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Introducing Treaty Ports
Imperial Gunboats and International Intrigue in the Exotic Far East
Diplomacy variant of Avalon Hill / Hasbro's strategy war game using Realpolitik computer Maps

The scramble to "carve the Chinese melon" and control the strategic ports of Asia ensues.  the Chinese giant is riven from within but the imperialists jostle with each other, as Britain and Russia plot against each other in the "Great Game" of Central Asia, the French and Germans scheme to usurp regional domination, and the seeds of World War II germinate in the fractious and ever more ominous Japanese-American rivalry.  The Boxer Rebellion ignites the powder keg of Asia, diplomatic notes fly from capital to capital, and the Great Powers mobilize their expeditionary forces . . .

START = spring 1900, during the tumultuous Boxer Rebellion as the Chinese empire strikes back against the industrialized barbarians.

PLAYERS = 8, the rising United States and Japan, the European empires of Germany, Russia, France, and Britain, and two factions within a chaotic Imperial China (the Manchu Dynasty and the Warlord-Revolutionary Chinese), vie for dominance of East Asia from Afghanistan to Wake.

VICTORY CONDITIONS = 22 of 43 SCs (Standard i.e. a majority of total SCs), only a bit larger than Standard and somewhat of a mirror-image map for the other end of Eurasia, plus a few extra twists.

SPECIAL RULES = Yes/Optional, you can use 100% Standard rules but a few Special Builds (see link at left) are recommended (If your judge does not support these Special Builds, use Chaos- or Aberration-style builds to approximate them).

Example of Mother Country Reinforcements (MCRs) moving onboard via any map-edge sea province:

     See the Documentation for full details.  Learn the historical background of power & invasion behind Treaty Ports.

Start Positions:

The Great Powers:	ARMY	ARMY	ARMY	FLEET	FLEET	FLEET
Britain (B)	Delhi	Hong Kong		Colombo	Singapore	Weihaiwei
France (F)	Kwangchowan			Pondicherry	Cam Ranh
Germany (G)	Tsingtao			Truk	Rabaul
Japan (J)	Osaka			Taipei	Tokyo
Manchu China (M)	Harbin	Peking	Yanggu
Russia (R)	Almaty	Irkutsk	Vladivostock	Port Arthur
USA - United States (U)	Davao			Manila	Wake
Warlord-Revolutionary China (W)	Xining	Chunking	Kunming
Neutral Supply Center (SC)

* Sun Yat Sen's republican flag is employed here but the revolutionary Chinese can represent republicans, proto-communists, or old-fashioned warlords.

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