PBEM

[lenin]

Thanks for taking up the reigns Irowarrior! Glad it looks like we at last have a stable group and can make progress in this. Don't feel too bad about the Dutch fleet, it was dead whatever - outnumbered several times over and protected by too few naval guns. You were probably unlucky on the dice roll for the Brest Fleet when it sallied, as I expected you would have done more damage to my fleet when you did. Still, you were never going to win the war at sea.

Don't worry about making any mistakes. Several of us here never played COG so we are all noobs too. This pbem is really helping me to learn to play the game, particularly the advanced economy.

[Matto]

IronWarrior ... excuse my mistake ... next time it will be correct 

[Mus]

ORIGINAL: lenin

Don't feel too bad about the Dutch fleet, it was dead whatever - outnumbered several times over and protected by too few naval guns. You were probably unlucky on the dice roll for the Brest Fleet when it sallied, as I expected you would have done more damage to my fleet when you did. Still, you were never going to win the war at sea.

Nice you port raided Amsterdam and took out the Dutch Fleet?

[lenin]

ORIGINAL: Mus

ORIGINAL: lenin

Don't feel too bad about the Dutch fleet, it was dead whatever - outnumbered several times over and protected by too few naval guns. You were probably unlucky on the dice roll for the Brest Fleet when it sallied, as I expected you would have done more damage to my fleet when you did. Still, you were never going to win the war at sea.

Nice you port raided Amsterdam and took out the Dutch Fleet?

More or less, yeah.

[IronWarrior]

No problem Matto, we'll get it all going smoothly.

Not sure if lenin attacked the port, but I did try to sally out in an attempt to link my fleets together. Had set them to avoid battle, but got snagged. [:D]

[Mus]

Does anyone know if you are more likely to be the defender and have a greater chance to lose wind gauge if you put your units on avoid battle?

Or is attacker/defender soley based on who has more units?

[Franck]

I haven't looked at naval at all... That's why I wanted Prussia or Austria... But then I woke up with the whole Venetian fleet before it got sunk...

Anyone knows where is Naple's fleet hanging at ???


Hey IW... If you didn't know you have an army sitting in Naples... It's disguissed as a Naples's cavalry... But it's actually quite big and menacing... If you wouldn't mind moving it back toward France




I'm also really enjoying this... I also like the fact that I find it really hard to do things... In single player I always play one general... So when this general gets into a battle I fight it Detailed combat style... I do not have to say that this makes me win some unlikely engagement while I'm afraid of any clash against the little corsican usurper in pbem...

[Kingmaker]

HiHi
 
Wot!!! ... still no T5, come on chaps I'm getting withdrawl symptoms [:(]
 
All the Best
Peter

[Ironclad]

ORIGINAL: Mus

Does anyone know if you are more likely to be the defender and have a greater chance to lose wind gauge if you put your units on avoid battle?

Or is attacker/defender soley based on who has more units?

The defender is the first fleet to occupy the sea zone.

[Matto]

Files send ... give me know, if anybody missed

[Franck]

I don't have IW's email... So I'll post this here. If someone can transfert it to him...

So far I had 3 or 4 positive feedback on this house rule... Anyone as problems with it?

Hi everyone I know it's pretty late to ask about this... But if you have
> been reading the thread in the forum you probably know that WCS will change
> the game so that you can't conquer provinces from a protectorate UNLESS you
> control the capital. (currently, if you succesfully siege a protectorate
> province you get control of the province). This is espescially interesting
> for France at this moment... But it can be interesting for many of us (ie:
> Danemark, Naples, Portugal etc...). The way I see it the problem can be
> solved pretty easily... Once the war is won or lost all protectorate that
> were conquered without following the rule could just be cede back to the
> original owner who would have the obligation to turn it back into a
> protectorate.
>
>
> The way the new rule will work will also make it so that if you conquered 2
> province from a protectorate and then take control of the capital you also
> gain control of the 2 province you are occupiyng. The change in the rule is
> made to represent the fact that protectorate can make a separate peace. But
> they'll only do it if you have control of there capital.
>
>
> Any one would be against it? (ie: It's no problem if your against it... It's
> just that the new way it will work seems like it will be alot less easy to
> exploit the current system. Even tough one of the major problem will persist
> (ie you'll take control of the province immediately and can use it to supply
> your armies...)
>
> Thanks
> Franck

[IronWarrior]

Sorry guys my email is screamingpalm at live dot com.

Matto, was wondering what did you do to get the files to combine? I noticed you had a problem with the first turn, and we're trying to start up a new one with similiar problems. Any help appreciated... thanks in advance.

Franck, if I understand are you saying we should take control of the capital first? Sounds OK to me.

[Matto]

You must have all needed files from human players except last one (your, if you are last man). Then press combine PBEM files and open file dialog should appear. Here select all files and press OK. Game will combine it and open game for last player ... etc. Check manual.
I had problems, that after pressing "Combine ..." button, my game crashed. It happened to some people, but not to all. Problem is somewhere in system. If you played COG:EE before you pressed this button, game crash. Than you must restart (!) your computer ... than it will work. Nobody knows, why ...

[lenin]

ORIGINAL: Matto

You must have all needed files from human players except last one (your, if you are last man). Then press combine PBEM files and open file dialog should appear. Here select all files and press OK. Game will combine it and open game for last player ... etc. Check manual.
I had problems, that after pressing "Combine ..." button, my game crashed. It happened to some people, but not to all. Problem is somewhere in system. If you played COG:EE before you pressed this button, game crash. Than you must restart (!) your computer ... than it will work. Nobody knows, why ...

Hehe, don't you just love microsoft!

Glad you got it sorted out Matto and our new turn is in. Looks like everyone is being a bit cagey at the moment.

[IronWarrior]

Thanks Matto

Yeah it's taken me a couple turns to get a feel for things (didn't help that I found my diplomats sitting in France when i took over [:D] ) but I think things will start to pick up in the next turn or two. Napoleon will certainly not forget the snub from the King of Sweden. [:@] [;)]

My turn 5 is ready, but since we have all weekend I might sit on it and mull things over a little more.

[lenin]

Kudos for taking over France IronWarrior. I only had a brief look at it, and it looked very intimidating - lots of provinces, lots of potential enemies ranged against you, complicated economy to come to grips with (I'm only now beginning to do this). I'm sure that when your armies start moving forward you'll reverse your most recent small misfortunes. I'd suggest moving the Grande Armee from Paris[:D][:D]

What was the cause of the small naval battles between us this turn? Did you move your privateers / merchant fleets?

Nice of the Americans to declare war on me and give me some free Glory / Experience points.

The situation is very fluid and will take some thought. As the Swedish player is unavailable till Sunday / Monday, I'm going to have a good think about it too...

How on earth does Austria get so much Glory from just sitting there?

Really glad I bought this game.

[Kingmaker]

HiHi

Russias T6 orders sent in.

PS, I'm not getting any 'Replay' like in FoF PBEM, should we, or am I doing something wrong?

Frank, yer I'm fine with the House rule re province capture

Pete, How on earth does Austria get so much Glory from just sitting there? Pretty uniforms, better than wot you got!

All the Best
Peter

[Mus]

Austria controls a bunch of independent nations and gets a lot of free glory for that.  I suspect the developers expect Austria to get carved up quite a bit so if you manage to hold on to a bunch of it you get rewarded.
 
[:D]

[barbarossa2]

Hey Mus, Kingmaker, Lenin, Iron Warrior, Matto, Franck.  As promised, the turn went out within 2 hours of my return
 
 

[IronWarrior]

Excellent! France Turn 5 has been sent... looking forward to starting this up again!
 

 
 
lenin, re: naval engagements... looks like a couple of those were privateer battles, the others I'm not as sure about (wish there was more detail- unless I'm missing something) but I didn't move any fleets. Can only assume it was from port attacks?