Your Electoral Strategy acts as a way to give you a concise overview of all the states, and to help you plan strategy.
Your crusaders also use your electoral strategy as a guide when deciding where to campaign.
To set your electoral strategy
- In the main screen, click “Strategy”.
- In the Electoral Strategy dialog box, to remove states from your electoral strategy, select the state(s) in the top portion and click “Remove”.
- To add states, click the state(s) in the lower portion of the dialog box and click “Add”.
If you start with Primaries, there will be two Strategies you can view, your Primaries Strategy and your Electoral College Strategy (for the General Election).
Understanding The Strategy dialog box
For the Electoral College Strategy, the columns in the Strategy dialog are:
- Column 1: The number of electoral votes a state has.
- Column 2: State name.
- Column 3: The number of percentage points you are ahead/behind the most significant opponent in that state. For example, +5 means you are 5 percentage points ahead, as would be the case if you had 50% and the most significant opponent had 45%.
- Column 4: (with a ‘P’) The number of times the presidential candidate has visited the state. After more than a few barnstormings, the candidate’s Power for barnstorming drops. For information on Barnstorming, see Presidential Daily Activities.
- Column 5: (with a ‘VP’) How many times the vice-presidential candidate has barnstormed in the state (and similarly, after more than a few barnstormings, the vice-presidential candidate’s Power for barnstorming drops).
- Column 6: A description of your prospects for the state (Very Poor, Poor, Fair, Good, and Excellent).
For the Primaries Strategy, the columns in the Strategy dialog are:
- Column 1: The number of delegates for your party’s primaries a state has.
- Column 2: State name.
- Column 3: The number of percentage points you are ahead/behind the most significant opponent in that state. For example, +5 means you are 5 percentage points ahead, as would be the case if you had 50% and the most significant opponent had 45%.
- Column 4: (with a ‘P’) The number of times the Presidential candidate has visited the state. After more than 5 times barnstorming, the candidate’s Power for barnstorming drops.
- Column 5: A description of your prospects for the state (Very Poor, Poor, Fair, Good, and Excellent).
- Column 6: When the primary or caucuses for your party happen in that state.
- Column 7: How many days are left before the primary or caucuses for your party in that state.
- Column 8: Whether the primary is open or closed. ‘O’ means it is open, ‘C’ means it is closed. If your party has caucuses in that state, it will say ‘C’ as caucuses are treated as closed primaries in the game.
I’m in a game in the United States - 2008 default game. I’m playing as John Edwards, but I gave him 100 PIP’s with candidate editor to see how different the game would be. It is early March, and I have eliminated all my primary opposers after super-teusday, by offering for them to withdraw. The Republican Primary is still very close.
Now I’m turning my attention to defeating the Republicans, I set my electoral college stratagy, but it dosn’t seem to be working. For instance, in Ohio, it says in the third column it says +30% but the percentages from the map for the state of Ohio are: Edwards: 44.4% Republican: 41.6% Libertarian 0.3% Baldwin 0.5% Undecided 13.2%. Is there a setting I need to change? I am sure that I am looking at the electoral college stratagy and not primary, and everything simple like that.
Thanks,
Tanner
Hi Tanner,
It sounds like it is showing that percentage because the Republican primaries haven’t been decided. Therefore, probably any given opponent candidate has a relatively small percentage. Once a Republican winner emerges, the numbers should change.