The Vainglory of Grogheads - Pride of Nations PBEM AAR

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

ouch, blimey thats some payment

didnt we figure it was the rail lines Wellington was using?

The Turks don't have any rail.

[Tuna]

ouch, blimey thats some payment

didnt we figure it was the rail lines Wellington was using?

The Turks don't have any rail.

Huge Armies like that you don't have the points to use Rail. I can't do my own in France.. have to be smaller..

[undercovergeek]

balloon squadron?

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

The Turks accepted peace with a return to pre-war borders and me paying a yearly indemnity of 7% of GNP for 5 years.  I took a bit of a prestige hit (-25 pts) and a slight loss of national morale but at least that quagmire is over.  Now I can concentrate on those damned central Asian tribes.  Knowing what I know now about the way the AI operates, I think it's time to amp up the Russian.  Mass ridiculously large armies and try to curb stomp small countries into submission in 1-2 turns before everything goes to shit due to no supply and poor leadership.

[Martok]

Must say my enthusiasm for this game is greatly dampened knowing that the AI doesn't have to play by the same rules as the humies. 

I concur that really blows.  As a longtime strategy gamer, I can accept certain types of AI "cheating" (such as bonuses to production, research, etc.).  But I can't f'ing *stand* it when the AI gets to play by different rules than the human player.  >:( 

Knowing what I know now about the way the AI operates, I think it's time to amp up the Russian.  Mass ridiculously large armies and try to curb stomp small countries into submission in 1-2 turns before everything goes to shit due to no supply and poor leadership.

I take it this is something Russia is specifically geared for then? 

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Not really.  Russia can fairly easily build up massive armies due to her huge manpower.  Defensively, Russia shouldn't have a problem but going on the offensive is difficult because the infrastructure is crap and it's all too easy to drain all the supplies out of the little towns and cities in the hinterland.  If I'm going to push over the Hindu Kush, I'm going to have to spend a lot of time and money building up a chain of supply depots and wagon trains. 

[Tuna]

Lost two big battles with the large British force last night.

This morning I beat the small Wellington force in the South at Limonges



I moved forces to converge on the large force to the North. I still have Montepellier besieged to the South, but it is just a garrison force, so I am leapfrogging my large armies around




Next turn

Lost another major battle, lose a Moral point.. Losses are heavy, but he lost a good number, I would hope he could 'not' get reinforcements, being away from friendly territory and ports, but who knows what the AI can do in this game.. I'm just gonna try and throw everything I have at him!



Next turn

We have finally taken Montpellier, now that large force can move North as well!



Lost another Major Battle too the North, another Morale Point lost as well



And another.. this time he only has 600 casualties while I have 13000!

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Christ, I thought my losses were bad.

I still don't understand the combat power column.  Is the ratio my strength to their strength?

[Tuna]

Who the hell is China fighting!!!

Look at UCG and the Wino's.. all happy and alive!

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

China's fighting itself.  The Taiping Rebellion was in full swing last time I checked.

[undercovergeek]

Who the hell is China fighting!!!

Look at UCG and the Wino's.. all happy and alive!

Hic, I have balloons and wine - it's great over here

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

You'd think there'd be more loss of life with that combination.

[Tuna]

The next turn I won two battles against the Brits, even though in the first one, my losses were 3 times as much.

Right now I have two armies in that province at around 800 power each, and he's 700 something.. although it's snowing hard.. hope UCG didn't go to sleep.. want to see one more turn!

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

I think this game is evil at heart.

I ended the war with the Turks so I can finally go and deal with the Khivans once and for all.  I took their capital a year ago yet they are still able to field a big army out in the desert that doesn't seem to need supplies nor does it suffer attrition losses.  Anyway, I'm slowly moving my armies over there but taking big attrition losses due to it being winter (which doesn't affect the AI apparently.)  I figure I should be able to destroy the Khivan army in a set piece battle and then push on to Samarkand in the spring.  At least I thought so until the game decided I'd be the one to get hit by an economic crisis.

Overnight, inflation jumped from 2% to 17% and all private capital dried up.  It's now sitting at 0.  National morale dropped 6 points and I've got riots in Moscow and Warsaw.  Great!!!  According to the manual, a crisis can be triggered if there hasn't been one for at least 3 years and the average private capital holdings of the industrialized nations of the world are greater than £2,000.  As my usual holdings are around £700, I blame Tuna and UCG for this.

Bastards!

Panic and Crisis
If Private Capital averages at least £2000 across the major organized countries, and there has been no economic
crisis anywhere in the world for 3 years, a sudden crash called a Panic can trigger an economic crisis in a major
power that is has some Inflation. The chance of a Panic is based on there being on average more than £2000 in
Pirvate Capital in the major powers and the degree of current Inflation of the country being tested for Panic. If a
Panic occurs, the country suffers from economic crisis and endures several adverse and debilitating effects. It loses
Prestige, loses at least £1000 of Private Capital, gains a lot of Inflation, and its population gains militancy and loses
a lot of Contentment.

[JasonPratt]

So basically your stock market crashed, despite not having invented the stock market yet.