The League of Nations

[Syd Thrift]

I tried this out several years ago but at the time the setup process was waaaay too much of a PITA. Happily, there's a way now to just delete everyone on a team and replace them with a single nationality so it's gonna work!

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As we all know, the real life League of Nations came into being after World War I, spearheaded by US President Woodrow Wilson, and was largely ineffective in large part because the founding nation didn't adhere to their own points. But what if the League of Nations wasn't a paper tiger? And what if, instead of crappy old diplomacy and stuff, the world united in baseball? What if the League of Nations was actually a baseball league?

This highly realistic baseball simulation will have a few rules in place:

- Teams are built up out of their parent nations and owned and operated by their world leaders.

- The league starts in the year 1919; however, because the author of this dynasty grew up in the 1980s, the era settings from 1986 shall be used. In the words of Woodrow Wilson, "the 1980s are a fine era with a blend of offense and defense, power and speed".

- For now, every nation gets just the one team represented in the league. The sole exception to this is the United States of America, who a. created the League and b. created baseball, so they have three.

- For travel, teams will use the brand new Tesla teleporter machine, which is rumored to destroy the body in the old location and recreate it anew in the new one rather than actually teleporting them but look don't think about that too hard, okay? Also don't think too hard about the idea that the Tokyo Samurai might play one series in Beijing and then play the next in Rio de Janeiro. It's called technology. Look it up in the book.

- As this is a national, diplomatically based league, it will be deeply affected by world events. I will endeavor to explain how these events are shaped.

- No trading shall occur between teams except when those teams, like, cheat or something, or unless it's tacitly allowed by the structure. Like, the American teams get to trade in amongst themselves, and since, as of 1919, the UK essentially owns India, you'll probably see trades there, too.

- Expansion shall occur as I see fit. You won't see expansion drafts because these teams will be producing their own home-grown talent.

This is the initial league setup:

[Sizeman21]

This looks promising Syd, I will be following!

[Syd Thrift]

There are of course all kinds of news stories going on from the very beginning but I'm just going to skip ahead to Opening Day, lest I do a bunch of things without knowing who anyone is...

(side note: it looks like I didn't set something up right, so we're at 1919 levels instead of 1986 ones. OH WELL.)

April 6-7: The Bavarian Soviet Republic is formed. Three random players from the Berlin Knights defect to Moscow!

April 10: Mexican Revolutionary Leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead in Morelos. Two players for the Mexico City Aztecs, CF Andy Carrasco (determined randomly), and SS Hector Canizalez (who has an Outspoken personality) will miss a week to attend his funeral.

April 12: French serial killer Henri Désiré Landru is arrested. The Revolutions don't have any jerko players who would be affected by this, however.

April 13: At the risk of being veeeeeeery glib: the Armritsar Massacre occurs. 3 random Bombay players refuse to take part in this exposition so long as the United Kingdom fields a team and retire effective immediately.

April 13: Eugene V. Debs enters prison in Atlanta for the crime of speaking out against conscription during World War II. The Chicago Defenders, the representatives of the American left, would be the team affected by this, but no player has the "right" personality.

April 14: Players of the Week for the first League of Nations week are: SP Balbinder Tummala (2-0. 0.52 ERA) of Bombay and LF Nikolaj Orum of Copenhagen (.533, 0 HR, 2 RBI).

April 15: The We Save the Children Fund is created in the UK to raise money for Austrian and German children. One player each from Germany and Austria are so affected by this show of goodwill that they join the London Monarchs. Just in time, too, since three members of the Monarchs - C Marcus Makepeace, RF Stephen Campbell, and 1B Donovan Sare decide that they can't be a part of this team in the aftermath of Armritsar and retire (all were rated as Humble, which I also take to mean "conscientious").

April 21: Players of the Week: For the New World, 1B Logan Wheeler of Sydney (.340, 1, 9 on the year), and for the Old World, London Monarchs 3B Aaron Humphreys (.396, 3, 10).

April 22 (really, this should probably happen on June 20 but I'm not gonna remember that): The Reds go on the offensive in Siberia; eventually the Reds push the Whites behind the Ural Mountains. Two new random players join Moscow in support.

April 28: Players of the week: NW - LF Carl Bashford, Sydney (.311, 2, 12). OW - 2B Bastien Mathiew, Paris (.364, 0, 4).

Also, the power rankings:

1st (1st)	Warsaw	140	o	15-5	.750	.258	1.69	14-6	1
2nd (2nd)	Amsterdam	121	o	13-8	.619	.272	3.08	12-9	1
3rd (3rd)	Bombay	119	o	13-7	.650	.285	1.91	14-6	-1
4th (4th)	Sydney	119	o	12-8	.600	.284	2.82	12-8	0
5th (7th)	Tehran	111	+	12-8	.600	.272	2.49	11-9	1
6th (8th)	Toronto	109	+	11-8	.579	.242	2.60	9-10	2
7th (10th)	Copenhagen	104	++	11-9	.550	.285	3.31	10-10	1
8th (11th)	London	102	++	11-9	.550	.282	3.36	11-9	0
9th (9th)	Istanbul	102	o	10-8	.556	.263	2.70	9-9	1
10th (5th)	Beijing	99	--	11-9	.550	.290	2.72	11-9	0
11th (6th)	New York	99	--	11-9	.550	.266	2.61	12-8	-1
12th (19th)	Los Angeles	86	++	10-11	.476	.282	3.50	11-10	-1
13th (13th)	Tokyo	83	o	10-10	.500	.259	3.39	10-10	0
14th (12th)	Madrid	82	-	9-10	.474	.260	2.72	12-7	-3
15th (14th)	Rio de Janeiro	81	-	8-10	.444	.315	4.09	8-10	0
16th (15th)	Berlin	78	-	9-11	.450	.247	2.81	10-10	-1
17th (16th)	Paris	77	-	9-10	.474	.301	3.06	9-10	0
18th (17th)	Mexico City	75	-	9-11	.450	.256	3.37	8-12	1
19th (22nd)	Vienna	73	++	8-12	.400	.266	3.00	9-11	-1
20th (18th)	Brussels	72	-	9-12	.429	.258	2.75	9-12	0
21st (20th)	Moscow	64	-	8-12	.400	.270	3.19	9-11	-1
22nd (21st)	Rome	60	-	7-13	.350	.242	3.46	6-14	1
23rd (23rd)	Havana	58	o	7-14	.333	.219	3.59	6-15	1
24th (24th)	Chicago	44	o	5-14	.263	.284	3.61	8-11	-3

April 30: First wave of 1919 United States anarchist bombings: several bombs are intercepted. CF Todd Carroll (an Unmotivated personality - I'm not saying anything about anarchists here! Necessarily!) is implicated and suspended for 90 games.

[Syd Thrift]

I'm not 100% sure what to link here... so how about the team page of the current top club, the Warsaw Crusaders?

[Syd Thrift]

UGH and I just lost everything I had done from May 1 to the 17th. I'm going to switch to weekly saves I guess until the game's more stable.

[Syd Thrift]

Originally Posted by Sizeman21

This looks promising Syd, I will be following!

It feels very, very dumb but also a lot of fun so far, which is usually a good sign!

[Syd Thrift]

So, after losing like 45 minutes worth of gameplay to a crash, I've decided to be even more crass with history and have given some of these nations extra powers. Perhaps in time I will figure out how to give everyone one of them! It'll be like Civilization, the OOTP save!

National Powers

United Kingdom - Colonialism: Once a month, trade one prospect to another nation that is part of the Empire in exchange for

New York - Wilson's Legacy: Trade all of your African-American players to the Chicago Defenders (by the way, the Chicago Defender was an early Black newspaper). You can't have any Black players on this team until the army gets integrated in the 40s. Also, since this is the President's team, every month you can trade one prospect away to LA or Chicago in exchange for one player.

Chicago - See above.

LA Stars - Something something Hollywood, I haven't figured out yet.

China / USSR - Eventually I'm going to open up a Comintern league that will act as a second level of minors for these teams. In time there will probably be a pro-Fascist league as well. We'll see!

Also, I wanted to just list off the different boons / maluses I can add. I realized early on in the lost 2 1/2 weeks that I was adding/removing players too much when there are better things to go for. I'll list them below and try to remember to add to the list as I think of more stuff.

Boons and Maluses

Add a random player: This generally happens as a recruitment drive, like leading up to a war.

Add a legend: This occurs when a person is mentioned by name in the Wikipedia year I mentioned, and it has to be for doing something at least reasonably awesome, so not, like, setting up a chair in honor of Woodrow Wilson or whatever.

A random player from another team joins your team: These should be mainly "defection" moments - the bit where the Bavarian Socialist Republic was a good example of that.

A random player retires: I want to save these generally for really big, bad things, like huge natural disasters or major battles of wars. I mean, Armritsar was ****, too, and I feel like penalizing the UK by having 3 Humble players decide they couldn't associate themselves with their nation seems harsh but fair, but I've gone so far as to unretire the Bombay Elephants players who resigned in protest.

A random player gets suspended: For minor battles that nations are involved in, sometimes the temptation to use the Tesla Device to instantly transport to the front lines is too great. I also used this when a strike or other sort of large protest happens that some players (determined somewhat by personality) get involved in and I think that works, too.

Boosting abilities in general - occur when a nation does something cool for its people. The cooler the thing is, the more players get the boost. The boost is generally +20 but I reserve the right to change it. I determine the boost at random according to the number of players on the 25 man roster.

Boost BABIP: When a nation has a BAB(y)IP boom, birthrates skyrocket, that sort of thing.

Boost Avoid Ks: When a nation gets diplomatic and Avoids K(onflict).

Boost POW: The power of the people, as expressed in their rights, are increased.

Boost EYE: The nation makes a scientific breakthrough or something similar. Eureka, I've seen something new!

Boost Speed (also boosts Stealing and Baserunning Skills): The nation excels at an athletic endeavor, for instance Jesse Owens making the Nazis look back in the 1936 Olympics.

Boost GRIT (Sac bunts, Bunt for Hit, and Baserunning): The nation does something GRITTY. TBH this should be the dump point where if I think the news item is dumb, the nation in question gets the GRIT BOOST.

Boost Stuff: The nation adds to its military firepower in some important, appreciable way.

Boost Velocity: The nation does some land speed record related thing, or some kind of big powered vehicle thing happens.

Add a pitch: A nation does something it's never done before!

Add Control: A nation evinces some powerful levels of self-control. Don't expect the US to ever receive this. EDIT: Self control? Nah. We needed a "culture" item and this one is it. Any time a nation does something to CONTROL the hearts and minds of the world public via culture, this is invoked.

Add Movement: A nation has a major changing of the guard in terms of its leadership (this will probably be more than just a MOV bump when the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottomans officially fall apart but, like, when the Republicans take the Presidency in 1920 this might flip).

Add Fielding Abilities: A nation does something big and important on the humanitarian front.

Maluses can be given to any of these abilities if nations do the opposite.

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Please let me know if you're reading this and have other ideas for bonus/deltas for nations based on news events!

[Syd Thrift]

I made a big trade - well, two of them - for the Yankees in which they sent all of their Black players to Chicago. The Yankees still made out like bandits, of course, because life isn't fair. Anyway, I'm waiting for the Defenders to put together their own cool history now...

London decides to steer clear of India for the time being and acquires Phil Morrisey from Toronto, sending back Benjamin Williams in return. This feels way too powerful; this has to be once a year, maybe once per team per year.

May 1: A large left-wing demonstration in France leads to a violent confrontation with the police. Uh oh! This looks like suspension city! Paris has 5 players on the active roster with Low Loyalty - those would be just the sort of people to participate in a violent demonstration. Jordan Fontaine, who is 8-15 so far this year, is suspended for 30 games.

May 1: May Day Riots break out in Cleveland, Ohio; 2 people are killed, 40 injured, and 116 arrested. This one, I'm interpreting slightly differently; the Chicago Defenders make out the best when the American Left makes out the best (NY is the champion of the American Right, LA is the champion of the American culture that will slowly begin to take over the world). So... clearly, this increases the power of the people, right? 1 person gets the POW bonus. It's 2B Mark Carroll, who was a starter before being displaced at the position by newly arrived Luke Green.

May 2: Weimar Republic troops and the Freikorps occupy Munich and crush the Bavarian Soviet Republic. Military might, that sounds like a 1 player Boost STUFF to me! Little-used RP Paul Weber gets the bump.

May 3: Amānullāh Khān attacks the British government in India. This is exactly what I want the "add a player" thing to be about. Khan is pretty damn cool. I'm going to have him come in as a Star and Young... he imports as a catcher and immediately joins the Elephants as a backup.

May 4: The May Fourth Movement erupts in China as a result of the decision at the Paris Peace Conference to transfer former German concessions in Jiaozhou Bay to Japan rather than return sovereign authority to China. This is a big time display of national power, not power to the people, so it looks like STF... and let's go with 3 players at that. RP Feng Ming already had nice stuff, albeit with just 2 pitches, so he gets better. SP Su-Wu Fou throws 4 pitches, all kind of junky; I bumped up his Splitter so it's at the same level of the other 3. Finally, CL Hu Wang throws an INSANE, like, Mariano Rivera level Cutter, which is already over the 250 soft limit (I didn't know it was possible to go higher than 250), so I'll bump his also excellent slider.

May 4: The League of Red Cross Societies is formed in Paris. This is sooo close to getting the GRIT but... it's health, and health = populations. So I will go with that. CF Mickael James gets it.

May 6: The Third Anglo-Afghan War begins. As stated, even minor conflicts have that ol' recruitment drive, so the London Monarchs get richer, adding 28 year old infielder Bailey Powell.

May 8: Edward George Honey proposes a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of World War I. Congratulations, Australia. This is a GRIT BUFF if I've ever seen a GRIT BUFF. It got applied to Adrian Chapple, who I have to say was awfully low-grit for a middle infielder. Well, now he's at least medium grit.

May 8-27: United States Navy Curtiss flying boat NC-4, commanded by Albert Cushing Read, makes the first transatlantic flight, from Naval Air Station Rockaway to Lisbon via Trepassey, Newfoundland (departs May 16) and the Azores (arrives May 17). (On May 30–31 it flies on to Plymouth in England.) Not only is Albert Cushing Read flying to Europe, he's blipping in and out in a special portable Tesla Device to play games! This feels like cheating. He's pretty young for a guy who got into the news and this isn't nothing so I'll make him Good.

May 9: In Belgium, a new electoral law introduces universal manhood suffrage and gives the franchise to certain classes of women. That's pretty good! 1B Rusty Bot, who has a great name but sort of sucks, gets one of the bumps. RF Koos Post gets the other.

May 14: The University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, establishes probably the world's first Chair in International Politics, endowed by David Davies and his sisters in honour of Woodrow Wilson, with Alfred Eckhard Zimmern as first professor. I am tempted to award this NO POINTS AND MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOUR SOUL, UK, but instead I will grant them the GRIT BUFF. Congratulations, SS Eddie Butler. You may be 39 years old and slow as treacle (that's what the English call molasses!) but now you have 4 ounces of grit.

JESUS OOTP is buggy out of the gate this year... just crashed a second time. Luckily I'm saving weekly...

May 15: Greek landing at Smyrna: The Hellenic Army lands at Smyrna assisted by ships of the British Royal Navy. This feels like a very small flex of British military power, so Stuff it is! SP Jack Croft is the recipient. I feel like one 20 point boost to one pitch may not be enough of a boost, but then, Stuff is pretty meaningful for pitchers. I don't know.

May 15: A law providing for full women's suffrage in the Netherlands is introduced. Holland are big fat copycats but they still get POW bumps. Newly promoted farmhand Sacha Vos gets one bump and 1B Maurice Noordermeer gets the other.

May 15: Winnipeg general strike: Workers in Winnipeg, Canada launch a strike for better wages and working conditions. I kind of have a soft spots for the general strike, as my hometown of Seattle conducted the only one in American history, but this *is* labor unrest, which feels like a player suspension. LF Larry Thibault is the only guy disloyal enough to the cause to participate so he must get that 30 game suspension.

May 17: The Committee of One Thousand forms to oppose the Winnipeg general strike. Man, screw this... you know something, Canada? You get a POW malus for this. Let the people be heard! Somewhat poetically, the minus falls on Larry Thibault. I guess the Committee of One Thousand violated his personal civil rights...

May 19: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, marking the start of the Turkish War of Independence. The anniversary of this event is also an official day of Turkish Youth. Hey, it's a recruitment drive, I guess, although I also feel like this will drive some people away from things. Istanbul loses three random players for now: RP Erden Topaloglum 1B Adtf Saffet, and 2B Kafkas Perganovlu. Maybe they'll unretire once this is all over. Civil wars are bad news, man. Anyway, once the Ottoman Empire gives way to Turkey, Ataturk will be the new GM.

May 19: Volcano Kelud erupts in Java, killing about 5,000. If there was a team in Java (modern day Indonesia) this would be a thing that would lose people too.

May 23: The University of California opens its second campus in Los Angeles. Initially called Southern Branch of the University of California (SBUC), it is eventually renamed the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). UCLA isn't exactly a super highly regarded university but this is too on the nose. +3 buffs for house Griffyn- erm, the LA Stars! 3B Dan O'Donnell, 2B Skyler Brugnoli, and RF Quinn Banks all get newer, better EYEs.

...and the game crashed again, heading to the 24th. I'm saving daily now but this seems bad for the long-term future of the save...

[Sizeman21]

I love the boons and malaise section, I always enjoy randomly handicapping or gifting special events to players or a team. God mode is much more enjoyable like that when you have to follow a few certain rules.

[OrangeP47]

This looks great. I say that as someone who's spent time in both the History and Political Science fields in academia.

Shame about the crashing, my game is pretty stable. Did you edit the world data file and mess with cities/nations that way? Might be the root cause.

[Syd Thrift]

Originally Posted by OrangeP47

This looks great. I say that as someone who's spent time in both the History and Political Science fields in academia.

Shame about the crashing, my game is pretty stable. Did you edit the world data file and mess with cities/nations that way? Might be the root cause.

Nah, I did everything by hand through the game UI itself. It looks like the issue is with the League Reports Home screen. I *think* I can work around it. We'll see!

[Syd Thrift]

May 25: Estonian War of Independence: Estonian forces capture Pskov from the Red Army, and soon hand it over to the White forces. A setback in the war! RP Volodya Habirov disappears into the night, never to be seen again.

May 27: Fyodor Raskolnikov is exchanged for 14 British prisoners of war. That sounds like a new guy!!! He immediately enters the Reds as their #1 starter (and yes, I made him a Legend). For England, they'll just receive a rando as a POW... RP Graeme Hind, who... is minor league depth.

May 27: Siege of Spin Boldak (Third Anglo-Afghan War): This is the last time the British Army uses an escalade. I looked it up and no, in this context it is not a car that some folks like to put the hydraulic wheels on. Anyway, +20 STF to... SP Luke Buxton.

May 29: Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested by Arthur Eddington's observation of the "bending of light" during a total solar eclipse in Príncipe (see Eddington experiment), and by Andrew Crommelin in Sobral, Ceará, Brazil (confirmed November 19). So... several plays here. First and foremost, this is a big affirmation of the German, so... you know what? Instead of adding 3 pluses to EYE, I think Albert Einstein joins Berlin, because that's the kind of league I want. He drops right into the team as their #1 starter, right out of the gate. London and Brazil both get a + to their EYEs though... London boosts RF Kyle Clarkson, recently promoted from Manchester United, and Rio, who hasn't gotten much love this year, gets the bump to 2B Paulino Ruas, who is 40 so won't be in the league for long but hey, while he's here...

May 30: By agreement with the United Kingdom, later confirmed by the League of Nations, Belgium is given the mandate over part of German East Africa (Ruanda-Urundi). That is... diplomacy by the UK, so +AKs to Kyle Richardson, which isn't so useful but then, neither was this agreement, really, and Belgium acquires a new player from their newly acquired territory: 1B Jifar Barre. He's older (36) but he'll slot right in as their primary pinch hitter.

[Syd Thrift]

Moscow may not be in first but the communists have got to love the inaugural season because there is tremendous parity throughout. Only 2 teams have won 60% or more of their games and nobody's lost more than 42% of them. Only 5 1/2 games separate the entire Western Europe Division top to bottom. It's just crazy!

Einstein by the way got rocked in his first start, allowing 7 runs, 3 earned, on 7 hits before getting pulled after just 4 innings. "This baseball thing is harder than I thought", he told reporters after the game.





And while we're at it, here's a look at current League of Nations wins leader Michel Gourdon of the Brussels Painters:

[ayaghmour2]

Really cool concept and as a Civ player too, I love the unique powers and out of game historical adjustments. Should make for an awesome storyline and definitely looking forward to following!

[Syd Thrift]

This update will be short-ish because it includes the draft. I took the time to update everyone's chances of having players according to the teams in the league so that everyone gets a normal distribution. I did a couple of extra stuff with Austria and England, and of course there are 3X as many Americans.

I think that in an effort to save time, too, I'm just going to allow teams to have first dibs on their own players: the first round will the the only in-nation round. From there, anyone can draft anybody else from the 2nd round on, although that could cause some tricky situations down the road!

June 1: Earl W. Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, along with his father John W. Bascom at Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, designs and makes rodeo's first reverse-opening side-delivery bucking chute, now the world standard. Canada gets the GRIT BONUS. Like, even if the GRIT BONUS wasn't the booby prize, this would get the GRIT BONUS because this is PURE UNADULTERATED GRIT. Congratulations, 3B John Drake. Drake was formerly a slow .328 hitter but now he's a slow .328 hitter with GRIT.

June 2: 1919 United States anarchist bombings: Eight mail bombs are sent to prominent figures. I mean, this feels like a negative even for the Yankees but instead I'm going to make it a positive, POWerful event for the Chicago Defenders! Hey, it'd be cooler if it happened to someone other than backup C Brian Schlesinger, but hey, a bump is a bump.

June 4: Women's rights: The United States Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which would guarantee suffrage to women, and sends it to the states for ratification. That feels like a +POW to all 3 US teams (maybe that's their special secret power: American Exceptionalism). The Yankees get a bump to LF Sean Hurd, RF Aaron Hubbard, and, hey! 1B Albert Cushing Read (who by the way is hitting just .244 but even with the late start and before the POW boost is up among the league leaders in HRs). For Chicago it's light-hitting SS Hugo "Cactus" Castaneda and C Brian Schlesinger again (I realize that this should only grant 2 bumps since that's what Belgium and the Netherlands got but I'm not going to undo the Yankees). Finally, the LA Stars get fill-in SS Justin Shaw and backup LF Mike Backner.

June 5: Estonian and Latvian Wars of Independence: The advancing pro-German Baltische Landeswehr initiates war against Estonia in Northern Latvia. Germany adds a rando Latvian player, SS Laimdotis Sirants (incidentally the in-game name generator's Latvian names just look Russian to me, so I found one online for the purpose). He is an old man (38) but is now their primary pinch-hitter.

The Draft

I'm finding guys who were born in 1899 to be the 1st round picks for teams. If no prominent guys were born, I'll use someone who died then...

AMS: Pieter RIjke, Dutch physicist (incidentally, the actual guy in this slot was named Ronald MacDonald)

BEI: Lao She, Chinese writer best known for the novel Rickshaw Boy and the play Teahouse

BER: Karl Diebitsch, German fashion designer; the guy who designed much of SS paraphernalia during WW2 including the all black uniform

BOM: Jibanananda Das, Indian poet, writer, novelist, and essayist

BRX: Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, winner of the Nobel Prize

CHI: Al Capone. Like, LA will get Duke Ellington, who maybe fits into the Defender aspect better, but Al Capone *is* Chicago...

COP: No Danish dudes!

HAV: No prominent Cubans this year (which doesn't mean they skip the pick; they just don't get to rename him)

IST: Cevdet Sunay, 5th President of Turkey

LAA: Fred Astaire. I know I said I was going to take the Duke, but man...

MAD: Carmen de Icaza, Spanish writer (sadly they never did get in gender options for players in this version)

MEX: Margarito Flores Garcia, Mexican priest, martyr, and saint

MOS: Vladimir Nabokov, Russian born writer of "Lolita"

LON: Alfred Hitchcock, British director

NYY: Ernest Hemingway, don't act like you don't know him

PAR: Jean de Brunhoff, writer of the Babar the Elephant stories

RIO: Manuel dos Reis Machado, Brazilian martial artist and founder of a prominent capoeira school (I mean, capoeira is sort of a martial art)

ROM: Gualtiero De Angelis, Italian actor, known for voicing over Jimmy Stewart for the Italian audience

SYD: Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize

TEH: Nobody listed from Iran, Persia, or Iraq.

TOK: Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese pioneer in TV development

I was all over the place here so if, like, the Austrian economist winds up in Poland somehow, blame me...

TOR: Chief Dan George, writer and tribal chief, also the guy who played the chief in the Dustin Hoffman movie Little Big Man

WIE: Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economicist

[Syd Thrift]

Originally Posted by ayaghmour2

Really cool concept and as a Civ player too, I love the unique powers and out of game historical adjustments. Should make for an awesome storyline and definitely looking forward to following!

Thanks! It's been goofy so far but fun as well!

[Syd Thrift]

June 6: The Hungarian Red Army attacks the Republic of Prekmurje. This is occurring within the borders of the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire (and in retrospect I should have built them as more half and half). What I think will happen here is that Austria loses 3 members to this conflict and then adds 2 refugees from the short-lived Republic (they're ethnically Hungarian). 3B David FIschhof, starting C Josef Renner, and SP Teppo Uusikartano all leave. Coming in are 3B Isto Isometsa and LF Jarmo Sinkkonen.

June 7: Sette Giugno on Malta: British troops fire on a mob protesting against the colonial government, killing four. The British are... asses during this time. That's a -POW to me: backup 2B Sam Adamson and new SS Bailey Powell would be but his internal POW is already 1/1/1. You can't reduce power if you never had any to begin with :thatonememe:

June 7: Russian Civil War: Counteroffensive of Eastern Front: The Reds army capture the city of Birsk from the White forces. Pretty big show of STUFF if you ask me (although I could just as easily give them people from Birsk I guess). Barely-used RP Luka Mavlutdinov and German turncoat SP Mayer Yost get the bumps.

June 9: Russian Civil War: Counteroffensive of Eastern Front: The Reds army recapture the city of Ufa. Another, smaller win means more military STUFF. SP Iosif Yanushkovsky gets the bumperino.

June 14-15: A Vickers Vimy piloted by John Alcock DSC, with navigator Arthur Whitten Brown, makes the first nonstop transatlantic flight, from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Clifden, Connemara, Ireland. Hey, look at that! Now Alcock is trying his hand at baseball too. Hopefully he'll stop this silly thing of trying to fly through the air (IRL he died in December of this year so, given that I'm too lazy to remember this, he probably will!).

June 15: Pancho Villa attacks Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. When the bullets begin to fly to the American side of the border, two units of the United States 7th Cavalry Regiment cross the border, to push Villa's forces from American territory. Definitely a show (if a minor show) of military STUFF from the US: ace SP Steve Zoss gets the boost. From Mexico's standpoint if you ask me that was a pretty big show of avoiding K(onflict): 3B Carlos Miranda and LF/PH Jose Cardona are the recipients.

Standings and leaders through the 15th, by the by:

[OrangeP47]

I suppose in a way the Monarchs being in last is almost literally karma catching up with them, the way this works, heh.

[Syd Thrift]

Originally Posted by OrangeP47

I suppose in a way the Monarchs being in last is almost literally karma catching up with them, the way this works, heh.

Yeah, the British Empire in 1919 is just plain evil...

[Syd Thrift]

It's still got dam parity league but at least London's in last place! That being said, it's time for some American Exceptionalism:

New York Yankees trade minor league RP Josh Tabb, receiving starting CF George Kuntz in return. Kuntz isn't a top-flight starter but then, Tabb isn't a very good prospect.

I tried to trade Alfred Hitchcock to the LA Stars too but it wouldn't let me. OOTP needs a "player to be named later" option to get around this like the big leagues do...

June 17: Epsom Riot by Canadian troops: English Police Sergeant Thomas Green is killed. I read up on this and apparently some Canadian soldiers who were in the process of being repatriated got arrested for being rowdy in a pub, which led to 400 of their friends storming the police and, eventually, killing a cop. This is a decided lack of Control: SP John Cyr and RP Wade Dooks take the hit.

June 18: The second most popular[citation needed][31] football club in Costa Rica, Liga Deportiva Alajuelense, is founded. Costa Rica declared independence from Spain in the 1830s but I haven't had a Spanish event yet so... a 1-time speed bump sounds OK. It goes to 1B Alex Salazar, who is not endowed with speed.

...and those are all the news events for the month. We get almost 2 weeks off of random events after seeing stuff seemingly daily.