Napoleon Game 4: Eight players looking for their marshal's baton!

[Bar91]

I will take Prussia.

[Vold]

Having not played this before, is there one country that is the easiest and most straight forward to play?  The ‘Russia’ of G40, if you will?

[Witt]

If if is a FFA, the only safe nation is UK and probably Spain.
The rest can all be ganged up upon and picked apart.
Answer is probably none now.
Sweden starts with a strong position, but has Russia and Prussia as 'neighbours and the UK very close. The Turks can expand quickly, but again if Russia and Austria go for them….
Austria has many neighbours and France is close!
France is strongest on land, but if people do not like you…

Is a mess of a game, which makes it so much fun.

[Witt]

France or the Ottomans, I would say.

[Vold]

Interesting.  I’ll throw a dart and pick Spain

[Witt]

The four left are: France, Ottomans, Austria and Sweden.

[Vold]

aah, I didn’t see Degrasse’s pick.

I’ll take…um…oh…Ottoman’s

[Witt]

Entek you are next.
France, Sweden or Austria.

[Entek]

I’ll pick sweeden

[Witt]

You guys! Determined for little old me to have peaceful and non Empire building France.
How thoughtful.

Free For All it is.
Allow me to explain a few things vis a vis the Politics Round.
Like Diplomacy, we can all do this in the privacy of PMs.
We all start at Peace with every other nation.
France goes first.
UK.
Spain.
Prussia.
Sweden.
Austria.
Ottomans.
Russia.
The advantage is with the nations that go last, as they can throw a spanner in the works….

[Witt]

I would make an open declaration (possibly after a PM to ensure I know the answer…or do I?)to another nation.
Best thing for safety’s sake is to form alliances. But do not take them too lightly, as they can be broken in one turn(in Politics Round), but you cannot go from Peace to War in one turn.
It takes two turns.

Please read the rules about changing politics with a nation, but I will paraphrase.
From Peace(actually Neutral): War. Alliance. Open Borders. Or stay at Neutral.

You can only enter a nation if Allied or have Open Borders(or at War).
The fun part is that Open Borders works like a two way door.
From Open Borders you can DOW or Ally.

[Witt]

We all start at Peace with every other nation.

I said that earlier. But it  was wrong. We start historically, so some nations are already at war.
You can see which by looking at the game Napoleon 8 player FFA. Ask if you have a problem.

Also, I said you can go from Ceasefire to Alliance. I was wrong.
Have to go through open Borders first. Then Alliance.
Sorry!

This means no one can have an Alliance on T1. (Of course you could have agreed to have one by PM,but will take two turns to implement going via Open Borders.)
As in all A&A games, Allies defend together.

I will now load the game, but I will not put in all emails if that is ok.

[Witt]

I wonder if the UK should be weakened somewhat(sorry Dawgoneit). Veqryn said it was unbalanced as a game and the Med is a bastion of British power.
I would suggest removing 8 units from the Med and Gib(which is ridiculously strong). There are far too many forts and Marines(possibly the strongest and most flexible unit).
Anyone else agree?

[Entek]

Just a heads up to everyone that after today, I will be away from the computer until Wednesday morning PST.  I don’t want to unduly slow down the game for everyone, but if it’s not a problem to wait I am still very interested!

I’m going to a gaming convention (Kublacon) this weekend and don’t foresee any internet gaming time while I’m there.

[Witt]

Have a fun weekend.
If you have your phone and can answer political requests with a yes or no,  that will help.
Otherwise we will wait, of course.

[Entek]

I should be able to do that no problem. It just might be at random hours!

[dawgoneit]

unfortunately I am going to be out until Tuesday :-(. going camping :-D. I will try to look at my phone when I travel out of the woods :?. I will be so deep in the woods that there is no reception there :-o.

[UnknownSoldier]

I will be headed out myself for camping tomorrow and the wifi is iffy at best there.

[Vold]

I think we’re all going to be out smelling campfires and getting eaten by mosquitos this weekend.  Have fun and don’t chase the bears.  8-)

[Witt]

While the Americans are away…. Bony will steal all of Europe.
Hope you all have a great time.