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- Autumn, 1877, Finished| 25 Apr 20 UTC | Autumn, 1861: [Britain]:Keep in mind i made the win condition 100 SCs (originally 70)of 172 to make a solo near impossible. And to highly encourage draws! |
| 26 Apr 20 UTC | Autumn, 1861: [France]:I didn't realize that! |
| 26 Apr 20 UTC | Autumn, 1861: [Russia]:Neither me! |
| 26 Apr 20 UTC | Autumn, 1861: [France]:I played one game where Austria soloed |
| 26 Apr 20 UTC | Autumn, 1861: [France]:It was an Austria, China, Japan alliance, and Austria just went in and soloed in the end |
| 27 Apr 20 UTC | Autumn, 1861: GameMaster: Game was extended due to at least 1 member failing to enter orders and having an excused missed turn available. This has un-readied all orders. |
| 27 Apr 20 UTC | Autumn, 1861: [France]:WHO MISSED THE TURN! I KNOW CALIBAN CURSES, AND AM NOT AFRAID TO USE THEM ON THE PERSON WHO DID IT, UNLESS THEY SPEAK UP |
| 30 Apr 20 UTC | Spring, 1862: [USA]:Hi all, going to have to step away for the next 12-24 hours. Should be back by next turn, no need to pause, but I'll be a bit slow getting back to you guys on press. |
| 30 Apr 20 UTC | Spring, 1862: [France]:There are two messages in our chat log, so I don’t care right now |
| 01 May 20 UTC | Autumn, 1862: [Brazil]:I didn't notice until after the game started, but what is logic to making the different countries so imbalanced in this variant? |
| 01 May 20 UTC | Autumn, 1862: [Britain]:This variant is pretty balanced: geography |
| 01 May 20 UTC | Autumn, 1862: [Britain]:I’ve played tonnnes of matches of this variant and seen all countries doing well |
| 01 May 20 UTC | Autumn, 1862: [USA]:There are 2 types of nations in this variant --- Global and Regional powers. Global powers are deceptively strong---large center counts, but they are actually outmatched in every region they operates in by a regional power. Should a regional power decide to take them out, there's often very little they can do at the start without good allies. Regional powers are smaller, but have a highly concentrated center count which gives them a numbers advantage in a local area. I would say that a global power is probably much stronger if you have good diplomacy, but is very weak if you have bad diplomacy, whereas a regional power can get away with bad diplomacy as long as they play tactically correct, smaller chance they get dogpiled on immediately + more units to work with in a given areaa. |
| 02 May 20 UTC | Autumn, 1862: [France]:I think the only power that is terrible is CSA, because most of the time they are killed fast |
| 02 May 20 UTC | Autumn, 1862: [USA]:yeah CSA is heavily reliant on getting Britain on side, but if they can't, then they get cleaned up quickly. Here it happened much faster since Mexico and I were working together, but realistically CSA would have maanged only 1-2 years longer even if it had been 1 v 1. |
| 02 May 20 UTC | Autumn, 1862: [France]:That I know of, there is one game where CSA won. |
| 06 May 20 UTC | Spring, 1863: [France]:CSA is the worst country by statistics. |
| 06 May 20 UTC | Spring, 1863: [France]:and there is only one CSA solo, although USA, Japan, and Prussia haven't soloed. |
| 06 May 20 UTC | Spring, 1863: [France]:Mexico has one solo as well |
| 06 May 20 UTC | Spring, 1863: [USA]:It's probably a mistake to be too focused on solo stats. That's not a good indication of a country's strength and given the low number of games played, is very prone to deviations (eg a really good player winning with Mexico doesn't somehow make Mexico an easier nation than Japan for example). Law of large numbers doesn't kick in yet too |