Conquer Club

mibi wrote:

WidowMakers wrote:I just noticed a major problem. Once a player is removed from one of teh countries, they have no way to actually attack back. They can bombard with teh spy or missile but not actually reclaim and territories. And since the missile can only bombard cities and the spy can only bombard presidents, scientists and target acquisitions, a player can just sit back in the bunkers and uranium and the game will never end.

To solve this I think teh spices should be able to attack, not bombard. That way there is a link back and fort between the USA and USSR.

Thoughts

WM

The missile launch can attack every territory, problem solved. Making the spies able to attack opens up a whole new can of worms, people invading via the pies and leaving the missile rather useless.

If the missile can attack any of the other territories then there is only one issue left, after you have defeated your opponent from your own land, you wont be able to get any more cards, since its bombard only from there on out, and you dont get cards for bombardment. But this is not really a central issue anyways.

mibi wrote:
The missile launch can attack every territory, problem solved. Making the spies able to attack opens up a whole new can of worms, people invading via the pies and leaving the missile rather useless.

If the missile can attack any of the other territories then there is only one issue left, after you have defeated your opponent from your own land, you wont be able to get any more cards, since its bombard only from there on out, and you dont get cards for bombardment. But this is not really a central issue anyways.

rebelman wrote:

mibi wrote:
The missile launch can attack every territory, problem solved. Making the spies able to attack opens up a whole new can of worms, people invading via the pies and leaving the missile rather useless.

If the missile can attack any of the other territories then there is only one issue left, after you have defeated your opponent from your own land, you wont be able to get any more cards, since its bombard only from there on out, and you dont get cards for bombardment. But this is not really a central issue anyways.

if the above part highlighted in bold happens, this game could really suit cooks

WidowMakers wrote:I just noticed a major problem. Once a player is removed from one of teh countries, they have no way to actually attack back. They can bombard with teh spy or missile but not actually reclaim and territories. And since the missile can only bombard cities and the spy can only bombard presidents, scientists and target acquisitions, a player can just sit back in the bunkers and uranium and the game will never end.

To solve this I think teh spices should be able to attack, not bombard. That way there is a link back and fort between the USA and USSR.

Thoughts

WM

mibi wrote:

WidowMakers wrote:I just noticed a major problem. Once a player is removed from one of teh countries, they have no way to actually attack back. They can bombard with teh spy or missile but not actually reclaim and territories. And since the missile can only bombard cities and the spy can only bombard presidents, scientists and target acquisitions, a player can just sit back in the bunkers and uranium and the game will never end.

To solve this I think teh spices should be able to attack, not bombard. That way there is a link back and fort between the USA and USSR.

Thoughts

WM

he started it.

jasnostj wrote:That map is the Russian Federation, not USSR. And what about Alaska?

WidowMakers wrote:

yeti_c wrote:

Incandenza wrote:Please continue with this map. I've been hoping for a proper nuclear war map for some time now.

I'm loving this idea too...

Again - I said this in Oaktowns map...

Should be called "Global Thermonuclear War".

C.

Actually since it is partly mibis map it would be called

Global Thermonuclear War!

mibi wrote:1v1:

each player starts with 9 territories randomly on the two countries.

WidowMakers wrote:

yeti_c wrote:XML does - but what about the game engine...

There's only one set of dropdowns...

C.

I agree but when you attack the game knows you advance troops and when you bombard the game knows you kill the troops and a neutral replaces them. I am pretty sure.

WM

yeti_c wrote:

WidowMakers wrote:

yeti_c wrote:XML does - but what about the game engine...

There's only one set of dropdowns...

C.

I agree but when you attack the game knows you advance troops and when you bombard the game knows you kill the troops and a neutral replaces them. I am pretty sure.

WM

My point is this - you can't have attack and bombard from the same place to the same place...

As you won't be able to work out which is which...

Obviously you can have attacking and bombarding of different places...

Anyways - why are we talking about attacking and bombarding the same place? I don't think that's even on the map!!

C>

MrBenn wrote:How about having named American/Russian Nuclear Physicists as the scientists?

For America you could have Albert Einstein / J Robert Oppenheimer
For Russia you could have Dmitry Mendeleyev / Yakov Frenkel

Just an idea..???

yeti_c wrote:

MrBenn wrote:How about having named American/Russian Nuclear Physicists as the scientists?

For America you could have Albert Einstein / J Robert Oppenheimer
For Russia you could have Dmitry Mendeleyev / Yakov Frenkel

Just an idea..???

Glenn Seaborg might be better for USA...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project

C.

MrBenn wrote:

yeti_c wrote:

MrBenn wrote:How about having named American/Russian Nuclear Physicists as the scientists?

For America you could have Albert Einstein / J Robert Oppenheimer
For Russia you could have Dmitry Mendeleyev / Yakov Frenkel

Just an idea..???

Glenn Seaborg might be better for USA...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project

C.

I thought of Einstein first, and then spent about 5 mins googling for the others, so have no emotional attachment... ... I just had the idea

WidowMakers wrote:

Keredrex wrote:Awesome idea... You may want to put Some Flag like symbols on the ICBM's to distinguish...Myabe blue for us red for Ussr otherwise looks really cool

I am actually making teh missile look like teh Titan 2 (USA) and teh SS-18 (USSR) the will me profiles of teh actual missile with some of the decorations.

And I am going to try and make the map look like 1960-70 radar screens. But we shall see.

I don't know if color is more important that theme (with radar all text, cities and map will be bright green with a dark green monitor (US and bright amber with dull brown monitor (USSR).

So what would you rather see before I start?:

1) Cleanup version of this style of map
2) Same layout as above but mono color radar screens that fit the technology of the period

WM

Herakilla wrote:have you considered flipping the US so it makes sense geographically even if canada isnt there?

mibi wrote:I don't want to get too historical on this one.

MrBenn wrote:

mibi wrote:I don't want to get too historical on this one.

If you wanted to amke it a mega arms race, you could chuck Germany into the mix... after all Einstein fled Germany as he didn't want them to make the a-bomb!

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And you could make it that you had to get to Germany and capture Einstein - and you can't launch a bomb without him... he could be attacked by any other scientist in the world, but could not make any attacks himself.... [goes off on a tangent, never to return...]

Ogrecrusher wrote:Assuming there's one player on each half, how do you conquer the bunkers if the missle cannot bombard them?

WidowMakers wrote:

Ogrecrusher wrote:Assuming there's one player on each half, how do you conquer the bunkers if the missle cannot bombard them?

I thought about that earlier to day but forgot to post about it. Good catch. One idea is to let spies attack spies.

Plus another thing I forgot was to indicate that a player can only attack up the missile, NOT DOWN.

WM