Gaius,
Threatening to quit seriously is bad enough, but using that as a game tactic is totally unacceptable in EU II. You say you'll never do it again, and I'll take your word on it this time, but if I ever see it or hear of it that's the last time you'll come anywhere near a game of mine. I realize you're new to this community, and maybe that sort of BS slides over in Victoria, but it absolutely, positively does not fly here.
As far as your being a relatively novice player, blame Cas for that, not me. He decided to skip out on one of the final sessions and he created a country that was the only significant challenge for Russia during that period. What really hurt was losing all the Asian manpower last session, before which the OE had quite a fair bit more than Russia and was considerably wealthier, but it was still large, well-armed and more than capable of fighting defensively.
In the end-game, these kinds of gains are not only commonplace they're necessary. More to the point, countries in EU II, as historically, fall from grace or are even destroyed because the dynamic of the game so dictates. Especially toward the end of the eighteenth century.
I was already giving Cas a thrashing. That a sub took over, one less experienced than I am, is unfortunate, but not my fault.
Cak,
Spain was compensated more because it lost more. No CCs, most of its fleet gone, a whole session of financial mismanagement and lost time in naval matters. Prussia, on the other hand, barely suffered a scratch. Between what you were edited and the 1K I sent you in gifts, I think you're fine. Especially since you're now eligible for the Friends of the Tzarina charity program.
TG ruled. It was the right decision. And moreover, I offered you 4K in a loan that would've cost you one stab and you petulantly rejected it because you couldn't even stand for that. Frankly, I've zero sympathy now.
