President Forever and other 270soft games Megathread

That Jersey Guy

That Jersey Guy

There isn't enough CANADA in this thread.

Played as Reform, and did somewhat well. Can't say the same about the NDP/PC's though....

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Milo

Prussian1871 said:
So somebody other than me made a PMI scenario (yay!), 1983, and I just knew I had to exploit play SDP-Liberal Alliance as my first go at it. Here it is:

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The Liberal Revolution happened, UUP became the Official Opposition (@Gonzo), Thatcher lost her seat, and the Labour Party ceases to exist in Westminister.

Tory MPs that survived:
Robert Adley (Christchurch)
Anthony Nelson (Chichester)
Peter Horden (Horsham)
Richard Luce (Shoreham)
Richard Page (S.W. Hertfordshire) - Largest Margin of ~10%
Andrew MacKay (East Berkshire)
Ian Gilmore (Chesham and Amersham)

Gilmore is the only Tory name I can recognize, so I'd assume he becomes leader.
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How did you manage such a victory, I've never had a proper landslide in the UK version, whats your strategy?
 
Prussian1871

Prussian1871

Milo said:
How did you manage such a victory, I've never had a proper landslide in the UK version, whats your strategy?
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If you're looking to maximize your gains, I can tell you the way I do it when I play.

1. Use your ads effectively. Ads are probably the most key thing in winning the election bigly by building momentum (extremely important). The best ads if you're playing a national party are internet ads if you them available because of their ability to run across the entire UK at a very cheap cost and help you get that momentum up. While the AI will typically focus on several constituencies, you can put up momentum in basically every constituency which will overtake them over the campaign. Newspapers and leaflets are good if you're playing a regional party to focus on seats that just matter to you. Billboards are nice if you can afford them, but if you're doing them en masse odds are you won't be able to. You can use them in some marginals or safe seats you're trying to flip.

2. Spinning news stories is important in controlling your momentum and adding on to your opponents negative.

3. With over 600 constituencies, infrastructure and foot soldiers are basically useless unless you're going for a wipeout of a party.

4. If there are no debates, don't waste CPs on debate prep. If there is, be sure you win them.

5. You are basically running an ad campaign over a real campaign. You can just do one barnstorm every so often to not get the "______ is not on the Campaigns trail" story in the news.

6. Win every endorsement you can by keeping a streak of momentum. You'll have a chance to win basically every endorsement.

7. Did I mention internet ads again? Spend most of your CPs on these.

8. Use your themes to enhance your ads. If Labour has a weakness on Northern Ireland, make that a focus.

This strategy not only works for making landslides but also drastically increasing the success of major third parties like the Lib Dems or UKIP. I once brought the Lib Dems to a majority government in my 2010 campaign doing this and UKIP the largest party in the regular 2015 campaign:

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Hope this helps!
 

Milo

Cool,see I still play it likes its the US, so I do rallies and barnstorming, and I just did billboards. I only tend to do leadership,intergrity and experience in ads. My us tactics is to built up my infrastrure and focus on endorsements which is slightly harder in the UK version ,though hopefully can try and go for a landslide
 
Prussian1871

Prussian1871

Oppo said:
Presumably Kasich, but the game really picks the winner randomly.
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No it doesn't. Each scenario has a majority in Congress set in which can be changed, and if the person who's party holds the majority makes the top 3 they automatically win. If a party who controls congress does not have a candidate who makes it to the top three, the candidate with the highest amount of electoral votes will automatically win.
 

SetofEgypt

Fear, Socialism and Web Ads on the Campaign Trail of '08​
Basically I ran a bunch of negative ads on Clinton and positive ads on myself (playing as Obama). I basically won all the contests except for New Hampshire and South Carolina which Biden won. When I was finished with the primaries I picked Bayh and focused on the key states such as NC,IN,ND and FL. I was winning kind of handily so I shifted to the far left on a majority of the issues including Health Care and Government Intervention. Even after that I was still winning but barely. I decided not to use ads and campaign normally. Republicans got a contested convention and picked McCain over Romney in late July. He started to lead me in NC,PA and Florida so I got scared that I was going to loose so the last 2 weeks I leaked 2 scandals and pumped 6-10 television ads nationally and 10 radio ads into each swing state. This is the result. I didn't want to win this handily but I guess ads are a big part of this. If you want to win 08' legit then I suggest no ads. Not only does America get there first president they get there first openly socialist president too:p​

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Barack Obama/Evan Bayh 53.22%
John McCain/Fred Thompson: 43.01%
 
Gorrister

Gorrister

Something for @Gonzo - Played the very good 2010 scenario as the UUP. Won four seats (Upper Bann, Belfast East squee, South Antrim, Strangford) and came very close to winning North Down and Belfast South. Quite a difference from OTL.​

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Gonzo

Gonzo

spookyscaryskeletons said:
Something for @Gonzo - Played the very good 2010 scenario as the UUP. Won four seats (Upper Bann, Belfast East squee, South Antrim, Strangford) and came very close to winning North Down and Belfast South. Quite a difference from OTL.​

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Oh my, I'm not sure how that is even possible. Then again Paula Bradshaw not being an MP is quite good. I wonder if Reggie would stay on in this scenario?
 
Gorrister

Gorrister

Gonzo said:
Oh my, I'm not sure how that is even possible. Then again Paula Bradshaw not being an MP is quite good. I wonder if Reggie would stay on in this scenario?
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She came closeish - about seven points out (though in fairness I started out with an even worse margin). TBH it may have been a better idea to go full force on North Down or try North Antrim instead. At least Killer Mike is in parliament this time.

Maybe, given that he's managed to pull off one hell of a spectacular comeback TTL.
 
Gonzo

Gonzo

spookyscaryskeletons said:
She came closeish - about seven points out (though in fairness I started out with an even worse margin). TBH it may have been a better idea to go full force on North Down or try North Antrim instead. At least Killer Mike is in parliament this time.

Maybe, given that he's managed to pull off one hell of a spectacular comeback TTL.
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Fair point there.

I guess so - what was the overall seat numbers besides the UUP and the Shinners. [OH MY GOODNESS IT'S GERRY ADAMS IN THE TOP 4, IS HE HERE TO SPREAD HIS RADICAL REPUBLICAN AGENDA]
 
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