US on factions list

[A Very Super Market]

Explain the loyalists presence in the colonies then? Generally, the population was 1/5 patriots 1/5 loyalists and the rest were ambivalent.

[quadalpha]

Explain the loyalists presence in the colonies then? Generally, the population was 1/5 patriots 1/5 loyalists and the rest were ambivalent.

I'm not quite sure who that was addressed to.

[A Very Super Market]

Sol Invictus. My understanding of his post was that he was claiming the colonies to have been separatist from the beginning.

[quadalpha]

Sol Invictus. My understanding of his post was that he was claiming the colonies to have been separatist from the beginning.

Oh, my understanding of it was that the Americans were acting out of enlightened self interest: to have all the benefits of being "British" in name, to have the freedoms they claimed, and to bear as little of the cost as possible.

[crazyviking03]

Sorry to come back on topic, but I wonder how the U.S. naval tech will work. If you take a historical approach, they shouldn't be able to build 1st and 2nd rates as these were rare in the US navy even in the 19th century. I think it would add "faction flavor" if you will, if they can only make frigates, and thus the only way to obtain a larger vessel of war would be to capture it (but not obtain the tech).

[Mailman653]

The RtI ends in 1810? That makes it longer than the full campaign, weird. Although I suppose thats to compensate the fact that had it been included in the full campaign, the US would only be playable late in the game and only have 20 or so years before the game officially ends.

They could of at least extended it to 1812 to include the first year of the War of 1812
Although that brings up an interesting question, if you can start at the 4th chapter of the RtI from 1783-1810, then every nation would have their historical situation presented at the time which could in theory leave the door open for Republican France to emgerge during the game and Napoleon. It would be amusing to be allied with England or France during this time and send an army to help out. Only in a video game would you ever see an American army fighting with Napoleon on European soil or fighting alongside the English.

In regards to the "an entirely unreasonable line" seems like a strech meant to appeal to the popular view many people have about the war. I think it was perfectly logical that a goverment in debt would raise taxes in order to pay that debt.