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

Noll, I think everyone but me is playing for the first time, so you are in good company.

We have 8 people!!! woooo hoooo, the game can start as soon as everyone is ready!

We could start from next week on Friday May 4th, 2012.  (let me know if that is ok)

Nation choices (in turn order):
France  -
UK  -
Spain  -  Funcioneta
Prussia  -  Gargantua
Sweden  -  Seth The Newb
Austria  -
Ottoman Empire  -  Noll
Russia  -  Ol’ Blood & Guts

Haven’t picked yet:
Veqryn
Cow
Canuck12

@__Cow__, sorry but Funcioneta got Spain already.  If you want a naval power, you can do UK.  Otherwise France usually does both naval and land, while Austria is just land based.

@__Canuck__, who do you want?

PS: to everyone, we need to choose some game options, please let me know your opinion:

1. Low Luck OR Dice.  (default is LL, but dice could make the game interesting)

2. Should Alliances and War be forced to chain together (ie: If you are allied to player A, and A declares war on B, then you are asked if you want to declare war too. If you don’t declare war, then A can’t either.  & If player C is at war with player D, and you ally with C, then you automatically go war with D.)  If we do not choose this option, then you can be allied to someone who is at War with another one of your allies.  (Default is not to chain together, which means politics is very fine tuned)

3. The game allows 4 additional units to be purchased starting on the 2nd Round.  We can turn these off if you guys want a more “simple” game.  The 4 additional units are: Mortella Towers (static), Fortresses (static), Mortars (high offense), and Marshals (special cavalry).  (Default is that they are turned on)

thx,
veq

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)

@ 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)

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

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…

tomorrow cow….

yes, FFA version