While We Wait: Boredom Strikes Back

[Birdjaguar]

What is considered to be a "successful NES" ?

IIRC we had a long discussion about this some years ago. Several things contribute to a successful NES, but I think two are the most important:

1. Enough turns (I think at least 10)
2. Fun for the players

 

[Lord of Elves]

I want to host an NES. I don't care if it's only populated by newbies like me.

What would those newbies like to see in an NES? Just shoot an idea out and I'll run with it. (Not first-come-first-serve, more on consensus.)

Ever since the end of Revolution #2 I've wanted to play an early 1800's NES, but I don't know if that would be something you'd want to attempt as a first.

 

[Karalysia]

I wonder what would've happened if I'd joined up as a Greek rebellion, sometime around Symphony's Azovian offensive and the Imperial invasion in 1705. Nonmilitary updates indicated that you were doing the usual Ottoman stuff with the Orthodox Church. But I half-remember you killing off one of the Patriarchs, which could help as a catalyst for another 1821. Of course, it was a few years ago, and I dunno what the social situation was like in the Peloponnese or what you were doing with the dudes from Fener. And your navy was too strong for a rerun of Çeşme.

The whole thing was lame. We could have destroyed the Holy Roman Empire if das had invaded them. I mean really crushed those bastards.

 

[qoou]

I want to host an NES. I don't care if it's only populated by newbies like me.

What would those newbies like to see in an NES? Just shoot an idea out and I'll run with it. (Not first-come-first-serve, more on consensus.)

Hardcore realism. There's really only a couple of time periods you could do that in though.

 

[Karalysia]

I been craving some solid Cold War.

 

[Lord of Elves]

I been craving some solid Cold War.

I endorse a Cold War NES starting immediately after the ceasing of hostilities between Allied and Axis powers.

 

[Karalysia]

I endorse a Cold War NES starting immediately after the ceasing of hostilities between Allied and Axis powers.

Huh what? Oh did I say Cold War? Oh no, what I meant was Cod War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod_Wars What a hilarious misunderstanding.

 

[Haseri]

I endorse a Cold War NES starting immediately after the ceasing of hostilities between Allied and Axis powers.

I was actually thinking about that today. Mostly focused on the space race, though.

 

[Lord of Elves]

I was actually thinking about that today. Mostly focused on the space race, though.

I've always been interested in the idea of Britain and France attempting to hold on to their possessions after the end of the Second World War. Perhaps granting India/Algeria independence as the situation might warrant, and what effect that might have on the American-Soviet stand-off.

So yeah. At all interested, Menanish?

 

[Karalysia]

I've always been interested in the idea of Britain and France attempting to hold on to their possessions after the end of the Second World War. Perhaps granting India/Algeria independence as the situation might warrant, and what effect that might have on the American-Soviet stand-off.

So yeah. At all interested, Menanish?

With the combined factors of their war devastation and impoverishment, US and Soviet pressure for decolonization, local unrest and rebellion in the colonies, combined with their own populations being tired of war, there was never much of a chance for them holding onto anything of significant size.

If they tried despite all that it would be more or less the French in Algeria, Vietnam, Portuguese in Angola, British in Kenya with the Mau Mau, India occupying Portuguese colonies of Goa, Daman, and Diu, and so forth.

 

[alex994]

US and Soviet pressure for decolonization

US pressure for decolonization decreased significantly if not ended when the Cold War began, just wanted to correct you; US basically subsidizing the French in Vietnam is a pretty good example of it.

 

[Lord of Elves]

True as that may be, there was still arguably more room for the British and French to exercise a larger influence on then-current events than they did in our timeline. At the very least from a standpoint of European post-War development.

 

[Karalysia]

US pressure for decolonization decreased significantly if not ended when the Cold War began, just wanted to correct you; US basically subsidizing the French in Vietnam is a pretty good example of it.

The US wasn't supporting France in Vietnam to keep it as a French colony, it was supporting it to make sure it didn't become a communist state. After all the US didn't support the French war in Algeria. The US generally speaking supported decolonization when it resulted in an ally.

True as that may be, there was still arguably more room for the British and French to exercise a larger influence on then-current events than they did in our timeline. At the very least from a standpoint of European post-War development.

After Britain and France were smacked down by the US for their nonsense in the Suez Crisis, it was more or less the end of their willingness or ability to act internationally without US support. Hell it resulted in the fall of the British government.

 

[Dachs]

That was Symphony, as I recall.

Was it? Okay. Like I said, it's been awhile.

 

[das]

Was it? Okay. Like I said, it's been awhile.

I definitely don't recall murdering any patriarchs anyway. So yeah, either it was Symphony or Symphony assumed I was doing it myself. The former seems rather more likely.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I definitely don't recall murdering any patriarchs anyway. So yeah, either it was Symphony or Symphony assumed I was doing it myself. The former seems rather more likely.

I can easily recall such dastardly acts.

 

[Dachs]

I definitely don't recall murdering any patriarchs anyway. So yeah, either it was Symphony or Symphony assumed I was doing it myself. The former seems rather more likely.

I don't remember anyone in particular getting pinned for it, so it might've been him. Sounds like his kind of thing.

 

[Perfectionist]

Yeah, it was in his orders

01.) Continue Disruptive ИСБ Operations in Enemy Territory. I really, really don't know how to make this much clearer. Whatever the Ottomans are doing to oppress their minorities, guess what, they're going to keep doing it if they win. Forever. So unless these spineless sonsof*****es want to be stomped on from now to eternity, they had better get their thumbs out of their asses and start revolting. Honestly, the lack of backbone on the part of these people sickens me. Tell them as such. Particularly that Patriarch of Constantinople. In fact...
02.) Continue Assassination Campaigns Against Enemy Leaders. Find a way to continue picking as many of them as possible off. The more, the better. Add the Patriarch to the list too. I want him dead. Man has the spine of worm.

 

[das]

Hah.

Birdjaguar, well obviously I murdered lots of Patriarchs (Eastern Orthodox and otherwise) in my villainous career. Just not the one in question.

 

[Luckymoose]

Shadowbound is looking for people to participate in his D&D Pathfinder campaign. He wants to start it sometime or something. He is too afraid to ask people himself.