Series

Aoki Ōkami to Shiroki Mejika

2 games, 1987–1992.

Games

Mechanics

Mechanic	Genghis Khan 1987	Genghis Khan II: Clan of the Gray Wolf 1992
Action points	Fixed orders	Character pool
Character aging	Lifespan	Condition-modified risk
Dynastic succession	Son heir	Prince heir
Random events	uses	uses
Turn order	Side by side	By a stat
Commodity trading	uses	uses

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Every claim, by mechanic and game

Concept	Genghis Khan 1987	Genghis Khan II: Clan of the Gray Wolf 1992
Action points	uses	Every command costs Body Points, a character's maximum differs from others', and a command needs enough Body Points to be carried out. Manual Body Points run from 0 to 15; illness and injury can lower them for a time, and they may decline with age. Manual A character with higher political ability spends fewer Body Points on the same command, and the manual's listed costs are for ability E. Manual Electronic Games' review describes Body Points as a limit on how many actions a character can manage in a turn, more than a measure of health. Magazine
Character aging	Every person ages one year each spring, and anyone who reaches the end of his life span dies. Manual	Old characters may die, sooner with low Body Points or serious illness, and the death of a ruler, governor, or advisor calls for a successor. Manual
Commodity trading	Three merchants trade in Genghis Khan, Chinese, Islamic, and Uighur, each working independently along its own sales routes. Manual When a merchant is in the country, the player can sell food and specialty items for gold, buy food, specialty items, and weapons, or hire mercenaries, at the current market rate; weapons raise the arms value and cannot be resold. Manual The main display shows the current market rate. Manual Mercenaries are hired at the current market rate; they add soldiers but lower morale, arms, and skill. Manual The merchants deal in 17 goods, from fur and silk to pikes and bombs. Manual Weapons bought from merchants raise the arms value, which falls every winter and whenever new recruits join. Manual The Famicom manual says the base market rate changes every season and governs the merchants' trading rates, so a high base rate means high prices and a low one low prices. Manual The Famicom manual says each merchant has his own trading rate, merchants are not always present, trades follow the market rate of the moment, and the Sell and Buy screens show a table of rates. Manual The Famicom manual says the rise in arms level from buying weapons depends on the whole population, not on the number of soldiers, and that bought weapons cannot be resold. Manual Nintendo Power's screenshots of the NES version show the market rate at 101 on one screen and 150 on two others. Magazine	The Market command trades food and specialty items with merchants, or hires mercenaries, only while merchants are in the state; the merchants are Uighur, Islamic, Chinese, and Venetian, and the Islamic and Venetian ones are absent from Scenario 1. Manual The Merchants information screen shows where merchants are on the map, with a house icon at each merchant's base. Manual Selling food or specialty items and buying food, arms, or specialty items both happen at prices that depend on the rate. Manual The main display shows the rate beside the year and season. Manual Each specialty item's value is based on supply and demand and varies by area. Manual The game has 10 specialty items, fur, silk, gems, jewelry, medicine, woodwork, ceramics, glass, textiles, and spices, and each state can produce only certain ones. Manual Gold rises with selling goods and spring taxes, and falls with war, drafting, alms, buying goods, and soldiers' pay. Manual Mercenary costs vary by unit type, and new mercenary units arrive at 50 arms and 20 training, which feed into the army's overall levels. Manual Electronic Games' review describes the computer version's economy as kept up "through mercantile trade on fluctuating markets" and control of production. Magazine Electronic Games' screenshots of the computer version show the rate at 1.0 in spring 1184 and spring 1286 and at 1.4 in autumn 1241. Magazine
Dynastic succession	The NES manual says children are born at random each spring, less often as the lord ages, and that a lord can have at most five children. Manual If the lord dies in World Conquest, a son 10 years or older can succeed him; without one, the game ends. Manual The Famicom manual lists an Ordo (オルド) command, a night in the tent with the lord's empress, with four approaches that each need different abilities; the more often he goes, the likelier she bears a child, up to five children. Manual The computer version's manual describes the same Ordo command and names it, with promotions and demotions, among the game's "human" commands. Manual The Famicom manual says an heir who takes the throne has no empress and no children. Manual The Famicom manual says each country taken in war is a chance to bring a new empress into the lord's Ordo, though the country may have none. Manual	An empress may bear the ruler princes and princesses if the two get along. Manual The Family command lets the ruler spend time with the empress and children, which the manual calls important for grooming a successor. Manual When the ruler dies of illness or in battle, one of his princes aged 10 or older succeeds him, and the game ends if none is eligible; a successor who governs a vassal state makes it the new home base and starts with no children. Manual
Random events	Severe cold waves strike northern countries in winter, major storms strike southern countries in summer, and epidemics strike any country at random in spring and fall. Manual	Epidemics, sandstorms, blizzards, typhoons, and droughts strike at random and lower popular support and farm output; a blizzard or drought halves the next harvest, and typhoons hit only tropical and subtropical climates. Manual An abundant harvest doubles the regular harvest and is equally likely in every state except one with an epidemic. Manual
Turn order	In battle the attacker gives orders to all of his units, then the defender to all of his, and one day ends. Manual	In battle the attacker moves first and then the defender, each turn is one day, the battle ends after 30 days, and the commander's leadership sets how many commands he can give in a day. Manual Legions that meet fight on a combat display, where units act in order of mobility, set by basic mobility, legion level, and the commander's leadership, to a maximum of 15; the weather sets how many combat turns there are. Manual