Glorious Great Game - a PoN MP AAR

[Respenus]

@ Oberon

From what I can gather, you had a rather large force under command of a very low rank general, which means they were fighting with severe combat penalties. In game rule terms, you did not have enough Command Points (indicated by a flashing red number near the envelope on the right of the unit overview area).

Furthermore, your stack was composed mostly of conscripts, possibly local troops, which although adjusted to the local climate, are not known for holding the line. This is evident in the 90 companies that surrendered to the enemy, which accounts for the large number of elements destroyed.

In actuality, the battle did not go as badly for you as might be suspected at first glance. You do not appear to have lost any complete units and their missing elements can be replaced at a depot as long as you have the replacement chits (F3 screen). You managed to kill over one half of the enemies forces, who does not have the same ability to replenish his losses. All in all, a classic British colonial battle: throw in as many men as possible until the enemy is utterly annihilated.

In other news:

IT BEGINS

[Betonov]

Pure fiction that painting.
Italians should fly a white flag and run towards the sea

[Oberon]

[Betonov]

Outrage, scandal, no respect for the great powers



May 20th, 1860 Honduras seized a tropical fruit plantation, constructed and paid for by Austrian entrepenours and claimed it as their own. It seems that the states of central America cannot forget their brigand roots as this is nothing short but utter piracy.
Where's my Slovene advisor, I need options to respond that include creating either a colony of them or a smoldering crater.

[Respenus]

I have lost a gold mine and a sugar plantation this way. From what I can gather, you need positive relations at 25 or above with the nation in whose territory you are constructing buildings in order to prevent them taking stuff away. According to the manual, you also need to have a commercial agreement with them before even being able to place structures, but that requirement seems to have been removed.

The bright side is that you can still buy the stolen building's product after it finishes construction (if they decide to sell it, that is).

Also, remember that you need ships in the maritime trade box if you wish to transport goods to your country. I once lost a year's worth of gold production before I noticed things did not add up.

[Respenus]

Since many of you are still hurting for food due to spreading social unrest (now in Prussia as well), I would recommend that you look at the Assets Balance screen (press B to access) and see where food is sold, but where there is no-one buying it (or where demand is low). South America and Mexico (Gulf of Mexico trade box) are such examples.

If this trend of unrests continue, it threatens everyone, so if need be, we can create an event that "resets" public happiness and gives those that need it, some extra supplies to ensure that stability lasts.

[Oberon]

Can I reset my army?

[Betonov]

Respenus and I had a little talk today.
The strikes that plagued Austria and are now spreading may be a game braking situation.
It all goes into a downward spiral.
More strikes, less goods, even more strikes, even less goods etc. etc.
Coupled with some moronic game rules, like 0% taxes causing the people to riot over high taxes

So we concluded we all need to have a conference, to decide whether we should try and fix it somehow or script the game to reset pop satisfaction.

[Respenus]

@ Oberon

Now, now, it is not all that bad. Like I said, you only need to throw an additional regiment or two into the meat grinder and the nasty rebels will disappear all on their own.

Now, I wonder if I could have a repeat show of this in Milan and Venice

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As for the population contentment problem, I have found the necessary command to increase it to 100 across all social classes in an entire country. So if there is agreement among all players, we can get this done in the next turn.

[HunterICX]

I'm fine with it.

Can't wait for him to become the Austrian-Hungarian Empire
Then he'll have serious issues.

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by Respenus

Now, I wonder if I could have a repeat show of this in Milan and Venice

You won't be leading Indian rebels, you'd be leading italians there


This is what I was talking about with Respenus the other day

Third column is contentment, sixth number is militancy.


Extremly low contemptment with extrmely low militancy
''I will refuse to work and loot warehouses, casue an economic stagnation becasue I can't buy enough rice, but I will never raise arms against a foreign emperor''

[Raptor1]

I'm fine with editing the game like this if it's absolutely necessary, but before that I'd like to know which countries are having this issue at the moment. Also, is there no mechanic or event which forces the population satisfaction up if it gets too low, like a revolution or something along those lines? Seems like the system is somewhat flawed if not.

[Betonov]

The system is flawed by itself just by the fact that people protest against high taxes of 0%
This is Austria, peasants shouldn't even dare to complain, let alone protest.

Currently as I hear, only Austria is gridlocked but Prussia and France have brewing hotspots.

[Catfish]

OT

Originally Posted by Betonov

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The strikes that plagued Austria and are now spreading may be a game braking situation.
It all goes into a downward spiral.
More strikes, less goods, even more strikes, even less goods etc. etc.
Coupled with some moronic game rules, like 0% taxes causing the people to riot over high taxes

Sounds like England, in the the 1960/70ies

So we concluded we all need to have a conference, to decide whether we should try and fix it somehow or script the game to reset pop satisfaction.

~ join the EU?

[HunterICX]

Originally Posted by Betonov

Currently as I hear, only Austria is gridlocked but Prussia and France have brewing hotspots.

Where did you get this information!