Political Map

[Sabuti]

comparedt o the time settings of the other games, this is a period where information flowed more easily and freely. Not oly from diplomats, spies and merchants, etc., but most nations had some sort of press with regularly produced papers and travel was more common among the aristocricy. Oh look the paper syas Naploeon march out of paris w/ and army of 100,000. I wonder what he's up to? A fishing trip maybe?

[anders]

I agree with those favouring the Paradox solution, you need to know who owns what, borders and so on, that should be common knowledge in the napoleonic era, but you shouldnt know exact army placements and sizes.

also its a very valid point that the flow of information and knowledge about faraway places would be completely different in the world of 1700 than in medieval times.

[SirGrotius]

I agree with those favouring the Paradox solution, you need to know who owns what, borders and so on, that should be common knowledge in the napoleonic era, but you shouldnt know exact army placements and sizes.

also its a very valid point that the flow of information and knowledge about faraway places would be completely different in the world of 1700 than in medieval times.

Agreed as well. It's fun to watch changing boundaries, and countries at this time were obsessed w/ maps.

[pevergreen]

Mostly agreed, I play RTW/M2TW with Fog of War off, just to see the minimap.

The colours changing make me happy, I can sit there and go: "Ooooh! The Russians are getting large, maybe I will fight them in a few hundred years."

Then I start a new campaign...

[hoom]

Shogun did it in the throne room interface where diplomacy happened.
It was easy not to notice but the map infront of you was actually a political map without FoW, showing who owned which province.