The Tea Wars (or the American War of Independence: loki100 vs vigabrand)
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 12:43 pm
It seems like an age seems I played a WiA PBEM. But returning to WiA feels like slipping in a very comfy jacket, such an elegant game design and full of scenarios that provide fascinating tussles.
This is going to be the long (potentially) American Revolution scenario starting in 1775. Vigabrand, my opponent, has taken the tax evading Americans and I have the evil imperialist English (with additional Scots, Irish, Welsh and a horde of Germans) [1]. We've played a few PBEMs against each other (incl RoP and CW2 and have a current WiTE PBEM – which you can read about here if you want).
I've played this scenario once, a while back vs Narwhal. Not only did I receive my traditional beating at his hands, but I also managed to skillfully starve the British army to death. So plan (a) is not to do what I did in that game. Plan (b) is to have a good look at the map before starting.
Now it is of course completely traditional to offer a dramatic voice over as the introduction to an epic film. So here goes:
"A clash of cultures. On one side they believe that tea should be made with a mix of boiling water and milk, drowned in sugar and turned a strange orange colour. On the other, tea is made with room temperature water and the tea bag carefully placed in the same room as the cup for no more than 15 seconds. Who ever wins ... humanity loses (or needs to do the sensible thing and start drinking coffee)".
[1] As is traditional in a WiA AAR, there may be a few slurs, inventions, stereotypes and insults.
This is going to be the long (potentially) American Revolution scenario starting in 1775. Vigabrand, my opponent, has taken the tax evading Americans and I have the evil imperialist English (with additional Scots, Irish, Welsh and a horde of Germans) [1]. We've played a few PBEMs against each other (incl RoP and CW2 and have a current WiTE PBEM – which you can read about here if you want).
I've played this scenario once, a while back vs Narwhal. Not only did I receive my traditional beating at his hands, but I also managed to skillfully starve the British army to death. So plan (a) is not to do what I did in that game. Plan (b) is to have a good look at the map before starting.
Now it is of course completely traditional to offer a dramatic voice over as the introduction to an epic film. So here goes:
"A clash of cultures. On one side they believe that tea should be made with a mix of boiling water and milk, drowned in sugar and turned a strange orange colour. On the other, tea is made with room temperature water and the tea bag carefully placed in the same room as the cup for no more than 15 seconds. Who ever wins ... humanity loses (or needs to do the sensible thing and start drinking coffee)".
[1] As is traditional in a WiA AAR, there may be a few slurs, inventions, stereotypes and insults.