ETW succession game - interested?

**TheFlax** · 03-12-2009, 05:33

Oh, all three?! Heh, I misunderstood. That's fine with me, it just seems a bit overwhelming.

**Cecil XIX** · 03-12-2009, 05:41

I do like the idea of doing all three concurrently. I think we could do that and have Prestige rankings at the same time. We can always decide how seriously to take prestige as we go along, or on a person-by-person basis.

**TinCow** · 03-12-2009, 13:45

I agree, let's aim for all 3. Certain people might choose to focus on different objectives at different times during the campaign. It should be fun.

I've been reading that the battle AI works better with medium sized units. I'm currently playing with Large unit size with Hard difficulty and while the battle AI isn't horrible, it could still use a lot of improvement. Can anyone comment on whether the AI is better with smaller units?

**Zim** · 03-12-2009, 17:10

I've played with small and medium units. Casualties seem to be pretty high. Sometimes the AI pulls off something wonderful, and they do seem to manage individual units well. Other times...

The AI also seems pretty bad at defending unfortified towns, dividing themselves up among the houses in each town so it's easy to concentrate forces on one at a time (if you don't feel like just blasting them apart with cannons).

**GeneralHankerchief** · 03-12-2009, 19:06

Okay, since it looks like nobody has any problems, I'll edit the information into the first post.

As far as turn order goes, I'll take the first 20 turns. I believe that tradition has the next line going in order of people who showed interest, but if that doesn't work out for you/you'd prefer a different order, that's fine.

Will start up the game later today. Wish me luck.

**TinCow** · 03-12-2009, 19:10

I'm fine with taking the second turn. I'm certainly not going to have the time to put out write-ups like I did for the WRE or ERE games, but I'll try and produce something worth reading.

**Zim** · 03-12-2009, 20:17

I'm fine taking any number turn.

The Rules look good to me.

I could go either way regarding Portugal. Roleplaying reasons for Spain wanting to control the entire peninsula would be easy enough to come up with, although I'm not sure Spain ever tried in this period.

On the other hand, not being allowed to take a relatively rich province (I'm guessing, it is a capital) right next door would add a little to the challenge.