Shannon V. OKeets
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Today's task.
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Declaring War SubPhases
(as of June 8, 2007)
Overview
Rather than have separate phases for declaring war (pDeclareWar), setting up reserves (pReserves), and setting up minor country units (pSetupMinor), I have decided to subsume the last two into the first, by creating subphases for the declare war phase (pDeclareWar). In working with the program structure used in CWIF, I’ve had numerous problems for which it was difficult to write patches. In particular the branching logic of proceeding from one phase to the next jumped out of sequence to the ‘phases’ for setting up reserves and minor country units. Later it jumped back to the declare war phase, in order to pick up where it had left off.
In addition, CWIF merged the Align Minor Countries and Declare War phases into one form where the players could make those decisions in any order they desired. RAW is not that lenient and has a rigid set of steps that are suppose to be followed. So, the change to add a sequence of subphases for the pDeclareWar phase accomplishes two goals: it corrects the sequence of play to conform to RAW, and it simplifies processing of the declaration of war steps.
Here are the subphases (TDOWSubPhase) I’ll use in MWIF:
∙ DspDOWMajor Major powers on the phasing side may declare war on other major powers. There is a separate form just for making this decision. If it is not possible for one or more of the phasing major powers to DOW on another major power, then that/those phasing major powers are not be asked to make any decisions during this subphase. For instance, that is the case in the Barbarossa and Guadalcanal scenarios as well as scenarios that start after all major powers are already at war with each other.
∙ DspDOWMinor Major powers on the phasing side may declare war on minor countries. This is similar to the previous phase but the targets of the DOWs are exclusively minor countries. It has it own form.
∙ DspUSEntry Once the previous two subphases have been completed by all major powers on the phasing side, a check is made to see if the USA has just DOWed another country. The sequence is: (1) DOW by the USA on major powers, (2) DOW by other phasing major powers on major powers, (3) DOW by the USA on minor countries, and lastly, (4) DOW by other phasing major powers on minor countries. This sequence is important because of the various restrictions on and consequences of a USA DOW. Die rolls and other events take place in this subphase related to US Entry Actions effect on drawing, placing, moving, and removing US Entry markers. The results of this phase are displayed to the players for their information.
∙ DspNeutralityPacts A major power on the phasing side may propose to re-confirm a neutrality pact with a major power on the non-phasing side.
∙ DspReserves If a country that was the target of a DOW has reserve units, it is given the option to call them out and place them on the map at this time.
∙ DspSetupAttackedMinor If a minor country was the target of a DOW, then the controlling major power on the other side is chosen and the minor country’s units are placed on the map.
∙ DspAlignMinor Major powers on the phasing side may align minor countries. A separate form is used for this subphase.
∙ DspSetupAlignedMinor If a minor country was aligned, then its units are placed on the map by the controlling major power.
∙ DspJapOccupation At times during the game, Japan has the option of occupying French Indo-China and Madagascar. Those decisions are made during this subphase. A separate form is used for this decision.
∙ DspNone This is merely a value to be used for the DOWSubPhase variable when the phase is something other than pDeclareWar.
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