Concert of Europe Part IV

[Spamage]

Hello everyone,

I've been toying with the idea for a while and recent contact from Ypestis inquiring about a fourth installment to the Concert of Europe series seems to have gotten the ball rolling on yet another edition of this game. I've always enjoyed hosting and think yet another edition could be fun.

It's still early on the in the process, certainly too early to be assigning nations or posting early prompts, but I did want to publicly gauge interest in another installment.

Before starting the game I am going to have to do some looking back on the lore and projecting forwards. I think the game will probably be set in the 1870s or 1880s, depending what works best from my writing. The military system will probably be changed from actual armies of thousands of men into divisions for simplicity's sake. Naval system will probably be similar to the last installment.

Anyways, if there is sufficient interest I would be happy to move forward. Just posting publicly so prior and potentially new players could join.

[Kuumo]

I would be willing to give this game a try.

[Dereich]

Your concert games have been tremendous from start to finish. I didn’t go through the last few only to back out now. I’m in!

[YPestis25]

I would absolutely be in of course!

[GoTfan]

I'm in.

[windjammer]

I would love to play France. Charlotte and Xavier are intriguing me!

[windjammer]

My take on the different countries situation:

France: it depends if Charlotte or Xavier wins the feud.
-If this is Charlotte: she will end up creating a big world war and we would all have to deal with the consequences of her actions.
-If this is Xavier: no war. But he will have to deal with a pro prussian faction when he ascends to the throne in Paris and the crown prince would want to become the king of Padania.
I expect Padania to remain relatively peaceful. Flanders however would be a mix between french nationalist settlers and catholic republicans...


Austria: busy with domestic policies, not concerned by foreign policies.

Prussia: I guess this will be basically a rightwing autoritarian monarchy revanchist!

Spain: will be weak with a ton of republicans but the monarchy will survive because France already crushed the uprising in Navarra.

Portugal: there will be civil war between the liberal monarchists backed by England and the catholic monarchs backed by Brazil.

Scandinavia: some austrian hungary scenario: most minorities don't want to rebel but they want more autonomy.

England: will be too busy dealing with their american colonial empire surrounded by foes that will cause them a ton of problems.

South America: there will be one of the three factions that will end up winning a very quick civil war and so this will become a centralized theocracy.

Russia: revanchist! But isolated in Europe.

Poland: will remain a weak country with different factions being backed by different countries. A bit like the deluge.

The Ottomans: Persia will be a great source of concern, their orthodox subjects as well.

Naples: the monarchy will be popular. But there will be rising demands for:
- reuniting all the peninsula
- democratization of the country, and perhaps a regionaliztion as well.

[Dereich]

For the reference of anyone not familiar with this series:

This is the world at the ending of the last game in around 1840.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

I would love to play France. Charlotte and Xavier are intriguing me!

I’m in as well although I actually sent a PM to Spamage reserving France  I thought it might be fun to mix up the usual dynamics since a lot of us have tended to keep picking the same country in past games (ex: Me - whatever backwater happens to be the center of revolutionary chaos, You - France, Lumine - Prussia, Dereich - Hapsburgs, etc). 

[windjammer]

I would love to play France. Charlotte and Xavier are intriguing me!

I’m in as well although I actually sent a PM to Spamage reserving France  I thought it might be fun to mix up the usual dynamics since a lot of us have tended to keep picking the same country in past games (ex: Me - whatever backwater happens to be the center of revolutionary chaos, You - France, Lumine - Prussia, Dereich - Hapsburgs, etc). 

With all due respect i wish to continue playing France. I have built this country for the last three seasons and I wish to continue it in the next season !

[Orwell]

Hopefully I can do better than the last game...

[YPestis25]

Hopefully I can do better than the last game...

Hey, my first game I had a three way civil war

[KaiserDave]

Interested in Russia

[GoTfan]

I'd want to take up my old pal Naples.

[Dereich]

I'm happy to play another round as the Hapsburgs or to go somewhere else; there are benefits to trying something new and to seeing that the Hapsburgs win Austria vs Prussia Round 607. Lets wait for Spamage to even decide on the state of the world before fighting over who will play what.

[DKrol]

I’m in.

[Spamage]

I'm very excited by the response so far. I will definitely be moving forward with this, it'll probably take about a week to get everything all together. I have an overall idea where everything will stand in my head, but getting it written down is another matter

While I work on that, and to address the dispute over who plays what, at the conclusion of the last game several players floated the idea of forcing everyone to try a different country in the next iteration in a sort of self-denying ordinance. I don't want to force a decision either way, but I am curious as to what the response from the player base is? While it could create new dynamics, I don't want to force it if it causes people to lose interest. Another potential is the lack of familiarity some people may have with the specifics of their start, but I digress. Regardless, I always have a few tricks up my sleeve to shake thing up

I've made notes of everyone's preferences, and in the event of dispute I'll be inclined to give it to the original party, but I urge all players to wait to see the starting summary for every nation before making final claims. I'll post a separate sign-up, rules, and discussion thread at that time.

[DKrol]

Based on how the last game ended, I would be good with taking over Louisiana again and ruling that monster I made, or I’d be just as fine to play as someone else. I’ve always found learning the new nation part of the fun of these games.

[Dereich]

As I said, there's lots of fun to be had in maintaining what I made and in trying something new. I defer to you as the GM to what you think is best.

[Kingpoleon]

I would be interested in the Ottomans.

[OBD]

Are there minor countries that a new player could take a look at? Don’t want to commit to a major power and struggle.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

I would love to play France. Charlotte and Xavier are intriguing me!

I’m in as well although I actually sent a PM to Spamage reserving France  I thought it might be fun to mix up the usual dynamics since a lot of us have tended to keep picking the same country in past games (ex: Me - whatever backwater happens to be the center of revolutionary chaos, You - France, Lumine - Prussia, Dereich - Hapsburgs, etc). 

With all due respect i wish to continue playing France. I have built this country for the last three seasons and I wish to continue it in the next season !

Yeah, but then no one else gets to take a stab at it.  We’ve settled into a routine and familiar patterns and I think things will be more fun if we mix things up a bit.  I’ve always wanted to take a stab at France, I’ve always wondered what a Scandanavia Windjammer or a Catholic Republican Dereich or a British Lumine might look like.  Don’t you want to see if you can build up another country the way you did France? 

[PSOL]

Sticking with Iran

[PSOL]

The Ottomans: Persia will be a great source of concern, their orthodox subjects as well.

Not this game, Iran is very much overstretched in its own boxed in space with no desire in following the path of heavy resistance. The war was always just payback for Egypt, nothing more or less. I do hope the new sultan can move past the past and work towards a more united and prosperous future

[Continential]

Are there minor countries that a new player could take a look at? Don’t want to commit to a major power and struggle.

This.