<t> Another problem I had with the boardgame (and remember, this is from memory of stuff 10+ years ago) was that a winning strategy for Britain was to take over N. African states with high manpower and then just crank out loads of infantry and stuff them everywhere. It was amusing, but it was also ...

<t> This isn't ancient Gaul, nor is it the Pacific ocean, nor are we talking about a few days. How do you mask a concentration of tens of thousands of men from the enemy for months? Again, if you want to say "the middle of Russia", I hear you, but if we're talking about Bavaria, Bohemia, and so on ...

<t> I'm a huge proponent of FOW in games. The biggest, and I mean biggest, issue with board games is the lack of fog of war. That said, FOW must be appropriate to scale. So is it possible that spain in a 3 month period would get some word of russian forces in the neighborhood of St. Pete? Sure. Is ...

<r>Yep, you got the game. The captain, pilgrim, amazon, and the most amazingly convoluted rules ever. <E>:-)</E> It was a blast.<br/>

<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Anyway, I like the idea of hidden victory conditions / progress<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>

Actually, it's hidden conditions, visible progress. You ...

<t>Stealing from the boardgame Magic Realm (now I'm pegged as a geek for sure)...<br/>
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For victory, my suggestion is to keep the facts known, but allow people to pick their weighting in secret.<br/>
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For example, imagine that during every turn you earn "gun" points for winning fights ...

<t>I'm not sure how useful this will be to you, but as person who played a hefty amount of EIA in my past, I thought I'd offer a different perspective.<br/>
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I'm with the person above who says that at this level the politics, grand strategy, and economics all seem more important to me. Frankly ...