What this means for exploration missions that can be completed from sea zones is that your explorers should end a turn at your most forward port toward the destination. You can get pretty far and still return without losing actual ships, though they will be badly damaged.

What I find to be most helpful is to focus my conquests on taking entire provinces (or at least the majority interest in them.) I try to avoid having loose regions as much as possible. While this may not directly give a bonus to culture or decadence, it does greatly increase your flexibility in buil...

I have had fun (and reached a competitive score) with a number of different nations, including ones you might not consider as viable. Hibernii, Aethiopia and the Goths all did well, but the Skythians ended up in a CDR death spiral that I could not pull out of.

Along these same lines, is there an MP group out there who, instead of relying on slow paced asynchronous turns, meets at a set time in Discord and knocks out several turns back to back in something like a 4 hour session? I like this game a lot, but 500 turns with a 24 hour turn around is a year and...

fingers crossed indeed

Personally, ever since playing CEAW, I've wanted to see this game system applied to something scifi.

Even if it used the same map and was based either on H.G. Wells or Harry Turtledove, it'd be awesome.

Ha, well to those who interpret the roll averaging as an anti-cheating measure, I'd have to recommend that they only play with friends or the AI or switch to a game like chess. A little paranoia might be a good thing, but only a little. Wargaming is a venerable and honorable tradition. If someone ca...

I'd be happy to play either side.

My preferred options are all except the following:

parachute corps
purchased Russian guards
combat roll averaging

I feel especially strongly about not using the last one. The uncertainty and chance for setbacks is part of the fun.

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