oaktown wrote:
The suggestion to put a Japanese flag on Korea and China isn't working for me. The side effect of this would be to make Japan a world power, able to take naval Superiority (unreaslistic in 1910) and bombard lands throughout the hemisphere. I'm not sure now much influence Japan had on the politics of West Africa, but I'm guessing it was very little.
Adding a british flag to part of China to represent Hong Kong was toyed with months ago and rejected.
Splitting New Guinea into two territories - a German and Portuguese colony - was also discussed ages ago and rejected because that part of the map is already too busy. Another territory would be hard to squeeze in, especially on the small map. BUT... what about this idea?? What if we left it a single territory, but put BOTH flags on it? It would make New Guinea very valuable as it would then be a part of three different bonuses, and it would add another defense point for the Oceania player, perhaps making it more worthy of the +4 bonus.
Talk to me.
**ahum: Russo-Japanese War (1904-05), Japanese fleet bombarding the russian fleet to smithereens in Port Arthur ?
And indeed in this crushing the chinese boxersrising japan and russia supplied the most troops !
Japan by then was already a very considerable power... It was only not appreciated that way by the arrogant aging world powers....
But that is no reason not to look upon the japanese as it should in this map (you already marked them with an "Japanese EMpire" ...then give them more credit).
But the motive is primarily the game concept of allowing bombardment of korea by another naval game superpower.. so to stem that bonus.
THAT is the reason of a japanese colony marker in korea.
(and the same goes for the China area, Manchuria).
What you twisted is the suggestion to allow the holder of Japan to access the NS marker..and that I agree should not be the case ..(as Japan had no aspirations to sail to Africa or Europe..).
** HongKong suggestion: But from those messages there was no proper reason given not to do it.
Only reasons were "HongKong Island drawing on this map is too small...thus not practical to put a colony marker on.
But that is not the problem.. keep shanghai, keep that name..but mark that with the british colony marker.
Or call it "Shanghai-HK".
*** 2 flags on one territory ? Didn't know that was possible. Yeah , of course that is good.
**** previous suggestion OK:
Japan +Kurillen, +1 bonus, link with Philippines, link Somalia to Arabia (Jemen straights is narrow),
previous suggestion not ok
link Sumatra with Burma (realistically too far..then better have Borneo linked to Vietnam), changes to NS (keep it 4..it is pretty balanced).
Everybody should know that you can hit and use the NS to bombard Asian empires in the making ANYTIME when you have one european colonizer...you don't have to "wait" until you control all of europe.
In fact I did it often and I see others did so too that when you notice (fog war) that in the east or in africa someone is gaining bonusses then you must hit that player first before finishing off the european field.
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What about rhodesia..please remove that colony marker... for gameplay sake..Like Congo it provides a safehaven for troops to reposses the coastal colonies once they are obliterated.
And indeed no navy ship has reached rhodesia (center) to do any harm...(that's why mobutu feels very secure.. ;S )