Napoleonic Empires: Free For All

[Veqryn]

@Funcioneta:

A question: if I lost the 14 IPCs spanish convoy, I also ‘lose’ the negative NO that balances the convoy? In other words, if I lose that convoy, do I lose 14 IPCs or just 4 IPCs? (lose 14 by convoy but recovers 10 due not having the negative NO)

<in my=“” game=“” master=“” voice=“”>No.  If you lose your convoy, you lose 14 income.  So protect that convoy!

<in my=“” evil=“” king=“” george=“” iii=“” voice=“”>you will pay dearly for not taking up my offer of peace, you so-called-prince-of-peace!</in></in>

[Funcioneta]

We cannot afford you make Mayorca a tax heaven in the long run … :wink:

[Cow]

funcioneta take my capital. move your horses in blitz range of france. I am going down, I need you to take over france.

[Cow]

avoid bombardment from uk ><

[seth4god]

@Cow:

funcioneta take my capital. move your horses in blitz range of france. I am going down, I need you to take over france.

Come on! Did the allies quit after India Crush, Sea Lion, or when was China overrun? No! Has Sweden quit because it was isolated and facing war with 3 terr hungry powers? No! Then why is mighty France quitting?!?!?! I mean unless deep down you’re just a pansy. I mean that’s what it’s looking like.

Oh . …  what’s that? You’re not a fainthearted yellow-bellied lily-loving cowardly-cur of a timid Hawaiian peace loving hippy beach bum who folds faster then the French did in WW2 and has the courage of a cravenly mouse? Well then prove it by sticking it out!

[Veqryn]

@Cow:

funcioneta take my capital. move your horses in blitz range of france. I am going down, I need you to take over france.

From my looking at the map, I don’t see france going down.  I haven’t calced it, but it looks like Prussia’s units are out of position and you can take his capital before he can reinforce it…
Or you could just gobble up the rest of middle-europe and play the income game while surrounding both prussian and austrian capitals…

why do you think you are out of the game?

don’t rage quit on us…

[Gargantua]

Guys, DUH.

He’s the French, of course he wants to surrender.

[Gargantua]

TripleA Turn Summary for game: Napoleonic Empires: FFA, version: 4.0.5

Game History

Round :5

Combat Move - KingdomOfPrussia
            1 Artillery and 1 Fusiliers moved from Austria to Salzburg

Purchase Units - KingdomOfPrussia
            KingdomOfPrussia buy 5 Chasseurss and 1 Fusiliers; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Combat - KingdomOfPrussia
            Battle in Salzburg
                KingdomOfPrussia attack with 1 Artillery and 1 Fusiliers
                France defend with 1 Fusiliers
                    KingdomOfPrussia roll dice for 1 Artillery and 1 Fusiliers in Salzburg, round 1 :  1/2 hits
                    France roll dice for 1 Fusiliers in Salzburg, round 1 :  1/1 hits
                    1 Fusiliers owned by the KingdomOfPrussia and 1 Fusiliers owned by the France lost in Salzburg
                KingdomOfPrussia win, taking Salzburg from France with 1 Artillery remaining. Battle score for attacker is 0
                Casualties for France: 1 Fusiliers
                Casualties for KingdomOfPrussia: 1 Fusiliers
                KingdomOfPrussia win with 1 Artillery remaining. Battle score for attacker is 0
                Casualties for France: 1 Fusiliers
                Casualties for KingdomOfPrussia: 1 Fusiliers
            Recording Battle Statistics

Non Combat Move - KingdomOfPrussia
            1 Fusiliers moved from Moravia to Silesia
            5 Dragoonss, 1 Horse_Artillery and 1 Hussars moved from Austria to Krakow
            1 Fusiliers moved from Brandenburg to Saxony
            3 Artillerys, 5 Chasseurss, 2 Fusilierss, 1 General, 1 Grenadiers and 2 Howitzers moved from Brandenburg to Posen
            1 Fusiliers moved from Moravia to Galicia
            1 Fusiliers moved from Austria to Moravia

Place Units - KingdomOfPrussia
            1 Chasseurs placed in Posen
            4 Chasseurss and 1 Fusiliers placed in Prussia

Turn Complete - KingdomOfPrussia
            KingdomOfPrussia collect 27 PUs; end with 27 PUs total
            Objective KingdomOfPrussia destroys TUV: KingdomOfPrussia met a national objective for an additional 6 PUs; end with 33 PUs

[seth4god]

TripleA Turn Summary for game: Napoleonic Empires: FFA, version: 4.0.5

Game History

Round :5

Combat Move - Sweden
            1 Barque, 1 Battleship, 7 Brigantines, 1 Corvette, 1 Cutter and 1 Frigate moved from SZ5 to SZ4

Purchase Units - Sweden
            Sweden buy 1 Cuirassiers, 3 Fusilierss and 1 Horse_Artillery; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Combat - Sweden
            Battle in SZ4
                Sweden attack with 1 Barque, 1 Battleship, 7 Brigantines, 1 Corvette, 1 Cutter and 1 Frigate
                Russia defend with 1 Cutter
                Sweden win with 1 Barque, 1 Battleship, 7 Brigantines, 1 Corvette, 1 Cutter and 1 Frigate remaining. Battle score for attacker is 6
                Casualties for Russia: 1 Cutter
                Sweden win with 1 Barque, 1 Battleship, 7 Brigantines, 1 Corvette, 1 Cutter and 1 Frigate remaining. Battle score for attacker is 6
                Casualties for Russia: 1 Cutter
            Recording Battle Statistics

Non Combat Move - Sweden
            3 Fusilierss moved from Svealand to Lappland
            1 Chasseurs moved from Svealand to Ostra Gotaland
            1 Chasseurs moved from Svealand to Lappland
            1 Howitzer moved from Svealand to Lappland
            1 Fusiliers moved from Svealand to Ostra Gotaland

Place Units - Sweden
            1 Cuirassiers, 3 Fusilierss and 1 Horse_Artillery placed in Svealand

Turn Complete - Sweden
            Sweden collect 14 PUs; end with 14 PUs total
            Objective Sweden destroys TUV: Sweden met a national objective for an additional 6 PUs; end with 20 PUs

[Noll]

go Austrua go!

[Guest]

I will be gone until Sunday evening….taking son for freshman orientation at college.

[Funcioneta]

@Cow:

funcioneta take my capital. move your horses in blitz range of france. I am going down, I need you to take over france.

For the record, I’m not sure that I can do that. We have a open-boarders treaty… I thought we must break it in first place, then declare war. Also, I cannot reach Paris from Catalonia nor from Navarra, blitz or not blitz

And I think that you should try to hold… soon or later UK will grow too much and the people will shift the main focus against them. You have a secure flank after all, because I’m fighting against UK

[Gargantua]

@Ol’:

I will be gone until Sunday evening….taking son for freshman orientation at college.

Come on now DAD.  I think your son can handle her on his own!

P

[Veqryn]

I hope you are not the one paying for the 6 years degree in hard alcohol

[Cow]

HOLY! I thought for sure prussia was going to attack my bigstack and die then have austria follow up with an attack.

Prussia leaves Austria behind! Looks like I do get to fight austria after all.

[Cow]

Man I hate bombardments. UK is so powerful because of that.

[Cow]

I always found it strange how units cannot retaliate after bombardments. They would hide from the ships if it was bombarding unless they had something to engage.

[Cow]

Also does uk ever die in these FFA games? seems so secluded off on his little island.

[Veqryn]

@Cow:

Also does uk ever die in these FFA games? seems so secluded off on his little island.

Dying is hard for UK, but I’ve seen games where UK loses her med convoy, loses all of ireland, loses hanover, and has a stalemate fleet situation with spain.

Normally, Spain builds more ships than she has done in this game, and in addition, France’s fleet in the english channel escapes and join’s spain’s fleet.  They together manage to hold France’s convoy zone in the atlantic. 
France also does not usually lose her med fleet, which usually takes the uk convoy zone, and keeps some pressure on the uk fleet down there or joins up with spain too.

If does this, plus goes land for the first few turns, sweeping much of europe’s neutral income, then together with sweden takes hanover, then UK is pretty much sidelined for the entire rest of the game.

Spain can quickly (if played well) gain +10-16 income from the med.  Throw in the extra 12 income from France keeping her convoys, and the -6 income for UK losing her convoy, and you are left with a situation where Spain actually has either parity or an income advantage over the UK.

Fleet is very expensive, so bombardments are not that powerful in the respect that you must still offload x number of land units to get x bombardments.  However, if you don’t like it, you can make defender’s fire back by selecting it in the game options before the game starts. 
The game was balanced (for single player) with the current setup, but for FFA you could probably change it without too much worry on the balance.

[Cow]

I don’t like being forced to ally with someone to have an optimal strategy…takes the fun away from free for all.