God's Obvious Design

[Hobbes]

one more:
Flushing - Vlissingen

[jim panse]

nice piece of work, good first impression.

though i have to confess that i haven´t played it till now. just had a first glimpse on it

[Shaka Naldur]

does this scenario have something to do with kIndal´s one??
he started one about it but he never finish it

[hardjoy]

No. I did see his first playtest version a long time ago, but that was very different from what I have made here. I haven't heard from him in ages, so I don't know if he is still working on it.

[Shaka Naldur]

just asking, do you still have his playtest version??
i don't think he'll mind if you send it to me

[jeibel]

This looks really terrific !
However i'm unable to reach CivFanatics Forum !
Couldn't anyone post a direct link or upload it to Poly ?
(or CivFan download area)
Please Please Please
Thank You & ciao !

[hardjoy]

Just uploaded the playtest to apolytons server

Shaka, send me an email and I'll see what I can do.

[edit : removed obsolete playtest links... the update is coming up...]

[yaroslav]

hardjoy, the scen looks pretty good

I have only a problem with this: some Spanish cities are mispelled or misplaced. I suggest you to post the Spanish map in the Spanish forum (I've located some failures, but geography is not one of my strongest points). The most important failure, I think, is Navarre and Pamplona: Navarre is not a city, but a region, whose capital is Pamplona, and it was Spanish since 1504

Good work

[hardjoy]

Originally posted by yaroslav
...whose capital is Pamplona, and it was Spanish since 1504

Noted... -thanx for the compliments
The reason I put Navarre on the map, was because I wondered myself excessively where it was, since the king of Navarre, Henry, was the leader of the huguenots figthing in France... Maybe he was just king of name? -gonna check up on that.

That said, there's a lot of contrafactual historical fantasy in this. And since I have used a quite small map, there's bound to be compromises in city locations etc. The setup is quite a construction, which hopefully conveys the key issues and some key incidents of the conflict, while still a lot of fun, not historical accuracy in the bonified manner. In this scenario, Philip II can even choose to go the protestant way, if he sees fit... -one can play out the alternative history, and perhaps accomplish what Philip II didn't, conquer England...

[yaroslav]

Originally posted by hardjoy


Noted... -thanx for the compliments
The reason I put Navarre on the map, was because I wondered myself excessively where it was, since the king of Navarre, Henry, was the leader of the huguenots figthing in France... Maybe he was just king of name? -gonna check up on that.

If I recall it correctly, the French King claims that the Kingdom of Navarre was French, even when France lost the 1504 war...

[hardjoy]

If the Armada had landed...

Just had a nights game playing as the spanish...



After prolonged battles in the channel and the landing of spanish veterans from the Netherlands in Weymouth and Norwich in the summer of 1586, London finally fell to spanish forces December 1588. The scots actually managed to survive this game... heavily supported by spanish technologies.

[Jay Bee]

You are using the flag of Castile for Spain which looks, pardon me, very very wierd

[hardjoy]

Why? -please elaborate

[Jay Bee]

Imagine you were designing a scenario where the British Empire is one of the participants. Which flag would you chose for them, the English flag (St George's cross) or the Union Jack?

[St Leo]

Imagine you were designing a scenario where the British Empire is one of the participants. Which flag would you chose for them, the English flag (St George's cross) or the Union Jack?

I've seen both used.
Castille and Leon
Burgundy Cross
Royal Banner 1580-1700