Which country will you play your first game with?

[ess1]

I'll be too old to be interested[;)][;)]

[Joisey]

ORIGINAL: McGuire

First game solo: Prussia!
I really love fighting NAPI. And this way you can get some challange on the AI concerning alliances....
And after all I was really poor in the naval combats the last few times. You don't have that problem with Prussia [:D]
And I really love that feature of saving MP!

First of all is testing the game!

I think that Austria would be all but impossible to program an AI to run competently.

Here's an idea: Manually run all the countries yourself but France and see what the AI does.

[yammahoper]

GB for me. Going for africa and a war against the turk, then after I have the man power, I will try to do something that was alful dificult in the board game...take sweden from the russian and force him to surrender by taking St. Petersburg!

Now if I can just talk the Au or Pr AI into going up russias belly...

yamma

[Joisey]

I expect GB to be one of the easier countries to play against the AI. It will be very interesting to see, however, how easy or hard it is to lead/manipulate Austria, Prussia, and Russia into a coalition against France.

Also will be interesting to see how the French AI reacts when he is marching on Moscow and you land 8 Corps (whole british army plus Portugal) in Brittany. [;)]

Thirdly, will be interesting to see if the AI ever tries to challenge the Brits at sea.

[delatbabel]

Playing solo I'd probably go Russia, or France.

In a multi-player PBEM game I'd probably pick Prussia or Austria. Having all of the computer players gang up on you as one of those two would be no fun.

[MPHopcroft1]

I'd have to give France a try, abeit not expecting to do all that well at first.

[qgaliana]

Old thread, but wow I just realised I will get to actually pick a country when and if this comes out!?
 
With the old victory point bid system and my spendthrift playing partners I wound up with Austria in every game save one. It got to the point I was coming up with steps for a "John-took-the bullet" dance of celebration.
 
Austria will NOT be my first game, maybe my seventh...

[yammahoper]

Our old house rule from back in the days we actually played yhis game, and layed a lot, was a 7 point max bid, with a one point minimum. We all bid for the nations one through seven and revealed, rolled 1d6 for tie bids.

yamma