EiA:SixPlayerNationalism

Six player variants

Great Britain as a non-player country

Within this document the term "naval superiority" is taken to mean the following:

Naval superiority	Britain holds naval superiority if within the last three months Britain has not lost ships in fleet combat.

Setup

British corps II, III and Cavalry are placed at full strength in Flanders-Holland. All other forces are under Turkish control until the Crimean war ends or 24 months have passed. After this Britain reverts to rules below.

Turkey also gets 5$ each economic phase from Britain and may assume any supply is paid by Britain if it is technically possible to do so. British $ is not tracked.

British leaders are not available, except naval leaders.

British builds do not join the Crimean war.

As Crimean war ends, Denmark and Portugal become British minors.

British Builds

December economic phase, each year (except the first such economic phase) Britain builds the following forces:

• Ships:
  • Amount of money spent equals 100+10 for Denmark/Portugal, -60 if at war with America, plus any gifts received from other players.
  • Type of ships:' Roll 1d10 and add 1 for each previous roll. Britain builds ships of the appropriate type with all available money, then the next ship type below and so on until all money is spent or no ships can be built with what is left.

Roll	Ship
11+	Ironclad or Steamship if IC not available
9-10	Steamship
6-8	Heavy ship
2-5	Ship of the Line
1	Frigate

• Land forces: Britain builds 2 corps. The corps built are the cheapest ones available.
  • If all British corps are built Britain starts rebuilding any corps not at full strength in the same priority as with building corps.
• Greece also builds forces. Roll a die. On a high roll, Greece builds a corps. Greece begins with no troops.
  • Greece has four infantry corps and one cavalry corps. The cavalry corps is built last.
• Holland also builds forces. If Britain controls both Holland and Flanders the corps is built or rebuilt if not at full strength.
  • If Flanders has been lost the Dutch corps is built or rebuilt on a high roll.

British Deployment

While at peace, Britain deploys forces in following priority:

• Flanders-Holland (if controlled) 3 corps + Dutch corps
• Greece (if controlled) 2 corps + 2 Greek corps
• The rest are placed in England (reserve)

Greek corps can not enter Turkey, Russia, Sweden or Norway.

If Britain is at war, control of British forces goes to:

1. The country whose call Britain responded to.
2. To anyone at war with the major Britain is at war with.
3. Unless Turkey controls any of Transylvania, Podolia, Crimea – Turkey.
4. Austria, Sardinia, Turkey, Prussia, Russia, Italy, France, Germany

Forces available:

• Froces deployed to Flanders/Holland are only available against France, Austria and Prussia.
• Forces deployed to Greece are only available against Sardinia, Austria, Russia and Turkey.
• Forces in reserve are available against anyone and are deployed at a rate of one corps per economic phase unless Britain declared war, then 3 corps are available at the beginning and then one per economic phase.
  • Reserve corps are deployed in the naval phase into a naval zone from which a landing is possible or in a friendly harbour.

• British forces in reserve are available only if Britain has naval superiority.
• British leaders are permanently attached to corps as follows:
  • Lord Cardigan – Cavalry Corps.
  • Lord Raglan – I Corps.
  • Williams – VI Corps.

Britain, Allies and War

Britain accepts alliance offers from anyone, but no PP is gained. This does not limit Britain in any way, but allows both sides to call to allies and money to be given to Britain. If Turkey and Britain are allied Turkey gets 5$ each economic phase Unless Turkey controls any of Transylvania, Podolia, Crimea.

• If declared war upon, Britain calls all allies.
• If an ally calls Britain against an attacker, Britain responds only if the defender is Turkey unless Turkey controls any of Transylvania, Podolia, Crimea. Britain also responds if the attacker is dominant. Otherwise, Britain breaks alliance.

Britain declares war only if all British corps are built. The priority is declare war on:

1. Anyone controlling Denmark
2. Anyone controlling Portugal
3. Anyone controlling Greece
4. Any dominant major power
5. Anyone controlling Sweden
6. Anyone controlling Norway
7. Major with largest fleet (minimum 100$ value)
8. Anyone with 500$ or more in the bank

If Britain has naval superiority and any major power has fleets at sea or in blockade boxes during the Declarations of war step Britain has a chance to declare war on that major power whether or not all British corps are built. Britain rolls a die: on a result of 6+ a war is declared. Each additional fleet beyond the first gives a +1 to the die roll. Fleets in the Black Sea or the Dardanelles do not count against this.

Exception: Britain never declares war on a major that has more fleet value than Britain.

If Britain is at war with a dominant major power, Britain gives 5$ to any British allies that are also at war with that nation unless they have not participated in field or naval battle with that nation within three months. If the ally has its capital occupied, Britain gives an extra 10$ to it.

Peace:

If offerred peace, Britain accepts conditional peace, unless responding to call to allies and offerred separate peace or if the surrendering major power is dominant.

If Britain gains surrender it chooses peace terms in the order of preference:

1. Removal of fleets if value of enemy fleet is at least 300$. (If a choice must be made between fleet counters, Britain removes the two most valuable counters available.)
2. The following minor countries in the order of Portugal, Denmark, Greece, Sweden, Egypt, Norway.
3. Prohibit trade with Britain
4. Extended peace
5. Reparations
6. Marriage of royal houses

Britain passes any further options.

Surrender:

If Britain is at war with an enemy or coalition that has at least 50% more value in their fleets and Britain has less than 60 ships, Britain surrenders conditionally. If a conditional surrender is refused Britain can be brought to an unconditional surrender if the enemy or coalition has at least 100% more valut in their fleets and Britain has less than 40 ships.

If Britain surrenders conditionally he forbids removal of corps from the peace terms. British provinces can never be taken as peace terms but minor provinces owned by Britain can be demanded. Greece counts as a single minor province but the Greek free state cannot be formed by any conqueror. If Britain regains control of Greece the free state is automatically reformed.

Royal Navy and War

Whenever a major at war with Britain moves fleets in any sea areas except in the Black Sea the Royal Navy tries to intercept the fleet. On a roll of 1 the Royal Navy intercepts the fleets and attacks. If a fleet at war with Britain is left at sea at their naval step the Royal Navy attacks the fleet(s).

Fleet combat:

• Royal Navy always uses a fleet with the maximum possible value to attack the enemy and the best possible admiral commands the fleet.
• The enemy fleet composition and chit is revealed.
• If the Royal Navy outumbers the enemy 4:1 it picks Melee as its chit.
• If the Royal Navy outnumbers the enemy 2:1 roll a die. On a high roll Royal Navy picks Melee, on a low roll Line.
• Otherwise the Royal Navy picks Line unless the enemy has more Ironclads, Steamships and Heavy Ships in total, in which case roll a die, high roll picks Melee, low roll picks Line.

If the Royal Navy has an Ironclad available in combat it is used to ram the most valuable enemy ship available, unless the enemy ship cannot be sunk (eg. enemy Ironclad has torpedo nets or such) in which case the next-best enemy ship type is chosen. The Royal Navy ships always attempt to evade ramming attempts.

If Britain holds naval superiority the enemy cannot trace naval supply.

British Corps and War

The British corps in Flanders-Holland, Britain etc are only designated to the relevant provinces and are setup only if Britain enters into war. The controller sets up the corps to the provinces they are designated into but is not limited to any particular cities or areas in them.

If there are enemy corps in an area when Britain enters into war against said enemy the corps designated into that area are deployed to attack those corps first.

British corps do not drop any garrison anywhere ever. All British corps are built with the best possible factors with the exception of the Cavalry corps which is always built with light cavalry.

Holland: If Britain controls Holland the Holland corps is available to Britain. If Britain controls both Holland and Flanders the Dutch corps is rebuilt every December economic phase. If only Holland is available the corps is rebuilt on a high roll.

The Dutch corps can drop factors into garrison in Flanders and Holland. Greek corps can drop factors into garrison in Greece and Macedonia. The garrison factors are not removed from the board when Britain is at peace.

British controlled corps cannot be voluntary eliminated.

British Supply and War

A British depot can be placed in any sea area except in the Black Sea, friendly port, British supply source or to extend an existing supply chain in which case usual depot creation rules apply. Britain only has 5 depots available.

All British corps that are within range of a British depot are always in supply. Britain pays for at most two corps owned by the controlling major nation that are stacked with a British corps.

Port Raids

If Great Britain is at war with a major power and any other major power can deduce that a fleet or fleets belonging to the hostile major power are viable targets for a British port raid, Great Britain executes a port raid with all the ships it has.

A fleet is a viable target if all the following requirements are fulfilled:

• Great Britain has naval superiority.
• The port is accessible.
• The number of ships in the fleet(s) is at least half the number of port guns in the port.
• Great Britain must have a number of ships at least equal to the number of enemy ships plus the number of port guns plus 50.
  • In this calculation hostile Ironclads are counted as 10 ships.

British Technology Upgrades

Britain purches purchases any naval technology upgrades as soon as they are available and the breech-loading rifle technology as soon as someone else has purchased it.

British Trade

Britain trades with all nations if at peace with them.

American Trade War

If there are no active peace deals forbidding a major nation from trading with America, Britain makes peace with America.