Can you move from NSu to LSu?
O.o

Thanks airbone :))

"American Conflict of 1862" -- not a gunboat, not anon, gotta play like a regular game and say who you are!!
gameID=5948

I like GBs!

Oh no! Not another American variant, now mine will be less spectacular when I finally get around to making it.

Also....could someone make a game < 3 ...? I can't make any without having at least 5.

:DD

@GOD - NSu... Am I missing something?

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:))

Oh, my mistake...i was talking abou LSu and LHu...
^.^

Gavin, which are the starting units? or does the game start with a build phase?

LSu and LHu are connected just like Fall of the American Empire.

No build phase. Units start in the SCs without boxes around them.

I meant which kind of units. All the starting SCs are coastal...are the starting units all fleets? is there any army? where?

The Alaskan fleet in Archangelsk seems like a bit of an afterthought...it can't do anything without moving at least three spaces.

yeh, I would not want to draw Russia in this game ...

CSA isn't in a great position either

France looks strongest to me.

So the SC on the western corner of Cuba is for Havana, not the Str of Yukatan? But the SC in southern florida is for Str of Florida? Really hard to tell, even on the big map. Probably should mention that in the description if not change the location of the SC dot...

Ok here's my thoughts on comments received to date:

@guaroz - good suggestion. I'll update the rules later today to reflect what units start where
@2ndwhiteline & rancher- aha you're not thinking hard enough. I personally think Russia is in fact in one of the better positions.
@airborne - as with Russia, the CSA's position will all come down to Diplomacy. Let's put it this way, the CSA has a much better chance of survival or even winning having European powers entering what was up to then just a civil war.
@gopher - potentially, but a good playing Dip'er will always over-run an average playing France.
@raapers - all SCs are land based in this variant. The map is broadly based on Fall of the American Empire so you'll see the same issue generally there. That said the SC's you mention are correctly positioned as Florida and Havana. There is no SCs in strait of Florida or strait of yuchatan.

Most of all - enjoy!

Thanks. Just confused because Hawaii can be taken just by moving to the islands, but the locations of the dots made it seem like the relevant SC was in the water.

If anyone's up for a gunboat of this map, here's one!
http://vdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=5982

gman....

Y U NO MAKE IT CHEAPER BUY IN?

King Atom....
Y U NO HAVE ANY POINTS?

I'm pretty sure I explained this at some point....if not, just read my profile. I think I put something in there about something like this to some degree.

I don't see anything about it on your profile. You should put an explanation there.

UPDATED!

Thanks Ambassador! :-)
May I be so bold and ask you to mention the total number of SCs in the rules? I mean odd or even. I just want to know whether a 2-way draw is possible or not, without being forced to count all the dots on the map. This total number would also let me know whether 34 SCs is the "standard" victory condition (half+1), or it is more/less than half as some variant does.
Everybody knows, before the game starts, that Classic has 34SCs and therefore 2-ways are possible and VC is half+1. Why shouldn't we know this for every new variant?
Thank you.

Probably because I've never counted them myself Guaroz!

Haha yes! :-)
But the last one was just a rethorical question. The good one was: "Could you mention the total number of SCs in the rules?"

Hi everyone - just picked up that while Kentucky appears as an SC on the map, its not contributing toward SC counts. I've sent Oli a message to get the fix in the Development Lab uploaded to the live site to correct this.