MarshalNey wrote:Well, reducing any of the intermediaries or even all of them would speed the game flow, but personally I think the opposite of what you were suggesting- to make the British intermediaries 1s and not the French or Spanish- because the British bonuses are harder to get in the first place. In other words, by making the French & Spanish intermedaries 1s, you'd simply be making the already quicker bonuses easier still to acquire. This would make the British ships more of a neglected part of the game, I feel. Whereas 1s for the British areas would make these somewhat unattractive bonuses more reasonable, and thus open up other avenues rather than favoring one over another... does that make sense?
the problem was not how to build bonuses but how to break them
now you can have French or Spanish bonuses quite well protected behind those intermediaries 3's
and with a good drop and the first hand it is an advantage it can take two rounds to break
and two rounds "hands free" is a big advantage on CC