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ORIGINAL: Mardonius

Minor Country Improved Morale with training. (Yours truly wrote his MA thesis on this little matter for the Portuguese. Moreover, I have had some first hand exposure to training/modernizing certain armies myself.) The old AH rules allowed for an optional rule the Brits to improve the Portuguese and the Hanoverians to a 4.0 morale with 24 months of continuous training. I would love to see other nations have the option of training them as well to say 0.5 below their own morale. So the French to 3.5 and the Spanish et alias to 2.5. I would expand this to other nations as well up to a certain limit. I would allow the gaming group to select what countries (say Holland, Denmark for example) could be trained and to what level and by whom.

ORIGINAL: Grimrod42

Read Soapy Frogs post ...
fix the basic non optional version of the game
then maybe someday if that gets done then maybe add in these made up "House rules"
This discussion seems to me to distract from what is actually important.

ORIGINAL: Mardonius

Hi Lads:

I think my intended points won't be able to be conveyed or put in their proper context to a considerable portion of our already rarified audience in the near future. However, I would like to revist them after the first three or so patches.... but readers must promise to have a couple of beers first to induce creativity. At that point I reckon that we will all be a little bit more amenable to the concept of house rules.

ORIGINAL: Mardonius

Good thought. Might want to give a bonus to certain nations (dominant powers, e.g. France and Britain) etc. Others maybe only one nation at a time.

ORIGINAL: Murat

Every group has their own set of house rules. If Marshall puts them all in we will be selecting from 200 or so options in every game.

ORIGINAL: Mardonius

Hello Lads.

Been a while since I have revisited my favorite topic. And, of course, it is just a coincidence that I wrote the initial postings.
Now that we are onto version 3.0 and we have made lots of improvements to game play, I would like to put these ideas back in front of us all (Marshall, that means you ) for POTENTIAL scenario editor options. Obviously, this list is by no means all-inclusive. My purpose here is not to ram these ideas down anyone's throat. Rather, it is to bring up the concept of a scenario editor and, perhaps the inclusion of game options that can allow a game to be tailored to a particular groups preferences.

From my original post:

I was wondering how hard it would be to recreate through some creative programming (Bless you, Marshall!) some nifty house rules that we used to employ. For all those Grognards who may be saying harrumph, please note that all I suggest should be optional so if ya don't like it, just don't use it. And remember what happened to the old style armies at Valmy...

How hard would these be to program?

Minor Country Improved Morale with training. (Yours truly wrote his MA thesis on this little matter for the Portuguese. Moreover, I have had some first hand exposure to training/modernizing certain armies myself.) The old AH rules allowed for an optional rule the Brits to improve the Portuguese and the Hanoverians to a 4.0 morale with 24 months of continuous training. I would love to see other nations have the option of training them as well to say 0.5 below their own morale. So the French to 3.5 and the Spanish et alias to 2.5. I would expand this to other nations as well up to a certain limit. I would allow the gaming group to select what countries (say Holland, Denmark for example) could be trained and to what level and by whom.

Increased Corps Size. Allow nations to spend money and time to increase certain of their Corps. Must be in a step function and within reason.

Increase number of corps a nation can produce. Start with their smallest and perhaps could be improved as noted above.
Could apply to some minors as well.

Increase number of depots with expenditures of time and money.

Increase number of fleets with expenditures of time and money.

Allow certain minors (e.g. North Africa) to build light fleets.

Improve fortifications or harbor guns with expenditure of time/money.

I would also consider having a portion of the Privateer monies go to the privateering state. This was the common practice of the day.

added option not from original post: limit use of North African Manpower to the Turks as no other power was able to use their manpower despite repeated occupations

added option: not from original post: Increase guerrilla geographies to reflect historical realities (Portugal, Naples, Sicily, much of North Africa)

Semper Fi
Mardonius

There is enough EIA (Engaged in Argument) between the AI and PBEM camps....