Fog:Emp multiplayer 2 -- BARBARIANS ARISE (game 2 running)

[MetalDog]

Yeah, Tuna!  I got my turn in and I am working!!

[JasonPratt]

Just played my turn (again).

Watch out, Blucher! -- the Seluks are pushing south into Arabia, and I've got to scramble to give myself one buffer region between them and my capital!

[Barthheart]

TUNA!

Lazy bugger.... get yer turn in!  :D

[Tuna]

Speedy is up now!

[Speedy]

Speedy is/was sleeping, now it is everybodies turn.

[Tuna]

 O0

[Huw the Poo]

Questions:

1. Am I misunderstanding something or is the choice of buildings really random?
2. Am I misunderstanding something or are my objectives decided randomly?  I have no input?
3. How do I heal hits on my units?

[Barthheart]

1. Yes... I think.

2. Yes... All of mine are in your territory....   #:-)

3. Don't move your units and they regain strength over a few turns.

[Huw the Poo]

Yeah I've got one in your territory as well.  After we allied.  This game makes no sense at all.

Thanks mate.

[Tuna]

1. Yes... I think.

2. Yes... All of mine are in your territory....   #:-)

3. Don't move your units and they regain strength over a few turns.

3 I believe you need to move your units into a region where the people 'like' you, i.e. 51% or higher.

Also be very careful in the early game, not to leave your army if it's a certain size in a region that cannot support it food wise. You can hold your mouse over the regions to see how much food will be available, then hold your mouse over your army to see how much it needs. Move it into a region where it will be supported food wise.

[JasonPratt]

Questions:

1. Am I misunderstanding something or is the choice of buildings really random?
2. Am I misunderstanding something or are my objectives decided randomly?  I have no input?
3. How do I heal hits on my units?

1. The choice of buildings is semi-random, in the sense that you aren't going to get a chance to make properties that depend upon other properties; and in some cases there are special properties for certain factions or regions, or not for some regions. Otherwise yes, it's random. This is why there's a special button at the bottom of the current properties which, if selected, allows a reshuffle -- but it costs infrastructure, which may require some turns based on your current infrastructure capabilities including assigned workers! (Just like a real property.)

2.) In my experience, my objectives have never or rarely ever been random, whether I've played as Rhaetia or as Saba. They show up on the dot at pre-assigned times in a pre-assigned order. This gets affected by taking a region before you get assigned it as an objective; and also only three or four objectives will be active at any time (at least for nations of the size I prefer to play) so further objectives assignments will be delayed by proportion. I've had a lot of restarts. ;)

[JasonPratt]

In addition to prior answers on 3.), I'm unsure if casualties take manpower to heal, but I suspect they do.

Certainly, if you lack accrued manpower, and aren't generating enough per turn, your units will take damage (representing the inability to bring the unit back up to full combat numbers from normal non-combat losses per year, possibly inflated if out of supply.)

[Tuna]

Remember, if anyone is 'last', that means when they go to do their turn, they can immediately do their next turn after that.

[Huw the Poo]

Bloody hell it costs infrastructure to shuffle the building choices as well?  I thought it was bad enough that you had to miss a turn of building!  ::)

Thanks for the excellent info Jason.  I need all the help I can get with this silly game.

[Huw the Poo]

In addition to prior answers on 3.), I'm unsure if casualties take manpower to heal, but I suspect they do.

You were spot on here, Jason - it does take manpower to heal a unit.