Talk:World War I (Map Game)

Rules
1. A turn is a month.

2. The game will start on 1914 and end at 2010 or when everybody stop editing

3. Nothing ridiculous (i.e Serbia can't take over the whole Ottoman Empire)

4. At least one person must post before you

5. Post a map within the turn, or ask for someone to make it. If not, your post will be deleted

6. If an event is implausible, it will be erased or changed to be plausible.

7. This map game is CLOSED (Which means that you have to sign up and nobody can edit your nation)

8. PLEASE place the images on thumbnail. It looks too large on other ways.

Turn Lengths
Taking turns using months isn't going to be that great when we're at peace. Knowing how impatient we get on map games, I think we're gonna see people developing choppers or tanks in less than a year. Maybe only when there is a major war going on we could slow it down, but in peacetime, going at a year per turn sounds a bit better. BoredMatt 23:32, June 24, 2010 (UTC)

Starting Map
Here's a starting map I found that we might be able to use. Ownerzmcown 13:56, June 24, 2010 (UTC)



Ah, thank you, Fedelede 21:56, June 24, 2010 (UTC)

What about this map.Baconton 17:54, June 25, 2010 (UTC)

It's great, but isn't it a bit wrong? Fedelede 17:58, June 25, 2010 (UTC)

Wrong how? BoredMatt 23:14, June 25, 2010 (UTC)

Umm... China is divided into Britain, a nation on Beijing and Russia, Britain owns Tibet and Oman, Austria owns Italy, Russia owns Mongolia, between a few others.

Good point on china, but I think this is just showing the spheres of influence. I checked the Wikipedia article, and it seems right.

Britian DID own Oman (then called Aden), while Tibet was their protectorate. Same with Russia and mongolia.

And if you expand the map, Italy and AH are different colors. BoredMatt 23:40, June 25, 2010 (UTC)

Britain did NOT own Oman. Aden was SOUTH YEMEN. And why does Britain have the Yellow River, Russia northern Uyguristan and Manchuria, and why is there independent nation on Beijing?



Enough People?
I think it is enough people. What do you think? Fedelede 17:48, June 25, 2010 (UTC)

I think it is.99.228.227.139 22:33, June 25, 2010 (UTC)Batmanary

Seems about right. BoredMatt 23:15, June 25, 2010 (UTC)

Shouldnt Greece be colored in on the map? BlackSkyEmpire 00:05, June 26, 2010 (UTC)BlackSkyEmpire

lets start

I agree, lets get started already Ownerzmcown 0:16, June 26, 2010

We correct a small parts of the map and we start, k? Fedelede 00:17, June 26, 2010 (UTC)

I thought for a minute that the map colored in was the one we where using for a second, my bad. BlackSkyEmpire 00:32, June 26, 2010 (UTC)BlackSkyEmpire

Franz
If Franz wasn't killed, this will surely be a boring Map Game. I mean, no WWI, leading to no WW2, leading to no Cold War, leading to no Muslim instability, leading to no loss of colonial empire, leading to no Muslim extremist groups, leading to no War on Terror... I will change the post to say that Franz was killed if nobody tells me about their plans to spark a world war. Fedelede 02:32, June 26, 2010 (UTC)

Remember Franz wasnt the only thing...in fact you could have Italy declare war on France to grab Africa and Savoy etc etc, plus I still want Austria to annex Serbia.Batmanary 02:37, June 26, 2010 (UTC)

Switzerland is now part of Austria.Batmanary 02:57, June 26, 2010 (UTC)

U.S Embargoes
Two things about the U.S embargoes:

1) the U.S.A is not a world power YET. Sure, it is the greatest power on America, but it became a World Power after WW1.

2)

''Shipments of grain and oil stop to both Greece and the Ottomans, and the US threatens to close the Panama Canal to any Greek or Turkish ships passing through if both nations don't allow Bulgaria it's independence. As the Turks have very little exploitable oil reserves, and far less arable land, many protests arise, and all their ships not directly involved with the invasion are forced to return to port. Greece, with very little arable land of it's own, thinks about backing down.''

Wrong. The Turks own half of Saudi Arabia and most of Mesopotamia, which are respectively rich on oil and easily arable. Fedelede 18:27, June 26, 2010 (UTC)

And remember, we Turks are giving the Greeks any oil we don't use.Eastward Expansion 18:31, June 26, 2010 (UTC)

WRONG!! (Damn, I'm starting to sound like Caltharina :The thing is, nobody even knew there was oil in Arabia until the 30's, and the drilling equipment that was needed to exploit it was only made in the 50's. And on the Mesopotamia thing, it has very little actual arable land. While Mesopotamia proper is very fertile, the floods ensure that the land itself cannot support large-scale agriculture. Mesopotamia relied on the floods to support a relatively small population, but the land simply cannot support intensive agriculture due to the need to constantly repair roads, silos, trains, etc. from the floods. And the US isn't a world power, it's just that you can't expand beyond your means, and it just so happens that the US controls those means; namely food and oil. BoredMatt 19:00, June 26, 2010 (UTC)

Wow. You really are sounding like Caltharina. First of all the reason nobody knew there was oil their was because of the Ottoman Empire's lack of industrialization. Now can you take a turn and let's move on...

Eastward Expansion 19:01, June 26, 2010 (UTC)

If we must. BoredMatt 19:03, June 26, 2010 (UTC)

Invading Serbia
If you read the last turn, Greece and Serbia were the founding members of the Balkans Pact. Why would Greece and Turkey invade them. Even more to the point, why are Greece and Turkey allied? BoredMatt 19:14, June 26, 2010 (UTC)

Ok so I changed that. Eastward Expansion 19:31, June 26, 2010 (UTC)

World War One is finally here!
Yay!Eastward Expansion 19:31, June 26, 2010 (UTC)

Don't start actually fighting until most of the players are online, otherwise somde nations are going to get fucked. BoredMatt 19:34, June 26, 2010 (UTC)

The austria espionage bit is me so don't delete it. Batmanary

Americans in Africa
No way would the small armies of latin America be able to overpower the second largest military in the world! German colonies were not "unprotected" either. And the fact that the Latin American nations are so willing to fight Britain and America's war is unnerving to say the least. Eastward Expansion 23:01, June 26, 2010 (UTC)

It's also unnerving that the Ottomans can develop the technology to find and exploit deep oil aquifers in only two years, and the austrians can produce a tank that is apparently as fast and reliable as a OTL WWII tank. But yea, on the Latins invading Africa, that is a bit unrealistic. I'll roll that back. Their navies just weren't that developed. However, you do have to realize that in OTL, South African troops overwelmed Namibia and Tanzania within the first year of the war. Germany had hardly 8,000 troops in their entire African colonies. Most of their troops would be in Europe. BoredMatt 23:14, June 26, 2010 (UTC)

Peace?
Now we just have to wait for Mumby and Baconton. BoredMatt 01:37, June 27, 2010 (UTC)