Blockade Mechanics

[tortugapower]

I wanted to refresh my memory on the blockade mechanics.

1.  In order to blockade someone, or to be blockaded, my understanding is there should be a 10% (or greater) strategic point difference between the two nations at war. Is that correct?

2. What is the effect of "BlockadeModifier" in the nation descriptions file (e.g. data/BNat1900.dat)?

    a) Increases/decreases severity of blockade, once blockaded.

    b) Increases/decreases the superiority needed to blockade (i.e. modifies the 10% value).

    c) all of the above

    d) None; something else

Cheers!

(One last addition:

3. Is there any way to mod this gameplay mechanic? It's be a sore point for me for some time.)

[dorn]

I think "blockad modifier" is 1/10 of %. How much their points from ships are modified for blockade points.

1900 start:
Germany - 9
UK - 12
French - 10
Russia - 8
Japan - 11
A-H - 9

[tortugapower]

Mar 8, 2020 11:09:37 GMT -6 dorn said:

I think "blockad modifier" is 1/10 of %. How much their points from ships are modified for blockade points.

You'll have to give an example. I read that as the modifier is 0.1*Modifier %, which is too low to have any impact, so probably not what you meant

[dorn]

Mar 8, 2020 12:24:16 GMT -6 tortugapower said:

Mar 8, 2020 11:09:37 GMT -6 dorn said:

I think "blockad modifier" is 1/10 of %. How much their points from ships are modified for blockade points.

You'll have to give an example. I read that as the modifier is 0.1*Modifier %, which is too low to have any impact, so probably not what you meant

9 ... 90 %, 12 ... 120 %

[captainloggy]

Also, is this modifier only applied to and from the home region of the country? I guess the modifier should represent geography (eg. Russia being bottled up in the Baltic), so this 8 modifier should only be applied in Northern Europe (if for example the Russians acquire a base on the NA East Coast, their modifier shouldn't be applied if they try to blôckade the US)

[rodentnavy]

Mar 8, 2020 13:55:36 GMT -6 captainloggy said:

Also, is this modifier only applied to and from the home region of the country? I guess the modifier should represent geography (eg. Russia being bottled up in the Baltic), so this 8 modifier should only be applied in Northern Europe (if for example the Russians acquire a base on the NA East Coast, their modifier shouldn't be applied if they try to blôckade the US)

I am pretty sure from Anglo-American wars that the modifier is global.  Several times I have been able to impose blockade with marginally inferior fleets in the North America East region and though I have played less as the USA on occasion have been blockaded by the perfidious limeys though the AI tends to have the attention span that would shame a gold fish and fails to maintain it, constantly moving back and forth to the Caribbean.