Jimmer
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Marshall, I agree that this is a good idea. But, if you find a way to implement it, you might want to build in a way to make it NOT be hard-coded. Perhaps use a table: GB can go to war with Spain before 1809, but not after. France cannot go to war with Spain before 1809 etc. If you built a table for each game year (for example) that contained which powers could or could not DW on another, then there would be a dynamic to all this that would give it a bit more flavor. This way, people could tailor the game to somewhat match history. Or, they could create their own history. Historical defaults might be: Prussia can't DW on France until December, 1806 Austria and Russia can DW on France starting in April, 1805. Etc. All sorts of possibilities could be crafted, and all without too much extra coding (use a table of variable values instead of a list of constant values).
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