ETW succession game - interested?

[GeneralHankerchief]

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Game specifics: Spain, H/H with Normal unit size, set to "Prestige Victory". 20-turn reigns.

Objectives: Fourfold:

1. Catholic Hapsburg Empire. The United Provinces and all their territories must be destroyed and absorbed into Spain. In addition, Austria and all its territories must either become a protectorate of Spain or fall under direct Spanish rule. -edit- Not sure what to do about Portugal though. Anyone more historically knowledgeable than me have any suggestions?

2. The New World speaks only Spanish. Spain must achieve total control over the Carribbean and all her adjacent territories. This naturally includes the annexation of New Spain.

3. Phillip's Revenge. Spain is to do the impossible and complete what the Armada in 1588 could not: achieve naval domination in Europe and take over London. One of the prerequisites for completing this is that the Spanish Navy must meet and defeat whatever British fleet(s) there is/are in the area before the invasion of Britain starts.

4. Not just a military power. Put forth a serious effort and investment into maintaining high Prestige throughout.

Player list (tentative):

1. GeneralHankerchief
2. TinCow
3. TheFlax
4. Zim
5. Cecil XIX
6. seireikhaan
7. Ignoramus (maybe)
8. Chaotix27

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So I figured I'd actually take the initiative and start a succession game after talking about it in the Think Tank thread.

For those who don't know, the Throne Room was abundant with succession games a few years ago until they were pretty much replaced by mega-PBMs and Hosteat campaigns. I figured that with the release of Empire, while we're thinking about the next major PBM, this would be a natural time to bring them back.

In a succession game, you have sole control over every aspect of the game for a certain period of time - usually 20 turns. You play the entire thing, take notes and screenshots, and then write up a report of what happened afterwords. Here is an excellent example of what write-ups can look like, although yours don't have to be that good. You then upload the save and pass it on to the next player, and thus the cycle continues until you either accomplish your objectives or decide to stop playing.

What we need to figure out, assuming people are interested, is the following:

- Difficulty. Considering the game's only been out for a week and people are still adjusting to it, I'd vote for H/M or H/H for the initial PBM. In future games we could upgrade it to VH/H.

- Faction. My vote goes to Spain. I figure that a reversal of their declining empire would make for good RP fodder.

- Reign length. Anything beyond 20 turns usually becomes taxing on the player, especially as we get later in the game when there's more to do.

- Objectives/House rules. This is in case we want to do something different besides the game's four "goals", or if we want to manufacture any impositions to make it harder on us. I think we'll work on this once we decide the faction.

Post if you're interested.

[mini]

i'll follow it, but the sucession style is not my favorite, so i'll just be watching :)

[TinCow]

Count me in. It's been too long since I actually participated in a Throne Room game. An ETW succession will be a nice break from the other, more involved games. Sometimes simple and (relatively) quick and can be fun too.

I do not care about the faction or the difficulty. For reign length, 20 turns is the succession standard. It works well.

- Objectives/House rules. This is in case we want to do something different besides the game's four "goals", or if we want to manufacture any impositions to make it harder on us. I think we'll work on this once we decide the faction.

I greatly encourage the use of the above. The rules preventing expansion beyond the old Roman borders for the WRE Re-unification game significantly enhanced its enjoyment. Basing these things on historical accuracy seems to work well. For instance, if Britain was chosen, we might want to mimic their historically small army size by restricting the number of military units that can be recruited in any particular year.

[TheFlax]

I'd be interested, if you are willing to have one of those 20 turn terms be a catastrophe.

As for faction choices, I don't really have a preference since I've barely played the game. This would be my first Grand Campaign in ETW.

[Zim]

I could play, provided the game isn't set to anything larger than normal unit scale (all my comp can handle. ).

Spain sounds great to me. I can't really say whether they're a hard or easy faction in ETW. They're certainly spread out, and fighting in different theaters would be fun.

I'd vote for H/H. Playing on VH/H and it's challenging but not extremely difficult, and I consider myself in the "mediocre" rank of players.

[GeneralHankerchief]

Okay, since we have four interested people (including myself), I think we can get started and then pick up additional players along the way.

Does anyone have a problem with Spain, H/H, and normal unit scales?

[TinCow]

Not I.