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I was just thinking that it would be cool playing PBeM against ONE other human. I and my opponent would choose a number of countries each before we start the game.


Here I have crafted ehmmm ...copied some general houserules I find suitable. However the AAR bit are completely optional.

System:
EUII Version 1.05

Scenario:
Grand Campaign

Settings:
Difficulty Level: Very Hard
Aggressiveness: Normal
Forced Annexation: On
Fog of War: On
Dynamic Missions: Off
Base Victory Points: On

Turn Length:
7 years

Editable Game Features:
Players will be able to edit the AI file for their nation

The AAR:
An AAR will be created for this game. Posting updates there is not mandatory (although it is encouraged ). If you have the time/desire to do so, great go for it. If not, that's okay too. We all have RL to deal with.


Additional Ground Rules:

1. Each player selects their country during their first turn.
2. For the first two turns you can attack anyone but you can't annex or make a vassal of a human controlled country. After that you can annex anyone.
3. Each player has up to 2 days to complete as much of their turn as they can.
4. Save games should be zipped. At the end of a player's turn, that player will email the zipped save game all players. The next players turn then begins.
5. Absolutely no cheating.
6. No reloading (other than CTD forced.)
7. An existing player who loses their country can rejoin the game during the next turn (in their scheduled slot). They must select a country of roughly equal or lesser power to the other human countries in play at that time. At the start of their new turn, and before playing, they will announce in the MP forum what their intended choice is. Any disputes over the selection will be resolved prior to gameplay.
8. Expansion by taking excessive loans and having planned bankrupcies is considered cheating. Please see rule 5.
9. Loans to the AI, turbo annexing, and inciting native uprisings to destroy another nation's colonies/TP's you have MA with are also considered as illegal cheats/exploits.
10. No, breaking of enforced 5year truce...otherwise u can beat up, and beat up, and beat up on a country without the other player having a chance to react!
 
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I'm interested

I'm keen. I will have to take a few breaks over the next 6 weeks 9work travel and holiday) but I can probably manager sveral turns at weekend and one during the week.

I think it might be better to play with two countries each - otherwise a country will feel unloved coming back to it only once every 40 or so years.

My E Mails are:
a.h.lane@btinternet.com
andrew.lane@unilever.com

Say England/Austria vs France/Turkey

Andrew
 
You are ofcourse right. :D Do you have any idea for a good selection for the countries? I think that we should either chose two natural allies each or alternatively two nations in different part of the worlds.

One suggestion is Poland- France against Muscowy-Austria... any other idea?
 
I think is a pretty cool idea....and I would be interested in trying this too! :)

....I must say that my experience is that its a bit too much to play the great historical superpowers like France, England and Spain....in our first pbem I as France owned 2/3s of western Europe...and Venice and Spain pretty much owned the rest...

anyway if u only play 2 countries each then u will still be in control atleast 25% of the time and in my experience that is plenty to turn even a quite minor power into a major one....also NOT playing the superpowers ensures that there exists atleast a few purely ai controlled countries able to challange the human players
 
Well Oliver your suggestion for nations are excellent. I take the liberty to play as the Spain(S)/Ottoman(O) guy! :D The first turn should arrive to you shortly. I will start with Spain(S).

Oh and btw do you find the houserules at the top to be at your satisfaction?

Good luck!
Daniel
 
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Hi boehm!

I would love to play against you as well. I am ready to try minor nations instead of the Major ones or perhaps a mix of them but take a note... I am not one of the best players around :p

Perhaps if you like we could to take on three countries each.... yes they will probably feel unloved by you but it will have the result that nations are only played 1/6th of the time hence not the chance of the same megalithic empires you were talking about! :D

Do you have any specific nations in your mind?
 
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hmmm....which countries?!?

how about:

Ottoman/Moscowy/Denmark

vs.

Austria/Poland/Sweeden

these countries are powerful ...but not the extreme superpowers...and both poland and the ottoman are earlystarters which arent that powerful in the longrun...whereas both Austria and Moscowy/Russia are late starters...and well Denmark and Sweeden are just plain weird.

how do we avoid "the ugly duck" effect...and prevent one of us from simply dumping a country? ....how do we determine winner?

...total all VPs (could lead to dumping one country!)

...or some kind of score system granting one score point per country in the top10 and an additional point per country per catagory above the 10th position - eg. Denmark#1 (10pts), Ottoman#4 (6pts), Moscowy#9 (2pts) = 18pts! ....ofcause the downside of this would be that if at some point u no longer believe u can force one of your countries into the top10 then u no longer has any reason to play it!?!

...or total all VPs, but DOUBLE the VPs for your #2 nation and TRIPLE the VPs for your #3 nation....this way u would probly do best to ensure that all 3 of your nations do "ok" rather than trying to build one super nation! - ofcause the downside of this is that u have a huge incentive to try to knock one of your opponent´s countries out of the race...
 
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I would like to suggest one more houserule:

- No, breaking of enforced 5year truce...otherwise u can beat up, and beat up, and beat up on a country without the other player having a chance to react! ...also this should make it much less likely that we will see one player annex the country of the other...
 
Good addition to the house rule Boehm! I have added it as point 10.

The countries you have proposed should provide a close and fair game and is fully acceptable by me. I'll guess we already knows who will play what. :D (Yeah I have read some PBeM AAR you participate in and I am sure that no matter what countries we choose I will not stand a chance against you :) )

Hmmm you bring up an interesting dilemma. How determine the winner? I think all your three examples could be used and I have an additional way we could use to determine the winner

... compare your best against mine best, your second against mine and your third against mine distributing 1 point per compare you win.

Well in the end I'll guess we know anyway who has won and who has lost but I agree that having one set of rules for determining the winner is good.

When you talk about dumping a country I am not sure what you mean? If you mean that you set up your country weak so that one of your other countries will have some easy targets that could easily be avoided by one additional houserule...

11. No attacks on any of your own countries can be made. Neither is it possible to intentionally destroy the relation to one of your own countries (insults, claiming the throne).


One more thing.... turnorder. The easiest thing is to have a fixed turnorder kinda like ABCDEF. The coolest thing would be if we before the turnaraound could secretly choose which order we'll play the countries... An example... you have countries ABC while I'll play DEF. At start you Choose to play your countries in the following orders CAB While I choose to play them DFE, the order would be CDAFBE for this turnaround. When all countries have been played we do the same procedure again. This will add some strategy in how you'll make you turn. You could efficiently have 'double' turns for one of you countries by playing him last in one turnaround and first in another.

Many cool things can be done we just need to set up the rules for the game so that it will be enjoyable for us both.
 
Game start

Hi Daniel - after your 9th July post I was expecting to receive an e mail file. just in case you have a problem my E Mails are:

Andrew.Lane@unilever.com
a.h.lane@btinternet.com

It's useful if you copy both as I rarely use the btinternet except at weekends.

My icq is 164243093

Send me your email address - the reply to function in this conference is disabled.

Your houserules look fine.

Let the war commence

Andrew
 
Oh sorry Oliver. I misunderstood myself :/

I have now started the game and is opening a different topic here in MP namely... Oliver-Powerslave.

I suggest if it is ok with you that we only make small comments about our 7 year turn and include the points at the end. That is if it is ok with you?

Anyway good luck. It will surely be a blast playing this type of EU2 game.
 
hi poweslave,
I just send u a PM...we can begin the pbem anytime u wish now (almost! *g*)

claus
 
hi,

sorry about not having played my turn yet...I happen to have a date tonight so u will have to excuse that I wont be able to play tonight...but Ill play first thing tomorrow and send u the file

claus
 
Oliver Cromwell and Boehm. EU2 crashed my computer BIG time. I have been forced to format the harddrive again. I will resume our games in a day or two as soon as I have installed everything ones again!

Sorry for the inconvenience lads but I will ASAP resume the buttkicking.