Power of Politics 1914 : A WWI scenario

[Cernel]

Uhm, maybe land units conducting SBR should also be allowed to keep moving in the subsequent Non Combat Movement phase? I'm not sure (talking about possible applications), but I tend to think this would be better (mostly thinking that you could have some land units, eminently cavalry, being able to raid a territory, instead of normally attacking it).

[Hepps]

Just a little something to let everyone know we are proceeding with zeal.

[beelee]

@Hepps
good action although
New Zealand seems more appropriate. : )

[Hepps]

@beelee Is this enough (New) zeal for you?

[Cernel]

@Hepps I briefly checked Wiki on this, and, according to it, Camberra was not really a thing in WWI. The site was selected in 1908, but it actually started working as capital only in 1927 (1927 the parliament and 1930 the governor).

I get that is not really meant to be Camberra, as the fact that it has a "city" territory effect has to mean that it is representing Sydney and Melbourne; but, if Australia has to have a city territory, probably better just to call it Melbourne, since it seems it is also all of Victoria (it can be left undefined if that would be actually just Melbourne or both Melbourne and Sydney together).

I don't like "Power of Politics" as the game's name, but I'm abstaining on the vote, cause I don't know what.

[Hepps]

For those with a taste for the Russian nesting Dolls...

[Schulz]

I see Austria starts without Galicia, Vojvodina and Northern Tyrol. Germany has no Alsace-Lorraine. What is the reason just wondering.

BTW Dom 1914 had another issue imho which is Austria's tendency of becoming more powerful than Germany due to lame income distribution. A good WW1 map definitely shouldn't let this kind of results because games become extremely broken when Austrians (and sometimes even Ottomans) becomes stronger than Germany which was very common because Entente is easily able to rush Germany and ignore other fronts and in this case Entente wins always no matter how strong Austrians-Ottomans.

First I really recommend making Western and Italian Fronts more valuable than Eastern front and making Baltics more valuable than Ukraine (Although very unrealistic but for balance/playability purpose).

Going West-East or balanced manner should be equally good for Centrals. Both in Dom 1914 and Great war rushing east is definitely the best one and it makes maps predictable for me.

[Hepps]

@Schulz Some of the cover image may not have been accurate to the starting set up of the actual map.

The income distribution has changed significantly.

Italy is neutral at the start of the game... where they end up or who's side they join for the players to determine.

The rest you are just going to have to wait for.

[Hepps]

Just another little teaser...

[Hepps]

Another little snippet... Perhaps Moses can part the Red Sea... but the Ottomans... that's another story.

[Schulz]

Wouldn't getting Italy be game changer for both sides? Can a game be balanced with CP Italy and Entente Italy at the same time?

[Hepps]

@Schulz Have you read my signature?

[Hepps]

A look at the Malaysian Peninsula with all the finishing touches...

[Hepps]

Wee bit of an alteration to the seasonal display... added shadowed empty boxes to make it easier to distinguish which seasonal effects are in each territory.

[Hepps]

@redrum For your consideration...

[redrum]

@Hepps I dig it.

[Cernel]

@Hepps Maybe you want to consult a period atlas for the cities population, to decide what is getting the urban terrain? Like Tsaritsyn was really a minor city, while Kiev was a very big one, if I recall correctly. Also, I cannot recall the "Tcherniov" name, if it is not a different way to spell "Chernigov" (I guess not, since they are both there).

I think "Politics of Power" would be better than "Power of Politics".

[beelee]

@Cernel said in Power of Politics 1914 : A WWI scenario:

@Hepps
I think "Politics of Power" would be better than "Power of Politics".

Fwiw I agree. Maybe something really dynamic will still pop up : )

[Hepps]

@Cernel said in Power of Politics 1914 : A WWI scenario:

@Hepps Maybe you want to consult a period atlas for the cities population, to decide what is getting the urban terrain? Like Tsaritsyn was really a minor city, while Kiev was a very big one, if I recall correctly.

Not all of the selections are done based on historical significance or accuracy. Sometimes game-play will take the front seat to an adherence to accuracy. Tsaritsyn is better positioned to help out the Tsarist Russian cause by being better positioned as a fall back place to combat Central aggression rather than increasing Kiev's significance in the game. I chose to lump the more significant production capacity in with Odessa as the region contained the naval production for Russia along with the city of Mykolaiv.

Also, I cannot recall the "Tcherniov" name, if it is not a different way to spell "Chernigov" (I guess not, since they are both there).

No idea... I put it out to the community and this is what I got back.

I think "Politics of Power" would be better than "Power of Politics".

I like both!

[Cernel]

@Hepps Ok, but I can easily see a number of people asking themselves "Why is Kiev not a city?".

Anyways, in case it may be helpful, here are all the cities with 100,000 people or more in the Russian Empire (according to a 1920 atlas of mine) for 1913, except 1915 for Petrograd, 1916 for Moscow, and 1914 or 1910 of some other cities, in thousands:

Europe:
Petrograd: 2,319
Moscow: 1,817
Warsaw: 789
Odessa: 631
Kiev: 626
Riga: 569
Lodz: 416
Kharkov: 258
Saratov: 236
Yekaterinoslav: 220
Rostov: 205
Vilnius: 204
Kazan: 195
Ivanovo-Suessensk: 168
Astrakhan: 164
Orenburg: 147
Samara: 144
Tula: 141
Reval: 138
Kishinev: 129
Yaroslavl: 120
Minsk: 118
N.Novgorod: 112
Dvinsk: 111
Vitebsk: 109
Nikolayev: 106
Ufa: 106
Perm: 105
Goumel: 105
Tsaritsyn: 101
Asia:
Tiflis: 328
Tashkent: 272
Baku: 237
Omsk: 136
Irkutsk: 130
Saliany: 121
Kokand: 119
Tomsk: 117
Yekaterinodar: 107

(I don't recognize Saliany)