Has anyone seen a world war in RtW?

[jwsmith26]

I'm curious, has anyone seen a world war occur in RtW?

I guess I'd classify a situation as a world war in RtW if there were at least two combatants on one side and at least two combatants on the other side. I know that's pretty arbitrary and a it's a low bar to be considered a world war but I've never had that occur and I'm curious if anyone else has seen such a situation occur in the game.

Personally, I've had situations where I've had two allies at one time, with all three nations involved in a war with a single enemy nation. Both of my allies were fighting occasional battles with the enemy and all sides sustained ship losses regularly in that war. If I recall correctly I was playing France, my allies were Great Britain and Japan and we were at war with Germany.

I've also experienced a war in which I fought two enemies at once (I was Germany fighting both Russia and France), but I've never seen a war that involved multiple nations on both sides.

Has anyone seen such a "world war"?

[srndacful]

So far, I have only seen two (and both when I played weaker states, btw)

First one was Austria & her Germanbro vs. Italy & Russia + France & Britain a bit later.

USA was about to join, too - but I f***ed them over and collapsed before they managed to (Serves them right, too - Take that USA!).

The second one was Turkey + France & Russia (god, I love the diversity this game offers) vs. Britain, Italy, Austria & Germany.

Those two-on-two affairs you speak of occur every other game for me ... so, I had several dozens of 'em so far ... who can remember them all?

Cheers!

[oldpop2000]

Jun 1, 2016 20:34:55 GMT -6 srndacful said:

So far, I have only seen two (and both when I played weaker states, btw)

First one was Austria & her Germanbro vs. Italy & Russia + France & Britain a bit later.

USA was about to join, too - but I f***ed them over and collapsed before they managed to (Serves them right, too - Take that USA!).

The second one was Turkey + France & Russia (god, I love the diversity this game offers) vs. Britain, Italy, Austria & Germany.

Those two-on-two affairs you speak of occur every other game for me ... so, I had several dozens of 'em so far ... who can remember them all?

Cheers!

Personally, I believe that RTW has the correct balance in opponents for wars. World Wars are actually rare in history, except for the first half of the 20th century, so I think the balance is correct. For me, three opponents is enough to handle. Ich!!

[gornik]

I caused one as CSA Established alliance with GB and attacked USA as soon as possible. But my stupid submarine captain attacked a neutral liner, so France declared war to us... That's why I got not only Maine but also Antilles, when we won

[ranger9000]

I had one game as the CSA that broke out into a full world war. Mostly because I spent much of the game allying people. Ended up with CSA + Britain + France + Japan vs USA + Spain + Russia. Finally got to crush the USA more or less once and for all

[srndacful]

Jun 2, 2016 14:17:21 GMT -6 gornik said:

I caused one as CSA Established alliance with GB and attacked USA as soon as possible. But my stupid submarine captain attacked a neutral liner, so France declared war to us... That's why I got not only Maine but also Antilles, when we won

The same thing happened to me in the first example. It was the one and only time I put Submarines on unrestricted warfare: France & England's tension levels were initially low (2 or 3) - a couple of months (read: neutral liners) later, they joined Russia and Italy in what was (up to that point) just another 2 vs. 2 bash.