Redscape: Conquer the Globe

[Keirador]

I have trouble with deadlines being set a week apart. Here, it's usually 2-3 days or so. When I have a whole WEEK to write orders, I always feel like it's forever away and keep putting it off. By the time they're due, I've forgotten about the deadline.

 

[slappy]

That's what what provisionals are for, matey! (Or "prelims" as they're called over at Redscape.)

 

[Dreadnought]

At least I have Russia on my side...

He's attacking Germany.

 

[Keirador]

Who, Dreadnought, do you think engineered that?
Just because I NMRed doesn't mean I've been idle. I planned out the Russian attack on Germany, worked to sell it to Russia, and assuming you cooperate with my battle plans, Germany should be no more within three years. The French will be a problem, though.

 

[Dreadnought]

I never claimed I told Russia to help. I just said he's on my side. He sent me an email saying he's attacking germany to help me.

Thanks, BTW.

 

[Keirador]

I work ceaselessly for the betterment of all CFC kind!
It was pretty easy to see you needed help, and I needed to distract Russia while Austria and I attacked Italy. Seemed like the logical course of action.

 

[Dreadnought]

What a great plan it was...

I can only hold out for another 1-2 years without help.

 

[Taliesin]

A fairly obviously faked botched support from the French, there... our plan is a success so far.

 

[Keirador]

No, Russia screwed up. He was supposed to order Galicia- Silesia. Those were my instructions. He, accidentally or so he claims, ordered Galicia to Bohemia. Surely you can see how superior the plan would have been had a Russian army been stationed in Silesia?

 

[Taliesin]

Yes, it would have been. I wonder what he was thinking. Oh well, his Warsaw build should make up for most of it.

 

[slappy]

Interesting turn of events with the missed French build. The GM says he's not applying house rules for missed build orders, yet the first post in the original game thread clearly says house rules apply. If I were the French player, I'd call him on this.

 

[Keirador]

French player DID call him on this, but since the rule was not enforced with missed Austrian builds, a precedent is set.

 

[slappy]

I don't buy the precedent notion. If a mistake in adjudication is missed and a new turn is completed, you move on with the mistake because the game has moved on. The cat's out of the bag on everyone's orders, etc. But that doesn't set a precedent for future errors in adjudication. Players can ask for new errors to be corrected so long as the next turn hasn't been adjudicated. The fact that other players missed their chance in prior turns is irrelevant.

Same thing here: Austria missed its chance to ask for the house rules to apply, but that doesn't mean France isn't entitled to appeal to the rules under which everyone agreed to play. Was France supposed to speak up on Austria's behalf last time just so he could continue to rely on the rules for the rest of the game? No, sir. That ain't right.

 

[Taliesin]

Lucky you aren't deciding the question, then.

I agree with you, as it happens, but far be it from me to challenge the inscrutable dictates of the infallible GM, especially as it's far cooler this way.

 

[slappy]

Yeah, don't get me wrong. I'm happy for you and all

 

[Dreadnought]

keep the good luck guys!

 

[Taliesin]

Further... fortune. I suspect France isn't sticking around any longer-- I don't blame him all that much, with armies of the hated Hapsburg royals in Brittany. Also, Italy seems to have agreed to my plan to surrender control of his fleet to Turkey in exchange for living, but unfortunately it looks like he forgot to apprise Keirador of that fact.

But what's this? Turkish infidels in Serbia? I've been betrayed! What shall I do?