Game 10

Mike wrote:Thanks for the round up Marshal Bombast . I check the paper and am happy when I'm NOT in it . Click through the other stuff , read a clever person's round up then try to find it myself . Thanks again .

jamesbond007 wrote:A good update

jamesbond007 wrote:I would suggest the Swedish honour loss was more celebrating Easter in March than vandalism of the Paris waterworks which as an enemy of France should not have hit honour.

jamesbond007 wrote:I would suggest the Austrian honour loss was down to breaking a treaty of non aggression with Spain. Austrian troops in Spanish towns.

jamesbond007 wrote:I would suggest the Genoa honour loss was a symptom of losing his title of spanish viceroy.

jamesbond007 wrote:Hence the UDP catapulted to second in the honour table. Probably by default from the others rather than   anything he especially done.

Just my take on matters of honour.

Stuart Bailey wrote:

jamesbond007 wrote:A good update and I agree that point one. The honour table was interesting this month. A bad month for the coalition fighting France.

I would suggest the Swedish honour loss was more celebrating Easter in March than vandalism of the Paris waterworks which as an enemy of France should not have hit honour.

I would suggest the Austrian honour loss was down to breaking a treaty of non aggression with Spain. Austrian troops in Spanish towns.

I would suggest the Genoa honour loss was a symptom of losing his title of spanish viceroy.

Hence the UDP catapulted to second in the honour table. Probably by default from the others rather than   anything he especially done.

Just my take on matters of honour.

Not sure I would agree that it was a bad month for the coalition fighting France, the Swedish vanguard has blazed a trail to the Isle de France which is now being followed by the Austrian/Imperial Army with seemingly sod all in the way.

The Swedes failed to decoy the defenders of Paris north and away form Paris but they are now well placed to block the French Army of North if it moves south from Flanders to try and save Paris/Versailles.  Damn and my Character was kind of hoping uncle Louis was going to give him a commission and he could mount his white horse for a last minute attempt to save the fair ladies of France like his wife and the the Duchess of Artois from rapine and outrage at the hands of Austrian Hussars.

Meanwhile the defenders of the Isle de France seem to be totally unbalance with no Cavalry and hardly any guns.  If they fight in the open they will get cut to bits and Versailles looks impossible to defend against being bombarded flat.  So it looks like the French will have to abandon it and watch it burn or accept whatever terms the Emperor offers while holding a lighted match next to Louis XIV pride and joy.

So the question is will Louis fold his hand or fort up in the bastille and force the Austrians to clear Paris street by street to get to the Bastille???????!!!!!!! while a lot may depend on questions like were the hell is the French Cavalry/Artillery?  And what terms the Emperor offers France?  Think it might be interesting to see if players would fight or fold in such circumstances?  

As for the question of Swedish honour........doubt it has much to do with the King of Swedens Easter celebrations or wrecking water works.  May have something to do with fact that he has just allowed the Russians into Riga and blown a massive hole in Swedish State finances by trying to abolish tax on Russian trade through Swedish Baltic ports.  And what is the point of this "appeasement" of the Czar? So the the Swedes can be used as cannon fodder by the Hapsburgs in a Catholic war, a small result of which numbers of Swedish sailors get drowned every time Imperial Hussars burn another French village.  If I was a Swedish Noble doubt if I would be very happy or even understand the logic of Swedish policy?

As for the Emperor dipping a bit.......suspect that it may have something to do with the fact that he has abandoned the Hapsburg claim to the throne of Spain and has signed a non aggression pact with and loaned money to a excommunicated Spanish Government & King which has threatened to do nasty things to the Pope.

I would hastened to add that my lack of understanding of the honour system has been proved many, many times and the wrecked water works theory and upset Swedish garden lovers may be correct.  Or it is always possible that the Emperor's honour score is static while King William and has merry bunch of protestant politico's and Archbishops are just a super, super nice and honourable and the members of Parliament etc are just really pleased that they are not being asked to spend money and lives like the Swedes to help the Emperor and the Pope (in Rome) win a Catholic war.  That or the Dutch have just developed a new and improved Gin and some decent tour maps and are just generally happy unlike many others.  

jamesbond007 wrote:Austria and Spain signed their treaty nearly a year ago from memory. So any honour loss due to that would have happened long before now.

jamesbond007 wrote:Cannot see how Sweden and Russia working together would hurt his honour. Russia seems to be exchanging zero per cent interest rates with most nations.

jamesbond007 wrote:Never played in a game with two popes.

jamesbond007 wrote:You are right Stuart the coalition seem to have military success in France itself. Looking forward to the next few turns. A lot of good players playing a good and rather different game in 10 to the norm.

Stuart Bailey wrote:
I may be wrong but I thought "Court Agema" was no longer in use and players could break treaties if they so wished provided they did not mind wrecking their honour score?  

jamesbond007 wrote:Nowadays Richard decides if you have broke a treaty or not and if you have he will hit your honour score  until you put it right. All on page 40 of the rule book.