Colonies IV MP beta test
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Aravorn
Deity
Beginning of Empire building!
Aravorn
Deity
And my first turn in a Colonies IV PBEM!
I have been waiting for this since I first heard about it last September!
Yea John
I have been waiting for this since I first heard about it last September!
Yea John
Patient English
Designer
I bet you would....he, he...
However, as this is a test game, I will take no huge actions against anyone (especially ma Eenglish chums) until things have settled down for a few moves.........Well, except the Independents, of course. I ALWAYS end up fighting those bastards....
However, Steve, one of England's BIG problems is how to stay reasonably peaceful with France and Spain. You can afford to be at war with one only if you are allied to the other, otherwise Engand's precarious independence could be lost early on, before she can consolidate. That's the main geo-strategic reason you CAN'T just concentrate on unifying your islands at the beginning. The scenario (especially in MP) is supposed to give England that dilemma.
As I say though, France will leave you alone at the beginning. However, Catholic Ireland will remain Catholic. We won't be in conflict there as long as you keep English influence limited to Dublin and the Pale. On the other hand, Auld Alliance or not, you have a free hand in Scotland as far as France is concerned....
Patient English
Designer
Now, that French attitude should relieve you in the short term (Scotand is quite enough to be going on with, especially with your new colonies to protect), but rankle and annoy you in the long term. ["How dare those Papist, frog-eating bastards dictate to us??!"]
So, the game gets more interesting...?
So, the game gets more interesting...?
Dutch stadtholder Willem I dies. Column writer Kees van Kooten seizes power.
This month, the Dutch stadtholder Willem I was murdered by catholic fanatics. Column writer Kees van Kooten, member of the Dutch Catholic Society has now seized power. While Holland remains a protestant country, the now catholic leadership has immediately made some undisclosed "deals" witht he catholic leaders of Spain and France. The content of the treaties remains secret, but to assure our protestant neighbours: our protestant population wouldn't tolerate any attack on a protestant country.
It is however certain that Spain and Holland have ended their war. Peace now reigns in the low countries.
Dutch colonists travel to the outskirts of the world
We ask permission to build cities on the following squares:
(98,124) WWWNW of Caracas (permission from the Spanish)
(320,126) WWSW of Port Etienne (permission from the French)
Ritters leave homeland for the New World
2 Ritter regiments have left the Dutch homeland. Destination: Nieuw-Amsterdam. The ships have now already reached the coasts of Scotland, but will just sail past it.
This month, the Dutch stadtholder Willem I was murdered by catholic fanatics. Column writer Kees van Kooten, member of the Dutch Catholic Society has now seized power. While Holland remains a protestant country, the now catholic leadership has immediately made some undisclosed "deals" witht he catholic leaders of Spain and France. The content of the treaties remains secret, but to assure our protestant neighbours: our protestant population wouldn't tolerate any attack on a protestant country.
It is however certain that Spain and Holland have ended their war. Peace now reigns in the low countries.
Dutch colonists travel to the outskirts of the world
We ask permission to build cities on the following squares:
(98,124) WWWNW of Caracas (permission from the Spanish)
(320,126) WWSW of Port Etienne (permission from the French)
Ritters leave homeland for the New World
2 Ritter regiments have left the Dutch homeland. Destination: Nieuw-Amsterdam. The ships have now already reached the coasts of Scotland, but will just sail past it.
Aravorn
Deity
Hmmm, I would like to do am AIM conversation on this one. You going to be on today with your Online game? Till when? It would have to be later for me. Probably right before you get off.
Fair enough for now.
Patient English
Designer
Steve, I will be around on AIM all evening. Try various times...
Patient English
Designer
I'll move this evening, does anyone want to do diplomacy (apart froim Yop, who already has) before I do?
Patient English
Designer
France and Holland would like to announce their mutual defensive alliance.
This pact is purely defensive, and France wishes to re-state she has no aggressive intentions towards any major nation. We soon hope to take the rather disorganised peasants of Ireland under our protection....
This pact is purely defensive, and France wishes to re-state she has no aggressive intentions towards any major nation. We soon hope to take the rather disorganised peasants of Ireland under our protection....
Patient English
Designer
Steve, contact me on AIM this afternoon, or email me with your questions. I have played England extensively in my playtesting, and I have some tips for you.....
(Maybe you have some for me, as France, as you played the French so much!)
(Maybe you have some for me, as France, as you played the French so much!)
Patient English
Designer
Native news: Beaver abound in the territories of New England and New France.
In Europe: The Hapsburg Empire declares war against the Independent Union of (mostly) Protestant states.
The French King has encouraged enterprising citizens with grants of land and titles in the New World to consider leaving to found French colonies in New France and the Caribbean. So far, only a few hardy souls have taken the plunge, but it is early days yet.
The ports of Brest, Cherbourg and L'Orient are abuzz with marching troops and the rumble of the wheels of the King's great Artillery Train. Is their destination Ireland or the New World? Speculation is rife...
An extract from a courier's message to the Dutch Republic:
"Dear Stadtholder, please move your Arquebusiers on 320 degrees E, 126 degrees S, they are exactly where we want to found a French Slave-trading post!
Cardinal Richlieu, First Minister to his Majesty Louis XII"
In Europe: The Hapsburg Empire declares war against the Independent Union of (mostly) Protestant states.
The French King has encouraged enterprising citizens with grants of land and titles in the New World to consider leaving to found French colonies in New France and the Caribbean. So far, only a few hardy souls have taken the plunge, but it is early days yet.
The ports of Brest, Cherbourg and L'Orient are abuzz with marching troops and the rumble of the wheels of the King's great Artillery Train. Is their destination Ireland or the New World? Speculation is rife...
An extract from a courier's message to the Dutch Republic:
"Dear Stadtholder, please move your Arquebusiers on 320 degrees E, 126 degrees S, they are exactly where we want to found a French Slave-trading post!
Cardinal Richlieu, First Minister to his Majesty Louis XII"
yaroslav
Emperor
P&P
no news. The Spanish army is preparing to attacks in Italy, Portgual and North Africa.
We hope that French will not move on war against Ireland - Spain is also Catholic, so the religion should not be an excuse
no news. The Spanish army is preparing to attacks in Italy, Portgual and North Africa.
We hope that French will not move on war against Ireland - Spain is also Catholic, so the religion should not be an excuse
John, I just discovered a bug.
Unless it's the intention, when Utrechs is running a food decifit, I always get this notice:
Food storage in Utrecht exhausted: trade route to Rotterdam closed.
But when I check Utrecht, it doesn't have a trade route with Rotterdam and it also isn't losing it's size.
Unless it's the intention, when Utrechs is running a food decifit, I always get this notice:
Food storage in Utrecht exhausted: trade route to Rotterdam closed.
But when I check Utrecht, it doesn't have a trade route with Rotterdam and it also isn't losing it's size.
Patient English
Designer
Crazy old Civ, eh? If Utrecht is at -33 food, does it lose food from the storage box, and does it eventually have a famine...?
Patient English
Designer
Ireland's Catholicism will be protected from the Protestants in England, and the Natives there get the benefit of French culture: lots of wine, good cheese, class A sex and a relaxed attitude to moral obligations.
What could be better?!
What could be better?!
Henrik
Emperor
Here I was going to whine about this being slow and then I realize it's my turn! 
Turn comming up in a few
Turn comming up in a few
Henrik
Emperor
Fort Kristina founded in the New World, Swedish hunters has allready produced large amounts of Furs that are going to be sent home to europe within short.
The tension between Sweden and the independent protestant states in Germany and Scandinavia increases...
A Swedish offensive with the objective to throw out Habsburg cavalry in a hilly region in eastern Germany failed misserably. I didn't realize just how much you had increased the defence multipliers John
Lesson learned though, in the future the AI will have to attack me rather than the other way around
The tension between Sweden and the independent protestant states in Germany and Scandinavia increases...
A Swedish offensive with the objective to throw out Habsburg cavalry in a hilly region in eastern Germany failed misserably. I didn't realize just how much you had increased the defence multipliers John
Lesson learned though, in the future the AI will have to attack me rather than the other way around
