Re: [eia] bids

["J.J. Young" <jjy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

When replying to an escrow message, like the one for bids, always put what
you want to say at the _bottom_ of the reply message, not the top.
Otherwise your entry will come up blank when the ecsrow is revealed.  Not
good, especially in the case of bidding.

-JJY

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Uckelman" <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "public list for an Empires in Arms game" <eia@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 1:24 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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