Randomly selected event at end of turn

[nymanjens]

Spin-off from https://github.com/nymanjens/Alliances/issues/162:

Consensus:

Have a deck of cards. Draw one card for every turn (all known at start of game).

The cards could be:

• Extra unit
• Extra command token
• Lose command token
• Command token X cannot be played
• Extra victory point for occupying X
• Forced mutiny of 1 region

[317070]

• War Bonds: This turn, the invest token exchanges coins between the game supply and the region on the board. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_bond )
• Famine: At the beginning of this turn, 1 unit dies in every region without investments. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_Mount_Lebanon )
• Collapse in the morale: Every player loses one region of choice to mutiny at the beginning of this turn. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Army_Mutinies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiel_mutiny )
• Tanks: Every player gains a move token ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanks_in_World_War_I )
• Stokes trench mortar: At the beginning of this turn, every player adds one artillery to one of its regions. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortar_(weapon) )
• The bomber will always get through: Every player removes one infantry of choice from the board. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_bomber_will_always_get_through )
• Conscription: Every player gains one recruit token. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription )
• Influenza: Every player loses one invest token. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic )
• Iron Ore Line: Norway has a strategic city this turn. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ore_Line )
• Collaborate against the indigenous population: Morocco has a strategic city this turn. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_theatre_of_World_War_I )
• No man's land: Every player gains a trench token. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_man%27s_land )
• Colonial troops: Gain one recruit token. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_troops )
• Flamethrower: Gain one move token.
• Tunnel warfare: Every player removes one trench from the board.
• Zimmermann Telegram: Command tokens are placed open this round. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmermann_Telegram )
• He kept us out of war: Every player gets 2 infantry in a sea region. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1916 )
• Mata Hari: Whoever owns the Benelux goes first this round.
• Armenian Genocide: Every player removes one unit from their original strategic city, if they still own it.
• Communism: Add one coin to every country owned by a player.
• Sapping: Every player can add 2 trenches to the map.
• Barbed wire: This round, trenches give defenders three times the number of dice.

[nymanjens]

Some quick thoughts:

• [x] I would change the bomber effect to removing an infantry of choice from the board to avoid artilleries from becoming even less powerful
• [ ] I'd rather not change the available tokens during the game because it will aggravate whatever unbalance there is or be irrelevant at best

[Tantali]

(that checkmark is weird, I'm guessing you got emails of me checking/unchecking it?) I do like the concept of adjusting available tokens during the game. And if it's irrelevant, then I think the tokens aren't a scarce enough resource. As far as unbalance goes, if players have less tokens, you'd gain more balance I'd think.

As far as the 'gain x token' events, I would be careful with those, especially if they were permanent. Making the tokens not scarce enough leads to major snowballing I think.

Was just thinking that from the experimental-branch we were going to do, that we might take some alternative rules that we tested there and apply them as an event card.

In general I would avoid any events which clearly only benefit a winning team. Meaning, if the way to attain the most benefit from the event is playing as you would standardly need to play to win, I don't see a point in the event. Unless it would be possible for the losing team to temporarily turn the tables to gain more benefit than the winning team. Only found one in Jonas' list, which falls under this big no-no category I think:

• Collapse in the morale: this hits a losing team hard, and is basically irrelevant for the winning team. I do like the concept, but maybe adjust it a bit, e.g. a land with a single unit on it mutinies?

Really liking all the suggested events so far, especially the ones 'breaking the rules'.

Suggestions:

• Roads hop over one(/two/inifinite) additional land
• Roads don't need investments
• Can hop over sea (meaning, no move token required)
• Recruiting gives additional unit
• Skip production+payment
• Skip production
• Skip payment (this is a bad idea I think)
• End of the turn, pay 1 coin per region owned / pay 2 coins per uninvested region owned (else mutiny)
• Neutral reinforcement: every empty region gets one neutral infantry (or variations on this)
• At end of the turn, region X (or regions) will mutiny
• At end of the turn, region X (or regions) gains one infantry
• During this turn, stolen invested coins can be invested elsewhere instantly
• During this turn, retreating is impossible

[nymanjens]

How about we proceed as folllows?: Someone makes a PR for experimental with an initial list. (names and references are allowed, but not required)

We can then add and remove stuff and only keep whatever there is a consensus about?

[nymanjens]

@317070 and @Tantali This'll be a significant amount of work to get this in the game. Does anyone think it's worth prioritizing this?

I changed this to "low priority" because I don't think it's a core issue right now.