World War II - 1931 Variant

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The variant rules are below, as well as some clarifications of potentially tricky situations on the map.

  • There are 8 players: Britain (B, 13), France (F, 11), Germany (G, 6), Italy (I, 6), USSR (S, 9), Japan (J, 8), Republic of China (C, 7), and USA (A, 6).  Britain and France start with more supply centers because of their colonial empires.
  • There are 96 supply centers, with 39 in Europe, 38 in Asia, 10 in the Americas, and 9 in Africa.
  • The victory condition is 32 SCs (one-third of the total).
  • There are chaos builds, meaning that units can be built in any open supply center.
  • There are two new types of units: planes and aircraft carriers.  These units do everything with a strength of 0.5, including movement, support, and defense.  To compensate for this weakness, they can support actions that are two spaces away.  Example: Plane Gorky can support A Moscow to Poland, and this attack would now have a strength of 1.5.
  • For a plane unit, use the abbreviation P (e.g. P Gor S A Mos - Pol).  For an aircraft carrier unit, use the abbreviation Q (e.g. Q Liv S F Lon - Eng).
  • Denmark, Gibraltar, Turkey, Suez, and Panama are all canal provinces.  This means that both an army and a fleet can move through these spaces.
  • Any unit can move across the "red arrows".  However, a unit cannot retreat across a "red arrow".  "Red arrows" connect the following pairs:  Scotland and Ireland, Taranto and Sicily, Abyssinia and Yemen, Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Kyoto and Hokkaido, Hokkaido and Sakhalin, Sakhalin and Vladivostak, and Kamchatka and Alaska.
  • Denmark borders Oslo, and an army can move from Denmark to Oslo.  Essentially, Denmark comprises both Denmark and Skagerrak from Standard Dip.
  • Gibraltar is a much larger space than just the British colony of Gibraltar, extending from the Bay of Biscay and East Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Lyon and Tyrrhenian Sea, while bordering both Iberia and Casablanca as well.
Here is a list of the provinces and their abbreviation:

Abyssinia: Aby
Adriatic Sea: Adr
Afghanistan: Afg
Alaska: Ala
Alberta: Alb
Alsace-Lorraine: Als
Amazon: Ama
Angola: Ang
Aquitaine: Aqu
Argentina: Arg
Arabian Sea: ArS
Atlantic Southern Ocean: ASO
Austria: Aus
Azerbaijan: Aze
Azores: Azo
Baltic Sea: Bal
Barents Sea: BaS
Bavaria: Bav
Bay of Bengal: BBg
British East Africa: BEA
Beijing: Bei
Berlin: Ber
Bering Sea: BeS
Birmingham: Bir
Bismarck Sea: BiS
Black Sea: Bla
British New Guinea: BNG
Benelux: BNL
Bay of Biscay: BoB
Bolivia: Bol
Brazil: Bra
Burma: Brm
Beirut: Brt
Bulgaria: Bul
Burgundy: Bur
British West Africa: BWA
Cameroon: Cam
Caribbean: Car
Casablanca: Cas
Ceylon: Cey
Chad: Cha
Chicago: Chi
Columbia: Col
Belgian Congo: Con
Corsica: Cor
Coral Sea: CoS
Cape Horn: CpH
Caspian Sea: Csp
Dakar: Dak
Denmark: Den
Dutch New Guinea: DNG
Dunkirk: Dun
Dutch West Indies: DWI
Danzig: Dzg
East Atlantic Ocean: EAO
East China Sea: ECS
El Alamein: ElA
Eastern Mediterranean: Eme
English Channel: ENG
East Pacific Ocean: EPO
East Prussia: Epr
East Sea of Japan: ESJ
East Turkestan: ETu
Finland: Fin
Gansu: Gan
Guadalcanal: Gdc
Gibraltar: Gib
Gulf of Alaska: GoA
Gulf of Bothnia: GoB
Gulf of Guinea: GoG
Gulf of Lyon: GoL
Gulf of Mexico: GoM
Gorky: Gor
Gulf of Siam: GoS
Gulf of Tonkin: GoT
Greece: Gre
Greenland: Grn
Guangdong: Gua
Hamburg: Ham
Hanoi: Han
Hawaii: Haw
Hefei: Hef
Hiroshima: Hir
Hungary: Hng
Hokkaido: Hok
Houston: Hou
Hunan: Hun
Iberia: Ibe
Iceland: Ice
India: Ind
Inner Mongolia: Img
Indian Ocean: InO
Inland Sea: InS
Ionian Sea: Ion
Iran: Ira
Ireland: Ire
Irish Sea: IRI
Indian Southern Ocean: ISO
Iwo Jima: Iwo
Jubaland: Jub
Kamchatka: Kam
Kiel: Kie
Korea: Kor
Kyoto: Kyo
Labrador Sea: LaS
Leningrad: Len
Libya: Lib
Lithuania: Lit
Liverpool: Liv
London: Lon
Madagascar: Mad
Mali: Mal
Manchuria: Man
Mesopotamia: Mes
Mexico: Mex
Malaya: Mly
Mongolia: Mon
Moscow: Mos
Mozambique: Moz
Murmansk: Mur
Mozambique Channel: MzC
Nagasaki: Nag
Nanjing: Nan
North Atlantic Ocean: NAO
Novosibirsk: Nov
North Pacific Ocean: NPO
Normandy: Nrm
North Sea: Nth
Norwegian Sea: NwS
New York City: NYC
New Zealand: Nze
Okinawa: Oki
Okhostk Sea: OkS
Oman: Oma
Ontario: Ont
Oslo: Osl
Ottawa: Ott
Panama: Pan
Pacific Ocean: PaO
Paris: Par
Peru: Per
Philippines: Phi
Philippine Sea: PhS
Piedmont: Pie
Poland: Pol
Pomerania: Pom
Persian Gulf: Prg
Pacific Southern Ocean: PSO
Red Sea: Red
Rhineland: Rhi
Rhodesia: Rho
Rome: Rom
Rumania: Rum
South Africa: Saf
Saigon: Sai
Sakhalin: Sak
South Atlantic Ocean: SAO
Sardinia: Sar
Saudi Arabia: Sau
Sichuan: Sch
Scotland: Sco
South China Sea: SCS
Sudan: Sdn
Seattle: Sea
San Francisco: Sfo
Shanghai: Sha
Siam: Sia
Sicily: Sic
Silesia: Sil
Somalia: Som
Solomon Sea: SoS
South Pacific Ocean: SPO
Spratly Islands: Spr
Stalingrad: Sta
Sudentenland: Sud
Suez: Sue
Sweden: Swe
Switzerland: Swi
Sydney: Syd
Taiwan: Tai
Taranto: Tar
Tashkent: Tas
Tibet: Tib
Timor Sea: TiS
Tokyo: Tok
Toulouse: Tou
Transjordan: Tra
Turkmenistan: Trk
Trondheim: Tro
Truk Lagoon: Tru
Tsushima Straits: Tsu
Turkey: Tur
Tuscany: Tus
Tyrrhenian Sea: TyS
Urals: Ura
Venice: Ven
Vladivostok: Vla
West Atlantic Ocean: WAO
Western Australia: Wau
Washington DC: WDC
West Indies: Win
West Pacific Ocean: WPO
West Sea of Japan: WSJ
Yakutsk: Yak
Yalta: Yal
Yemen: Yem
Yellow Sea: YeS
Yorkshire: Yor
Yugoslavia: Yug
Yukon Territory: Yuk
Yunnan: Yun