History of Colonisation - Continuation Thread

[Patient English]

Sweden did have a colony in north america for a while

Indeed it did. Do you know details about exact location and name, Henrik? "New Sweden" in the Delaware peninsular is my working assumption, but I haven't researched it yet.

Steve,

And Sweden is now a civ? Now I am intrigued, the European portion of this one must be MUCH more involved

It is indeed. We start in the middle of the 30 years war, just whan Sweden was getting involved. The idea is to make European affairs much more crucial to the Monarchs of Europe (as indeed they were at the time), and for colonisation to only gradually assume importance. Initially, the New World is there for Spain, for those who would steal Spanish Gold, and for the Fur Traders, Trappers and Hunters of the St. Lawrence waterway.

Oh and Henrik,

France choses not to comment on the loss statistics

Those stats were only for my turn. Taking the French and Spanish moves of 1768, I think losses are about even. You have lost more Cavalry and Horse Artillery, I have lost more Foot Artillery and Marines. Our Grenadier losses are more even. But I have plenty of fresh troops left in Calais and crowding the ports of Dover and Portsmouth, just waiting for their turn to hop on a France-bound troop convoy!

[Patient English]

And I would like to say how sorry I am for saying "indeed" so often in the last post.

Very sorry indeed.

[conmcb25]

John

Thanks for the info maybe we need to open a thread for the new Colonies 4, or maybe you need to launch a website....

I agree with Henrik, you are being "indeed" stingy with the screenshots......

[Henrik]

Originally posted by Patient English
Indeed it did. Do you know details about exact location and name, Henrik? "New Sweden" in the Delaware peninsular is my working assumption, but I haven't researched it yet.

Actually I just did an english assignment on the Swedish colony in North America (yes it was in the Delawere region), a few days ago (we got to pick what to write about ourselves so I picked someting I was somewhat familiar with).
I still have it on my computer if you'd like to have a look (it is somewhat compressed though as I initially overdid what was to become no more than 2 pages )
Apart from that text I do have more info if you need details on some parts of it.

Originally posted by Patient English
It is indeed. We start in the middle of the 30 years war, just whan Sweden was getting involved. The idea is to make European affairs much more crucial to the Monarchs of Europe (as indeed they were at the time), and for colonisation to only gradually assume importance. Initially, the New World is there for Spain, for those who would steal Spanish Gold, and for the Fur Traders, Trappers and Hunters of the St. Lawrence waterway.

*Drool*

[Patient English]

Henrik,

Please send me your info. I am doing a huge amount of reading for Colonies IV (which is half the fun) and I want it to be as accurate as possible, consistent with killer gameplay.

I shall be upgrading my home page in December to be the working site for Colonies IV, plus the repository for all my other stuff.

[Henrik]

Sent
I do believe Vegard knows a lot as well (we discussed making a colonization of north america scenario together for a while).

[conmcb25]

Originally posted by Patient English
I shall be upgrading my home page in December to be the working site for Colonies IV, plus the repository for all my other stuff.

WOW! In reality I was kidding about the homepage. Hence the "cute" smiley. John looks like you are taking this one quite seriously. Cant wait, and then the issue about the screen shots........

[Prometeus]

About Colonies 4.0...

Hope you received my scen, John... It might be useful - read the e-mail.

[Henrik]

Bump for chris

[Patient English]

Prometeus. I did. Thanks.

I haven't looked at it yet, but I will later this week (the g/f is away, and I get to play! )

[Waku]

hehe, when the cat's away...

[Patient English]

...squeak, squeak!

[Chris 62]

John, this should help you in reguards to Sweden's colonies:

http://www.elca.org/co/mosaic/spring02script.html

I'll be happy to help with Version 4, but ONE game, not EIGHT!
I'd also like to put in for England, so I can FIGHT!
As Henrik and Waku know, I'm quite good at war, and I'd like to play something besides victim this time!

Henrik, the Dutch were busy celebrating a "Thanksgiving", and could not post.

Back to the action, Holland, concerned about it's shipping, has dispatched a portion of it's fleet of three-deckers to protect Dutch transport for pyrites and other unsavory types, led by the flagship Piet Hein.

[Chris 62]

The Dutch navy enters the channel...

[conmcb25]

Yea! Screen shots!