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Haha wow. Gamist, province/power-hungry losers really are the same everywhere.

Good stuff, CT.

Charon: would you mind my claiming Newfoundland and Acadia (Nova Scotia/New Brunswick)?

EDIT: Also PEI, for completeness.

You should take Catholic Germany as well. My protestant empire does not want. >:[

I have this great idea for an alt-Britain where Victoria is born as Victor and inherits the crowns of England (without catholic Ireland! damn those Stuarts) and Hannover, then spends his reign trying to forge a proper nation out of them. Amongst other stuff. I played a huge session of Mage: The Asce...

Steve finally managed to catch me at a time when I was online, not busy, and actually wanted to play something.

Probably some sort of Holy Roman German Empire or alt-Britain as ruled by the descendents of the glorious King Victor.

Everything everywhere is crazy right now. I'm bowing out.

Glory to the Shogun!

(I hope to return for a different game sometime)

Aye. Zeppelins are unseen and underused in too many non-steampunk games.

Speaking of tanks, I'd just like to state that in order to comply with the rules, the most advanced tank you have at game start in 1930 and until at least 1935 in our game should be equivalent to or less advanced than the German Panzer II or any other tank built up to 1935/36. Gentlemen (and lady), ...

If you only own eastern Spain, what's happened to the rest of it?

So our tech will permit some consideration, with development, of having an army we can use to charge across flat land while Sabaton "Panzer Battalion" blares in our ears? :wink: Well, "Panzer Battalion" is more fun as a song than " The Price of a Mile "..... 40 to 1 or Primo Victoria are more relev...

This joe's opinion on true cavalry (not mounted infantrymen - I differentiate the two in my ruleset for good reason) is that they make fine scouts until they're replaced by motorcycle troops (which Japan will be doing) or get into an engagement with anything bearing an internal combustion engine an...

Japan almost certainly has. Probably a give-take war against Russia in the 190Xs (Hadri willing) or whoever owned the Phillipines before Japan. I think an interesting war would be one against Cascadia Pacifica, jostling for control of the Pacific Islands. Not sure I'd be willing to go any deeper int...

Addendum to my rules (the regiment-scale ones, these guys would automatically be part of the division-scale stuff):

Bicycle Scout Battalion (.25pts)
Motorcycle Scout Battalion (.5pts)

:D

They were lightly-mobile infantry, but they also made decent scout troops and couriers.

And they definately dismounted before fighting with rifles. I can't imagine firing a rifle while holding on to the handlebars of a light bicycle, much less aiming.

Pistols, though... :3

Your statement lent itself to multiple interpretations. Evidently, I chose a wrong one. My apologies. Apologies accepted Captain Needa. No wait, that doesn't quite have the ring I was going for. :wink: It's nothing. You have no way of knowing that I went on a WW1 kick a few years back and read a bu...

I'm not really interested in playing a 1930s game. I was looking forward to something between 1900 and 1910, which does not necessarily mean trench warfare, and fun stuff like the development of ABG warships, of early aircraft, of the earliest small-unit tactics. I was especially looking forward to ...

Speaking as a vet of a modern war. Infantry is not just a rear guard. Kindly remain in reality when describing your dislikes. I was referring to the worst case, with everybody using nothing but blitzkrieg doctrine all the time and expecting their wunderpanzers to secure victory all by themselves. A...

Infantry was far from irrelevant in the tank era. They're essential. The biggest fear a tanker had was a concealed antitank gun blowing his ass away (that's ground pounders 1, tankers 0) before he knew it was there. And that's without talking about city fighting, which is a nightmare for tanks. Goo...

I too find trench warfare to be interesting. Especially the process of adapting from open-field warfare to the tactics required to gain ground in a siege-warfare situation. As far as tanks go, I'm 110% against them until the Great War happens and things are so incredibly bloody and stagnant that the...

Frankly, I could work with either system, but Hadrian's would give me more leeway to build the sort of distinctly-Roman army that I had in mind. Then again, that might not necessarily be a good thing. I have an auxiliary system, but it didn't meet Frigid's criteria, so I didn't post it. I'll post i...

Hadrianvs wrote:

Ezekiel wrote:I can do Hadrianus one better on creating a 100pt army. Observe!

Yes, exactly one point better.

Everything is so much easier when all the numbers end in 5 or 0. ;)

As I said already, your ideas are good, they're just not good this time. Not within the criteria ("simple") and all.

I can do Hadrianus one better on creating a 100pt army. Observe! 100 -6 Foot Infantry Divisions (60) 40 -6 Artillery Regiments (30) 10 -2 Engineer Regiments (10) This makes two corps of the following: -3 Foot Infantry Divisions (27,000 riflemen & 3000 scout cavalry) -3 Divisional Artillery Regiments...

Hadrian, I gotta say that your idea is a good one, just not for this game. Frigid said he wanted something simple, and yours is unfortunately not. You should definately develop it further though, make a system of your own for another game or sommat. Ironically, I too was going to make a regiment/bri...

frigidmagi wrote:

Air forces will be limited to level 1 until 1910 - planes just aren't that common yet.

I can think of 2 or 3 players that won't wash for. Plus we're not settled on the opening date apprantely.

That's...all you have to say? That a couple players might bitch about not having air forces yet? :|

Well, I know Zeke will grumble in irritation of the SDN counterpart being brought up, but I just proposed a system for defining sophistication of armed forces - at least Army and Air Force - by a combination of specific Focus score with Industry and Economy. *grumblegrumble* :smile: Okay, going fro...