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Basic Economics 1. The economics of the game are based on four types of 'factors'; Gold ($), Manpower (M), Agricultural (A) and Industrial (I). Each nation has a stockpile of factors available for use at the start of the game. This stockpile is subject to increase and decrease during each season, due to actions of the player and other nations. 2. A & I factors are spent by a nation in each season for various purposes. These factors are subtracted from a nation’s stockpile. Once thus subtracted these factors are removed from the game. See tables 1 through 4 for a list of A & I costs. 3. Each province has an A & I ‘yield’ at the beginning of the game. This is the number of factors of either type which are added to the stockpile of the nation of which the province is a part. 4. Each season can be split into two sections which are independent of one another. First, ‘costs’ in which a nation performs and pays for all of its’ actions that turn; and second, ‘income’ in which a nation receives factors from various sources. 5. A nation may only spend on actions, factors which it had at the Start of Season (SOS). Thus a nation may not spend more than it has SOS on costs even though it may be receiving more factors during the income section. 6. The A & I yields may be temporarily decreased by: a. Sabotage & Guerilla Warfare according to tables 14-16. See Rules VIII 1-3. b. Military Action. If a province is attacked (successfully or otherwise) by unfriendly units, then the province does not yield. c. Winter. All provinces have their A yield reduced by 50% in each winter. Factors are rounded up to the greatest whole factor in favor of the greater yield. Although the game begins in Winter 1914, there is no Winter halving for this season. Any alteration due to the above three is transitory and only in force for the appropriate season. 7. The A & I yields may be permanently increased by “Research”. In any turn in which an API or IPI is assigned to a province, the yield from that province is increased by 1A or 1I (depending on the type of PI). The yield from that province then remains at that new level for all succeeding turns. (See section V). 8. The number of A’s in a stockpile is reduced each season by deterioration. This reduction consists of ¼ of the total number of A’s in that stockpile at SOS before any other costs have been paid. All fractions are rounded up in favor of the greater loss, with exception that a stockpile of 1A does not alter. 9. $ factors represent the total money available for use by a nation. They are spent from the nation’s stockpile, but unlike A & I are not removed from game; The total $ expenditure by a nation in a season goes into the ‘escrow’ of the nation in which the money was spent. During the income section of each season, one-fifth (0.2) of the $ which was in the escrow of a nation at SOS is transferred from escrow (E) to the on-hand $ stockpile. Fractions are rounded up in favor of the greatest income. Note that there is no net increase or decrease of overall $ in a nation by this transfer. 10. M factors represent the manpower of a nation that can be used in a military context. Each turn a nation yields a certain number of M (see table 18). At the end of any turn in which a nation cannot satisfy the ‘starvation requirements’ (see table 19) it loses 1M for each 1A short of the required amount. M factors are assigned to military units and installations when they are built (for costs see table 1). Thereafter, while the unit remains in existence those M factors are tied up in it. If the unit or installation is disbanded then the M factors are returned to the stockpile of the owning nation. M factors can only be destroyed in battle. A unit which experiences any casualties according to table 6 suffers no effect in itself (it is assumed reinforcements are always available). The casualties are met from the stockpile of the nation which owns the units. If there are insufficient Ms, then the unit is demobilized, and the Ms are returned to the stockpile. If a unit is annihilated in battle then the Ms in the unit are destroyed. No casualties will be assessed against an owning nation’s stockpile for an annihilated unit’s casualties. 11. If a nation orders actions which cost in excess of the factors available to the nation, then some actions will be failed. The order of failure is laid out in table 5 and orders will be failed until the expenses can be covered. If there is more than one order in a category to be failed then they are failed by chance, determined by the GM. A nation may wish to supercede the GM’s table with one of his own, but this only lasts for the season indicated unless otherwise specified.

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