Re: [eia] bids

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thus spake "J.J. Young":
> Welcome, Jayson !  My name's J.J. Young; I'm a high-school physics teacher
> from Columbus, Ohio.
> 
> Things to consider when bidding:
> 
> 1.)  Whatever you bid will be added to the base number of victory points
> needed to win playing your major power.  For those without access to the EIA
> data charts, those base numbers are
> Britain: 370, France: 400, Russia: 335, Austria: 330
> Prussia: 320, Spain: 325, Turkey: 315
> 
> 2.)  In an 1805-1815 campaign game, there will be 44 economic phases; that
> is, 44 opportunities to collect victory points.
> 
> 3.)  The number of victory points collected by a major power doing average
> on the Political Status Display is 7 VPs per economic phase.  Some major
> powers find it easy to maintain a higher level than this; with other powers
> it is more difficult.
> 
> 4.)  If a player collects enough VPs to reach his adjusted goal before the
> end of 1815, the game ends early.  But when this happens, or when time runs
> out, each player can add their major power's home nation manpower and
> conquered manpower to the VPs they have collected, to see if that player
> "makes the cut" and is a game winner.
> 
> That's my two cents.  Happy bidding !
> 
> -JJY

Also Prussia gets to collect VP for saved manpower.

-- 
J.


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