The young Marie-Louise (beginner) questions

[Emp_Palpatine]

Hey there,

Just got this games.

Man, I remember reading about it around 2008/10 and the lackluster AI and so on.
I've seen that Pzgnd has been cooking!

So, a question, that would be the first of many:

-> Some menu fonts (like options ones) are really fat and huge, is there a way to tamper with this?

-> I've read parts of the manual. No Kingdom of Italy is included, I guess? I like "Napoleonic minors", so just wondering.
Also, does France keep Rhineland if the Confederation of the Rhine is created?

Keep up the impressive work, it's rare to see such dedication to that an old game. I know a few I like that would deserve such efforts.

[pzgndr]

Welcome! Please see https://forums.matrixgames.com/viewtopic.php?t=280699 regarding the large fonts. You need to install Quixley LET fonts. Regarding additional kingdoms, it would have been nice if Marshall Ellis had roughed these in when creating the original game. At this point, it's a pain to try adding new kingdom codes and settings to the applicable provinces in the databases. I've just spent the past week wrestling with kingdom issues. More about that when I post Hotfix #1 for v1.27.02 Beta later this week. Not sure what you mean about France keeping Rhineland; that's not a province? France keeps its home provinces when it creates COR, and loses them as they become conquered later. That reconquering kingdom minors issues came back to haunt me this past week (Grrr). I realize players like all of those optional kingdoms from the original game, but you'll just have to be content with COR, Ottoman, and Poland.

And that old "lackluster" AI of yesteryear? Gone. It's still not as brilliant or nefarious as some veteran human players may be, but it's competent and challenging enough to be a good computer opponent. Give it a shot!

[Emp_Palpatine]

Thanks for the answers.

- The font tip did the trick, thanks.

- As for Rhineland, I meant the "left bank", i.e. provinces like Julich, Palatinate and so on that were annexed to France and part of the de jure territory.
I've seen in the manual that Julich, for instance, is needed for CoR. => Does it switch to CoR upon creation or does it stay French (as it was in History)?

As a (junior) developper but decades old wargamer, I perfectly understand the Kingdoms hassle. Or anyone actually.
(still miss Italy & Westphalia, but it is what it is! )

[pzgndr]

- As for Rhineland, I meant the "left bank", i.e. provinces like Julich, Palatinate and so on that were annexed to France and part of the de jure territory.
I've seen in the manual that Julich, for instance, is needed for CoR. => Does it switch to CoR upon creation or does it stay French (as it was in History)?

I had to go check. Julich is a COR component but Palatinate is not. So Julich becomes part of COR. Julich and Palatinate are both minor nations and not French home provinces. Ditto for Flanders, Liege, and Luxemburg. For the most part they are all de jure French territory as conquered minors, but they are not part of France. Maybe this helps?

[Emp_Palpatine]

This helps indeed.

IMO, as Julich is the Cologne area (département de la Roer on French napoleonic maps) and was annexed to France proper, it shouldn't be a CoR component for historicity -and nice borders- sake.

But that's my Frenchness + obsession over such details that's speaking. It's obviously not game-breaking.