Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: DanielHerr

Random placement should be possible to make. The blockade can be broken by building up your navy or sinking the British. Kirk has posted about enabling player convoy control, so it might be in the next patch.

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ORIGINAL: AEWHistory

quote:

ORIGINAL: DanielHerr

Random placement should be possible to make. The blockade can be broken by building up your navy or sinking the British. Kirk has posted about enabling player convoy control, so it might be in the next patch.

Could you elaborate on "building up your navy"? Is the blockade broken if the Germans launch a new dreadnought? Or sinking a Brit Dreadnought? I've wondered if it required the German navy to take control of some area of water and hold it.... I dunno.

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-- German convoys reactivated
function BlockadeBroken()
if GetEvent("BlockadeEstablished") ~= 0 and GetEvent("BlockadeBroken") == 0 then
local entente = game:GetAllianceById(1)
local cp = game:GetAllianceById(2)
local ententeStrength = 0
local cpStrength = 0
for faction in entente.factions do
for unit in faction.units do
if unit.type == Unit.NAVAL then
if unit.hex ~= nil and unit.hex.region == 1 and unit.prototype.name ~= "transport" and unit.prototype.name ~= "convoy" then -- ignore convoys & transports
ententeStrength = ententeStrength + unit.hp
end
end
end
end

for faction in cp.factions do
for unit in faction.units do
if unit.type == Unit.NAVAL then
if unit.hex ~= nil and unit.hex.region == 1 and unit.prototype.name ~= "transport" and unit.prototype.name ~= "convoy" then -- ignore convoys & transports
cpStrength = ententeStrength + unit.hp
end
end
end
end

if cpStrength/ententeStrength > 1.5 then
-- Blockade broken
SetEvent("BlockadeBroken", game.turn)
game:GetFactionById(2).luaData.blockaded = 0
end
end
end

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ORIGINAL: AEWHistory

WOW! That would require a truly impressive feat of naval victories, knocking out members of the entente, and/or building the CP navies to accomplish that! If I am understanding correctly then the CP would need to possess 1.5x the strength of the entente to break the blockade. I'm assuming this is raw strength points, but even that is tough. I'll have to go and do the math to figure this out. My gut says that if the CP could equal the entente in naval strength then the blockade would've been effectively broken. To put it another way, if both sides had equal strength then the entente would have been faced with the stark choices since they needed naval superiority much more than the CP. Consider:
1. A geographically close blockade of GER had to have naval superiority or risk the Germans breaking the whole damn fleet out or, worse, inflicting a decisive defeat on the Royal Navy.
2. The Austrian and Ottoman navies, such as they were, had to be controlled and limited.
3. Ships had to be protected.
4. Raiders had to be hunted (I'd love for the Germans to be able to build surface raiders in this game).
5. Subs had to be hunted.
6. I know I'm missing something else....

So by my reasoning the entente needed enough naval assets to control the CP navies AND cover their butts from the rear. This would require a substantial naval superiority, without which some areas would have to be left either unprotected or minimally protected, I think this would allow the CP to start running the blockade again.... Maybe. I'm still mulling this over, but I feel like this makes sense. Or I'm just tired from days of grading and gone punch drunk, :)