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Revision as of 11:22, 21 May 2008
Created: July 2007 as Imperial1840 and as Imperial1841 in January 2008
Creator: Gerald Todd, Maryland, USA sgttodd(a)mainecav.org
Introduction
Imperial 1841 is a variant of Avalon Hill/Hasbro's game of Diplomacy by Allan B. Calhamer. It is based on another variant by Michael David Roberts called Imperial. Both variants are global versions of the original game.
Imperial 1841 is meant as a lighter version of Imperial requiring fewer players and having fewer provinces and supply centers.
This variant begins with an historical setting, but is not designed to recreate historical events. The names and borders are based on maps from the 1840's with their some of their misspellings and misplaced borders.
Imperial 1841 replaces Imperial1840 incorporating changes gleaned from play-testing.
Statistics
Number of players: 9
- Austria-Hungary
- Great Britain
- China
- France
- Holland
- Ottoman Empire
- Russia
- Spain/Portugal
- United States of America
Number of supply centers: 111
Rules
This variant follows all of the rules in Standard Diplomacy, with the following exceptions.
Start Date: The game begins in Spring 1841. The Seasons work just like Standard Diplomacy (Spring-Fall).
Victory Conditions: To win, a single player must possess 56 supply centers at the end of any fall retreat.
Map Clarifications
Impassable: (Casbian Sea, Great Lakes, Rocky Mountains, Deep Desert, Himalayas, and Deepest Darkest Africa) These zones act exactly like Switzerland in Standard Diplomacy.
Island Chains: (The Azores, Hawaiian Islands, the Bahamas, the Antilles, Java, Seychelles, the Solomons, Maldives, Marshalls, and New Zealand)
Island Chains are coastal territories that may be entered through any adjacent sea zones. They may be occupied by either armies or navies.
Denmark & Constantinople: In order to move a Fleet directly from the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea, a player must move into Constantinople, just like Denmark in the standard game. Imperial 1841 doesn't require "ownership" of Constantinople
Land Bridges: (Florida-Bahamas; Bahamas-Cuba; Bahamas-Haiti; Cuba-Haiti; Haiti-Antilles; Antilles-Venezuela; Dublin-Edinburgh; Denmark-Sweden; Formosa-Guangdong; Kagoshima-Edo; Edo-Sapporo; Sapporo-Sakhurlin; Sakhurlin-Yongmingcheng; Malaysia-Sumatra; Sumatra-Java) These land bridges work exactly as they do in Standard Diplomacy. Though the provinces mentioned are separated by water, Both Armies and Fleets may move from one to the other.
Multiple Coasts: (Guatemala, Honduras, Columbia, Kiel, Rome, St Petersburg, Egypt, Syria, Hadramaut) These zones are played just as Spain and St Petersurg are in the standard game. Note: The Kiel canal was not built yet in 1841 which is why Kiel has two coasts in this variant.
Wraparound: (Bering Sea, West Pacific, South West Pacific, Antarctic Pacific) You will note that some sea zones can be found on both ends of the map. They are actually the same sea zones. A Fleet coming from Kuril Sea could move into the West Pacific Ocean on the right side of the map and would be adjacent to the Hawaiian Islands on the left side of the map.
1.This is a large map as most global Diplomacy maps tend to be. To make the map smaller the Atlantic was narrowed a great deal, the poles were cut down, and the ends were brought in somewhat.
2.The Earth, being a sphere, and the map being flat means going off the right side bring you onto the left side, and vice-versa. ALL of the Pacific spaces at the left side of the map are merely place-holders, to show the connections. For example: the space that RP considers to be "WPA" [Western Pacific Ocean] is located on the right side of the map -- but there is a self-same "WPA" on the left side.
3.Imperial_Builds There are 2 kinds of SCs in Imperial 1841: Home Centers and Not-Home-Centers. Players may build in any unoccupied home center they own, be it one they started with, or one they captured. RealWorld doesn't allow for this build rule, so it is currently set to allow building in any unoccupied, owned SC. The GM will have to monitor builds received to ensure builds only occur in home centers.
4.Direct movement between the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea is through Constantinople - like Denmark, ie you move BLA-CON, and next turn you move CON-AEG, and so forth. "Ownership" of Constantinople not required.
The Player Powers
at gamestart in 1841
- Austria-Hungary: Ferdinand I
- Great Britain: Albert of Hanover Prince-Consort
- China: Min Ning
- France: Louis Philip of Bourbon
- Holland: William II of Orange
- Ottoman Empire: Abdülmecid I
- Russia: Nicholas I
- Spain: Francis of Assisi of Bourbon
- Portugal: Ferdinand of Braganza
- USA: Martin van Buren
RealWorld software
RealWorld is an improved version of Realpolitik; both of which are available in the Downloads section of Diplomaticcorp.com. Imperial1841 is designed to work with RealWorld, files are not provided for RealPolitik.
RealWorld files for Imperial1841 are available in the Variants section of Diplomaticcorp.com.
The Map & Starting Positions
Map Space Names and Abbreviations
Starting Positions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Austria-Hungary/Prussia (5) forest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Berlin, ber Budapest, bud Venice, ven Vienna, vie Loango, loa ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Britain (11) red ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ London, lon ldn Dublin, dub dln Edinburgh, edi ebg Quebec, qbc Ontario, ont Bahama Islands, bah Cape Colony, cac Bombay, bom Delhi, del Malaysia, mal New South Wales, nsw ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ China (5) yellow ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beijing, bei bjg Chongqing, cho Guangdong, gua Shanghai, sgh Yongmingcheng, yon yng ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ France (9) cyan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Paris, prs pas Nantes, nan Marseilles, mar Antilles, ant Sierra Leone, sie Guinea, gui Madagascar, mgr Maldives, mld mdv Society Islands, sct soc ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Holland (7) orange ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Holland, hol Dutch Guiana, dug Natal, nat Kagoshima, kag Java, jav Borneo, bor New Guinea, ngu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ottoman Empire (5) tan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Angora, ang Bagdad, bag Constantinople, con Egypt, egy Sofia, sof ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Russia (6) charcoal ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Moskow, mos Sevastopol, sev St Petersburg, stp Warsaw, war Irkutsk, irk Orenburg, orn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Spain (9) teal ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Madrid, mad Lisbon, lis Cuba, cub Mexico City, mxc Monterey, mty Columbia, col Rio de Janeiro, rio Zanguebar, zan Phillipines, phi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ United States (4) blue ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Boston, bos Charleston, cha New Orleans, nol New York City, nyc ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Europe ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Denmark, den Greece, gre Kiel, kie Norway, nor nwy Rome, rom Rumania, rum Salerno, sal Serbia, ser Sweden, swe Armenia, arm Bavaria, bav Stuttgart, stu Bordeaux, bdx Bosnia, bsn Catalunia, cat Cadiz, cad Coruna, crn Croatia, cro Finland, fin Galicia, gal Metz, met Livonia, liv lvn Piedmont, pie Prussia, pru Rouen, rou Sicily, sic Silesia, sil Switzerland, sws Wallacia, wlc ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Africa ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Abyssinia, aby Biafra, bia Liberia, lib Tunisia, tun Ethiopia, eth Algiers, alg Bambarra, bam Caffrabia, caf Congo, cgo Cimbebas, cim Donga, don Fezzan, fez Kuar, kua Hahira, hah Mongearts, mgt Morocco, mor Mozambique, moz Nubia, nub South Africa, saf Sene Gabaia, sga Somolia, som Soudan, sou Tripoli, tri ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Asia/Pacific ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Syria, syr Ade, ade Afganistan, afg Bengal, ben Edo, edo Hue, hue Kasmir, kas Tehran, teh Tashkent, tsh Omsk, oms Bangalore, ban Celebes, cel Evenki, eve Georgia, grg Hadramaut, hdr Hyderabad, hyd Ceylon, cey cln Khiva, khv Krasnoyarsk, kra Birmah, bir Bokhara, bkh Baku, bku Lucknow, lck Madras, mds Mandlah, mdh Mecca, mec Nejaaz, nej Oman, oma Perm, prm Punjab, pun Xining, xin Kamchatka, kam Korea, kor Xinjang, xjg Mongolia, mon Tibet, tib Nei Mongol, nem Heilongjiangm, hei Liaoning, lia Fujian, fuj Hunan, hun Yunnan, yun Sakhurlin, sak Sapporo, sap Siam, sia Solomons, sol Marshalls, msi Perth, pth Northern Terr., ntr Queensland, que South Austrailia, sau New Zeland, nze Sumatra, sum Formosa, for Tai Won, tai Tabrize, tbr Yakutsk, yak ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ South America ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Amazona, ama Bolivia, bol Bahia, baa British Guiana, brg Chili, chl Cuiaba, cui Equador, equ French Guiana, frg La Plata, lap Matto Grosso, mat Montevideo, mvd Para, par pra Patagonia, pat Sacpaulo, sac Paraguay, pgy Peru, per Plauhy, pla Venezuela, vzl ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ North America ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Honduras, hon Guatemala, gtm Haiti, hai Oaxaca, oax Mazatlan, maz Coahula, coa Chihuahua, chi Republic of Texas, rot Nevada, nev Oregon Terr., org Vancouver, van Alaska, alk ala North West Terr., nwt Alberta, alb Saskatchewan, ssk Unorganized Terr., ung Iowa Territories, iow Missouri Terr., mis Appalachia, apl Florida, fla Chicago, chc Washington DC, wdc Montreal, mtl PrinceRupert Land, prt Maritimes, mrt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Atlantic Sea Zones ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hudson Bay, hud Labrador Sea, lab Greenland Sea, grs Barents Sea, bar Norwegian Sea, nwg North Sea, nth Skagerrak, ska Helgoland Bight, hel Baltic Sea, bal Gulf of Bothnia, gob English Channel, ech eng Irish Sea, iri Bay of Biscay, bob Western Mediterranean, wme wem Gulf of Lyon, gol lyo Tyrrhenian Sea, tyr Ionian Sea, ion Adriatic Sea, adr Aegean Sea, aeg Black Sea, bla Eastern Mediterranean, eme eam Canaries Seaway, cas N.Atlantic Ocean, nao Gulf of Maine, gme Bay of Florida, bof Gulf of Mexico, gom Western Carribean, wca Eastern Carribean, eca The Azores, azr Sargasso Sea, sar Mid-Atlantic Ocean, mao Amazon Basin, amb Brazilian Bight, brb Gulf of Guinea, ggu Cimbebas Coast, cbc S.Atlantic Ocean, sao Rio de Plate, rdp Drake Passage, dra Ant-Atlantic Ocean, aat ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Indian Sea Zones ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Roaring Forties, rft Mozabaique Channel, moc Horn of Africa, hoa Red Sea, red Persian Gulf, pgu Arabian Sea, ara Bay of Bengal, bgl N.E.Indian Ocean, nei N.W.Indian Ocean, nwi S.E.Indian Ocean, sei S.W.Indian Ocean, swi Ant-Indian Ocean, ain Barrier Sea, bas ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Western Pacific Sea Zones ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ant-Pacific Ocean, apa Tasman Sea, tas Coral Sea, cos Timor Sea, tim Java Sea, jas Celebes Sea, ces Gulf of Siam, gos China Sea, chs Phillipene Sea, phs Eastern Sea, ese Yellow Sea, yel Sea of Japan, soj Sea of Okhotsk, okh Kuril Sea, kur Bering Sea, bes N.W.Pacific Ocean, nwp Izu Sea, izu W.Pacific Ocean, wpa wpo Bismark Sea, bis S.W.Pacific Ocean, swp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Eastern Pacific Sea Zones ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hawaii, haw N.Pacific Ocean, npa npo Gulf of Alaska, goa N.E.Pacific Ocean, nep Gulf of Catalina, gca Gulf of California, goc E.Pacific Ocean, epa epo Gulf of Panama, gop Chilean Basin, cba S.Pacific Ocean, spa spo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
