History of the World Provisional Rules

[FortressDoor]

Oh wow I am stupid. The double upkeep rule is not in here, replaced by supply depots. This changes things.

Things have changed, it's a lot different

Time to go to my drawing board

[FortressDoor]

Can railroads be made on colonies?

[Geonosis70]

Can railroads be made on colonies?

I'm pretty sure you can. I've done it tons of times!
It costs 4M and 2L for the first turn, then 1M and 1L every subsequent turn.
In a colony or a province. It doesn't matter.

[FortressDoor]

Can railroads be made on colonies?

I'm pretty sure you can. I've done it tons of times!
It costs 4M and 2L for the first turn, then 1M and 1L every subsequent turn.
In a colony or a province. It doesn't matter.

OK.Thanks. just wanted to make sure it was valid.

[Subotai45]

I recently heard a proposal to increase the number of light guns in a battery to 20.

I personally think that this is a realistic, reasonable, and beneficial, and reasonable change, but what to know what y'all think.

[Geonosis70]

That seems a lot better.
The artillery units would have the same relative power though, right?

[Subotai45]

Yeah. This is so the power they already have is more reasonable.

[Blackfish]

I was the one who initially discussed this with subs, and my point was that with light guns, say 3 men operate the gun itself and 6 men do related tasks such as ammo sorting, carrying and whatnot, that leaves 36 men in the battery, using 4 light guns. 4 light guns is just too little to have any meaningful impact on a battle, so I always thought the horrendous casualties inflicted by the light artillery were a tad unrealistic. 20 light guns in a battery does sound more reasonable.
Limiting the heavy artillery to 4 guns is fine, seeing as how each gun could ruin your day a thousand times over with little effort.
Light artillery would specialise in battles out in the open, on plains etc, due to the larger amount of smaller rounds, whereas heavy artillery would specialise in turning an entire city into rubble in seconds.

[GeneralShmuel]

But that's the whole point of light artillery. They're supposed to be so horrendous on an open battle from afar, however in a siege battle they can Fire heated shots so as to expel the units within buildings, they can also fire canister shot at closer range and deal devastating damage (if you know what canister shot is).
Furthermore, if you boost the damage of the light art then whats the point of having heavy artillery? There will be no point.

[Subotai45]

This isn't a proposal to increase the power of light artillery. It's purely for realism, the 20 guns will do the same amount of damage, but it will be more realistic when you realize it is 20 guns, not four, doing it.