Limited War

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Limited War

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Not sure if this sin't too late, but...

Have you considered some more "Wartime" states for VBAM2.0?

At the moment you have Hostilities, and War. Both of which have fairly far-reaching powers, with serious limitations.

What about considering something like:

Limited War (or Objective War): Your empire and the target empire are treated as if in Hostilities, however, when you declare a limited war you may nominate a system controlled by the target empire but within your zone of control (or perhaps an entire sector of a dozen or so systems with a higher TN) within which your units may operate as if at war.

As an intermediate state. Limited War should be trickier to establish than hostilities, but easier than total war. A limited war would revert to hostilities once the nominated system(s) have been captured, but maybe provides a bonus towards declaring another Limited War (once you've taken one bite from the apple...).

The intent is to try and create some incentive to provide an objective for a war rather than just a big set-to... So the limited war allows you to operate as if at War within a small zone, but only to intercept reinforcements, etc outside of that zone.



There are a few other variations you could try:
A Defensive War might work like hostilities (including gearing up your economy), but only allow military actions within your systems, but be very easy to begin (and only be declarable a turn or two after an intrusion into one of your systems).

Tightly Limited War might treat your empire as if at peace except for a small region of space (a single system or sector perhaps as above), where you could treat your units as if either at hostilities, or even total war.

Peacekeeping Action might entitle you to intercede in a single system (and might even allow the deployment of troops) where two other powers are going at it as if at hostilities, etc (and again, your empire would stay at "Peace"),

You could also revise War to bar use of population-destruction, and instead only planetary invasion. Then create "total war" that allows orbital bombardment of civilian populations (depending upon racial traits the relative ease of these two could vary a lot).

These sorts of conflicts could be encouraged by limiting their side-effects on your economy, and generally being much easier to begin,
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Post by Emiricol »

I will be using something like this once 2E comes out. Thanks for the ideas.
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