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ORIGINAL: Trax

From the 1.02 addenda
Section: 6.4.3 Political Restrictions On Peace
Subsection: Restrictions On Territorial Losses
No major power may ever have its home nation reduced by more than a total of three provinces.
Following from this:

Is it true that a nation can never lose more than three provinces ever? ie. once Russia loses 3 provinces to France in 1808, then France (or any other MP for that matter) can not ever take an additonal province away from Russia?

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ORIGINAL: ndrose

The rules for which provinces you can select in EIANW seem to be as follows: You can select any province or minor that borders on your home nation or conquered minor or ceded province (but not free state). You can select any province or minor in which you have forces (any counter, any garrison, any blockading fleet--fleets in adjacent sea zone may also work, but I'm not sure of that). You can't select the capital province (for Russia, this is held to be Moscow; you can select Karelia if you meet one of the other conditions).

The only thing that seems a bit unpredictable is free states. Sometimes you can select them without meeting any of the conditions, so far as I can see. But then sometimes you can't. For instance, in a recent game I was playing Russia, at war with Turkey, which held Portugal as a free state. It was available to select, though I had nothing anywhere near it. But then it dropped off the list. I *think* the difference was that another power at war with Turkey blockaded Lisbon; maybe that reserves it for them or something.

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ORIGINAL: Marshall Ellis

Actually in EiANW you can lose all but your home nation capital province.

Neverman:

The randomness you're seeing probably (guess here) stems from dynamic status of the province ??? (i.e. it is /is not eligible to be ceded).

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ORIGINAL: Marshall Ellis

For example: If Baden is eligible when you select it BUT at the time of surrender, she is not (Perhaps due to the loss of another minor, etc) then you would see her NOT be ceded. I have seen this happen before if you do not refresh your surrender conditions before an anticipated surrender.

Again, this is a guess.

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ORIGINAL: NeverMan

Right now, I'm Austria and I can't select Pommerania or S. Pomm., is that because I don't have land bordering these provinces? Is that a rule?

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ORIGINAL: NeverMan

I am still confused. Why is this good again? You have "check boxes" for a reason right? Why not let the user check whatever boxes he wants (boxes would be available for whatever the country has at the time checked) and then check to see if it is available when the surrender goes down. If it is not, then move on down the list, 1 by 1. This makes more sense to me. That way the user only has to "update" his surrender conditions if his opponent obtains some territory that he likes; otherwise, all is golden.

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ORIGINAL: KenClark

Neverman, what Marshall said about "dynamic" means this:
1. The rule says that for home provinces (not minor countries) you can only take them as surrender conditions if:
(a) you have a common border with that particular province or (b) you have a corps in that province.
2. So at some points in time you will have permission to take a certain province and other times you will not, depending on where your corps are (this is the "dynamic" aspect Marshall was talking about.

Hope that helps.