Re: [eia] bids

["Jayson Abbott" <jaysona@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greeting Gents;

    My name is Jayson Abbott and I'm a domestic manager from Madison, WI.
So blame Joel, except he's running off to hide in Amsterdam for the next
four years.  I've been war gaming since 1969 and I've played EiA since it
came in a pink box from Australia.

Jayson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Uckelman" <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "public list for an Empires in Arms game" <eia@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 12:24 AM
Subject: Re: [eia] bids


> 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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