Goody, i'll take a closer look at it tomorrow.HolisticGod said:Fred,
1.04 is in the main playable. There are some problems-notably with starting Spanish and Scandinavian base tax and Scandinavian manpower-but not as many as was feared. If a game has a Poland and an active OE-French alliance, Austria's starting uberness ought to be all right-if not, however, and it gets hold of Hungary and Bohemia... Well, this ain't your grand mother's Austria.
Agreed, i will try to push for ten players atleast. It's a great shame if he have to drop nations like Portugal really. As i consider it importent to have all the major colonial nations played on this map.HolisticGod said:As such, I think we ought to start debating options/edits now so we can pick countries in a couple days and start next Monday. The new map is great fun and I'd like to get to it, and I also think this thread will stagnate if we hold all conversation until we have twelve players.
I rather drop nations like Poland and Denmark first then, and possibly have both subbed the first and second session to prevent an early über expansion.
We got a nice bunch of subs willing to play also.
I still have trust in two more players to join us though, so we should be atleast eleven players when we start up.
A game with 10-12 players got advantateges, it creates a more stable game. Which is perhaps better really.
None really needs to expand so deep into Poland anymore, except perhaps for Russia. But the others will want that country as a buffer state, i know i certainly would if i played Austria-Brandenburg.
Also, this game is not about historical balance. This game is about eating or being eated
With a stable and balanced player roster, as we got in this game already, it is no problem to drop some key nations.
I consider it very unlikely that we manage to start next monday though,
we do have alot to discuss and to decied up on. I'm however willing to start as soon as this is done.