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Wanna-Be Games & Hobbies, Ltd. In association with Robosmut International and Robotech Fans, Anonymous Present ********* ***** | ***** *** +|+ *** ** +|+ ** * ++|++ * * ++++|+++ * * +++++|+++++ * * ++++++++|++++++++ * * ++++++++++++|++++++++++++ * * ++++++++++++++|++++++++++++++ * * +++++++++|+++++++++ * ** +++++|+++++ ** *** ++|++ *** ***** +|+ ***** ********* R o b o t e c h : T h e G l o b a l C i v i l W a r Created by: Peter Payne and Max Peregoy Playtesters: Josh Mercer and Phil Sunbury For 2-4 players (4 players recommended) Revision 1.1 - November 1988 For use with Axis & Allies and Fortress America By The Milton Bradley Company (Robotech is a registered trademark of Harmony Gold/Tatsunoko.) - 2 - I n t r o d u c t i o n This bastardized game takes place in the Robotech universe, with boards and pieces from two excellent board games by Milton Bradley, Axis & Allies and Fortress America. Both games are needed to play, as well as a black grease pencil, a fair to good knowledge of Robotech, and hopefully some experience with the two board games. In this game, two to four players (four highly recommended) will play the entire Global Civil War on a slightly altered A&A board, using pieces from both games. The four main powers are: The Northeast Asian Co-prosperity Sphere (composing most of Asia, minus Japan), or the NEACAPS, the NATO/United States alliance (Japan, Western Europe and North America), the Warsaw Pact/Soviet Empire (the Soviet Bloc, the Soviet Union, Cuba), and the Glorious Alliance for Allah (the Middle East, North Africa, India). The players will start out in a quasi-WWIII worldwide theatre, and try to wrest as much power as they can in the first few turns. At one point in the game, the SDF-1 will arrive, doing damage to various parts of the world and landing at a certain place (randomly; not just on Macross Island). Then the game will be trying to capture and hold the SDF-1 and trying to unify the world under one power (thus, to create the United Earth Government). The introduction of automatic computer-controlled anti-ICBM sattellites by the United Nations in 1992 which effectively removed the threat of destruction from nuclear devices which traveled in the upper atmosphere was hailed by all as a great move towards the goal of global peace and unity, but inadvertantly set in motion a terrible chain of events which would lead up to World War III. The world balance of power unbalanced and the threat of nuclear devestation by superpowers eliminated (at least as long as the sattellites remained operational), massive buildups of conventional forces was undertaken by all the nations of the world. In 1996, a new strategy of world domination known as co-imperialism -- nations willingly banding together into huge confederacies to increase their economic and military strengths -- and appeared in the form of the Northeast-Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere and the Glorious Alliance for Allah. A short timeline follows: TIMELINE 1989 - Britan and China sign the Macek-Agrama Treaty, relinquishing British rule of Hong Kong ten years early. The so-called "conservative revolution" begins in China. The Soviets finally pull out of Afghanistan. Soviet-backed Kabul government lasts all of three months before falling to the Mujaheeden. 1991 - Gorbachev assassinated by xenophobic government opposition. Massive purgings of reform advocates takes place, followed by the confirmation of non-radical Ryan Shitski as Soviet Premier. 1992 - United Nations secretly launches Spiderweb anti-missile sattellites aboard the U.S. Space Shuttle Yamato in February. The plan is unveiled to widespread approval of world leaders. The Kirkpatrick Treaty banning the development of any inter-continental nuclear devices is drafted and signed by all the major nations of the U.N. 1993 - Massive uprisings in occupied Poland and East Germany give Soviets a pretense to beef up forces in Eastern Europe. The U.S. responds by increasing conventional forces in NATO. The Northeast Asian Congress is called in Manilla; proposal of a unified socialist Asian nation is - 3 - addressed. 1994 - Birth of Northeast Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere, followed by the formation of the United Arab States out of the ashes of the Arab League, later that year. 1995 - Racial violence in South Africa ignites into racial war. All whites are killed, but no one was surprised. 1996 - War breaks out between Cuba and El Salvador. A nuclear device is detonated in San Salvador, killing hundreds of thousands. The NEACAPS annexes Borneo-Celebes. 1997 - Start of the Global Civil War proper! Soviets down a U.S. military jet they claimed violated air space laws. The incident ignites a clash between two divisions of Soviet and West German troops, who fight in a bar and insult each other. The Americans flee, knocking over a giant police robot in the process. The international incident was further agitated by a Soviet officer named Nyet "Dickless" Kamodo, who, convinced that if he doesn't fire on American forces even though he was explicitly ordered not to, launches Scud missiles into an American base in West Germany. America declares war on the Soviet Union, drawing on its NATO allies for support; Russia rears up, prepared to swat the Western challence; all the while, expansionism among the two lesser world powers reaches a head, and everything generally starts to get very silly. 1998 - Date of the famous raid by then-Colonel John Hayes on a superior officer's food supplies. Start of this game. The GCW represented the closest the human race came to killing itself, with several world nuclear powers vying for domination of the globe. In July of 1999, just as any hope of peace seemed impossible, a techno-savior fell from the sky in the form of a giant space-battlefortress, which would later be called Macross or the SDF-1. The SDF-1 effectively divided the war into two parts: the three years before the "visitor" arrived, when governments lacked any faith in each other whatsoever, and the world shook with fear of utter devastation, the period after the SDF-1's crash-landing, when the seeds for the Global Unification Movement were planted. It would be another several years before the United Earth Government would emerge as a power, out of the ashes of the old United States and the post-republic Soviet Union, but once the other military powers were beaten down, peace was restored. The goal of the game is to become the strongest player, to conquer the other three players and take their capitals. Through alliances and stealth, you must become the supreme power of the world, to unify all the peoples of the globe under one reign, and to thus finally achieve peace in your lifetimes (even though you will soon face destruction from alien forces). C h a n g e s f r o m V e r s i o n 1 . 0 1) The capitals rules have been added, pretty much in keeping with A&A (although changes exist). 2) Persia will be one territory, with no seperating line drawn between. 3) The strengths of all the powers have been altered slightly to basically make it so that the Soviet Union has a chance if everyone gangs up on it. 4) Background has been added here and there, in the forms of timelines and what not. 4) The confusion between Wake-Midway-Macross has been clarified. 5) The production rules have been - 4 - changed such that you may produce anywhere on your major "base" territories (The U.S. and Britan for NATO, China for the NEACAPS, etc.). S e t U p To play this game, certain minor changes must be made to the A&A board, drawing a few lines here and there. Be sure to use a grease pencil on the board, and make sure it erases without a trace with a dry cloth before you draw all over your game board. NOTE: WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DAMAGES DONE TO YOUR GAME BOARD AS A RESULT OF THIS STUPID GAME. If, for some reason, you get a lame grease pencil, and it marks your board forever, it's NOT OUR FAULT! So there. NORTH/SOUTH AMERICA: 1. Draw a line cutting the Eastern U.S. in half, starting from the bottom of Lk. Superior straight down. 2. Cut the Western U.S. in half in a like manner, starting at the Canadian border and going straight down. There are now four sections in the U.S. EURASIA: 1. Cut Germany in half down the middle, both on the main map and above, in the "blow up" box. AFRICA: No changes here. Lucky you. OTHERS: Make a mental note that what is labeled Midway Island on the board has become Macross Island, or mark it if you prefer. No other changes are made. S e t u p o f T e r r i t o r i e s Since the A&A country colors are, by and large, useless in this time period of circa 1999, you must place country markers around the board before the start of the game. NOTE: You will most likely run out of markers if you mark every space you own; instead, remember what territories are yours as your "base" territories (such as, the Soviet Union obviously belonging to the Soviet power, the U.S. and Canada to NATO, etc.), and only mark the ones you will have trouble remembering. This makes it really important for enemies capturing other territories to use their own markers, to be sure whose plots of land are whose. If you do run out of territory markers, you can improvise by using the ones from FA. ANOTHER NOTE: You should also mark, with the grease pencil, the value of each territory, or at least the ones that are worth more than one. Remember that all territories are used in this game, even the ones that were neutral in A&A. Lands are worth $1 as a default. The U.S./NATO (use American territory markers from A&A): America/NATO's starting territories are: All of North America from Panama up (except Cuba), Hawaii, Japan, Okinawa, Britan/Ireland (one piece), Western Europe, and the Western half of Germany. This brings NATO's lands totaling to 15. MONEY: The westernmost and easternmost U.S. territories and Japan are worth $3, and Britan is worth $2; all other squares are worth $1. This brings U.S. to $25 per turn. - 5 - The Soviet Union/Warsaw (use FA Ruskie territory markers): All of Russia, plus Ukrane S.S.R., Eastern Europe, East Germany, and Cuba, for a total of 12 lands. MONEY: Russia, Caucasus, Karelia, Soviet Far East are each worth $3; Cuba is worth $2; the others are worth $1, for a total of $21. The NEACAPS (use FA yellow-eyed devil marker): All the green and yellow areas in China, plus Mongolia, East Indies, Phillipines, Caroline Islands, Borneo and New Guinea -- 11 territories. MONEY: The three yellow places on the coast are worth $3, all others are worth $1. Starting money is thus $17. Glorious Alliance for Allah (use the blue wetback markers from FA): Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Itallian East Africa, Saudi Arabia, Syria/Iraq, both halves of the split Persia, Afghan, and India, for 10 squares. Both halves of Persia and India are $3; the rest are worth $1. Thus, their starting money is $16. How will you remember the values for each territory? It's not too hard. Most of them are simple. If you really can't remember which territories are special, fake it. Actually, the best way is to mark, with the grease pencil, the ones that are worth more than 1. Do this and your life will be easier. S t a r t i n g M o n e y / P r o d u c t i o n , S u m m a r y NATO/U.S.: $25 Soviets: $21 NEACAPS: $17 Allah: $16 Capturing territory: When your side captures an enemy territory, your production (as monitored by the National Production card in your A&A game -- use the USA marker for NATO and the red/yellow/blue FA markers for the other powers) always goes up by 1, even if the piece is worth 2 or 3 to the enemy. The enemy's production goes down by the full value, then back up if he captures his territory back from you. Because of this fact, it can get a little confusing counting money for territories. Therefore, care must be taken by all players to ensure he doesn't get cheated and that mistakes are not made. C a p i t a l s In this game, as opposed to A&A, your powers have some choice as to where they want their capitals to be. Use city markers from FA, and place them, before the game starts, on any territory where they may produce. Production is limited to the territories which are considered "major" -- a list can be found below, see PRODUCTION. When your city is taken, you must give all your current money to the enemy who snagged it. You may not produce and may not collect money until you rewin your capital. You may not ever move your capital marker. You may still move your own pieces as long as some exist, forever, although you can't produce anything more until you get your capital back. - 6 - T h e P l a y e r s Use the following table for color conversions: Green FA, American A&A markers = NATO/America Red FA, Soviet A&A = Warsaw/Soviet Union Yellow FA, Japanese A&A = NEACAPS Blue FA, German A&A = Glorious Alliance for Allah This game is for 2-4 players, although four is strongly recommended. The reason for this is that, in this game, there are not just two sides; there are four. Four major powers, vying for as big a piece of the world as they can get. This makes for many opportunities for treaties and back-stabbings than are possible with only two players. If only two players *are* playing, the game should be divided against the Russians and the U.S., certainly, with the Moslems fighting with the Russians and the Chinese fighting with the U.S. (or switched around, if you prefer -- you might like to experiment). T h e P i e c e s You'll need all the pieces from FA except hovertanks and the many-sided dice. From A&A, you'll be using the 6-sided dice, Britan's infantry and tanks (which will be used as troops for "neutral" nations so they can have an army, too), as well as tanks, bombers, subs, aircraft carriers, battleships and freighters for Germany, the Soviet Union, Japan and America. The Stats Item: Cost: Move: At: Df: Infantry INF 2** 1* 1*** 2 Ground Mobile Units GMU 4 2* 2 2 Tanks TANK 4 2* 3 2 Anti-Aircraft AA 3 1 - 1 Copters HEL 5 3 3 3 Fighters FTR 8 5 4 4 Air Cargo ACGO 9 7 1 1 Missile Carriers MSSL 12 2 4 4 Aircraft Carriers AC 14 2 2 3 Sea Transports TNSP 7 2 1 1 Submarines SUB 9 2 4 3 Nukes NUKE 5 - 5 5 * Special movement with air and sea transports ** Special cost for NEACAPS player (1 instead of 2) *** Special attack for Moslem player (2 instead of 1) Infantry (use FA infantry, and no Partisan pieces): These move one square per turn, and are pretty cheap to buy and use as cannon fodder when attacking (since this game basically follows the same combat rules as A&A, and the weakest pieces die off first). Since they defend as well as tanks and mobile units, but are as cheap as they are, they are good for defense. NOTE: The NEACAPS player produces Infantry units at $1 instead of $2, due to the - 7 - massive man-power of the region. Similarly, Infantry units for the Alliance for Allah attack at 2 instead of 1, because "it's a good day to die for Allah." Ground Mobile Units (use FA Mobile Units): These are sort of like half-tanks. They move two and can "run through" territories like tanks, but can only engage in combat once per turn (like all pieces). Mobile Units suffer a -1 when attacking over mountainous areas (see below for a list of "mountainous" plots). They are useful more so than tanks in that they have tactical nuclear capability (see below). Furthermore, land-based nuclear capability is capable of destroying up to two (2) enemy pieces, not one as in sea-based combat. Tanks (use A&A tanks, approximate colors): They attack better and have better armorment than mobile units (attack on a 3 instead of a 2, defend on a 2). Like Ground mobile Units, they suffer a -1 when attacking over mountains. Anti-Aircraft (use A&A AA pieces): These perform the same function as they do in A&A, against fighters, helicopters and air transports. Copters (use FA helicopters): They attack at 3 and defend at 2, which isn't bad. They can fly 3 spaces, and are a sort of half-fighter (in A&A terms). Unlike fighters, of which two can only fit on a carrier, three copters can fit. Fighters (use FA bombers): They have excellent attacking and defending capabilities, and can fly 5 spaces. They can land on aircraft carriers. These jets, the same seen in "A Rainy Night," flown by Fokker in the flashback sequence, are very fast and carry many large missiles. Air Cargo (use A&A bombers): These pieces can transport two men or one Tank or one Ground Mobile Unit up to seven spaces. They cost a lot, and suck at combat, but they're the best alternative to slow ship transport. NOTE: Air Cargos may transport pieces into combat, but the aircraft is included in the combat rolls and is subject to being attacked by enemy ground pieces. Missile Carriers (use A&A battleships): These large missile-mounted vessels make up a large part of modern navies. They move 2, like all ships, and attack and defend at 4. They're very nice to have, but expensive. They have nuclear capability (discussed below). Aircraft Carriers (use A&A carriers): Evolved into something resembling the Prometheus and Daedalus from Robotech, these vessels can hold two fighters or three copters or a fighter and a copter. When a carrier is destroyed, it is assumed that its aircraft were not taken out with it; they may fly to a friendly territory if they can. Like subs, missile carriers and GMUs, Carriers have nuclear missile capability. Transports (use A&A freighters): These large ships can transport four infantry or two tanks or mobile units, or two infantry and one tank or mobile unit. Note that this is greatly increased over the transport capability in A&A. Submarines (use A&A subs): These ships have good attacking power (4), fair - 8 - defensive (3), and have a special "stealth" shot by which they can sneak up on a single target, attack, and, if they destroy the target, deprive the enemy of its last defensive attack. Note that this only works if the ship is by itself, without an escort; otherwise, all ships may make a last defensive attack. They cannot retaliate against airplanes, but get to submerge after one round of attacks if they are still around. They have nuclear capability (discussed below). Nukes (use FA city pieces, which will only be used as counters and not actual pieces on the game): Players will start out with 3-6 of these markers, depending on which power they are. In normal combat, if the piece that is currently attacking or defending has nuclear capability (sub, missile cruiser, what have you), the player may "spend" a nuke, gaining a 5-or-less attack against the piece of the his choice. Note that, for nukes against land pieces, either from ships or GMUs, two targets and two 5-or-less attacks are made. A target must be picked, then the nuke roll is taken, in place of the normal attack for that round. If the roll is 5 or less, the enemy piece is destroyed, and gets no defense roll (if it was defending). Nukes may also be used by pieces defending. Note that you don't have to produce the "nuke" in a specific place then move it; it's assumed to already be in the possession of the GMU, aircraft carrier, sub or missile carrier. Only one enemy piece will be destroyed, and there is no trace radiation to worry about (due to neutron technology). NOTE: Normally, land pieces cannot attack sea pieces. The exception to this rule is the ability of GMUs to attack ships off the immediate coast. No other pieces may do this. "Mountainous" Terrain Here is a list of territory borders which have large mountain ranges. Tanks and GMUs attacking across such borders will suffer a -1 on their attack score for this reason. All such areas apply both directions across the range, and the limitation is for attackers only. NOTE: You should draw a line between each territory over mountains so that you will remember what's where. All of India's borders, both directions; all of Afghan's borders; all of Persia's (both halves) borders; Caucasus's borders with Turkey and Persia; W. U.S., western half's border with W. U.S., eastern half. S e t t i n g u p t h e P i e c e s Here's the list of which pieces go where on the new board: The U.S./NATO: Alaska: 1 GMU. W. Canada: 1 INF. W. U.S., west half: 2 INF, 1 FTR, 1 AA; 1 MSSL, 1 SUB. W. U.S., east half: 1 INF, 1 HEL. Mexico: None Hawaii: 2 INF, 1 MSSL, 1 FTR; 1 TNSP. Japan: 2 INF, 1 HEL, 1 ACGO, 1 AA; 1 AC, 1 SUB, 1 FTR (on AC). Okinawa: None. Caroline Islands: 1 HEL, 1 INF. E. Canada: 1 TANK. E. U.S., west half: 1 GMU. - 9 - E. U.S., east half: 2 INF, 1 AA, 1 ACGO; 1 SUB. Panama: 1 INF; 1 TNSP. Britan: 2 INF, 1 ACGO, 1 AA; 1 TNSP, 1 MSSL. W. Europe: 2 INF, 1 FTR, 1 TANK, 1 GMU. W. Germany: 3 INF, 2 TANK, 1 AA, 1 GMU. Right side of Madagascar: 1 AC, 1 FTR, 1 TRNS. The Soviets: Cuba: 2 INF, 1 FTR; 1 SUB. E. Canada: 1 SUB. Off coast of Germany: 1 TNSP. E. Germany: 3 INF, 1 HEL, 1 FTR, 3 TANK, 1 AA. E. Europe: 2 INF, 1 GMU, 2 TANK. Ukrane S.S.R.: 1 INF. Caucasus: 2 INF, 1 GMU, 1 HEL. Karelia S.S.R.: 1 GMU, 1 HEL. Moscow: 3 INF, 1 HEL, 1 FTR, 1 ACGO, 1 AA. Kazekh S.S.R.: 3 INF, 1 TANK. Novosibirsk: 3 INF, 1 TANK. Evenki Nat'l Okrug: 1 GMU, 1 INF. Yakut S.S.R.: 2 INF. Soviet Far East: 2 INF, 1 FTR; 1 MSSL, 1 TRNS. Space to the left of Midway (Macross) Island: 1 AC, 1 FTR (on AC). Two spaces below Mexico, above "Caroline Islands" blow-up: 1 MSSL. One space east of Australia: 1 SUB. Northeast Asian Co-prosperity Sphere: Manchuria: 3 INF, 1 GMU. Kwangtung: 2 INF, 1 FTR, 1 AA. Fr. Indo China Burma: 2 INF, 1 GMU, 1 HEL, 1 AA; 1 MSSL, 1 TRNS. China: 2 INF, 1 FTR. Sinkiang: 3 INF, 1 GMU. Mongolia: 2 INF, 1 TANK, 1 HEL. East Indies: 2 INF. Borneo Celebes: 1 INF, 1 HEL. Phillippenes: 2 INF. New Guinea: 1 INF; 1 TRNS. The Glorious Alliance for Allah: Algeria: 1 INF. Libya: 1 FTR, 1 INF. Anglo Egypt Sudan: 2 INF, 1 GMU. Itallian East Africa: 1 INF, 1 TANK; 1 TRNS (in the Suez). Syria/Iraq: 2 INF, 1 ACGO. Turkey: 2 INF, 1 TANK. Persia: 1 INF, 1 FTR. Saudi Arabia: 2 INF, 2 GMU, 1 TANK. Afghanistan: 1 INF, 1 TANK. India: 3 INF, 2 TANK, 1 GMU, 1 AA; 1 MSSL, 1 TRNS. - 10 - Neutrals: (Neutral pieces are only to add realism to the game, and may only defend. Use British infantry and tank pieces. Each of the three "neutral" nations of South America: 1 INF each. Brazil: 2 INF, 1 TANK. Fr. W. Africa: 1 INF. Fr. Eq. Africa: 1 INF. Belgian Congo: 2 INF. Kenya Rhodesia: 1 INF. South Africa: 2 INF, 1 TANK. Australia: 2 INF, 1 TANK New Zealand: 1 INF. Spain: 1 INF. Starting Nukes Using FA city or laser markers as counters, hand out the following number of nukes to each player: NATO/U.S. 5 Warsaw/Soviet Union 6 NEACAPS 3 Alliance for Allah 3 Order of play The order of play is established randomly in the first turn. Each player should roll 1d6; the closest to 1 goes first. Ties are rerolled. The player playing NATO's forces can never go first; if he gets closest to 1 he should reroll to place himself somewhere else in the queue. After all four players have gone, and every time the fourth has finished his turn, you must roll for the SDF-1 (see below). What happens in a turn? 1. Make Bonus Roll, if desired (see below). 2. Make combat move. Move all pieces that are going to engage in combat into the territory the combat will take place in. 3. Combat. Attacker fires first; defender always gets one last chance to defend after he's dead (unless the attack was using a Nuke or a sub's "stealth attack" against a single target, or the defense is a sub attacking against an aircraft). 4. Non-combat movement. Move pieces that didn't do any combat. 5. Place ownership markers, raise your production appropriately. 6. Buy your new pieces and place them on the board. 7. Collect income for next turn. Check your production card for errors. (Roll for SDF-1, if it's the last player's turn.) Bonus Roll If desired, players may spend $3 of their money on a Bonus Roll. Unlike the A&A equivelant, this can bring good or bad things. Roll 1d6; a 6 means roll - 11 - 1d6. If you get a 1 or a 2, roll once more against group 1; 3-4, roll against group 2; and 5-6, group 3. GROUP 1 1. Media Lack of Support - The media holds the war in disdain, polluting public opinion. Also known as "Dan Rather Syndrome." All items which formerly cost more than $5 are increased by one. 2. Protestors - Long-haired and aggressively bitter bleeding hearts who are Kung-Fu Dandies and who talk in pseudo-New York dialects litter your populace. Lower production by 1 permanently. 3. Nuclear accident - Nuclear payload aboard a submarine explodes, destroying all ships (friend or foe) in that sea zone. The submarine which has the accident should be picked by the player who went before the current player; or, if the current player went first in that round, by the player who goes next. 4. Escape from a crime-plagued walled-in city - Your power's leader's private jet is hijacked and crash-lands in a ruined, walled-in city/prison, and time is wasted waiting for a Rambo-forerunner with an ugly patch and long hair to get him out. Your power doesn't get to produce this turn - but you do get to keep your money and use it for production at the end of next turn. 5. Ronin United Nations forces ally themselves with your power -- Place four infantry, 1 tank and 1 GMU anywhere you want to. 6. Minor Airlift - Move any 5 land-based pieces anywhere else you want. GROUP 2 1. Economic breakthrough - Your power has come into an economic windfall, such as a large oil or gold discovery on your soil. Get one-time bonus of $15. 2. Production breakthrough - Ditto. Get one-time bonus of $12. 3. Uranium discovery leads to increased production of warheads - Take four more "nuke" markers. 4. Visionary leaders - Your power's leadership wears Admirals' hats, smokes pipes and says noble things like, "There's nothing left to do but fight!" Raise your production by 2 permanently because of popular support. 5. Media Support - The free press supports your efforts at home, gaining the support of the population. Get a one-time bonus of $10 because of popular support. 6. SDI - All enemy nuclear attacks hit on 3 or less against your pieces, not 5. GROUP 3 1. Religious/Patriotic Fervor/Jihad - All your infantry pieces now attack on 2 instead of 1. * 2. Air nukes - All your fighters now have nuclear capability, just like subs, aircraft carriers, missile cruisers and mobile units. 3. Nerve gas - Destroy up to five total enemy infantry units in any enemy territories bordering yours. 4. Biological warfare - One attack allowed against any one enemy. Man-made disease permanently decreases enemy's production by five each turn until that player makes saving throw by rolling a 1 on a 1d6 (he makes one saving throw each turn until a cure is found). - 12 - 5. Partisans spring up to combat your enemies in massive uprising - Place five infantry units anywhere you want. 6. Production center retools for defense - Place 2 tanks, 2 GMUs and a fighter anywhere you want. * Moslem player re-roll on this table M o v e m e n t n o t e s A few notes on movement. For the most part, things work exactly as they did in Axis & Allies. When airplanes or copters take off from any land (but not a carrier), count the first sea zone they cross as one move. To move land units across the Suez or the Panama Canals, you must hold both sides (or just Panama in the latter case). No unit may fight more than once, even ones with more than one movement. Pieces in combat (all pieces, not just aircraft) may retreat instead of attacking, but defenders get one last defense against them. Note that no aircraft may be sent on a "suicide mission" - an attack after which it won't be able to land because of lack of range. Changes: Ships _may_ enter and exist in sea zones with enemy ships. If an attack is to be made by a group of one player's ships against another's, it must be made against all his ships (meaning, not just one at a time, or whatever). Also, note the "mountainous" terrain rules noted above. C o m b a t Combat works exactly like in Axis & Allies, as follows: 1) Place the pieces on the "battle board" at the end of this file, according to their attack and defense ratings. 2) Attacker fires first. He rolls the correct number of dice for his pieces, moving from lowest to highest, and whenever he scores a hit, he moves the lowest enemy piece (the choice belongs to the player whose pieces are getting killed) to the area reserved for destroyed pieces. 3) Then the Defender fires, shooting for the "destroyed" pieces first. The dead pieces are put away at this point; they've received their obligatory "parting shot" and are not dead. 4) Attacker fires again, and so on, until one side has won. The victor's remaining pieces are then placed in the territory he just conquered. N o n - c o m b a t m o v e m e n t Now move all the pieces that didn't engage in combat. P l a c i n g O w n e r s h i p M a r k e r s At this point the player will place his country's markers in the territories he has claimed (either by running through empty ones, or by occupying new ones after combat), and will adjust his production on the production board up by one. The player who has lost the territory loses the full value of that territory on the production board -- if it was worth three to him, he loses the full three. But to the player gaining the land, it's only worth one maximum, and you can never produce anywhere but on your own "home" territories which have a production value greater than $1. P r o d u c t i o n - 13 - To save time, there are no Production Facilities in this game. Each power may produce anything on or off the coast of its "main" territories. See the following: NATO/The U.S.: The continental U.S., Japan and Great Britan. Warsaw/The Soviet Union: Anywhere in the "main" Soviet Union that is not colored grey. The NEACAPS: Anywhere on mainland China; not on any islands or in Mongolia. The Moslems: Any one of the starting nations except Afghan, Turkey, Algeria and Italian East Africa. These are the territories you may produce new pieces on at the end of your turn. You may never produce on territory captured from an enemy. If you have no producable lands free to produce on, you may not produce. You do keep collecting income in this situation. When your capital is taken by the enemy, you surrender all your current money to them. You can then neither produce nor collect income until you reclaim your capital. NOTE: Players cannot give their production money to other players or powers (even if controlled by the same player). C o l l e c t I n c o m e One person should have been the "banker," who should keep track of all money and make adjustments to income. However, it's each players' responsibility to make sure a mistake is not being made on his income; he should check at every turn, and recalculate his income. This is especially important in this game where the previous values for A&A's territories do not apply. NOTE: Bankers are known universally to "just cheat a little" when his country's chips are down, so be smart, and check the financial calculations of every player as he is making transactions, producing, etc. *Everybody* cheats in this game -- be smart, and check what your opponents are doing as they do it to be sure all the cards are on the table. R o l l i n g f o r t h e S D F - 1 The SDF-1 can show up any time after the first round. To determine if it arrives, roll 1d6 at the end of each round (when all players have taken their turns); a 5 or a 6 means yes! AUTO SDF-1 RULE: If the game is dragging on slowly, and if all players agree, the SDF-1 can be made to fall at the end of the current round. The damage wrought by the falling vessel, which was as big as five aircraft carriers, was staggering - cities crushed, suckling babies dashed against walls, as the Great King of Terror came down from the sky, etc. When SDF-1 arrives, all four powers must give up 2d6 of their current money because of ruined production facilities, melted twin skyscrapers, and the like. In the territory where the SDF-1 sets down, roll 1d6 once for each piece. On a 2 or less that piece is destroyed! Mark the plot in which the SDF-1 has fallen with a knocked-over FA lazer piece. To determine where the SDF-1 sets down, roll 1d6. If you rolled 1-2, roll - 14 - 1d6 against group 1; 3-4, group 2; or 5-6, group 3. GROUP 1 1. East Indies 2. Angola 3. West Indies 4. Mongolia 5. Brazil 6. Alaska GROUP 2 1. South Africa 2. Midway Island (aka Macross Island) 3. Australia 4. Southern Europe 5. Madagascar 6. Kenya/Rhodesia GROUP 3 1. Panama 2. Midway Island (aka Macross Island) 3. Gibralter 4. Finland/Norway 5. Phillippenes 6. Itallian East Africa Benefits of the SDF-1 The SDF-1 is a huge space battlefortress filled with technological treasurers which would eventually be labeled Robotechnology. In time, the Veritechs, the Armor space platforms, and other mecha, would be possible; but in the first months after the arrival of "the visitor," only token advances were to be made. Possession of the SDF-1's plot of land gains the power an increase in production power. The base modifier is 5. Take a red FA battle marker and put it on the National Production card to keep track of the SDF-1's current level of technological output, starting with 5. The power that owns the plot of land on which the SDF-1 sits gets to add that number to its money when it collects its income for that turn or the next turn (whichever comes first). The extra money is added at the time the SDF-1 falls, no matter when the beneficiary player's turn comes. The SDF-1's output will go up by a flat rate of 10 per round -- so increase the SDF-1's output marker by that much each round, then when the player who holds that plot goes to collect his money, he will get the amount that the SDF-1's techno output marker is at, too. T h a t ' s A l l F o l k s We, the self-glorified anime-fans of Wanna-Be Productions and Robotech Fans, Anonymous, would like to thank you for taking an actual interest in this game. It has taken us (me) a great many hours to set this all up for you, so - 15 - that you could enjoy it. Good luck and happy world-dominating... D o n ' t F o r g e t . . . I almost forgot to mention Robotech Fans, Anonymous, an entirely free fan organization in which *you* are welcome to belong (you lucky pollinator). What do you get? A free periodic newsletter in which we spread our fascist Robotech bullcrap, and information on any other projects we may actually finish someday. To join, just send me your address, and you're all set. Robotech Fans, Anonymous 3644 1/2 #A 51st Street San Diego, CA 92105 (619)285-9348 (GEnie account LETO-2) And don't forget to call the Sherwood Forest BBS - Main hang-out of all wanna-bes, and it's PC Pursuitable! (619)276-5603 C o m i n g S o o n Oh, and don't miss more action and adventure, when we get off our rear ends and write: ROBOTECH: The Second Global Civil War A board game of epic proportions using Fortress America's board and pieces! The Second Global Civil war (GCWII) occurred in Robosmut, the famous best-seller length cult fanfic-novel (which, alas, still awaits publication). It was a glorious year-long struggle between the evil Napoleon of the United Earth Government, President Benjamin "B-D" Dreyfus, and Supreme Commander Rick Hunter's deposed RDF, commanded by Vice Supreme Commander Lisa Hayes-Hunter, while Rick himself struggled a galaxy away to escape fate and save another world in great peril. It was a no-win situation for everyone, and the fate of the world's millions of displaced micronized Zentraedi, Robotech Masters' Clones and Invid hung in the balance! - 16 - R O B O T E C H : T h e G l o b a l C i v i l W a r B a t t l e B o a r d D E F E N D E R |----------------------------------------------------------------| | DESTROYED | | | | | | | |----------------------------------------------------------------| | | | | | | | Nukes | Fighters | Copters | Infantry | Anti-Air | | | M. Cruiser | Submarines | GMUs | Air Cargo | | | | A. Carrier | Tanks | Transport | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 5 | 4| 3| 2| 1| |------------|------------|------------|------------|------------| | 5 | 4| 3| 2| 1| | Nukes | M. Cruiser | Tanks | GMUs | Infantry | | | Fighters | Copters | A. 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