Ill keep the yellow-gold color.

Kk, change in map; using this one now: http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/139/hoi2blankmap.png

 

Reason is because the other one doesn't give you a clear fill in with provinces, so it just looks like crap when filled in.

I know, Dusty, I've read a bit of that. I was thinking Moatburdened both as a Boatmurdered joke and a reference to the D.A.S.

Do we all start equal (apart from bonus's)

Do we all start equal (apart from bonus's)

 

I don't think so. You should be happy though: Austro-Hungary is one of the bigger powers, I think.

Do we all start equal (apart from bonus's)

 

I don't think so. You should be happy though: Austro-Hungary is one of the bigger powers, I think.

 

I had no idea, wikipedia gives you not much info on the size and the extent of the austro-hungarian empire could not as it would be now. Normally an equal game seems a bit more fun due to the fact that it it lets people be powerful in their own right and not just because they chose China, Russia, America or Japan.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire is that big splotch of productive farmland in the middle of Europe. Aside from being beset by a decaying monarchy and ethnic tensions (There are Austrians AND Hungarians), I think it is rather wealthy.

I can't really make a judgement on that, is it biased? What do you define as big? What do you define as productive?

But yeh, wikipedia makes it out to be pretty epic.

 

Dusty, I think it would be a lot better if we slowly progressed into modern times, it will be extremly slowly though so we can savour every time period.

Will that happen?

We would get to modern times, in 200 days, if Hegemony ever survives that long, which it never does.

FYI, Hegemony version 1+2 lasted 202 days.

Yes, except that was with the turtling state of people on far-flung planets. This is Europe. :rolleyes:

 

 

If millions of miles of space could not stop our murderous rage, how long can we last when we share borders!

Also there's the fact that it'll be 1 day = 6 months (day 1 irl is summer, day 2 is winter). So progressing to modern times is fairly unrealistic.

 

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Edel, this is Austria-Hungary at the start of the game (you said hot pink..)

 

Yes but we could manage to progress from Napoleonic times.

 

Right that is pretty large! I'm rivalling a lot of countrys at the moment but i'm all split up! I reckon i'm going to need to conquer some land to bridge all my land together, I don't like being next to a powerful country like france or have my smaller land mass seperated from my main country.

Well, it's not really a problem since you're the Holy Roman Emperor currently and all those states are part of the HRE, so if France goes to war with you you could just march your army through all those states no problem.

 

Then again, if you lose the support of the electors (by doing stuff like not honouring the independence of HRE states against aggression from non-HRE members - like France or Poland - or attacking member states yourself, then they'll pass the title of emperor onto another monarch (most likely Prussia).

Or Russia? :lol:

Russia is a heretic, but I suppose stranger things have happened. Maybe the paper ballots get smudged and instead of Prussia '-russia' gets elected. Who knows.

Well I could always convince them to change to electronic voting instead of using a paper trail. :thumbsup:

What about Spain? Weren't they good Catholics?

They were, but they weren't in the HRE. They could still get elected Emperor, it would just take some actual effort in order to.

I think the blank Victoria map might work better for this game, simply because it has more provinces in Europe, and less in places like Canada, Africa and Siberia. Ill try and find one somewhere.

 

EDIT - I lie, Its pretty much the same.

How does research work? I heard a chip system being discussed.

You invest however much you want into a certain field, and then occasionally you get breakthroughs and new tech by random events.

That seems fun and an easy to understand system.

So are we starting tonight?

 

This map might work better because of the extra concentration of provinces in Europe.