LiquidSky
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ORIGINAL: Shannon V. OKeets quote:
ORIGINAL: LiquidSky The rule book is rather vague on victory conditions. And spread out in a few different spots. In the RaW, you bid for powers, and you add that bid to a base value. The rules on bidding in Volume 1. are on page 99-100. They say that in a multiplayer game you can bid. Page 136 tells you when victory is checked. Volume 2 Page 125-126 tells us how to get an automatic victory, and lists all the objective hexes. It tells you how to add up victory points, and to subtract your bid. It mentions subtracting your modified bid, and points you to the third book... RAC 23.1.2 Which doesn't exist. There is a little chart in each scenario (pages 86-87 in Volume 1 for Global War), which lists Historical objectives. Nothing mentions using this in the bidding process. I would assume that this chart is what you are supposed to use to modify the bid except: It differs greatly from RaW. Volume 1: Global War....Germany. Modify by 0. RaW Modify by 10. RaC Japan: 9 RaW Japan: 5 The number of objectives in RaC and Raw are the same, so why the huge swing in favour of the Germans? Is the Historical objectives list in the scenario used for victory, or is it just an information thing? There is nothing on pages 186-187 of Vol2, which tells the differences between Raw and RaC to say that victory has changed between the two games. A comparison of the Scenario Booklet PDF included with MWIF and the corresponding section from the Players Manual. EDIT: Image removed for bandwidth This comparison does nothing except make me suspect that you and the people responsible for writing the players handbook have never played a game with the actual victory conditions from the RaW. Let me explain how bidding works...in the board game. Better yet, from the very same place you got your image from, I pull this: Basically you bid a number in auction style, starting at -20. Highest bidder gets to pick any country (or group of countries) that are available. In the example, the highest bid is 5. She picks USA/CHINA. Her modified bid is her bid (5), plus USA (17) + CHINA (2) for a modified bid of 24. On the next page, the example goes on showing how the rest of the bidding works, USING THIS CHART! The historical controlled objectives is just to help you bid intelligently, and is not actually used in the bidding process. For example, Susan would have had a final score of 15 - 24 = -9. This chart is rather important for determining victory, and it is missing from the books.
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