Furchtlosundtrew Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Hi there, just a short question this time. Is there any reason for the full war entry of greece in the Call to arms campaign in 1915? In Reality there was only the occupation of Saloniki (and maybe some parts of northern greece) by the Entente and Venizelos. A full war entry happened just in 1917. You can read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece_during_World_War_I Why not make the occupation-event (there is some occupation of an greece island by british forces in 1915 as an event) to an "Entente-Forces seize Salomiki" event? Furchtlosundtrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill101 Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Hi My thinking behind it is that while we could have the Entente occupy just Salonika and the immediate area around it, things could get a bit messy if the Central Powers advance on them, i.e. which tiles do we have as active, and which as inactive? So instead we adopted a different approach whereby Entente forces can enter Greece, but the Greek armed forces are largely neutral until after the Venizelos Coup, from which point Greek forces will (if the coup succeeds) play more of a role in the war. I felt that this was easier than to have part of mainland Greece come under British or French occupation, simply because if one part is under occupation, it wouldn't be possible to extend the occupation even by one tile without either declaring war on Greece as a whole, or having a whole series of Decision Events. So in plain English, I opted for a simpler solution! Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furchtlosundtrew Posted March 6, 2014 Author Share Posted March 6, 2014 Hi Bill, thank you, I understand. I didn't know, that there is another event that gives greece more troops (that his how i interpret the venizelos coup without exactly knowing it). Against the AI the greece surreender follows normally shortly after the war entry I think you choosed indeed a good solution to avoid the necessity of a chain of events Furchtlosundtrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lettowvorbeck Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 The way Greece is handled really shows Bill's skill as a scenario designer. Designers must work within the developer's system (a truth many customers cavalierly dismiss) and this compromise solution was a nice way to construct a historically reasonable work around to a code constraint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xwormwood Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Yeah, Bill is most definetly the best! I cant await what might be coming next from him. And that is no lie at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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