Spain's eco turn

[Dancing Bear]

Hi Marshall
would it be hard to have Spain do her eco turn first in the eco phase. Spain moves last in the land phase, so if she was first the eco phase, the Spainish player could do both turns together, rather than waiting for the British player's eco turn?
I don't know if GB has to go first because of the trade settings.

[DCWhitworth]

ORIGINAL: Dancing Bear

Hi Marshall
would it be hard to have Spain do her eco turn first in the eco phase. Spain moves last in the land phase, so if she was first the eco phase, the Spainish player could do both turns together, rather than waiting for the British player's eco turn?
I don't know if GB has to go first because of the trade settings.

You could also perhaps look at swapping Russia and France in the Reinforcement phase as Russia goes first in the Naval phase.

[Dancing Bear]

ORIGINAL: DCWhitworth

You could also perhaps look at swapping Russia and France in the Reinforcement phase as Russia goes first in the Naval phase.

It would likely be less controversial to switch the French naval phase to first (I really mean fist after GB (i.e. second) as GB usually selects to go last anyways, so not a real factor). This might help the player who has France, who is often pressured to skip her naval phase as France is usually blockaged, which is normally ok, but does give GB a greater sense of comfort than GB should really have.

I'd support switching the naval phases, what is everyone's opinion? Would this have to be a option that is set in the game setup (or by the host for ongoing games)?

[Jimmer]

I would hope that nobody other than France knows if his naval phase is being skipped until AFTER it is skipped.

[Dancing Bear]

Jimmer, this is correct, but if you have skipped the last 9 turns in the row, it is pretty likely that GB is going to detect a pattern. Anyways, would you object to moving France's naval to 2nd, after GB (assuming GB changes it to last, so this really means first)?

[Hornblower]

Bump

[borner]

combining phases would slove this also, but if not, then the more back to back phases the better!