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Mr. SAMULIS EXPLAINS THE MECHANICS OF LEADERSHIP

Many great leaders are born in VU. The points a good leader must have are changeable to what the lead. For instance, if you lead a kingdom with tons of people, I would reccomend having good people skills and good persuasion skills. If you lead a small kingdom, I would reccomend persuasion skills over people skills, and a very personalizing touch to keep morale high. In this guide I will explain the points that make leaders great.

THE SKILLS

Each leader is judged for the following:

-ability to keep tribe together (people skills),

-ability to keep armies in line and merges together (tatics skills),

-ability to defend a area and build the most strategic blockers (defensive skills),

-ability to persuade allies to stick with you or people to attack (persuasion skills),

-ability to show no mercy yet show mercy to those who deserve (saneness skills),

-ability to scare enemies verbally and cause them to dissaband w/o force (verbal skills),

-ability to make and lead armies to victory or casue maximum damage (millitary skills)

-ability to put others first and you second (selflessness)

-knows strategic points and is a good strategest (strategest)

-ability to listen to others and sometimes declare their idea better (listening skills)

and tons of others.

Now, for (good) leadership of this tribe, we need a leader who has good people skills, selflessness, millitary skills, listening skills, and strategy skills for starters. For the millitary, we need someone who has good tactics skills along with saneness skills, but mostly millitary skills (good for vices too). for blockers, we need to have good defensive skills. for diplomat we need good persuasion skills. For leaders and diplomats, verbal skills too.

CHANGING SKILLS

I am sure you didint know that you can change skills like changing you shirt. Skills can be changed two ways:

-Un-controlled: Say someone close to you dies or some tragedy, your skills would be covered up temporarily, same with when something great happens (winning the lottery), that would make you so happy, that your skills may be covered up.

-Controlled: This is when somthing like your conchance or instinct kicks in, and you act with rased skill level. this may also cause some jugement to be mis-handled or set aside. another way to control your skills is to have a artificial set of personalities. One personality could be nice and fair, the other, mean and ruthless. this can casue mental problems, so be carful when trying to mess with your skills and personality (ex. have someone who has done it help you).

FOCUS

Focus is another important part about your skills. If you focus too hard, your skills can be dulled by thought. If you focus to lightly, your skills can be mislead. I would reccomend focusing on the task at hand for under 20 minutes, then taking a break. this will alow your mind to calm down and wander around for while, like taking your dog on a walk after homework. It is key for a leader to be able to change focus.

EQUALITY

'As a leader, you must treat all the members as equals,' stated Duke Spud The Illusionist, a viceory of our tribe who helped with this guide. This is important becasue if you have a 'favorite' player, then other players may feel left out and dejected, so even if you have really good persons skills, they will leave becasue they are so poor feeling.

DEDICATION

Also pointed out by Duke Spud, was that leaders must have more devotion and dedication to the tribe. 'Leaders must give 200% and everyone else 150%,' he exclamed. I agree with this because in my past experiance as leader of AoD, it was the leader who pulled most of the strings, and the vices who helped by pulling a couple. the players only pulled one or two occasionally, unless you have a very active tribe. Players usally should work as hard as they can for their tribe and often are noted giving advice and help to the leader and vices.

The End

I would like to thank Duke Spud the Illusionist for his help creating this guide.

what do you mean?

it should. or else we would all be robots. this is just the high end of leaders, those who rule so well that no one hates them, well, I mean like wants to kill them. Thats why I put in (good) leadership. I mean, seriously, who is great at all that? it is a group of vices that equal eachother out with the leader in that way that makes a great leadership.

so... I never said he wasint. The only thing that would make me think he was a terrible leader was the fact that he had the 'Dark Lord' title which means you are a cruel and terrorble enemy to have.

To try and bring this thread back on track:

1. What are the three most important skills a leader in VU needs?

2. Do you need to be good at the game, to be a good leader?

3. Does democracy work in VU?

4. Can you have a strong leader and strong vices, at the same time? or will a strong leader prevent vices from asserting themselves?

5. What is the average life span of a kingdom in VU? Why?

thanks for removing the scars

in answer from me:

1. What are the three most important skills a leader in VU needs?

from what I have learned, leaders must have good person skills, like Osi, they must know alot about VU so that they can teach others and understand the game, lastly they need to be able to lead a strong army, especially in fantista.

2. Do you need to be good at the game, to be a good leader?

In a way, yes. Truly, anyone could be a good leader, but the best leaders are people who have spent 5+ eras and been with powerful kingdoms to learn the ropes.

3. Does democracy work in VU?

This is one of those age-old questions. As far as I am conserned, you can use it in moderation. It is very hard to lead a kingdom with everyone as vice and voting and all that, but you could have voting each era for a leader, or possibly a small senate of 3 or 5 vices that help the king make disicions, like the English parliment or the Roman Senate durring the emperors.

4. Can you have a strong leader and strong vices, at the same time? or will a strong leader prevent vices from asserting themselves?

yes, it is good to have both, but as osi said above, 'as long as they dont try to take power'. It is important to have vices that can respect their leader and can follow their commands. That is the same with all players. It is mostly important that kingdoms have strong leaders, sometimes, leaders are smart enough not to reign in all the players, and some become powerful, yet loyal lords(usially accompianied with several thousand nazzies).

5. What is the average life span of a kingdom in VU? Why?

The average life, as osi said is about 3-5 eras becuase foolish new-players listen to things like the document above and think "hey, I can do all that" and start a kingdom, yet they have little knowlage of the game and usially fail, some, however, are promosed and can bring a kingdom to power and learn from the power, these are gifted people who understand respect and listen first, speak after. There are some kingdoms that are over 10 eras, these are the most ancient and sacried of the kingdoms, forged in eras of walls and strange lands. I was in a kingdom that would have grown powerful and possibly rivaled peace-keepers 3 eras ago, WSA, the only problem was the vice who was in charge of the blocker changed to the other side becasue he couldint hold them back. His name was Spellman or somthing.

I didint lead a merge, osi, I said I led a tribe, I also started it. I was Mr. Imperios then. I dont get how I didint get the King title though...

lol

a good leader IS a good leader .

well if multiple armies came to my wall i would laugh and spank them with the merged army inside the city. going into the passage you would lose the blocker

and fortify it.

I hope you know what fortify means:

To fortify is to add to or to supliment somthing. I am talking millitary, in military talk, fortify means to add to the defence of, to build walls or towers or whatever. I am talking about building a new blocker behind the wall, so that the enemy must first attack some of your troop at the first blocker, then come through, while you send out scouts to merge and re-take the wall. the enemy is trapped. If they are not mediocre, they will go towards the inner blocker and take it. When they attack, they will loose because you have more troops than they thought, and to attack they would have to lead the rabble to merge, which is hard when charging accross a field. Some would attack alone and die, others would flee towards the wall and get killed by a quickly trained garrison of archers (make sure the elf takes the wall).

That is called strategy.

When they attack, they will loose because you have more troops than they thought, and to attack they would have to lead the rabble to merge, which is hard when charging accross a field. Some would attack alone and die, others would flee towards the wall and get killed by a quickly trained garrison of archers (make sure the elf takes the wall).

right because that has so much to do with vu. why not put all your def in the first wall instead of screwing around, if you split your forces you would lose. All that crap about single people attacking or charging across fields means jack

I ment the ability to lead a merge if it is reqired, that is a example of the ability to lead armies and troops from mulitple races to victory and use strategy (eg, a wave of armies, each with 5000 swords (human) is coming towards a wall {pretend this happened a couple eras ago} and behind the wall is a narow passage. You order your kingdom to merge all the troop in that blocker in the passage and fortify it. the enemy is forced to go 1 by 1 into attack. You win becasue of your strategy.). This is showing you know how to think fast with presure on you or how to lead people together and how well you work with others.

the wall is just a small barrier, quickly made and has a smaller amount of towers and 100% wall. it is not blessed or has magic protection, and magic towers are in short amount. The passage already has a higher wall and gaurd tower amount than the wall, and also has many more magic towers because it used to be the border, before you expanded and build the wall further out.

its called logic, and I dont thing revenge has any. Man, I almost fell out of my chair when I saw you were trying to flame again. The only difference revenge makes to a thread is he gives it more posts and makes everyone angrier at him.

Samulis - Dude.. You just don't get it

Ill try not to flame you, but you just got to shut up
Seriously man, your making a fool out yourself with your posts..

Samulis, seriously dude. I think you should just give this one to Osi. He has been a leader for only Zeta knows how long and im sure he has a nice leadership system that works for him, Hence he is on Fant (Leading a KD, Imagine that).

I just think that a good leader is one that can actually lead... What I mean by this is that they have a system that works for them, Samulis, you have yours, Osi, you have yours. I even have mine (I even gave some ideas to Salulis to help him out on this guide). Heres an example. Back when you guys were in highschool (Or still are) ever notice that the teachers had completely different ways they teached? Some were crazy, some were strict, some fun, some boring. Like Osi said, all a leader really needs is a personality....and their leading groove.

This is just about one of the most *beep*ic guides in here. And that's saying a lot. Not flaming or anything. Just warning the newbs.

...Samulis, I don't think this is ok and all, but this isnt really necessary since all leaders do things differently depending on their own preferences and abilities...you are trying to group everything into categories as if you can do that.  You are also basing this on your KD experiences and those from your KD...which is a very narrow view considering the other more successful KDs besides Preds...

lol so can you name these good leaders with no strong points?

Atleast some people appriciate good humor... Or atleast some people try to talk in riddles too, so I said... no skills, for it was once said 'The man who knows none shall learn faster than the man who already knows some'.

well i actually agree with auspice for once :o although i think for average life span you can really cut it down into two catagories. Fant/mant and the rest, most kds on fant or mant generally last longer then 2-3 while most kingdoms on the lower worlds dont, imo for the simple reason that most kd leaders dont have enough experiance in kingdoms or the game to be able to keep a kd together.