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06 Maestro -> RE: Janissaries Forward! (8/13/2010 2:36:12 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Mus
Looking at your OOB you must be bursting with horses after all this time. Is it only lack of money preventing you having more cavalry units?
I do have a good surplus of horses now. I did have the money (and will again soon- hopefully) to build cavalry divisions. The real reason I did not was the high cost and its affect on unit inflation costs. I had some hope of getting UCI reduced to zero. After four years of peace it dropped to 8% from a high of about 26%. Its already back up to 16%-without even building one cav unit. I have 3 good cavalry divisions now and 4 lousy ones. I will be building some in the future. As of now I'm not sure if the irregular cav count towards the mob limit. The only way my unit count makes sense regarding the limit is if I discount the irregular (starting ones) from the total. If I could go back 10 years I would dump a few of those almost useless units and build some real cavalry. I did build one heavy cavalry division-they surrendered in battle...and those suckers were expensive.
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Can you speculate as to the cause of Russian reticence? Anthropoid was a very inactive player in all the games I was in with him... is he playing Russia in a very sleepy manner in this game as well? Russia having few glory targets it starts the game in control of basically has to make war on it's neighbors to place decently at all for it's size. Once it has it's waste under control (5-8 years tops with decent management) it should also have the money and other resources to start building a very scary (~500k, not including cossacks, of 4+ morale infantry and decent cavalry and ample artillery contingents to go along with that) army to use on it's neighbors. Maybe Russia is thinking about attacking you at some point instead?
It seems that Czar Poid was distracted by some illusions of fighting alien beings on some "big screen" in the Kremlin. It seems that he is well again. In view of the financial mess that Russia fell into recently I think those illusions were causing some serious lack of focus regarding his position in this contest. In another game (1st 4X) I played as Russia (1803 scenario). I found Russia can be a powerhouse-and eliminated waste even with that late start. It does seem to be short on banks-or a good balance between it mob limits and income. I was kept financially afloat in that game by some rather large grants from Great Britain.
He is interested in joining the current war with France and Turkey against the unholy alliance of Prussia, Spain, Austria and partial involvement of Great Britain. His financial mess has dampened his enthusiasm in joining right away.
As Russia is really behind in Glory and Turkey has multiple VP provinces, I would not be too surprised if he were to take a stab at me sometime in the future. However, Austria and Prussia are sitting on many more points that Russia could acquire-and without my help he will never get those. Hopefully, Czar Poid and I have communicated enough to where he will trust me a bit more than he had in the past.
France and Turkey are about to embark on a great campiagn frought with risks. If it does not work out (France gets stabbed in the back again) folks will wonder just what in the hell we were thinking. But hey, "no balls, no glory",[;)] If the Czar was to join us it would reduce the chances of failure greatly-and it would have great potential benefits for Russia. We shall soon see what the Czar decides.
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