Imperial 1841 Diplomacy variant files A variant based on Imperial Diplomacy by Michael David Roberts Map, variant, and Realpolotik files by Gerald Todd, July 2007 Updated: May 24, 2008 This is a global variant that begins in 1841. It was designed to provide a lighter version of Imperial Diplomacy with fewer players and a somewhat simpler map. Like Imperial Diplomacy, this variant also begins with an historical setting, but it is not designed to recreate historical events. The names and borders are based on maps from the 1841's with their misspellings and misplaced borders. Note, a great deal of Africa was simply unknown in 1841. Some colonies and outposts may be a bit off, like the Austro-Prussian home center in Loango, but this is a game and some stretching of history went into making it playable. 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 a majority of supply centers (55) at the end of any fall retreat. Supply Centers: 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. Realpolitik 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. 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 considered coastal territories that may be entered through any adjacent sea zones. They may be occupied by either armies or fleets. Fleets can also convoy armies while they occupy an island chain. Some island chains are connected by land-bridge to neighboring coastal zones, ie: Bahamahs. In order to move a Fleet directly from the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea, a player must move into Constantinople, just as the standard rules define Denmark. Imperial 1841 does not 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 yet built 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. 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. The Player Powers Austria-Hungary: Ferdinand I of Hapsburg-Lorraine Great Britain: Albert of Hanover [Saxe-Coburg-Gotha] (Prince-Consort) China: Min Ning, Qing France: Louis Philip of Bourbon-Orleans Holland: William II of Orange-Nassau Ottoman Empire: Abdülmecid I, Osman Russia: Nicholas I, Romanov Spain: Francis of Assisi of Bourbon (King - Consort) /Portugal: Ferdinand of Braganza [Saxe-Coburg-Gotha] (King-Consort) USA: Martin van Buren (President) *************************************** ** Map Space names and abbreviations ** *************************************** Starting Positions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Austria-Hungary/Prussia (5) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Berlin, ber Budapest, bud Venice, ven Vienna, vie Loango, loa ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Britain (11) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beijing, bei bjg Chongqing, cho Guangdong, gua Shanghai, sgh sha Yongmingcheng, yon yng ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ France (9) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Holland, hol Dutch Guiana, dug Natal, nat Kagoshima, kag Java, jav Borneo, bor New Guinea, ngu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ottoman Empire (5) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Angora, ang Bagdad, bag Constantinople, con Egypt, egy Sofia, sof ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Russia (6) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Moskow, mos Sevastopol, sev St Petersburg, stp Warsaw, war Irkutsk, irk Orenburg, orn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Spain (9) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Madrid, mad Lisbon, lis Cuba, cub Mexico City, mxc Monterey, mty Columbia, col Rio de Janeiro, rio Zanguebar, zan Phillipines, phi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ United States (4) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Boston, bos Charleston, cha New Orleans, nol new 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~