Looking for gamers up for playing Napoleonic Empires, play by forum (on triplea)

[Gargantua]

Does it HAVE to be LL?

[Noll]

although I suck at rolling dices and I’m always full of the worst luck you can ever imagine, I prefer dice games.

A note: this map is kinda hard to look at, I wish every empire had their territories colored.

Also: the turquose guys are true neutrals? (Italy, Africa…)
How do they work? You can attack them without any problem?

[Veqryn]

that is 3 for dice and zero for LL, so it will be a dice game unless everyone else votes for LL.

Noll, please change the “Map Skin” to the “Political Map”

to do so:

Start TripleA & then start Napoleonic Empires: FFA
click play, so the game begins

Now go to the top of the screen, click the “VIEW” menu. 
Then go to “MAP SKINS”, and select “POLITICAL MAP SKIN”

let me know if you like that better.

Light Blue = Neutral

There is no penalty for attacking Neutral colored nations.  You start at war with them already.

(so its a good idea to attack them)

Note that you do not get the National Objective for attacking neutral territories.  Every nation on the map has only 1 national objective, and it is the same for all nations:

Politics National Objective:
+6 PUs per turn that you attack and destroy as least 6 PUs worth of enemy units.
This represents the morale boost your nation receives for victories on the battlefield, however small (just 6 TUV is enough).
As light blue Neutral Nations are not aggressors in this conflict, they are not counted towards destroyed enemy TUV, which means you must attack actual players to get this bonus.
(Both ships and land units count, and you are not required to win the battle)

[Noll]

@Veqryn:

Noll, please change the “Map Skin” to the “Political Map”

to do so:

Start TripleA & then start Napoleonic Empires: FFA
click play, so the game begins

Now go to the top of the screen, click the “VIEW” menu. 
Then go to “MAP SKINS”, and select “POLITICAL MAP SKIN”

let me know if you like that better

I love you

[seth4god]

Are we going with projection of power or one of the other victory conditions?

[Funcioneta]

I want normal dice as well. And I’d not use the special units… first game with this map for many, and we don’t need much more complexity

Also, which year is supposed to start the game? Shall I play as Godoy, ‘Prince of Peace’ (up to 1808) or as Fernando VII ‘the Desired One’ ?  :-D

[Noll]

Oh guys, I must tell you that I will be gone from the 9th to the 15th of May due to a wedding.

[Veqryn]

@ Seth, projection of power is fine (and difficult enough to achieve, since it means probably 2 players will have to be knocked out the game before anyone wins)

@ funcioneta, not sure exact date

@ noll, should be fine since you told us in advance

I think we will do:

1. Dice

2. alliances and war do Not chain together (not forced)

3. no extra units (game already has a lot of units, and it is new to everyone)

[Cow]

I’ll take France. I’ll prepare to defend myself from the onslaught of nations.

I do not lie and I keep my word in FFA games. I offer no permanent truces to anyone, only NAPS, if you nap with me we agree to provide a notice of breaking naps 1 full round in advance, should you break your nap agreement with me without notice - prepare to witness all of my units advancing upon your country. I offer no alliances only terms of agreement such as you attack this and I attack that.

[seth4god]

@Cow:

I’ll take France. I’ll prepare to defend myself from the onslaught of nations.

I do not lie and I keep my word in FFA games. I offer no permanent truces to anyone, only NAPS, if you nap with me we agree to provide a notice of breaking naps 1 full round in advance, should you break your nap agreement with me without notice - prepare to witness all of my units advancing upon your country. I offer no alliances only terms of agreement such as you attack this and I attack that.

I vote everyone ally against cow! ;-)

I keed I keed, but I’m still not sure how this game will develop. I should be able to control my little sea if I chose to and have option of landing against Prussia or Russia. Or I could sail out into open seas and challenge Great Britain. Or focus on keeping my toehold(s) on the mainland and go from there. I don’t know what I’m going to do yet . . . . maybe I should start reaching out to others.

[Gargantua]

Careful with that kind of talk - it will get you into trouble.

My plan is to play it quietly and fairly, until the first person attacks or slights me.  Then it’s going to be an all out suicide against them with the entirerty of Prussian forces.

LOOK OUT.

[Noll]

The Ottoman will ally with the most righteous and honorable empires.

[Veqryn]

waiting for Canuck to pick his player, then we can start….

[Gargantua]

Canuck12 has opted to take Austria.

(He is my RL friend)

[Veqryn]

Do we want to use a Dice Server?  If so, send me your emails, and I’ll include you on the Dice server mails.  If noone wants to, I’ll just use the internal dice roller.

I’ll make a forum post, and start the savegame, then pass it off to Cow for the first turn.

god i am excited about this…

[Cow]

Where is the forum post! Also is this the FFA version or the other one?

[Veqryn]

tomorrow cow….

yes, FFA version

[Noll]

In the future I’d like to try the 270BC map PBF too! I love that map (although I’m a total rookie with it)

[Noll]

Anyway any common advice I should know about the Ottoman usual strategy in this game?
( Newbie hints like “Don’t buy Navy with Russia in Axis and Allies” )

[Funcioneta]

@Veqryn:

Do we want to use a Dice Server?  If so, send me your emails, and I’ll include you on the Dice server mails.  If noone wants to, I’ll just use the internal dice roller.

I’ll make a forum post, and start the savegame, then pass it off to Cow for the first turn.Â

god i am excited about this…

Mmmm… maybe we should roll dices in this forum, just to ensure nobody cheats. Also, this way we prevent people going suspicious about cheats

We need at least using a dice server. Internal dice roller seems not optimal