Original Creator

Latest update to this page: July 25, 2004 (added links to sample games).

Sample Games

Basic Rules

Printable version 1, a blank map as a PowerPoint file.

Printable version 2, a PDF file. This has the starting positions and build centres shaded.

Another blank map, this one in PDF format.

A larger blank map, in PDF format, set to print on 2x2 pages. This should help with some of the harder-to-read province abbreviations.

Here is a list of allowed moves (for use in a Judge, for example). Added March 31, 2005.

Here is a CSV list of the regions and abbreviations. Added NEW March 31, 2005

Comments, errata, etc., contact me.

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Opening Positions

Austria: A Vienna, A Budapest, F Trieste, A Surinam, F Tahiti.

China: A Peking, A Xian, A Wuhan, F Amoy.

England: F Edinburgh, F London, A Ecuador, A Nigeria, F Malaya.

France: A Paris, A Bordeaux, F Toulon, A Dakar, A Quebec.

Netherlands: A Antwerp, F Hague, A Florida, A Angola, F Melbourne.

Ottoman: A Izmir, A Jerusalem, A Baghdad, F Istanbul, F Hawaii.

Portugal: A Lagos, F Lisbon, A Alaska, A Brazil, A Goa.

Russia: A Moscow, A Omsk, A Kiev, F St. Petersburg (SC), F Vladivostok, A Cape Colony.

Spain: A Madrid, F Valencia, A Mexico, A Somalia, F Manila.

The game starts in Spring 1750 (A change from Spring 1751 which I'd had before -- May 11, 2003).

Variant Rules

2. Those islands that are marked as "neutral supply centres", as well as Island Colonies, may be occupied by an army. An Army dislodged from an island centre may retreat to another island or a mainland province by convoy, provided that there is a Fleet available to make the convoy and that the convoy does not exceed one sea-space. The retreating army and the convoying fleet must be of the same nationality. This rule applies ONLY to Armies dislodged from island centres. For the purposes of this rule, England and Australia are not considered islands.

3. There are certain supply centres that are colonies. Colonies are building centres for whichever Power owns them. For instance, if Ecuador (originally English) is captured by Austria, then next Fall, Austria can build a unit there. They start under the control of the Power with a starting unit placed there. The colonies are: Alaska, Quebec, Florida, Mexico, Ecuador, Surinam, Brazil, Dakar, Nigeria, Angola, Cape Colony, Somalia, Goa, Malaya, Manila, Hawaii, Melbourne, and Tahiti.

4. There are three special supply centres that may be used for building purposes by specified Powers. The centres and Powers are:
Crimea: Russia and Ottoman
Naples: Spain and Austria
Nanking: China
The centres may be used for building only after being occupied. For all other Powers, these centres function as neutral supply centres.

5. The Arctic Ocean and the continent of Antarctica are impassible.

6. The arctic coast of Siberia is passable to Fleets. That is, the moves F Siberia -> Ural and F Ural -> Siberia are legal.

7. A victory shall consist of ownership of 50 Supply Centres or by concession vote. In order for a concession proposal to be approved, the proposal must carry a three-fourths (3/4 or 75%) majority of all Supply Centres, excluding any that are neutral or owned by a power in Civil Disorder. Thus, with all supply centres occupied, Powers controlling 102 centres can end the game by voting to do so.

8. Several land areas have two coasts. The complete list is as follows:

1. East and West coasts: Arabia, Hanover, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Papal States, Siam, Yorkshire
2. North and South coasts: Finland, St Petersburg, Suez
3. Other combinations: Bulgaria (east, south), Colombia (north, west), Egypt (east, north)

Fleets moving from Naples to Papal States, Yemen to Arabia, Malaya to Siam, Istanbul to Bulgaria, Denmark to Hanover, London to Yorkshire or Edinburgh to Yorkshire must specify to which coast! To be technically correct, one should always specify to which coast of a multi-coast area one is moving a fleet.

9. Denmark, Sweden and Istanbul have only one coast, as in the regular Diplomacy. However, Black Sea is not directly connected to Eastern Mediterranean Sea, nor is Helgoland Bight directly connected to Baltic Sea.

Names and Abbreviations of Areas in Colonia VII-B