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[Heron TSG]

I have decided that Countries at War shall be avenged! For too long has this game suffered under the weight of inactivity! For too long has this game been overcomplicated and broken! I shall send forth this game into the Forum, so that it may attract players who will also stick with it.

Before this game can begin however, I must create the data! I'll be posting several maps.

Spoiler: Map of all countries (click to show/hide)

This map simply shows which countries are in play. No country or island that is not on this map may be invaded or occupied. A country is defined by being a contiguous region with only 1 color. No nation borders another with the same color. To simplify things, many tiny islands have been erased, although many small land-based countries yet live. Waters with dashed lines indicated that the waters connect a country spread across multiple isles or regions.

Major changes in countries: Alaska, Greenland, Sardinia, Corsica, Prussia, and Taiwan are countries. The Falkland isles are owned by Argentina.

NOTE: Egypt's Suez and Panama's Panama Canals can be moved through for free.

Spoiler: Map of All Countries AND Sea Zones (click to show/hide)

If a nation borders a sea zone, it can place ships within that sea zone. If you have questions about if a nation is bordering a zone or not, simply ask me. If you think that I missed labeling a sea, check to see if it isn't contiguous with a region that has a number in it.

Spoiler: Income Map (click to show/hide)

This map will define the income of each country.
Red - $5000
Orange - $3000
Yellow - $2000
Green - $1000

Spoiler: Size Group map (click to show/hide)

This map defines how much movement it takes to move through a country.
4 = 3 movement
3 = 2 movement
2 = 1 movement
1 = 1 movement

Spoiler: Buildings (click to show/hide)

Barbed Wire - Cost: 250*Country Size - Effect: Adds 1 to movement needed to traverse country. Limit one per country.

AA Emplacements - $500 - Effect: Acts as stationary unit. Super-effective against all aircraft, totally ineffective against all others.

Naval Mines - $500 - Effect: Acts as stationary unit. Super-effective against all ships, totally ineffective against all others.

Minefields - $500 - Effect: Acts as stationary unit. Super-effective against all ground troops, totally ineffective against all others.

Bunkers - $500 Land Units attacking a unit in a bunker get +1 to their roll, making it more difficult to kill the entrenched troops.

NOTE ON DEFENSIVE BUILDINGS - They always attack first, and every unit is medium against them.

Spoiler: The Playing Field (click to show/hide)

This map shows what countries are owned by whom.

Inteuniso - El Salvador
Wimdit - Indonesia
Tarran - Germany
Cheddarius - U.S.A.
Maxicaxi - Sweden
Jesse - South Africa

Spoiler: Current Money (click to show/hide)

Inteuniso -          $20000     Income per turn - $19000
Wimdit -            $19000        Income per turn - $19000
Tarran -              $42000     Income per turn - $42000
Cheddarius          $29000     Income per turn - $28000
Maxicaxi -           $17000     Income per turn - $16000
Jesse-                $17000     Income per turn - $17000

DISCLAIMER: If you don't know what country it is you're looking at, Google it. By partaking in this game, you accept that you will have to be able to view the map (important if you're on dial-up!), manage yourself properly, and follow the rules of combat.

[Heron TSG]

POST CLAIMED FOR UNITS! UNITS ALL AROUND!

Combat units cost $2,000 each. Transports cost $1000 each.

NOTE ON MOVEMENT - For movement, assume every soldier is on every border of your country at once. It only costs movement to enter a country, not to leave it. Countries cannot be traveled partway through, either. For example, a tank in the USA could move north to Canada for its whole turn. Alternatively, it could move south to Mexico, followed by a movement to Guatemala, which totals 3 movement.

Spoiler: Unit Chart Key (click to show/hide)

Green - Super effective!
Yellow - Normally effective.
Red - Not very effective.

Spoiler: Combat System (click to show/hide)

I'll flip a coin to see which side goes first, then pick a random unit from each side (alternating) to attack an opposing unit. A d6 will be rolled, and the results will be as follows.

When the attacker is super effective, it needs a 4 or lower to destroy the enemy.
When the attacker is normally effective, it needs a 3 or lower to destroy the enemy.
When the attacker is not very effective, it needs a 2 or lower to destroy the enemy.

Spoiler: Air Units (click to show/hide)

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Spoiler: Land Units (click to show/hide)

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Spoiler: Naval Units (click to show/hide)

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Spoiler: Transports (click to show/hide)

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NOTE ON TRAINS - When attacking a Train, you have to destroy the train before the units can be attacked. The units inside the Train can attack without damaging the Train.

NOTE ON USAGE - They can only transport land and air units, and any transports being carried can't contain any troops. Sorry, recursiveness fans!

Spoiler: Inteuniso - El Salvador (click to show/hide)

El Salvador - 2 Bunkers, 1 AA emplacement, 1 Minefield, 1 Boeing, 2 Rockets, 1 Fighter, 2 Bombers
Honduras - 1 Heavy Inf
Colombia - 1 Gunships, 1 Minefield
Panama - 1 Heavy Inf, 2 Minefields, 2 Light Inf
Costa Rica - 1 Heavy Armor, 1 Light Armor
Nicaragua - 1 Light Inf, 1 Heavy Inf
Venezuela - 1 Gunship, 1 Fighter
Ecuador - 1 Gunship
Guatemala - 1 Barbed Wire, 1 Gunship, 1 Fighter, 1 Bomber
Sea Zone 65 - 1 Naval Mines

Spoiler: Wimdit- Indonesia (click to show/hide)

Indonesia - 2 Minefields, 1 AA gun, 1 Naval Mines
Papau New Guinea - 2 Minefields, 1 AA gun, 1 Naval Mines, 1 Rocket
Singapore - 1 Rocket
Malaysia - 2 Barges, 2 Heavy Inf
Brunei - 1 Rocket
Thailand - 2 Trains, 1 Light Inf, 1 Light Armour, 1 Heavy Armour, 1 Heavy Inf, 1 Gunship
Laos - 1 Light Armour, 1 Heavy Armour, 1 Heavy Inf
Burma - 1 Light Armor, 1 Frigate, 1 Battleship

Spoiler: Tarran - Germany (click to show/hide)

Germany - 3 Trains, 1 Light Inf, 16 Boeings
France - 2 Rocket, 2 Heavy Inf, 2 Light armors, 1 Gunship, 1 Heavy Armor
Switzerland - 1 Heavy Inf
Poland - 1 Rocket
Italy - 1 Heavy Inf
Belgium - 1 Light Armor
The Netherlands - 2 Light Inf, 2 Gunships, 2 Light Armor
Ukraine - 1 Heavy Armor, 1 Bomber
Sea Zone 9 - 2 Battleships, 2 Frigates, 2 Submarines

Spoiler: Cheddarius - U.S.A. (click to show/hide)

USA - 1 Train
Mexico - N/A
Belize - 1 Train
Dominican Republic - 2 Battleship, 1 Frigate, 1 Heavy Inf, 1 Barge, 1 Boeing,  1 Heavy Armor, 4 Gunship, 2 Fighter, 1 Bomber
Haiti - 2 Light Inf, 1 Light Armor, 1 Rocket
Canada - N/A
Cuba - 1 Heavy Armor
Alaska - 1 Rocket
Sea Zone 64 - 2 Gunship, 1 Fighter, 1 Bomber

Spoiler: Maxicaxi - Sweden (click to show/hide)

Sweden - 8 AA guns, 3 Light Armor, 3 Rocket
Finland - 1 Light Armor, 4 Rocket, 3 Light Armor, 8 Gunships
Norway - N/A
Denmark - 1 Rocket, 1 Light Armor

Spoiler: Jesse- South Africa (click to show/hide)

South Africa - N/A
Namibia - 1 Light Armor
Botswana - 1 Light Inf
Mozambique - 1 Heavy Inf
Zimbabwe - 1 Light Inf
Lesotho -  1 Light Inf
Swaziland - 1 Heavy Armor
Angola - 1 Light Inf
Zambia - 8 Light Inf, 1 Heavy Inf, 2 Light Armor, 1 Heavy Armor
D.R. of the Congo - 1 Light Inf, 2 Heavy Inf
Sea Zone 55 - 1 Barge

[Tarran]

I'm just going to watch, since It's hard to do turns anyway. I might join if I want to.

Make units simple, lest it end up like mine. And don't make them too simple, otherwise it becomes too boring.

Units need counters and base units, otherwise you will see players spamming only a few unit types. Special bonuses/abilities are also a good idea.

Infrastructure is optional, but if you are adding them then add plenty of them.

And WMD's are a must too, but make them really expensive so players use them with caution.

[Heron TSG]

An example unit would look something like this.

Spoiler: 3-way balance (click to show/hide)

Light Infantry Unit
Armor defense: 2
Heavy infantry defense: 1
Armor attack: 1
Heavy Infantry attack: 2

or something similar. The most I'd expand it to is to the equivalent of Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock, wherein each unit has 2 strengths and two weaknesses. One strength/weakness for each defending and attacking. In fact, that sounds pretty awesome.

Spoiler: 5-way balance (click to show/hide)

Light Infantry Unit
Armor defense: 3
Heavy infantry defense: 2
Rocketeer defense: 1
Light Vehicle defense: 2

Armor attack: 1
Heavy Infantry attack: 2
Rocketeer attack: 3
Light Vehicle attack: 2

Infrastructure will be mainly based around improving income and mobility, because messing with the balance will end in Trench Spams, like in Jesse's game.

WMD's I'm kind of iffy on. I'd like this game to not end up as the Cold War, but nothing's set in stone yet.

[Tarran]

Infrastructure that increases income will make you cry, it's just not a good idea, trust me.

[Canalan]

Make sure you keep unit levels simple. "Heavy" and "Light" is probably enough.
It would also be good to collect groups of smaller/lesser known countries and either add them to pre-existing countries or create a new one.

Also, can I pre-register as either the U.S.A. or Russia?

[Wimdit]

Very nice. I assume Greenland is not considered part of Denmark?

And like always, this game is going to need a lot of taking AI countries before players start interacting. I suggest you implement some way to blitzkrieg aaaaall over the map in the early stages. Like giving everyone a ton of starting troops and saying it was a secret military buildup or something. Or some sort of futuristic weapon or weapons that don't kill everyone but render all other conventional weapons obsolete and were independently developed simultaneously by all players.

Also, it's always annoyed me how neutral countries just sit there and wait to be conquered, but I think we can suspend our disbelief on that one for the sake of simplicity. Still, something to think about.

[Heron TSG]

Updated first map with Alaska being its own country as well as Liechtenstein being a different color from Germany. Greenland is not part of Denmark.

I think that I'm just going to leave out infrastructure (for now, at least) and give each country a certain amount of troops based on their size group. (and a little bit on how powerful they are in real life.) Players will either start with 3 turns' worth of income from their country or just with normal income and double the normal amount of troops for their country.

[maxicaxi]

the Vatican for me   

[Jesse]

Keep all units organized in some type of excel file or something else, or else you'll have units disappearing (Like me).

Anyways, I take Brazil (Pink).

[Cheddarius]

IN

EDIT: I'd like USA or Russia, whatever Canalan doesn't get.

I don't like multiple defenses and attacks. Too complicated. How about "double damage if strong against"? That's simpler.

[Tarran]

IN

...You might want to specify the country and color.

the Vatican for me   

And you need to specify the color too.

Just helping Barbarossa.

IN AS GERMANY! Dark blue.

[Cheddarius]

I was too excited, I wanted to get in as fast as possible.

I'd like USA or Russia, whatever Canalan doesn't get. Orange please.

I don't like multiple defenses and attacks. Too complicated. How about "double damage if strong against"? That's simpler.

[inteuniso]

In as El Salvador as teal.

[Heron TSG]

Sheesh guys, I said I wasn't starting until I was ready. Very soon I'll have the unit chart and the size group maps up.

I'd like to keep it down to six players for my first run through.

@maxicaxi- Could you please pick a different one? I tried to keep as many microstates as I could, but having one inside of a city... That's just a bit of a stretch.

EDIT: Finished sea zone map. If a country borders a sea zone, it can place ships in it.

EDIT EDIT: Finished Size Group map. This will determine how much effort it takes to move through a country. more will be described in the OP. This is completely separate from the income map, which is coming soon.