Re: [eia] unforseen political wackiness

[Michael Gorman <mpgorman@xxxxxxxx>]

At 04:32 AM 3/5/2007, you wrote:
>I just realized that Mike and I have done things in the economic and DOW 
>phases that will have weird consequences in the political phase.
>
>Russia ceded Hesse to Prussia, although Prussia is in the Instability Zone 
>and will lose Hesse in the April political phase.  This was not what I 
>intended.
>
>France declared war on Kleves for the new month, and unless Mike has 
>something lined up that we don't know about (an alliance with Spain is 
>only thing I can think of), this DOW will put France back into the 
>Instability Zone and cause Flanders to go neutral in the political 
>phase.  I doubt this was what Mike intended.
>
>What I propose is this:  since Mark and I had already agreed to the ceding 
>of Hesse before the March political phase (when we allied), what if we say 
>that Russia had declared Hesse to be a free state in March ?  This will 
>allow Prussia to retain possession of Hesse in April (assuming he kept it 
>a free state when ceded).  On the downside, Russia would not have gotten 
>Hesse's money/manpower for the March econ phase.
>
>On the French side, we let Mike reconsider his DOW against Kleves, which 
>allows Mike to keep Flanders, but doesn't allow him to attack Kleves yet.
>
>What do you guys think ?  Is this too much meddling ?
>
>-JJY

My declaration of war on Kleves stands.

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