General Social/Chatter Thread

[Desertfox]

Yeah pitting Australia against Rocky's India was fun, as was trying to stir things up in the Caribbean as Mexico. But was hard to do anymore than that without someone else's consent.

[The Rock Doctor]

Was curious who took over the Netherlands after I got pissed off at the Franco-German Union and others and left.

That was the "End of History" there, from my perspective.

Has made me hesitant to jump into big alliances in other games, such as this one.

[TacCovert4]

Yeah pitting Australia against Rocky's India was fun, as was trying to stir things up in the Caribbean as Mexico. But was hard to do anymore than that without someone else's consent.

Yeah, I got into the game in 1946, and while I learned a lot, and learned a lot of things that have helped me here vis a vis SS, it wasn't all that great of an experience at that point.  A lot of 'that won't work, you shouldn't do it' or 'that isn't the way we do things here'.  But WW pointed me towards Navalism, so it was a net win.  And here, there's structure, but freedom within the structure, and I think that's the right balance.  Unfortunately, everyone I've tried to bring along with me has been a bust, Justin because of time commitment (he's a major player in the International Kriegsspiel Society, that eats up a huge chunk of his free time) and John because he couldn't wrap his head around SS.  I am aiming to get us a replacement Iberia/Norse player though!

[Kaiser Kirk]

The "realism" bit being applied to these made up countries really irked me. Within mutually agreed bounds, let people explore.
It's one reason I suggested the Ancient Empires brought forward. Enough 'background' for common touchstones, but with historical departure points 1000 years ago, hard to argue 'Well the Mayans can't build a B-17 because of X,Y,Z, you can only build a handful of obsolete biplanes'.  You get to define your nation. 
Snip's idea of all the Home territories having 'sufficient' oil is also stellar.  One it allows you to build that B-17 without folks whining if you can make the avgas for it, two getting that to the remote island base may be interesting :)

[snip]

It's also a big reason why I chose to set up non-naval stuff as approximations of strength rather than discrete formations. The idea was to let players who wanted to go the "Here is my TO&E down to how many overflow guests the mess can take" and the "I suppose I have an army" folks be able to play under a common frame of reference. It seems to have worked so far.

[Jefgte]

I played a while with Navalism and Wesworld at the same time.
I didn't continue because it was taking up too much time of my life.
I had started with Navalism. So I stay with Navalism.

Jef  ;)

[The Rock Doctor]

Just got a reminder that there's a total solar eclipse passing nearby in two years time.  Time to start planning a picnic, I reckon.

[The Rock Doctor]

Why, yes, I am researching truck-mounted anti-ship missile batteries, how did you guess?

[Desertfox]

You just need 1918 Aircraft...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettering_Bug?wprov=sfla1

[Kaiser Kirk]

Back from the vacation I mentioned :)

[The Rock Doctor]

Hope it was a good and relaxing time.

I'm spending the weekend planting stuff, as is usual for this time of year.

[TacCovert4]

Back from the vacation I mentioned :)

Starts frantically getting war plans together.....

[Kaiser Kirk]

That would be good, my next vacation kicks off June 18th, so I have time to resolve fleet battles :)

[The Rock Doctor]

The area got womped by a bad storm and I might be without power for several days. Won't be posting much in that timeframe.

[Kaiser Kirk]

We've had crew dig up the internet / phone for the area two weeks ago,
then gusty winds for a week, lost power Thursday and slow internet all weekend.
Plus lots of unexpected things popping up in other venues.