Rollcall and Other Misc. Statistics

[Guinness]

Poop. Time to march on Kars I guess.

[The Rock Doctor]

*Points at Afghanistan*

Look!  Pretty rugs!

[snip]

*Points at Afghanistan*

Look!  Pretty rugs!

MINE! (not really)

[Walter]

Russia should go to Persia then. Guess they really should have done that in the 1980s instead of going into Afghanistan.

[Walter]

According to the rules, fortified lines require one half year per 10 km to construct. Question regarding that since in the past I never really worked with fortified lines construction during the game (only pre-start)...

If I were to have three 40km fortified lines to defend a location, I assume that my nation would be working on all three sections at once so the 10km/HY would be valid for each section of line (thus it would take 4 HYs to finish those defenses). Am I right?

[miketr]

What is the situation for Africa?  Much of it is grey I see.  We going to have our own race for Africa?

Michael

[The Rock Doctor]

I believe that's the plan.

[Logi]

That is indeed the plan... here is the updated map.

@Rocky
I'm fine with your timeline. However, can you elaborate on what happens to Austria-Hungary? It seems according to your story Austria-Hungary splinters into multiple states. I need to know for the map.

[Guinness]

FWIW, I think splintering A-H completely is a bad idea.

[The Rock Doctor]

It was my interpretation of the original POD discussion. 

I'm not hung up on an actual partition of A-H.  Perhaps it just suffered significant political turmoil for a while, then they sorted themselves out again as a single, functional nation.

[miketr]

If A-H splinters you end up with Großdeutschland at the very least.  All of the Austrian Crown territories will join Germany.

[Guinness]

I'm not hung up on an actual partition of A-H.  Perhaps it just suffered significant political turmoil for a while, then they sorted themselves out again as a single, functional nation.

This is fine. I agree with MikeTR. If Austria and Hungary break up, then we'll end up with a bigger Germany and a little Hungary. I suppose that could be fun, but in general I think we'd rather have A-H for now at least.

[miketr]

A question on economics...  There is a category on peoples reports called Research which appears to be a value if the region has more IC than Pop.

A question are the players economic values to have any connection with the reality of 1900 or just something made up?  I don't care what the answer is; IE this not to be taken as a bitching and moaning demanding more IC or whatever.  Just looking for what the expectation is.  German economy and Russian are going to end up about even as things currently sit; which again is fine.  Historically the German economy was about 150% of Russia, 215% of Japan and 56% of the USA.  Just looking for what the expectation is.

Michael

[snip]

A question on economics...  There is a category on peoples reports called Research which appears to be a value if the region has more IC than Pop.

A question are the players economic values to have any connection with the reality of 1900 or just something made up?  I don't care what the answer is; IE this not to be taken as a bitching and moaning demanding more IC or whatever.  Just looking for what the expectation is.  German economy and Russian are going to end up about even as things currently sit; which again is fine.  Historically the German economy was about 150% of Russia, 215% of Japan and 56% of the USA.  Just looking for what the expectation is.

Michael

We (ok, Logi) derived the IC values posted from historical GDPperCap. So break up the distribution how you think it makes sense. Note we have been looking over and tweaking things, so a revision or two is possible once you give us your breakdown.

[Logi]

German economy and Russian are going to end up about even as things currently sit; which again is fine.  Historically the German economy was about 150% of Russia, 215% of Japan and 56% of the USA.  Just looking for what the expectation is.

Maddison's figures for 1900 and 1913 don't match up with your German-Russian numbers. As he states, it's roughly equal:


German GDP (1913): $237,332 mil
Russian GDP (1913): $232,351 mil


As Snip says, the IC was derived from the 1900 GDPpc of the nations in question.