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Their time on film seemed as though it had may have run its course: their gags weren’t holding up anymore, and as performers not particularly adept at directing or writing, Marx trademark mischief was all they had. Chico and Groucho spent time on the radio, while Harpo expatriated himself to the Soviet Union for a time. The Marx brothers temporarily went their own ways following its release. Viewers lauded its political sentiments and timing during The Great Depression and it yielded a lukewarm reception. But Duck Soup wasn’t a huge hit at the time of its release. The pictures were chaotic and anarchic, full of wild vaudevillian mischief and crass humor. Paramount didn’t tell them what to do, or work with them to conform to any specific artistic structure. There are those that feel the Marx Brothers’ films at Paramount are the ones that best represent the comedy family in their honest form. Where Duck Soup saw the end of the brothers’ partnership with Paramount Pictures (they made five films with the studio), it was also the final entry containing Zeppo, the fourth Marx who would retire the act after Duck Soup and continue his career as an incredibly successful theatrical agent and engineer (he basically invented the first FitBit in the late ‘60s). Both find their place on countless cinema scholars “Top 10” lists, especially in the comedy genre. The debate between the two stems from many reasons- Duck Soup is arguably the brothers’ funniest picture, yet A Night at the Opera is their most famous. Critics usually contend the greatest Marx Brothers film to be either Duck Soup (1931) or A Night at the Opera (1935). Taking a territory in India gives factions that are based in India a -10 modifier, but doesn’t give a modifier for factions that are based in Europe. Taking a territory from another faction bumps that modifier up to a -60. However, this -10 modifier isn’t applied to everyone. This isn’t affected by the difficulty level of the game you play either. If for example you declare war as Prussia and proceed to rampage across the continent, you will gain a -10 modifier per territory you take over. Territorial Expansion however, isn’t as cut and dried as it first appears. It can range between +10 and -10 or so, and varies significantly more under a republic, and can manage to stay very constant under an Absolute Monarchy.įor modifiers that change on a turn by turn basis, the one that everyone immediately stumbles upon as soon as they make their imperial ambitions know is territorial expansion. Depending upon what government type you have, this can sometimes vary, but this is affected by your leader (monarch or president), and by the head of your cabinet. And lastly, National Leaders Command Respect. Same or different government type gives between a +30 and a -30, as does same or different religions. Alliance, which is a +60 to +80 modifier. This can be either a negative modifier, or a positive modifier (Like between Great Britain and Poland-Lithuania). Playing as Great Britain there are Historical Grievances with France), which vary according to the factions you’re playing as. War, which gives between a -70 and a -200 modifier to diplomacy. Some modifiers are constant and do not change, while others change on a turn by turn basis. There are a number of modifiers for like or dislike. This is given in + and – modifiers, which the next part will now go into talking about. If you hover over a province, it tells you what the owner of that province feels about the faction that is selected on the left, and why they feel that way. This map shows every province, and it shades it white if the faction selected owns it, gray if the faction that controls that province is indifferent to the selected faction, red if it dislikes selected faction and green if it likes the selected faction. |
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