Please, for someone who claims to be a Historian you sure are showing a staggering lack of understanding as to how major international agreements were held in that time frame. Telegraphs would not be "enough". At most would you get some kind of consensus that "something" should be done, but certainly not a set of specifics dictated by a country that just spent the last decade annexing Central Europe and Northern Italy. I'm sure that lots of countries would consider it to be a purely humanitarian effort on Germany's part, or that commercial driven countries like Cascadia and the USA would jump at it with no mulling over.Thanas wrote:
Then let them argue it in here.
There is a whopper of a difference between "yeah that's bad" and "I agree to all the specifics that you mentioned and the prospect of closing off all trade to a market of 300 million 500 million+ appeals to me and my crack team of economic advisers."The problem is that people are basically ignoring their own in-game histories.
Admittedly, that was for an immediate humor value(two enemies saying the same thing at approximately the same time). If you insist upon it, I think shep would remove it.Telegraphs would be enough. And funny, the same people who now object to it had no problem with responding to diplomatic inquiries in the same post when they first boarded the ships. Is there a double standard at work here?
Nonsense. The Imperial German Navy never had a history of moving stuff around in convoys, and their entire navy was centered around facing down the RN in the North Sea. You don't even have the legs for it, as the navy didn't operate outside of the Med or North Sea on the scale needed to build up training and doctrine for long distant fleet operations. Even with your base in East Africa and oilers for your oil-powered ships(as even dedicated colliers in those days meant dropping anchor somewhere to take on coal) you would still need to pull out some kind of SOFA deal with nearby countries, if only so that your replenishment ships could pull in and gas up.If it is a warzone, my ships would have travelled in convoys and with Battleship escort opr simply go straight through the Panama Canal. As would the ships of my ally of China headed for German ports. Since that did not happen, I will refuse to consider it a warzone, especially not the arabian sea. In short, in that scenario there is no possibility of my ships being stopped because they would not go through those waters at all except for under heavy escort.
As for you saying "if it was a war zone no German ships would be traveling singly"...nonsense again. During WW1 American(and Belligerent!) merchant ships traveled into the waters of the British Isles in ones and twos for years, even when explicitly warned of the danger by the German government. No escorts were deployed for the job, as the United States was an ostensibly neutral country. Even if the were no convoys and German merchant vessels typically went the long way, some German ships might just decide it's worth the extra cash to try to pass through the area.
Finally, judging from your very first post on the very first page of the commentary thread...you damn well thought that there was a war going on. Which suggests to me that your avatar in the game certainly would have. I presume that your avatar would have the mental faculties to look at a map, see two major countries going at it, and note that the primary geographic locale where Dominion and Shepistani waters touch would likely be a warzone.
Just my $.02
yeah, okay. 
