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WW1 Basic Version

 Victory Conditions

 The game is 12 turns long, with a truncated 13^th turn allowing for a Central Powers counterattack to re-take the Ruhr or Berlin. Victory is achieved by forcing the surrender of major enemy nations. The major nations are Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, England, France, Italy, Russian, and the United States. The first six surrender through the loss of either of the two underlined resource point locations. Loss is considered to happen after enemy occupation followed by a friendly turn in which the owning nation fails to recapture the resource point area. Russia is different in that four underlined areas must be captured rather than just one. The USA may not be conquered.

 Instant Victory

 The Entente wins automatically if Germany surrenders before turn 12 as described above. The Central Powers win automatically if 2 Entente major nations and no Central Powers major nations have surrendered prior to turn 12.

Full Game Victory

 Use this procedure if there is not an instant victory by turn 12. Finish turn 12, and if it would make a difference the Central Powers part of turn 13. Add up the number of Entente major nations which have surrendered and subtract the number of Central Powers nations which have surrendered. This is the VP total, use this number on the chart below:

 Germany has not surrendered, VP = 2:         German Decisive Victory

Germany has not surrendered, VP = 1:          German Tactical Victory

Germany has not surrendered, VP = 0:          German Tactical Defeat

Germany has not surrendered, VP = (-) #:      German Decisive Defeat

Germany surrenders, VP = 2:                            German Pyrhic Victory

Germany surrenders, VP = 1:                            Entente Pyrhic Victory

Germany surrenders, VP = 0:                            Entente Tactical Victory

Germany surrenders, VP = (-) #:                      Entente Decisive Victory

 Pre-game Deployment:

 The Central Powers are Germany and Austria-Hungary, they start the game at war with the Entente consisting of Russia, France, England, Belgium and Serbia. Unit deployment is in four steps. Owning players place units in the order described below:

 Place all infantry with fixed locations, listed on the “1 infantry in @ location”. Place the German dreadnoughts and submarines in Helgoland, and the British dreadnoughts and submarines in the North Sea. Place the Belgian and Serbian 4 infantry in their home countries. Place an English MS on each of 2 English convoy area, and a French MS in the Bay of Biscay.

 Next France deploys its 10 infantry anywhere in European France, and its dreadnought either in the English Channel, or Brittany, or Marseille, or anywhere in the Mediterranean except the Adriatic. Russia deploys one MS in either the Baltic or St Petersburg, and the other MS in either the Ionian Sea or Sevastopol.

After this deploy all German and Austro-Hungarian infantry. Place the Austrian dreadnought  in either the Adriatic or an Austrian coastal region. Place German merchant ships anywhere desired.

Finally deploy all 8 Russian infantry, place remaining Entente merchant ships anywhere you wish, and the game is ready to play.

Formerly neutral nations will enter the war as per the turn record chart. At the start of the friendly player turn deploy any newly activated allied countries units as desired in their home country, naval units may be deployed adjacent to their home country. Note that Turkey and Bulgaria will join the Central Powers, while Italy, Romania, Greece and the United States will join the Entente.