Another view of the Scrabble for Africa:

With the modded trade routes, it is quite difficult to get any money to flow as far north as the North Sea where I can dip my beak in it; one crucial node in the flow, however, is the Ivory Coast, where it can either go straight to Europe and never be seen in Scandinavia, or be diverted east to the Caribbean from whence there is at least a chance of getting it up to Norway. Casting my eyes down to Africa before the session, I noticed that all the good provinces were coloured a bilious green, and moreover, the rest of the North Sea Confederation was also locked out of the naval bases they’d need to get around Africa. It was no feat, then, to convince them of the need for war. With our colonial-war rule, it would be a naval war, for which we had a clear superiority. We did briefly discuss the possibility of a regular war, fought in Europe as well as the colonies, in order to seize Malta or another Mediterranean naval base; but such a war would no doubt have brought in Blayne, and been decided on the Rhine – which would have been a tossup instead of a walkover. Tazzzo fought one pro-forma naval battle, a hopeless struggle against the modern ships of the Troll Navy in its Atlantic home waters, then asked for terms. We settled on five provinces, four to me (including two crucial trade provinces) and the Cape Verdes islands to Mike:

Africa in 1551; Yngling trade power in the Ivory Coast is well established. Note the Arrakene presence in South Africa and the Iberian outpost in Madagascar. The spheres of influence on the west coast are now settled by treaty, at least so far as the major naval powers are concerned.

While this excitement was happening, there were some other player wars:



Scrabble for Africa

Colonial, reduced win number.

King of Men : 1408.13 -> 1425.4 "Why should Tazzzo have all the good colonies?"

Mike : 1709.29 -> 1730.26

Dragoon : 1730.25 -> 1751.48

Tazzzo : 1517.84 -> 1495.8 "Next time you want land maybe ask first."

Scuffle for Brazil

Tiny colonial conflict, reduced win number.

Tazzzo : 1495.8 -> 1509.65

Sauron : 1334.09 -> 1318.63

Accidental Conquest of Merta

BCM : 1360.62 -> 1444.4 "Wait, so actually the Threaten War button might lead to war?"

Khan : 1701.41 -> 1806.18

Ragatokk : 1500 -> 1592.37

Clonefusion : 1908.51 -> 1801.77

Iron Eagle : 1241.9 -> 1172.44

Gallic Vengeance

Limited war for return of cores.

Blayne : 1293.78 -> 1453.32

James : 1622.9 -> 1467.57

War on the Rhine

Dragoon : 1751.48 -> 1765.26

Mike : 1730.26 -> 1733.67 (25%)

Blayne : 1453.32 -> 1440.28

