Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-39133133-20200423205640/@comment-35614398-20200502161734

FloweyFan wrote: MartyMcFly05 wrote:

FloweyFan wrote: Bosnia Mapper wrote: It's MAP TIME I own Newfoundland and Labrador now No you don't you don't own Newfoundland you don't own Gibraltar goddammit do you even read my turns Uh I edited my last turn to say that I attack them after you said that I couldn’t launch ships from them. Also I thought I won at Gibraltar? Your argument that I can't reinforce Newfoundland because its far away isn't true. Its not that Europe is far away that's the problem for you, its that you don't control any land in Europe. In a scenario where you attack a location, any ships damaged could only retreat back across the ocean to America, and probably wouldn't make it back. A large-scale assault wouldn't work as fleets would lose coordination and drift apart from each other, to end up spread out across miles of ocean as easy pickings for enemy ships.

Britain, on the other hand, doesn't have this problem because it still holds land in the Americas. Ships, if damaged, can continue on to Newfoundland, and besides that, they don't need to have to fight for the beach they're landing on. It would be feasible, therefore, for reinforcements to arrive at Newfoundland, though I can admit some would fall prey to American ships (though America's navy wasn't nearly as strong as the Royal Navy in the 1910s).

With Gibraltar, no, I can't see why it would have fallen to you, especially with the points I've just listed and the confusing map I made yesterday. The attackers would be decimated by European navies, and Gibraltar would be no easy feat to conquer. I can't think of any reason Gibraltar would have fallen to you, when compared with the Allied presence in the Mediterranean and east Atlantic and the fact that Gibraltar is basically a fortress, especially when America's navy was in the 1910s far from the global power it became in the 40s and 50s. If you can give me a compelling reason why it would have fallen besides "but Murica stronk" (or if you do give that argument, then with reasons to back it), then I guess I'd have to say it fell.