Successor game rules, draft one.

[Ramses II CP]

Should we create a rule on allowing the AI a few turns to develop? I’m in favor of taking five settlements in five turns but wonder if other players want to give the game more time to develop. Should this be handled IC or out?

Has a determination been made on which avatar gets what starting settlement?

I took a look at what AI England does with their first five turns, and it's, uhm, dumb. In my run at least they withdrew most of their forces back to the island (Hey, at least they used one of their ships for some troops) and did very little development. Bordeaux and Anger would be considerably easier to capture on turn 5 than on turn 1, while Caen was about the same.

I'm sure if we started a war on turn 1 and could skip to turn five things would be different, but that makes little sense.

[Vladimir]

I took a look at what AI England does with their first five turns, and it's, uhm, dumb. In my run at least they withdrew most of their forces back to the island (Hey, at least they used one of their ships for some troops) and did very little development. Bordeaux and Anger would be considerably easier to capture on turn 5 than on turn 1, while Caen was about the same.

So then, to begin, we ATTACK!