LagunaDave

Reply to How do you beat bill Clinton in Political Machine PolMach Forums

Good point, although Clinton didn't use any Fixers on me. It seems like the smart response to the Webmaster-dependent strategy would be to knock off the Webmasters, which would have bankrupted me quickly and probably knocked a lot of my ads off the air. With, say 4 Webmasters, it costs the opponent much less to "fix" them than it does to replace them. One possible defense against Webmaster assassination would be to put other Ope

Reply to How do you beat bill Clinton in Political Machine PolMach Forums

There are some good tip threads hidden around the site. Clinton wiped me out the first time I ran against him in Campaign mode (with Dubya). The second time, I wiped him out with about 370 EVs. The strategy some others have described was a good starting point. For the first half of the game or so, I just built Level 3 HQs and did multiple fundraisings in the biggest competitive states, and banked PC when I couldn't afford to bu

Reply to Washington a Republican???? in Political Machine PolMach Forums

I think in games terms Washington more some similarities to modern Republicans, and Jefferson to modern Democrats. At least, the opposite classification would be even more inappropriate. Washington and his supporters (Adams, Hamilton, Jay I think) were widely perceived as being more favorable to business interests. They also recognized that good relations with Great Britain were paramount for reasons of commerce and security. Jefferson

Reply to Expansion Suggestions in Political Machine PolMach Forums

1) Convention; as a somewhat more streamlined interface, I thought the convention could be run like this: you get a certain number of "message points", say 100, and you allocate these to different issues. Just like you were giving a speech or running an ad, you have the "I support/I oppose/Opponent Supports/Opponent Opposes" options for each issue. The number of points you put into each determines how much of you convention and/or acceptance spe