Tales from the European Front I Setup

[kent-jo]

Good (Sid Meier) have choosen the color my people (Russian) to be white. And so be it.....

I'm just availeble from 19.30 to 24.00 CET (GMT +1)
I don't know when this will be EST.

The Capo:
Why don't you just tape the wrestling show...
I can't tape my famely gathering.....

[The Capo]

If you do not watch your tone, the Italians will see to it that your Russians are red, if you catch my drift!

[OzzyKP]

Hey!!

That is right!!

Theoretically, with the red color we could have 8 players in this game!!

If we set it up as a scenario we could get an extra person in there, i'd love that!

We could get the turks in there to play, which is a nation that i think we need in the game. Wow... does anyone else think this is a great idea? The more the merrier as far as i'm concerned, of course every extra person makes scheduling a bit more difficult, but i think it deffinatly adds to the game, being able to have all the major players in a typical european conflict/world would be great.

And yes, not everyone will be able to get the real color of their civ. Since we can't have both the romans and the russians, or both the germans and the french we will have to modify this on the map and in our heads a bit.

Is anyone really adamant about what color they are? Because i could just work it out right now, and put the starting spot of each player on the capitol site of their historical capitol, that has mostly been done by the creator of the map, but i would have to switch things around for certian civs like the romans & russians and french & germans. The empty colors are light blue, purple, and green. I volunteer to make the hungarians be purple, since i am used to using that color anyways. Would the french, germans, russians, or italians volunteer to use one of the other colors?

Please let us know. And if anyone knows how to work a game so that we could get eight in the game let us know that as well. I know i've played scenarios with 8 players, but i don't know how to set it up myself, though i'd love to have that in this game.

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Metalhead Greater Sayen, and all 'round nice guy
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[OzzyKP]

And if my math is correct it seems that it will be impossible to get Kent-Jo and Mr. Dimbleby in the same game at the same time this sunday. Kent's hours are 130pm - 6pm EST and Dimble's are after after 630pm EST.

I really would like to be fair to everyone in the game, but it seems we can't all be there at the same time. I suggest we just start at 1-130 as we had planned and find someone to replace Dimble for this first session. I hope it will work out and everyone will be ok with this. So ask around for a sub, and possibly another player to play the turks (or another country if they want(though i'd like them to be the turks)) if we can get this 8th player thing working.


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Metalhead Greater Sayen, and all 'round nice guy

[JDI_Falcon]

I really do not mind at all what color I am. However, I do not understand this whole red as the eighth team thing. That does not work. You cannot have a eighth team that can negotiate and move their units.

[kent-jo]

Ok. I can be light blue, i'm pretty used to it.

OzzyKP: You are'nt changing our starting possision. i dont like that..

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[OzzyKP]

Ok, an eigth team is indeed possible, i have played scenarios where there are 8 sepperate functioning civilizations, i'm not sure how we could use this for our purposes, but i know that it is possible in scenarios. I was hoping someone else knew.

And i won't be changing the starting spots of anyone. I assume you all have the map, some civilizations have a starting spot picked for them, some don't. Those that don't i will make a starting spot for them based on where their capitol is in real life, like how the other civ's starting spots are done. You all notice of course that the romans and russians can't play at the same time, they have the same color. So since Kent volunteered to be light blue, i will delete the starting spot for the russians on the map, and replace it at the same spot with a city for the americans on the map. Everything will be the same, but you will have to pick the "americans" we will all make a mental switch and you will be the russians, just pretend.

Trust me, it makes sense.



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Metalhead Greater Sayen, and all 'round nice guy

[JDI_Falcon]

I am drunk and weary right now. I just have to say something. How do you plan on making this accurate. if there are germands and french how are you going to make it so germans and french start in correct postiitons? Huh ozzy? You gotta make Ftrench or something be purple so i can make custom civ, totherise your just askign for trouble. Grmgarjgofjhgof. Woh woh woh yah!

[The Capo]

Alright well if Kent will be light blue Russia, then I will be white Italy, and as for the red comment, I meant red as in bloody, not as in the Barbarian/Red/8th civ, if nobody got my arrogant comment then I dunno.

And I must agree with Joe, I see no way that the Red civ can exist, but maybe there is some kinda trick to it in the civ thing, who knows

[Nap Bonaparte]

I will be present at 1pm EDT on Sun. Just wanted to let you know that there is a European Diplomatic game scenario available called Eurodip. All countries are well represented with enlarged England and Italy and reduced Russia. The game is set up for Russia, Italy, Germany, Spain, France, England, and Turkey. Everyone starts with 2 settlers and barbs are set at villages only.

[JDI_Falcon]

Capo is working on something that should be pretty damn good. It will be a small scenario that will work perfectly.

[OzzyKP]

Everyone, be sure to get on ICQ or AIM so we can communicate and set up the game.

Also, if you know someone interested in subbing get them to show too, because Mr. Dimple needs someone to play for him.

My ICQ number is: 47270249

My AIM Name is: LazerKP

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[Berzerker]

Argh! Do we need the map in our files or can we just join like any other mp game? And having the barbs at any level other than "villages only" is a handicap to the white civ because barbs move right before the white. Imagine a couple of barb archers just popping up next to a seaside city 1 second before your turn.

[Nap Bonaparte]

I will be online today at 1pm EDT.....my ICQ is 37676739

[JDI_Falcon]

All you gotta do is download a small scenario. We changed it to make it more European, but as far as unit strength goes, nothing has changed, just some names and graphics. This will make the game much more fun and realistic so don't be pissed. I guess I'll post a link to it when Reefer finishes it up.