loki100 wrote:seems like both your wars are stretching you to the limit. One good thing about that impressive show of British force in China and Africa is it may mean there is very little left in the UK itself. Is it worth a gamble of an invasion using your last reserve army?
Watch out for all captured artillery (not just the final bit of a captured corps). Not only do they not upgrade but they count against your forcepools. May be less of an issue starting in 1880 but I ended with a load of early tech junk in the late game blocking me from producing modern artillery and had to take the VP hit for disbanding them to clear slots.
Kensai wrote:If I understand the cards correctly, it was USA that declared war by playing that final (aggressive) card. It must be an ultimatum or mobilization. This means that the crisis spiraled out of control (as the description says) and there was no other option for the British.
But it was the Americans that pressed their hand. The "Just Cause", I think, goes to the USA in this case, reversed at the last moment. But I must read this again in the manual as I think they are the reverse of the "Domination"... The Prestige invested has been decreased in the final actions, too bad the Americans tried the hard way.
HerrDan wrote:I thought the cards played were on the leader's picture side. I don't know if I should let them go to war, it's a real pity to have this kind of ahistorical war.
loki100 wrote:nah, let them do it. There were a few occasions in this era when they really fell out (if I recall the demarcation of the border of what is now British Columbia was one), I'd suspect if you dug around in the wierder literature of the era you'd find pamphlets from the equivalent of modern day 'think tanks' advocating war as unfinished business from the American Revolution et al.
I'm just jealous - I had a monumental hissy fit between them both (like when more than 1 of my cats wants the same sleeping place), but they just avoided war. It adds a nice bit of dynamism. I guess that since your US couldn't beat Spain, its not going to lead to much, even if the British are distracted by their war with you.
Jim-NC wrote:My other issue with this is it only tells you the division of the end PP pot. If you notice, at 1 point, the crisis was worth 9,882, but had shrunk to 5,064. So who got the other 4818?
Jim-NC wrote:That would indicate that the Americans played the red card (as they are on the right, and the card is the on the right side of the pair). So they forced the issue, and got the intensity over 100 (it started at 60).
My other issue with this is it only tells you the division of the end PP pot. If you notice, at 1 point, the crisis was worth 9,882, but had shrunk to 5,064. So who got the other 4818?
Kensai wrote:These points increase and decrease as the nations implicated invest or disinvest in the crisis. In the end, they disinvested. What is curious is the fact that albeit the USA won by only 1 point of Domination it took 10 times more than the UK. But why did that happen? And shouldn't +1 mean the nation with more Prestige (UK I guess) have more Domination in the beginning of the crisis?
The crisis interface is so complicated. I wish we had the full-featured crisis system as originally advertised, including third-party involvement and all. If ever a Gold version of the game comes out, I have this top on my list.![]()
HerrDan wrote:How many cats do you have? I love cats, they're so awesome!![]()
loki100 wrote:I'd suspect that both you and GB are going to be rather stretched for a while, they are doing very well taking apart your colonial empire (again its good to see what the AI can do if it has the naval power it needs), but you've not really been able to commit very much to those sectors with your main armies tied up in Russia
now to the important stuff, cats. Only 3 at the moment, we lost one fairly recently, he was the one who is my avatar and indeed the name I use on the forums. Very much lived up to his name.
havi wrote:Vyborg=Viipuri is Finnish the Stalin took it in ww2 and it is a scar of Finnish national memory my granny is from there and it is karelian peoples capital.. But it is nice to see u won the war now u have colonial war against GB. Is there any war weariness in your people?
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