Introduction to Warpspawn Games

INITIATIVE PHASE

The rest of the round.

The winner gets to choose whether he wants to go first or last in each phase.

PEACE PHASE

Treaty or Trade Agreements.

If a peace card is played, neither player may play military

conflict cards against each other, or Bid in military conflicts

against each other for 1D6 rounds.

WAR PHASE

also controls a Major Region and play one of the following war cards:

World War, Cold War

The player that started the war is the leader of the axis side.

The target opponent is the leader of the allies side.

The 2 players resolve the War by bidding.

Other players may bid to help one of the two sides.

The losing side has 1D6 of their controlled regions become neutral.

The winner picks which regions.

CONFLICT PHASE

To target a Major country with a conflict card costs 3 ITS.

(It costs nothing to target a Minor country)

The player that plays the card is the active player.

Each conflict is resolved in turn by bidding.

Other players may bid for or against the outcome of the card.

For example: John the Fascist plays Diplomacy against Neutral India.

If he wins he gains control of India. If he loses nothing happens.

John plays Military Coup on South America controlled by Ray the Socialist.

If John wins, S. America becomes neutral. If he loses nothing happens.

Controlled regions that become neutral lose a control marker.

Regions that come under control gain a control marker.

A player may play more than one conflict on his turn.

CONFLICT CARD LIST

World War D Z XM* 2

Cold War D Z XE* 2

Treaty D T XP 2

Trade Agreements D T XE 2

Superpower Operation O B XM* 2

Limited War O B XM 2

Insurgency O B XM** 2

Rebellion O B IM 2

Military Coup O B IM 2

Civil War O B IM 2

Revolution O B IM 2

Insurrection O B IM 2

Coup d'etat O B IP 2

Depression O B IE 2

Economic Collapse O B IE 2

Economic Boycott O B IE 2

Terrorism O B XP** 2

Trade War O B XE 2

Incursion OA C XM 2

Power Vacuum N C IP 2

Regional War N C XM 2

Colonialism N C XE 2

Occupation NA C XM 2

Police Action N C IP 2

Cultural Revolution N C IP 2

Alliance N C XP 2

Annexation NA C XM 2

Puppet State NA C XM* 2

Counter Revolution NL C IM 2

Purge NL C IP 2

# = Number of that card in the deck

* = Can only be played by a player with a Major Region

** = Can only be played by a player without a Major Region

O = Region controlled by opponent

N = Neutral Region

D = Opposing Ideology

C = You gain control of target region

B = Target region becomes neutral

A = Target must be adjacent to a region you control

M = Military

P = Political

E = Economic

L = Must target region you just lost control of

I = Internal

X = External

Z = 1D6 controlled regions of Loser become neutral

T = Neither Ideology may play Military conflicts against each other for 1D6 rounds.

INFLUENCE CARD LIST

Card Name # Inf Notes

Appeasement 2 3 +1M

Isolationism 2 2 +2I

Foreign Aid 2 2 +1E

Guerilla Warfare 2 2 +1M

War Crimes Tribunal 2 1 +1P

Charismatic Leader 4 5 +1P

Iron Curtain 1 3 +1E

League of Nations 1 2 +1X

United Nations 1 3 +1X

Diplomacy 2 2 +1P

Espionage 2 1 +2 for Initiative

Propaganda 2 2 +2I

National Will 2 4 +1X

Manifesto 2 3 +1P

Industrial Buildup 2 0 *

* = Permanently increase Influence of target region by + 1

Additional bonus Influence is received in the appropriate type of conflict:

M = Military, P = Political, E = Economic, I = Internal, X = External

Inf = Influence that may be added to the conflict bid.

# = Number of that card in the deck.

GAME DESIGNERS NOTES

Remember you are an Ideology, not a nation.

Don't get too attached to any particular country.

Russia was a Tsarist Empire, then communist, now a democracy.

Even the USA could have switched governments several times this

Century: the Great Depression, McCarthyism, The 60's.

A humanists wish:

May objective truth triumph over all doctrines.

MANIFESTO DESTINY

A More Historically Constrained Variant For "Manifesto"

By Michael Callahan

Achtung!!! Read MANIFESTO DESTINY Now!!!

FAQ

Questions by Michael Andre-Driussi...

Q: About writing out the bids, it seems like you intended it to be

verbose "Police State in South America, Against, 2 ITS." But we

tended to just write Y for yes or N for no and the number of coins,

if any. (Less a question than a statement--but here's the question:

was there a reason for a verbose bid?)

A: The simpler you can make it the better. I'll take the short

version over the doctoral thesis.

Q: The "die roll of 1 to 3 means target a minor country" thing. I

took this to mean that first a player would select a card, playing it

down (perhaps face down?); then roll; then apply the card

accordingly. One player thought that it went another way--first one

rolls, then if the die forces an action against a minor country the

player selects the most appropriate card and plays it. I still think

I'm right but I wanted to alert you to this.

A: The 1-3 rule was an inelegant fudge rule to prevent the big guys

from directly duking it out. More problems than its worth.

New rule: To target a Major country with a conflict card costs 3 ITS.

I think that might work better.

Q: Bidding for initiative. If no bids, then we resolved with dice.

But we didn't do a complete scramble, we simplified it and said

whoever wins gets the choice of first or last to move, and play moves

clockwise from that player. (Another statement.)

A: Works for me.

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