Alex Gilbert
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Joined: 9/20/2002 From: New York City Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Geekboy Alex, Unconditional, certainly. As for the options, I consider the requirement to take 2 fleets off the Brits to be redundant. Anyone scoring an unconditional against the Brits should take 2 fleets as a matter of course. Removing Napoleon is very realistic and should be there. Access against GB I've never understood the rationale for...You can't declare war with troops in their country, and to deter the Brits DOWing you, you'd have to leave quite a few troops there ... More than you can probably afford to spare. Seems like a fairly pointless pick ( although maybe that's the point...To ensure Fr only gets 1 'live' unconditional option pick ). I agree that anyone getting an unconditional from Britain looking to humble GB would definitely take fleets. However, I have seen "soft" unconditionals where people purposely take picks that are (relatively) harmless just so the war can end and they can ally. I think this is a legit tactic in most cases, but given the hatred between GB and Fr at the time, I think that in this particular case, it does not have the right feel. Certainly both opinions on forced access are valid. My feeling is that if France leaves a corps with 20 factors in Britain (not unreasonable for Frnace to do) that GB is going to be VERY hesitant to DoW France again, and if they do, they will likely have had to shift significant resources from the fleet to the army. Anyhow, I just threw the idea out there for consideration. Alex
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