National Status Beginning 1936Y2

[Kaiser Kirk]

Once again, hit post, tabbed away. Old habits are hard to break. Costs me posts.

For those not up to date, Estimates based off potential build rates are included.

At the bottom are summaries of the average of the original 6 PCs.
Snip's design is NPC strengths are fixed as a % of that number.

You'll see there is quite a range of different industrial bases and tonnages.

Land/Air points vary a lot,
Rome, Parthia and Wilno have the largest armies,
While the Norse, Rome (both estimated) and Parthia have the largest air forces
Which should be taken to mean the "Big Bad" Golden Horde is quite strong.

Oddly, Laksamavati has a larger air force than Japan (Estimated) and Wilno.

	Date :	Beginning HY2 1936   [/b]
Recent Turn	Nation		Home IC	BP	Territorial IC	Naval Tonnage	Aux Tonnage	Land Units	Air Units	Deployment Units	Fort Points	Amphibious lift
1936.0	Aztec		66	39	43	1080994	94030	129	49	34	90	11
1936.0	Byzantine Empire		106	65	98	1877858	109400	176	54	61	51	41
ESTIMATED	Iberia		96	46	130	1114449.4	163096	135	59	70	96	23
ESTIMATED	Empire of Japan		69	47	105	1067366.4	161920	116	36	28	61	9
1936.0	Laksamavati		64	36	14	401499	140014	140	38	58	56	58
ESTIMATED	Northern Kingdom		70	42	85	1194784	163614	172	66	73	86	49
1936.5	Parthian Empire		99	82	179	1894016	631342	221	64	101	93	101
ESTIMATED	Imperial Roman Republic		77	49	94	1301558	37040	249	64	81	65	27
1936.0	Wilno Union		103	66	152	1664783	234829	177	31	93	79	62
						Naval Tonnage	Aux Tonnage	Land Units	Air Units	Deployment Units	Fort Points
					Original PC Numbers:	9047448	1339321	1130	338	479	470
					Original PC Averages :	1507908	223220	188	56	80	78

[The Rock Doctor]

I'm here to build ships, not count air points, so that's my excuse.

[Kaiser Kirk]

That was Snip's goal with the Points system.   

I wanted to follow Kwold's proposal for Land unit design, you remember the ugly arguments with Italy's curiously world-beating planes in Wesworld, or folks getting outraged that Iran would dare think of making B-17s...

Snip wanted it simpler.
You buy points. What they do is determined by tech. You're free to add story elements. But the only thing you *have* to model is the warships.

Of course, the largest airforce in Navalism is...the Golden Horde's.

[The Rock Doctor]

Oh yeah, those guys.

[TacCovert4]

Joy, so Aztec Spitfires and Corsairs tangling with Golden Horde aircraft that are twice as numerous but half as good.

[Jefgte]

...Snip's design is NPC strengths are fixed as a % of that number...

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Too bad, I would have liked a little annual growth for the NPC that we bring to life.
Like $0.25 & 0.25BP per year.

[Kaiser Kirk]

...Snip's design is NPC strengths are fixed as a % of that number...

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Too bad, I would have liked a little annual growth for the NPC that we bring to life.
Like $0.25 & 0.25BP per year.

As the original PCs grow, the NPCs grow. If PCs started at 25BP and the NPC was set to 60%, then they had 15BP. But when the PC average was 40BP, the NPC would be 24BP.

It saves having to track each NPC each year.

My little experiment with Laksamavati , I did turns from 1910-1936 to see where they could have been
had they done turns. They benefited from having a smaller navy, as that gave them more $ to spend. The result was not greatly different than their assigned %.

It was also a way to find out what the NPC research should really be. As suspected, much closer to the PCs in Tech. The system is designed to allow catching up, and one should expect the NPCs to be close in tech.