yammahoper
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The ability to manip VP supposedly represents GB massive influence around the globe, creating bad press and making other countries think poorly of them in general. As for the ability of anyone to convince major powers they should declare war on GB for doing so, I almost laugh. Surely it is a matter of individual players and what the angered nation has to offer, not some morale failing of GB. It is indeed a game. I have always played to win and in general do not find the VP reduction stategy one I am good at employing, since I am instead always manuevering to stay in the dominant zone and score 10+ VP a turn myself, which is surely a more secure way to win than lowering my own score. I have a hard time imagining any player of GB mastering instead keeping everyones VP total low so he can win (and I have never seen GB win this way, though admittedly, I have also never seen GB win unless I was playing her). GB needs to keep the pressure on Fr. Certainly, after Au and Pr take a wooping from the Fr, I cannot see those players being angry over GB reducing Fr VP points. It is a matter of politics. If hlj has indeed seen GB players reducing VP pell mell then I have no problem believing his ability to draft others in a crusade against GB. Outside that, any half decent GB player should be able to avoid wars with Ru, Au and Pr unless he WANTS to fight them (Ru is the only one of these nations with a navy and the small GB army is not much of a threat to conquer her either). So, while reducing points can be a good tactic, it is a good situational and occassional tactic. In my own experience, when I as GB created the coilition against a dominant Ru, I used the VP reduction to insure that Ru would not gain to many VP during the war and to appease my allies, who did not want to see Ru jump even more in points. So, as far as I can see, either hlj's GB player is not to ploitic in a game that requires it, or hlj IS the dominant political player in the games he plays in, sort of like our old days with Scott Wall, a man who would convince you to do something that later would have you going "Now WHY did I agree to THAT?!" BTW, he was the one who made Ru dominant. yamma
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