Turned out I was right about the no movement thing so there wasn't much action this round. The Russians failed the siege roll vs Königsberg (a 1 in 6) and let loose some cossacks on the East Prussian countryside instead.
First thing in Winter is a FoW draw, only one left, desertion. France and Prussia lose 4 each, Austria 2 and the Imperials 1. I need instructions on which ones to ditch.
Tamas is up to perform Austrian winter stuffage and to draw his card/play.
Okay come on, let's breathe some air into this one.
So tamas....you seem rather ambivalent about this game. Which is odd, since I think the rest of us are having a pretty good time.
Care to share with us your angst?
or maybe you could just open the file up, draw a card, play it, you know - YOUR TURN.
Is this the continuation thread of the napoleon game that was started on prior forum? ???
Quote from: JacobL on March 12, 2009, 03:10:54 PM
Is this the continuation thread of the napoleon game that was started on prior forum? ???
No, this is our Clash Of Monarchs game, and for the record I did make my move.
Tamas is up to perform his recruitment.
Tamas, before recruiting apply my second file as well with all the clean up, don't want to do that again...
Just realised Tamas might not have all the numbers ready. Count up all the green city numbers you control, I got 14 for you and 5 for the Empire. Then you can tally credit (take a loan) and add 7 thalers but lose 1 MW. I already added the French subsidies for your third world countries. Last, you may (must) roll for recruitment.
Austria done, Berk is up, then Prussia.
Quote from: Delirium on March 13, 2009, 09:01:26 AM
Austria done, Berk is up, then Prussia.
No, Austria isn't done.
You didn't pay to sustain your FDs (2 SAs/Thalers per) and I really have no idea how you came up with your recruitment numbers. You rolled three dice (6, 6, 4) and added 6 and got...a 10, somehow (that's what matches your infantry SPs, anyway) and you recruited your cavalry as if you had rolled a 14-17.
Even if you cannot recruit the number of infantry rolled on the chart, you still have to pay the thalers listed for the amount you rolled--in this case, you have to pay 12 thalers, not 5.
Britain is done. Back to Austria to fix his mess.
I've decided that I am going to assume that Tamas has an amazing new girlfriend who gives incredible head whenever he wants, and that is why his play has become so spotty, slow and ambivalent.
After all, how can I blame the man for choosing incredible sex with a Hungarian goddess over Clash of Monarchs.
Why Tamas sucks all of a sudden:
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Is that the drunken Tel Aviv stripper?
Quote from: Habbaku on March 13, 2009, 11:16:29 AM
Quote from: Delirium on March 13, 2009, 09:01:26 AM
Austria done, Berk is up, then Prussia.
No, Austria isn't done.
You didn't pay to sustain your FDs (2 SAs/Thalers per) and I really have no idea how you came up with your recruitment numbers. You rolled three dice (6, 6, 4) and added 6 and got...a 10, somehow (that's what matches your infantry SPs, anyway) and you recruited your cavalry as if you had rolled a 14-17.
Even if you cannot recruit the number of infantry rolled on the chart, you still have to pay the thalers listed for the amount you rolled--in this case, you have to pay 12 thalers, not 5.
Alright, I asked CB to add +6 to my 3d6, thats how it came up with the result of 10. I applied that correctly. So don't blame me.
I did forget the FDs - I take the blame for that.
I am a bit drunk right now and have to get up very early for work, so the correction will have to wait until I arrive and sort stuff out at the office. I don't get how CB gave me a result of 10. But it did, and considering that, all I made wrong was not paying for the FDs, so do get off my case. :P
Quote from: Tamas on March 13, 2009, 04:36:09 PM
Alright, I asked CB to add +6 to my 3d6, thats how it came up with the result of 10. I applied that correctly. So don't blame me.
6 + 6 + 4 + 6 != 10. I will not blame you, but, instead, your stellar math skills.
Corrected. :-[
Quote from: Tamas on March 14, 2009, 01:52:32 AM
Corrected. :-[
It's times like this that I miss the :frusty: smilie.
First off, you moved your MW, not your thalers. Though I don't mind the Austrian MW going down to 2, I think you might not like that. Your thalers (before your correction) are at 5. You'll either have to tally credit or take a Financial Straits hit to pay for your stuff.
You also recruited past your army limit. Austria is only allowed to have a maximum of 65 line infantry SPs, counting prisoners in that total. You'll need to reduce your line infantry SPs down to that amount somehow (making sure you take from the places you put troops in).
Place your MW marker back to 14. Tally credit of 7 thalers, reduce MW by one. Pay the 12 thalers for recruiting. And don't forget to pay for the artillery.
The Imperial treasury should be up another thaler, as well. I think Tamas missed Mecklenburg when counting up their funds.
You have 71 sp on the map right now, need to remove 6 from those you placed.
Better yet, just tell me which ones to remove and I'll do the file for you if you like.
ALMOST fixed. This time I counted line cavalry into the limit as well. :D
Del, please just place the missing number to 65 as infantry to Leipzig, I took 10 inf. from there, and I removed a '2' cavalry from Daun.
I'm sorry, I don't follow. There was no file in the email you just sent out. If there wasn't supposed to be one, I don't get your instructions. :)
File sent!
Now you removed 12 sp down to 59, don't know why you did that?
But I forgot to count the 2 sp in the prisoners box, so you really have 61 sp on map. Even though we're supposed to have exchanged prisoners, it's up to Frederick to decide who to release, so he'll probably release an imperial sp for his own.
Anyway, there should be 4 additional sp in Leipzig I presume. And why did you remove cavalry? Did you recruit too many? Cause they're not included in the overall limit.
Oh, and I think you're removed from the responsibility of actually doing a file next winter and only get to post instructions. ;)
Had a few minutes at my disposal, so I actually did the Austrian math:
1. Before you started recruiting at all, you had 36 line infantry on the map and 2 as POWs.
2. Your force pool and your losses (which we for some reason keep on the turn track and not in the force pool) amount to 27 sps.
3. According to the scenario, this is correct, Au starting with 59 sp on map, 6 in the force pool.
4. You can recruit 27 sp. You can have 65 sp in total, 63 on map +2 as POW.
5. Regarding the cavalry, you received 5 steps, replenishing the two line cav and entering the lt cav is 4, the fifth cannot be placed.
Correcting file sent, over to Prussia.
Wow.
Just...wow.
Prussian recruitment's over and done with, as is the rest of my spring phase.
Off to Tamas to assign his recovery points, then to redeploy. Others may do the same in the mean time.
I believe I'm to redeploy first, doing that now.
File sent, Tamas is up for redeployment, rule 20.6, and apply 4 forage points of recovery.
Then we may begin the Summer 1758 season!
I just sent out Britains redeployment.
Hello?
Well, that was a productive weekend. Out-freaking-standing.
Hmmm
I am back with my redeployment.
For forage points recovery, remove two each from Saxony and Bohemia, please.
And in the last 48 hours I had 3 hours of sleep, so sorry but after my Spring, I am not rushing anything. :P
You know Tamas, if you have something going on and you know you won't be able to get to the game in a timely manner, a short note would not be out of line.
Deja vu.
Quote from: Berkut on March 16, 2009, 07:47:21 AM
You know Tamas, if you have something going on and you know you won't be able to get to the game in a timely manner, a short note would not be out of line.
Yes and usually I do note you guys.
OK, into Spring now, the Brits just drew their hand, and the Prussians as well.
Tamas, is there any reason to think you won't be back to your normal at least daily updates?
may I see current on-map situation?
Quote from: szmik on March 16, 2009, 01:28:50 PM
may I see current on-map situation?
Certainly.
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First up is the situation in East Prussia. The Russian army, without a proper siege train, but with some degree of support from their navy, managed to make quite a bit of progress...but not quite enough. Konigsberg, under the wise defensive plans of Winterfeldt, held out for the entire season (and ended up resulting in over 10,000 Russian casualties in the process) and shows no sign of falling, now that its walls have been repaired and reinforced. Let the barbarians try and take it again!
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Next up is the situation in Germany, specifically Westphalia. After the debacle of being driven out of the Electorate of Hanover, Cumberland was relieved of command and, instead, Ferdinand the Magnificent assigned in his place. Under his leadership, the mighty, combined Anglo-Allied forces will surely drive the French menace--which is certainly menacing, indeed, considering how /many/ of them there are--back to their own borders and beyond.
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Lastly, the border between Prussia and Austria. Daun's clever feint of leaving Nadasdy's forces out as bait to be beaten up while the main Austrian army proceeded to sack the Electorate of Saxony has worked, but not for long. With the new year, Frederick's army has achieved immense size and is even more powerful than the previous year, owing to an increased artillery park. Daun will likely retreat and give up his Saxon fortresses rather than fight, I am sure.
Guys, I'm pretty sure I've cheated and drew six cards for Russia last turn instead of only four. Since I didn't accomplish anything anyway I don't think I benefited too much, but still. A suggestion is to randomly discard two cards before drawing my hand this turn.
That is fine, cheater.
:(
The smileys over here really stink.
Still waiting on Del. As usual. Man that guy is slow!
And we're off into 1758.
With Daun's army positioned to pluck Dresden (the crown jewel of Frederick's Saxon conquest), the Prussian king sees no recourse but to go contest the entire region with as much force as possible. Frederick has joined up with Schwerin and is positioned to deal a crippling blow to Daun's forces when the cowardly Austrian shows himself.
:-X
Thank you for recap. :)
Frederick's Wrath has seen Henry go home, for a while at least.
Quote from: szmik on March 16, 2009, 05:44:14 PM
Thank you for totally unbiased recap. :)
Ditto, dotto
The secondary French army under Broglie advanced on the mighty fortress of Kassel, and the garrison immediately laid down their weapons and were granted honours of war. +1 vp to teh France!
England is up.
;D A completely unbiased story. Kassel was ungarrisoned (in the game, small garrisons are assumed to exist, but they number no more than 100+ troops) and stood no chance.
The fortress was still mighty, only desolate. :D
Britains was outraged by the constant negative reporting out of Westphalia, and the shoddy journalism resulted in the removal of Cumberland (who wasn't even in charge anymoer! Poor guy) and additional support for the war effort.
Ferdinand immediately moved to Braunschweig Gifhorn, where he has 4 MPs remaining. Would de'Estress care to try for an intercept?
I went ahead and rolled it, and he did successfully intercept, if he wants.
I am guessing that Del won't intercept into my trenches, and I am impatient, so Ferdy is going to attack de' Estrees in Hannover.
I can play two tactics, and my first is Able Advisor.
Del (assuming you don't cancel all this with some interrupt), you are up to play a tactic, and then I will likely play another.
I sent the file out with my tactic draw and play, so Del can draw an play one if he desires. I am guessing he will. Probably has that damn Arrogance one.
OK, afer some instructions from Del, we had a pleasant battle, where we both inflicted 3D2 losses, which demoralized the French who were forced to retreat.
Over to Russia.
I forgot to put the DM marker on de 'Estrees.
AAR suspended until the forum doesn't blow.
File sent, along with a couple of rules question, first on Tamas' move (which is really important/disastrous :bleeding: ), and then on a French LWV! dual activation, if I have to activate the CiC first...
Anyway, activating D'Estrees and Broglie, preferrably Broglie first, and asking for interruptions.
I think you can activate them in any order - if this was restricted, I imagine it would say so.
And I do not have any interrupts.
Note: I noticed this recently in the rules - when you are down to a single tactic left to be drawn, you should add your discards back to the pool BEFORE drawing the next chit.
An interesting tweak, IMO. Makes it so that you and the other players cannot ever be certain about what is coming out...well, mostly anyway.
Quote from: Delirium on March 23, 2009, 06:34:04 AMAnyway, activating D'Estrees and Broglie, preferrably Broglie first, and asking for interruptions.
I have Poor Forage, Bad Fodder to use on the biggest of the two armies.
Quote from: Berkut on March 23, 2009, 07:58:23 AM
An interesting tweak, IMO. Makes it so that you and the other players cannot ever be certain about what is coming out...well, mostly anyway.
Yeah, I realised that as well. Finally.
We did some counting and realised that there is no way we can avoid Austrian defeat next year through Monarchial Will at 0. With the game's troubled history I've therefore decided to throw in the towel and yield victory sooner rather than later to the Prussians and their hapless allies, the English, and the game is over.
Quote from: Delirium on March 23, 2009, 03:36:39 PM
We did some counting and realised that there is no way we can avoid Austrian defeat next year through Monarchial Will at 0. With the game's troubled history I've therefore decided to throw in the towel and yield victory sooner rather than later to the Prussians and their hapless allies, the English, and the game is over.
What the flying fuck.
Quote from: Tamas on March 23, 2009, 08:51:41 PM
Quote from: Delirium on March 23, 2009, 03:36:39 PM
We did some counting and realised that there is no way we can avoid Austrian defeat next year through Monarchial Will at 0. With the game's troubled history I've therefore decided to throw in the towel and yield victory sooner rather than later to the Prussians and their hapless allies, the English, and the game is over.
What the flying fuck.
You cannot possibly be serious.