Oh and here is the link to the variant on variantbank
http://www.variantbank.org/results/rules/o/original.htm

I'd say France's position is MUCH stronger thanks to the space between London and the Channel. Italy and Turkey look much weaker; Italy thanks to the lack of a guaranteed build and Turkey thanks to that useless home center in Armenia.

It would be interesting to play this as a variant, though. Pray you don't draw Italy.

Hmm...I think on this map constellations like in WWI can easliy happen...espessially France and GB could work well together against France and Turkey and Austria against Russia...

France and GB work against France? I'm not sure how that would work...

Yes...there is a big revolution and the french king asks his british friend for help...no, i was talking about Germany...
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Germany and GB work against France or France and GB work against Germany?

So: because of the territories between them, France and GB wont attack each other, it is easier for them to make an alliance against Germany, because they can reach it very fast...
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Okay, I get it now. Sorry for the confusion :D

no problem...it was my mistake...
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Lets see a Lepanto on this map! :D

I actually see now Diplomat33, that a Lepanto would work better on this variant than on the original because Italy would be more desperate to get SCs without Tunis...

It has always kind of bugged me that Munich was a SC when Ruhr was not. Ruhr was SOOOOO much more important than Swabia, Bavaria and Baden in 1900.

Italy just looks so screwed. Rome and Naples have literally nowhere to go. I'm not sure how much stronger France is, since Italy pretty much has to head France's way.

How do you do a Lepanto with one fleet?

1. The object of the game is to gain 18 military units on the board.

2. Each Power except England and Russia starts with 2 armies in its capital and 1 fleet in its navy base. England starts with 2 Fleets and 1 Army, all in London as London is both England's capital and navy base. Russia starts with 2 armies in her capital and 1 fleet in each of her two navy bases (the Russian navy base in StP is on the south coast only).

3. A power may have any number of armies in its own capital and any number of fleets in its own navy base - however they are only worth a total of one when defending the capital/navy base. No more than one unit may exist in any other space. Multiple units in one space may not support one another, nor may more than one of them support the same unit outside that space.

4. An army may not enter its own capital if that space is occupied by one of that powers own fleets and a fleet may not enter its own navy base if that space is occupied by one of its own armies. However, this does not prevent the building of new units in their proper spaces.

5. New armies always start in the capital, new fleets always start in the navy base (Russia must specify which). If a Power loses its navy base it may not build any fleets until the navy base is recaptured. If a Power loses its capital, it should designate another home supply centre as its capital, though this status will automatically revert to the original capital if it is recovered.

6. The convoy rule in its modern form does not exist. If an army and a fleet of the same nationality are in the same space the army may be ordered to Board ("B") the fleet and the fleet may be ordered to move that same season. A fleet may enter a coastal space occupied by an army provided that the army is ordered to Board the fleet that turn. Similarly an army may enter a coastal space occupied by a fleet provided it is also ordered to Board the fleet that turn. Once an army boards a fleet, neither can support the other and the army has no fighting power.

A fleet carrying an army may enter a coastal space. It may disembark the army into that coastal space provided that the fleet leaves the coastal space in question that move. If the fleet fails to leave the space then the army remains on board. A fleet carrying an army may receive support and any support offered to the army being carried is treated as support for the combined A/F.

7. The coastal crawl is permitted. Thus fleets may swap spaces provided different coasts are used (eg. F(Spa)nc-Por; F(Por)-Spa sc.

i knew it existed somewhere, but i couldn't find that much... i only removed hel in my variant attempting a similar thing. Go for it!

I think (7) should have been instated for the final game.

How would you make the special rules for capitals and naval bases?

I wouldn't