Rules
Of Warfare
Sixth
Revision* 21/10/99
General Rules
Warfare Rules
For purposes of speed and
realism the conflicts will be separated into these distinct levels of warfare:
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Skirmish: Challenged for 0.1 quadrants up to and including 0.3
quadrants. Settings-Small Galaxy, Low chance for warp points, All warp points connected,
All events, Moderate event frequency, Low Tech costs, Normal Ships, Three racial
advantages, Agreed upon starting tech, 50000 starting points, Players can view scores of
allies, Empires Allowed to start in same system, Good planet value, 5 Start planets.
Victory Conditions-5 years elapsed There is no limit on the number of skirmishes you can
undertake per quadrant. |
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Small-Scale Conflict: Challenged for 0.1 quadrants up to and including 0.5
quadrants. Settings-Small Galaxy, Medium chance for warp points, All warp points
connected, All events, Moderate event frequency, Medium Tech costs, Normal Ships, Three
racial advantages, Agreed upon starting tech, 50000 starting points, Players can view
scores of allies, Empires distributed evenly, Good planet value, 5 Start planets. Up to 2
allies if needed. Victory Conditions-5 years elapsed. |
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Medium-Scale Conflict: Challenged for 0.6 quadrants up to and including 1.0
quadrants. Settings-Medium Galaxy, Medium chance for warp points, All warp points
connected, All events, Moderate event frequency, Medium tech costs, Normal ships, Five
racial advantages, Agreed upon starting tech, 50000 starting points, Players can view
scores of allies, Empires distributed evenly, Good planet value, 5 Start planets. Up to 3
allies if needed. Victory Conditions- 10 years elapsed. |
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Large-Scale Conflict: Challenged for 1.1 quadrants up to and including 1.5
quadrants. Settings-Large Galaxy, Medium chance for warp points, All warp points
connected, All events, Moderate event frequency, Medium tech costs, Normal ships, Eight
racial advantages, Agreed upon starting tech, 50000 starting points, Players can view
scores of allies, Empires distributed evenly, Good planet value, 10 starting planets. Up
to 4 allies if needed. Victory conditions- 15 years elapsed. |
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Galactic War: Alliance must have 10.0 quadrants(1 galaxy) to declare each
conflict. May not challenge for more than half of the total territory defending alliance
possesses. Settings-Large Galaxy, Medium chance for warp points, All warp points
connected, All events, Moderate event frequency, Medium tech costs, Normal ships, Eight
racial advantages, Agreed upon starting tech, 100000 starting points, Players can view
scores of allies, Empires distributed evenly, Good planet value, 10 starting planets.No
more than 5 empires per side. Victory conditions- 25 years elapsed .Resources are pooled
between alliance members to determine how much territory is challenged for and is divided
internally if victorius.The number of players in each alliance willing to play determines
how many games there are. IE.8 from Alliance 1 and 10 from alliance 2. Since the game can
only handle 10 players per game these players will be divided between 2 games.
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All specifics of game setup are
negotiable between combatants EXCEPT number of years elapsed. If an agreement cannot be
reached on one or more set up aspects of the game, then the challenged gets one choice,
and the challenger gets one choice. All other aspects in dispute are then set to the game
default. One player's choice may not cancel out another players. Games will be kept
manageable this way. |
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Players are obligated to send at
least one game turn a week, if this rule is broken there are two possible consequences. If
you're the defender and you fail to send at least a turn a week you're empire will be put
on auto after your second violation (2 weeks). If you're the attacker and you fail to send
the turn, the war is over and you lose the disputed territory. If either side has a good
excuse for being absent then the penalties will be forgotten, but negligence isn't an
excuse. |
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A "Combined assault" can
be initiated by two or more empires when they both agree to put up their territory
for an attack. If they lose, the empires will lose how much territory they put up
respectively. Treaties of Military alliance and above allow your ally to call upon you in
event of war. These treaties do not "force" you to play in the pbem war but one
should only choose to have these high treaties with an empire that can be counted on. A
Temporary "Military Pact" may be formed with an empire who you do not hold
Military or Partnership treaties with. This allows empires that may not be on the best of
terms to unite against a common enemy. This treaty generates no economic bonus points and
it runs out once the conflict has been resolved. May only be signed after being attacked,
and must be reported within one week of the original challenge. The time limit represents
the hurried mobilization of forces that would be needed, and would discourage empires from
stalling until they can massively outnumber challenger. |
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How to distribute the spoils of
war, (i.e. the amount of territory being fought over) should be negotiated with your
allies prior to the conflict. |
Example:
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RamTam challenges Grand
Fenwick for 0.5 quadrants |
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Grand Fenwick enlists the
aid of K'Star within a week of the challenge. |
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If Fenwick is victorious
they promise K'star 0.2 of the newly conquered territory. |
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Fenwick wins, 0.3 quadrants
added to their space, 0.2 to K'Star's. |
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A challenge that meets the correct
protocols may be issued in the HyperComm Central Forum and must be answered within a week
unless the player has already stated he would not be available. If not, half the disputed
territory will be ceded to the attacker. Legal challenges that are not addressed in two
weeks time will force the challenged to concede all of the disputed territory, again
unless the player has already stated he would not be available. Legal challenges that are
ignored will result in the loss of disputed territory. A down time of one month is
required to challenge/re-challenge an empire whom you were previously engaged with. And a
one month limit is imposed to accept a challenge, set a start date, and begin combat so as
not to drag wars on forever. If war is stalled because an empire cannot begin after a
month from the original declaration, disputed territory will be ceded. |
A legal challenge must include:
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Announcement of challenge. |
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Amount of territory challenged. |
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Date of challenge. |
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Number of allies assisting. If you are fighting alone, list
that also. |
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Leave email address for contact and to determine start
date. |
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Defender has the right to match or
outnumber- Meaning that once you've been challenged the defender can match the number of
allies the challenger posted, or outnumber them with allies of your own without the
challenger being able to respond with more allies. (Only effective within the week the
challenge was posted). If the challenger destroys all of the defenders colonies/ships but
not the defender's allies, the challenger still is the victor. When the challenger and
defender reach the game time limit without a clear victor, the overall game score will
determine the winner. |
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Defender may refuse challenge through post
if any of the above are incorrect, and challenger has to wait one week to re-issue the
challenge. Amount of territory challenged may not exceed the amount challenger possesses.
If challenger loses conflict then he cedes the amount of territory disputed to the
defender. If the challangee refuses to respond to legal declarations of war on two
seperate occasions he'll be removed from the ladder. If player is defeated and all
territory lost, player will start over with 0.1 quadrants and may not re-apply to the
ladder under another name. If player decides to leave ladder the sum total of his
quadrants will be divided evenly between his allies. If player is kicked from the ladder
for inactivity his territory will not be divided. Once battle has been concluded
both sides must copy down the final battle summary/score/stats and post their win or loss.
If a person is already in a "war", nobody can declare war on him/her, until it's
over. |
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A listing of "Active" or
"Inactive" will be made on the ladder board indicating whether or not a empire
is available to play (vacations, other commitments). The person will just notify Vendetta
and he can change their status on the ladder. If an empire is constantly inactive for many
months at a time without notification they'll be given a warning, then removed.. If an
empire is found to be controlling multiple empires on the ladder both empires will be
removed. Shareware players may also join but if they challenge or are challenged an agreed
upon tech level must be used. |
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A common data file must be used
and agreed to by all of the participants. The original data file will be used as the
default as well as to solve any arguments over which to use. |
The
"Blockade"
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A simple means of using your
economic bonus points to halt the monthly territory gain of another empire. |
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Example:
Aquilae Federation 0.3 quadrants/month imposes a blockade on the Gurak Dominion who only
have a 0.1 galaxy a month expansion. Gurak's expansion is stopped and effectively
blockaded. |
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In order to break a blockade
peacefully one must allocate more economic points to break the blockade than the nation
who is enforcing it is spending to impose it. At any time Aquilae can increase their
economic point spending towards the blockade, thus making G'urak and his allies expend
more points in order to break it. There is no limit, time or otherwise as to when and how
long you may impose a blockade. Before, during, or after pbem war is acceptable. Thus you
can lose a pbem war and turn around with a blockade and win an "economic war."
The ally who asist the blockaded empire must spend the difference in order to break the
blockade, the econ bonus spent will be lost at month's end. |
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An empire who is blockading
another may not have a blockade imposed on them. This would be overly complicated and
could get out of hand. Blockading CAN be done while an empire is engaged with another in
pbem. This can be represented as moderate support for one of the empires engaged. |
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The exchange of territory for
treaties, agreements, assistance in a war etc. is allowed and may be traded freely. |
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As always anyone who wants to
suggest a change or revision just contact me. |
Everyone is welcome to play.
*By Warlord Adamus,
Amaru Commonwealth (WhattaAzz@aol.com)
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