Reply: Virgin Queen:: General:: Re: The Virgin Queen's role in VQ

JoelCFC25 wrote:

Ireland coming into play at all

I've seen Ireland come under the control of all its potential activators: France, Spain, and the HRE. The Irish that materialize and go besiege Dublin are easily neutralized--England just spends 2 CP to move a galleon from one of the Channel ports into the Irish Sea to prevent the rebels from being able to assault. Someone controlling the Irish rebels could still try Treachery!, but it seems to be a standard play to deploy a few English troops to Dublin early on to guard against this possibility.

If Dublin never gets captured then why bother playing Irish Rebellion for the event?

In most of my games, England has played in a very scripted way. ~~Masturbate with~~ Jilt Leicester. Add troops to Dublin. Do something to Scotland. Patronize Dee. Play Walsingham defensively. Send Hawkins and later Drake to do New World piracy. If your luck with the piracy isn't up to par, just hope the game ends early to relieve your boredom.