Languishing Yet Again (VQ game)

[Berkut]

Is that everyone then? I think we can start.

[Habbaku]

Made my play in ACTS.  To Berkut to resolve piracy.  No file until later (posting from phone).

[Berkut]

Spain: Die roll request
Request: 6-sided die x 4

3
3
1
5


Message from Spain:
Piracy, 4 dice

Ottomans get a VP.

[Berkut]

Spain: Play Card as Operations
#54: 3 / Huguenot Lent
Take 8 Protestant conversion attempts that can affect spaces in France. The first die is automatically a "6"; the rest are rolled randomly.

Message from Spain:
2/3: Patronioze Bautista
3/3: Merc to Milan

Extend with 3 CP treasure

2/3: Gally in Palma
3/3: Naval Move
Galley to Barbary Coast
Papal galley to Adriatic Sea

[Solmyr]

Btw, did I miss something? When did every Spanish and Ottoman ship sink?

[ulmont]

Btw, did I miss something? When did every Spanish and Ottoman ship sink?

You did.  Spanish and Ottomans mostly annihilated each other last turn.  You may remember Berkut saying things like "I can't build any more boats" and the like.

[Solmyr]

Oh okay. I thought that Ottomans won that more clearly but apparently they lost almost every ship too.

[Berkut]

It was an orgy of violence.

[Maximus]

Built a regular in Carlisle, over to Ulmont

[ulmont]

Patronized Palladio with "Commissioned from Italy."  File sent; Viking up.

[Solmyr]

I'll be away for the whole of tomorrow and Viking's play is unlikely to affect me so I'll make my play now.

#47: 4 / Belgic Confession
Take 8 Protestant Conversion attempts that can affect spaces in the Netherlands. The first die is automatically a "6"; the rest are rolled randomly. Treat all rolls of "3" as if they were "4".

Request: 6-sided die x 7

4
3
5
2
6
2
5


Message from Protestants:
One 6 and seven more rolls, 3s are hits.

2 major, 4 minor. Enlarge with majors to Zutphen and Dunkirk. Then convert Groningen, Arnhem, Ghent, and Flushing.

Habs will be up after Viking.

[Viking]

Holy Roman Empire: Play Card as Operations
#97: 5 / St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
The Protestant player eliminates all his mercenaries in France. Award a +1 Card marker to the Protestant. Flip up to 5 spaces in France that are under Protestant religious influence but French political control to Catholic religious influence. The French player may take a free, immediate Assassination attempt (2 CP) against Coligny. Increase the number of spaces to 8 and Assassination CP to 4 if Navarre is betrothed to a French royal. Remove from deck if played as event.

Message from Holy Roman Empire:
4/5 Patronize HRE Scientist
5/5 Remove disorder Augsburg

Now I can safely pay off the ottomans if they demand tribute...

[ulmont]

Bad news Viking - as you may recall, the Ottomans don't have to accept tribute if they want your land instead.

[Viking]

Bad news Viking - as you may recall, the Ottomans don't have to accept tribute if they want your land instead.

yes, but the tribute won't include any 5CP cards with nasty events.

[Habbaku]

I'll be away for the whole of tomorrow and Viking's play is unlikely to affect me so I'll make my play now.

#47: 4 / Belgic Confession
Take 8 Protestant Conversion attempts that can affect spaces in the Netherlands. The first die is automatically a "6"; the rest are rolled randomly. Treat all rolls of "3" as if they were "4".

Request: 6-sided die x 7

4
3
5
2
6
2
5


Message from Protestants:
One 6 and seven more rolls, 3s are hits.

2 major, 4 minor. Enlarge with majors to Zutphen and Dunkirk. Then convert Groningen, Arnhem, Ghent, and Flushing.

Habs will be up after Viking.

These conversions aren't legal.  Zutphen wasn't connected to a Protestant space at the start of the impulse.  It only connects to Groningen and Arnhem.