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Post by hawkeye on Feb 13, 2020 23:38:22 GMT -6
1. I have read that accepting peace without claiming territory will grant you reparations, i.e. money. I have yet to see this happen. Whenever I accept a peace deal and leave some territorial points (what are those points actually called?) unsused, I don't see any money show up in my balance.
So my question is, where does that money show?
2. In my current game as Germany (small fleet, varied tech, 50% research, slow aircraft research), I have build a couple of CL for use as raiders. It's now 1914 and I have just finished a war with Russia with 7 CL raiding European waters and while Russia sinks 3 to 8 of my own freighters every month (with 6 CA and no CL remaining), I have yet so see a _single_ Russian ship being sunk by my raiders in over a year. So is there something off with raiding?
3. In addition (this is more like a bug report), the monthly raiding screen shows loads and loads of my merchants sunk, yet only a part of them is actually counted.
Anyone else seeing this?
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Post by aeson on Feb 14, 2020 1:06:19 GMT -6
1. I have read that accepting peace without claiming territory will grant you reparations, i.e. money. I have yet to see this happen. Whenever I accept a peace deal and leave some territorial points (what are those points actually called?) unsused, I don't see any money show up in my balance.
So my question is, where does that money show?
It shows up as an increase to your chosen power's base resources, which are listed in the Almanac and are the principle value controlling your budget. Since your budget gets cut at the end of a war, it's very difficult to see this unless you're keeping track of what your base resources are on a turn-to-turn basis.
Blockaded powers have little to no maritime commerce for raiders to prey upon, and Germany can usually blockade Russia.
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Post by dorn on Feb 14, 2020 1:11:57 GMT -6
1. I have read that accepting peace without claiming territory will grant you reparations, i.e. money. I have yet to see this happen. Whenever I accept a peace deal and leave some territorial points (what are those points actually called?) unsused, I don't see any money show up in my balance.
So my question is, where does that money show?
2. In my current game as Germany (small fleet, varied tech, 50% research, slow aircraft research), I have build a couple of CL for use as raiders. It's now 1914 and I have just finished a war with Russia with 7 CL raiding European waters and while Russia sinks 3 to 8 of my own freighters every month (with 6 CA and no CL remaining), I have yet so see a _single_ Russian ship being sunk by my raiders in over a year. So is there something off with raiding?
3. In addition (this is more like a bug report), the monthly raiding screen shows loads and loads of my merchants sunk, yet only a part of them is actually counted.
Anyone else seeing this?
Welcome here. 1. It adds funds to your national resources pool. It can be found in almanach in nations view. The naval budget is part of national resources and could vary as think about it as percentage of government budget. 2. Any ship in which has AF status (active fleet) can intercept raiders. Ships with seaplanes has higher chance as ships with longer range. However these ships are assigned to active fleet and their main purpose is not raider interception or protection of convoys. To do so, change status to TP (trade protection). Such ships provide convoy defence and hunt raiders in area of operation. Cruisers are best against raiders, especially ones with seaplane and longer range. 3. I think only submarines get VP from sinking merchants. However both raiders and submarines sink merchants which can effect supply of that nation and people can start to be discontent. |
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Post by aeson on Feb 14, 2020 1:19:55 GMT -6
3. I think only submarines get VP from sinking merchants. All raiders - both submarine and surface - get 5 VP per merchantman sunk. It's so little as to be pretty much irrelevant, but it's there. |
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Post by rodentnavy on Feb 14, 2020 5:47:40 GMT -6
3. In addition (this is more like a bug report), the monthly raiding screen shows loads and loads of my merchants sunk, yet only a part of them is actually counted.
Anyone else seeing this?
Others have already addressed your first two points so I will focus on 3. The short answer is yes. I have experienced multiple instances of AI raiders apparently sinking numerous ships and sometimes seeing double mentions in the commerce warfare screen only for only a select number of those raider kills to be confirmed in the normal monthly messages. This does appear to be a new bug for 1.17 |
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Post by hawkeye on Feb 14, 2020 7:16:16 GMT -6
Thanks everyone!
Just to make sure I understand the reparation thingy correctly. Does this mean it increases my base income, similar to investing boom-money into railways?
Russia not having a lot of merchants running around when I'm blockading them makes sense.
Again, thanks to everyone taking time to answer my questions.
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Post by JagdFlanker on Feb 14, 2020 8:11:11 GMT -6
2. In my current game as Germany (small fleet, varied tech, 50% research, slow aircraft research), I have build a couple of CL for use as raiders. It's now 1914 and I have just finished a war with Russia with 7 CL raiding European waters and while Russia sinks 3 to 8 of my own freighters every month (with 6 CA and no CL remaining), I have yet so see a _single_ Russian ship being sunk by my raiders in over a year. So is there something off with raiding?
just to clear this up fully, if you are blockading the enemy your raiders no longer work at all
so if you built AMCs to raid the enemy but you whittled the enemy fleet down to the point where you can blockade them then you might as well scrap the AMCs to save on upkeep, or else switch them to 'TP' to hunt down subs instead so they are not wasted on 'R'
btw, love the Federated Suns logo lol - i'v played a LOT of Battletech over the years
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Post by euchrejack on Feb 14, 2020 9:53:28 GMT -6
Well, the AMCs can be used to maintain the blockade also. But that might not be an issue if the enemy is successfully blockaded.
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Post by aeson on Feb 14, 2020 10:41:11 GMT -6
just to clear this up fully, if you are blockading the enemy your raiders no longer work at all Submarines to my recollection will still sink the occasional merchantman even when the enemy is blockaded, though significantly fewer of them than when the enemy is not blockaded; it's only the surface raiders who completely lose their prey. |
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Post by rodentnavy on Feb 14, 2020 10:56:36 GMT -6
just to clear this up fully, if you are blockading the enemy your raiders no longer work at all Submarines to my recollection will still sink the occasional merchantman even when the enemy is blockaded, though significantly fewer of them than when the enemy is not blockaded; it's only the surface raiders who completely lose their prey. Submarines on unrestricted can still be devastatingly effective even against a blockaded enemy |
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