can't tax the common people but they will help defend you if your army fails {they would suck at fighting but just may save your empire as a last resort}. Also, the rebel army wont be able to get as good of units as the empire army, but the people support you more oh yea the way to gain money as the rebels is to send small forces into an empires territory and steal taxes or ask for fund raisers from the people you will get halve the money as taxes but you can concentrate all your forces on the enemy not the commeners rebelling.

You buy units with your money and put them in different groups, you can have up to 6 different groups {that number comes equally splitting up the number of generals left, because I said there 113 generals and if you take away the nineteen that became leaders you have 95 left and that works out to be five generals for leader plus you and that makes 6 groups. }

Anyway there will be up to 10 units in each group and only one group can fight at a time the battles will be played like FF tactics or vandal hearts. And each time the fighters encounter combat it will fight like a FF game because each of the characters on the map represent 5 people you can chose to turn this mode off and just give each of the characters hp an play directly like vandal hearts or FF tactics and you can change it any time you like {not during battle}

EMPIRE Game
ken logsdon
kenny82@msn.com

Many good ideas, and I like the part about being an huge corrupt empire trying to control and take advantage of the rebels, moohohohohahhahhahhahhaaaa

Idea Reviewer:
-Vegard Aure-