General Social/Chatter Thread

[The Rock Doctor]

Well, you did sink the entirety of the world's smallest battle line

I thought you and Foxy did that to the Mayans.

[TacCovert4]

Oh no, that hasn't happened.....yet.  But 1920 is a new year!

[The Rock Doctor]

It's good to have goals.

[Kaiser Kirk]

So, the Aztec-Japan-Mayan skirmish did happen. And technically the Mayans should still be hostile as a result.
That led to some missing mercantile ships in the Aztec-Roman war which was 6 months later, but as an NPC they didn't try to sally forth and sink the Aztec fleet as it went past their main base.

Snip and I have a worked out a concept for minor NPC decisions, but not major.
I've been working to get Parthia caught up while also doing the various mod-tasks to keep the gears grinding,
so haven't pushed on that. Probably wont until after I get back to storytelling some.
I need to participate in the Panama/Rome threads, unless I've missed already.

The South American war was envisioned as a primarily story-telling effort driven by Maddox, with Parthia and Japan joining the Inca against the Aztec. The new Norse player may have been involved, but vanished before we worked out details. Tac was I think uncommitted. 
I looked at it as a nice way for me, wearing the mod/Parthia hats, to participate. 
Parthia could get beat up at first, slowly retaliate, and come out about the same.
But what looked to be free time got filled, and the primary player had his personal life hit a bit of an iceberg,
so that ended.

[The Rock Doctor]

It was unfortunate we lost the new Norse guy so quickly.  If nothing else, I'm curious as to what territorial adjustments he was hoping for in Scandinavia.

Hopefully things turn around for Maddox soon.

[Jefgte]

Hopefully things turn around for Maddox soon.

Yeah, I have sent a mp to my Belgian friend/neighbor ... no answer ...

[TacCovert4]

It was unfortunate we lost the new Norse guy so quickly.  If nothing else, I'm curious as to what territorial adjustments he was hoping for in Scandinavia.

Hopefully things turn around for Maddox soon.

Yeah, unfortunately work from home and RL kind of screwed his getting involved right at the point where he needed to get a lot done.  I've been actively looking for a replacement.

[TacCovert4]

So, the Aztec-Japan-Mayan skirmish did happen. And technically the Mayans should still be hostile as a result.
That led to some missing mercantile ships in the Aztec-Roman war which was 6 months later, but as an NPC they didn't try to sally forth and sink the Aztec fleet as it went past their main base.

Snip and I have a worked out a concept for minor NPC decisions, but not major.
I've been working to get Parthia caught up while also doing the various mod-tasks to keep the gears grinding,
so haven't pushed on that. Probably wont until after I get back to storytelling some.
I need to participate in the Panama/Rome threads, unless I've missed already.

The South American war was envisioned as a primarily story-telling effort driven by Maddox, with Parthia and Japan joining the Inca against the Aztec. The new Norse player may have been involved, but vanished before we worked out details. Tac was I think uncommitted. 
I looked at it as a nice way for me, wearing the mod/Parthia hats, to participate. 
Parthia could get beat up at first, slowly retaliate, and come out about the same.
But what looked to be free time got filled, and the primary player had his personal life hit a bit of an iceberg,
so that ended.

Still presuming that something is going to go down in Panama.   Especially with the highly lucrative canal there now and Japan buying Northern Panama.   Just too tempting for a nation that's landlocked and going broke like the mayans.

[Kaiser Kirk]

On the war - it had basically been agreed in concept that something would happen, but not what.

Normally, NPCs are fully functional foes, not storyline opponents.
The Mayans were set up to be a little different, so we can blame them for communist insurgencies, terror attacks, pirates, anything at all.

There's always the problem of my wearing two hats, but the Mayans seemed a reasonable exception as a storyline with some random elements.
I had checked with Snip that my idea of a primarily storyline war with my dicing for 'decision point' battles seemed ethical.

The Norse - he wandered off just after indicating he'd like to be involved, so we hadn't decided it what exactly he'd do.
It was actually right before I planned to have some PM chats to agree on a storyline and pick out some decision points and organize the story arc.

So here's my idea, which I never really got to hash out with the others

My Idea :

I was kinda working with the concept that the Mayans were doing the Khemer-Rouge style 'killing fields' of their South American
territories, eliminating the chiefs and priests and their families and corralling and  indoctrinating the rest.
So that's why the stories of fleeing natives into the Parthian areas.
The Parthians aren't terribly interventionist, but - like against the Fulani Jihadists in Mali, are willing to help folks against
fearsome invaders.  First with weapons and some safe areas, and then with "volunteers" likely from Mali.

I hoped that would translate well to the other borders.
Maddox's Inca view the continent as theirs, and that would be a good reason to 'liberate areas'.
So he'd pile in, and Fox could come up with a reason.

With their attacks far in the periphery, I expected it would logical for the Mayans to go for Parthia first,
and evict me from the Orinoco delta. Possibly (depending on time/energy) make a stab at Jamaica.
Now since Parthia has a large fleet, and a boatload of deployment points, this is a very bad idea for a smaller navy.
It may take a year, but we will be back.

That would be the point I'd suggest a good opportunity for the Norse if he wanted in.
Storyline wise, Walter and I had worked out the idea the Norse and Parthia had forged old alliances to tag-team the Golden Horde,
and so his Royal family tree has several Parthian Royals married in - corresponding to some wars against the Horde.

Since this was a storyline arc, I wasn't looking for long term gains, just a chance to show off Parthian forces in first defeat and then victory.
Loose some minor ships, smash up Mayan ships in return.
Eventually that would boil over into war. I presume kicked off by Maddox
I was confident Foxy could come up with a reason to get involved.

Key to their victories would be cutting off Mayan resupply by retaking Parthian Orinoco and then taking Mayan Caracas.
At that point, I thought having the Norse jump in to 'repay an old favor' might be a nice way to hook the new guy.
Plus be fun to have a Norse enclave in South America. Who knows, he may have opted for attacking Alabama, or no territory.

Parthia would wind up where she started, minus some damaged ships and infrastructure,
while the Norse/Inca and Japanese would have some gains.
So I felt ok with wearing two hats in that scenario.

I had been exchanging PMs with Maddox as his personal life got exceedingly complicated, and so was not shocked when he had to take a break.
As it was my July was not good, and it would have been very difficult to pull off that storyline.
I am slowly catching up now, and the horizon looks clear...we shall see.

[Kaiser Kirk]

Hi all,

Just letting folks know my phone and internet have been out since Monday.
I was rather expecting to be resolved days ago.

While I've managed to make it through a good chunk of life with landlines never being
a problem... the past several (4?) years it's gone out at least once a winter, problems always at the box
where the line enters the house. They keep patching it, not replacing it.

I am one of the 10% that does not bother with a cellphone...which is fine 95% of the time.
This would be part of the 5% that it's not so great....

So I can check in on break at work, or outside of working hours.
Currently I'm using my rather old laptop at the library.

[The Rock Doctor]

Yikes.  Sorry to hear that.

[The Rock Doctor]

"Rock," I says to myself, "It's ten in the evening, you're awake but you don't want to write anymore.  Why don't you design a ship that planes can land on, but not launch from?"

"Sure," I reply, "But why would I do that?"

"To see if it can be done under the Naval Aviation Rules."

I nod.  "Alrighty then."

[Kaiser Kirk]

Landing is easy... the hard part is making the plane still useful after the cra.. landing.

[Kaiser Kirk]

In other news...

I will be departing Friday for a week, off to visit relatives out East for Turkey Day.

I will take my laptop, but last time I was out there was extremely limited internet there.
So I may...or may not...chime in for a week after Friday.

[Desertfox]

Quick, everyone lets invade Parthia next week!

Well if the pilot can walk away its a good landing!