Empires in Arms Variants

• New Campaigns
  

  • The Old Regime in Arms, a campaign for the period 1702 to 1720, covering the War of the Spanish Succession and the Great Northern War. It's divided into
    • the rules and
    • the design commentary.
    It hasn't been play-tested much. My site gets a lot of traffic from the Empires in Arms web ring and I'm guessing this is what draws it.
  • Nations Nascent, a campaign for the period 1859 to 1871, covering the reunification of Italy and of Germany. It's divided into
    • the rules and
    • the design commentary.
    It hasn't been play-tested at all, and may need running repairs if you try to play it.
• Partially Developed New Campaigns: Ideas, partly developed, for campaigns in the style of those above, put here in the hope of provoking a response.

  • An Empire in Arms, a very early draft of a campaign for the period 1618 to 1659, covering the Thirty Years' War and various lesser conflicts. It's divided into
    • the rules,
    • the design commentary and
    • a discussion of general philosophy (the only really useful part).
    Under construction is too weak a word for this campaign.
  • Equality in Arms, a variant in which players bid for their major power's capabilities. Again, separated into
    • the rules,
    • the bidding sheet and
    • the design commentary.
    Just ideas, not fully developed.
• Rules Changes: Fixes for bugs in the standard rules, or at least things I perceive to be bugs. These are divided into:
  • rules changes affecting the system without increased complexity;
  • rules changes affecting the system at the cost of increased complexity;
  • simple changes to fit history;
  • a checklist for recording which of the above rule changes are in force; and
  • design commentary for all of the above.
  • America in Arms, an attempt to cover the war of 1812 and anything else in the new world. It's divided into
    • the rules and
    • a map.
  • some simplifications to the rules with their design commentary.
  • an extended version of the operational possibility (i.e. land combat) chart, divided into an ASCII chart, footnotes from the chart and design commentary. I'm particularly proud of this chart because it's the one thing I've written on this site that someone has thought good enough to plagiarise. Come to think of it I guess that's the only reason I'm proud of it, it really is mostly a piece of fluff.
  • Ideas for a victory system oriented less toward glory and more toward national objectives.
• Analysis
  • Some calculations by Fred Gilligan on historical political points and victory points. This is divided into:
    • the raw data;
    • Fred's results, unfortunately not quite corresponding to the quantities relevant to Empires in Arms;
    • my version of Fred's calculation, as an Excel spreadsheet, a bit dodgy yet; and
    • my comments on my spreadsheet.

If you play any of these campaigns, or have questions or comments, please drop me a line.