EIA:Nopat house rules

These additional house rules are used in games played at Nopat club. Most of these rules have been traditionally used at Excalibur too but have never been written or have since been removed.

On this page the of use notation "rule 1.2.3" refers to the respective section of Empires in Arms game rules (with errata)

Political

Gaining control of a minor country

IF (all following conditions must be met):

• a major power (aggressor) declares a war on a minor country, and
• that minor country has corps markers, and
• a major power that has gained the control (controller) of said minor country, is already at war with the aggressor or decides to use a rule 4.6.5 to declare war against aggressor as an intervention.

THEN:

• controlled minor country becomes a free-state of it's controller
• the minor country will retain it's free-state status until it has been conquered by other major power or it's control has been changed due rule 4.6.1 and rule 10.5.2 (controller in instability/fiasco zone during a minor country control step).
• the minor country won't return to neutral if war between aggressor and controller ends.

NOTE:

• a minor country that does not have forces, does not become a free-state or a conquered minor of it's controller, the war between the minor country and the aggressor will end in either aggressor conquering the minor country or in lapse of war.

= Holy Roman Empire

In phase I and II scenarios where HRE rule is in place a controlled free-state, that belongs to HRE, reverts back to neutrality if the war between it's controller and aggressor comes to an end. In such case the minor country in question can not be a target of a declaration of war by it's former aggressor for 12 months.