I love the idea behind ACKS built-in sandbox/kingdom development system, but I’m having a hard time wrapping my brain around things. I thought that perhaps the hive-mind here can help double check me.
Here’s what I’ve got thus far. The included map represents a small regional area of my campaign (6-mile hexes). The area was once a fairly settled borderland region featuring a large city that was destroyed in a cataclysmic event.
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The portion outlined in red represents the “settled” lands, while everything else is wilderness. I count 313 hexes within the red border. Plugging that into the charts in ACKS, I come up with the following:
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313 hexes at 400 families per hex = 93,900 families (approx. 469,500 people). The urban population should be 9,390 families. The largest settlement is therefore a small city (1,879 families).
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Next, I divide the realm into 4 duchies of 23,475 families. That yields 4 small towns.
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Now I divide the realm into 16 counties of 5,868 families. That indicates 16 villages, which at Market Class VI do not appear on the map at this scale.
When I move on to placing dungeons and locations, the book tells me that I should already have about 15 settlements. Well…no. I’ve got 5.
Am I doing this correctly? Should I be counting more hexes (water or some of the “wilderness” lands? I’m guessing that my problem is pretty clearly that I’m not using enough of the map area, but I want to be certain before I remap things.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
edited by Thomas Weigel - no changes made, just trying to make sure it posts correctly.