Post by Antediluvian Monster on Mar 23, 2020 4:39:12 GMT -6
It seems like if you have even a dozen cheap raider cruisers active (2100-2500 tons, reliable engines for 21kn) even something as relatively formidable as early game UK can capitulate for 20 point peace in couple of years. And more generally raiders seem to bring such resolution to wars much faster than blockade, even if blockade tends to generate more VP. Is this perhaps because reduction of enemy's national morale and supply situation from raiders is capped higher than that from blockade? Or am I just imagining things or making conclusions from a flawed sample?
In my opinion a well enforced blockade should always be at least as effective as the most impactful turn of raiding activity on the basis that if a nation actually starts suffering more from raiding (due to economic losses from the loss of shipping) it can always self-impose blockade like conditions. That is, blockade is ultimately the worst case scenario.
On the other hand I wish that blockade would not be such an on-off thing and the blockading nation should want to put some of it ships out as raiders for anti blockade runner duty. This would still cause some limited sinkings of merchantmen and tighten the noose around the blockaded country.
Or should raiding intentionally be more effective than blockading for gameplay reasons, chiefly by making it easier for continental European powers to defeat Britain?
In my opinion a well enforced blockade should always be at least as effective as the most impactful turn of raiding activity on the basis that if a nation actually starts suffering more from raiding (due to economic losses from the loss of shipping) it can always self-impose blockade like conditions. That is, blockade is ultimately the worst case scenario.
On the other hand I wish that blockade would not be such an on-off thing and the blockading nation should want to put some of it ships out as raiders for anti blockade runner duty. This would still cause some limited sinkings of merchantmen and tighten the noose around the blockaded country.
Or should raiding intentionally be more effective than blockading for gameplay reasons, chiefly by making it easier for continental European powers to defeat Britain?
