Rule Remarks About MaharajaV5.2
Holger Burbach

•  Starting Areas: (one army in each area)

 


Pandyas:
                 Khandesh, Malwa
Cholas:
                 Bundelkhand, Gondwana
Harappans:
                 Baluchistan, Delhi, Gandhara, Gujarat, Kashmir, Lahore, Punjab, Rajpuntana, Sind

 

•  Sequence of Play:

 

•  increase population phase
• invasion phase
• movement phase
• battle phase
• factory phase
• arms phase
• victory point count phase

 

•  Movement:

 

•  2 areas
• stop in hiland
• colonial armies (British, Dutch, French and Portuguese) 3 areas
• no direct movement Malwa-Gondwana,
  Bundelkhand-Khandesh
• Karnatak-Lanka: one turn; retreat possible
• 2 to 1 stop in enemy area; additional may continue
• boats: move through one sea area; colonial armies: may stop at sea
• major invastion: move and fight twice
• group with leader: 3 areas; no stop in hiland
• permission to move through sea area for boad-building Indian nation by Colonial nations in that area

 

•  Stacking:

 

•  3 armies
• 2 armies in hiland
• one unlimited group in non-hiland or one group of 4 armies in hiland
• check: end of movement phase
• no exception: increase population; retreat
• overpopulation (check after turn): whole people: 2 armies for each area, not for colonial armies
• leader removal critical for battle resolution: Alexander, Timur and Abdali removed at end of nation´s turn; Ashoka and Chandra removed at start of subsequent game turn; all others removed at start of nation´s next turn

 

•  Battle:

 

•  fight against hostile factory optional
• fight among colonial armies at sea optional (moving player decides)
• Indian nation with boats may attack Colonial armies at sea but must retreat afterwards
• roll die for each army to determine hostile elimination:

 

•  Indian armies eliminated on 5 or 6
• Colonial factories on 5 or 6
• Colonial armies on 6
• defending army or factory in hiland on 6
• Colonial armies add 1 to die roll
• add 1 to die roll if own leader present

 

•  partial retreat possible
• defender retreat to own area or to vacant area not adjacent to attackers area; no retreat to attackers start area
• attacker retreat to own area he came from

 

•  Population (rules p. 7):

 

•  one new army for 3 areas; hiland counts ¹/₂
• if possible at most 1 new army in an area
• removals as listed:

 

•  2 Greeks and Alexander at end of Greek turn 4
• 2 Mughals and Timur at end of Mughal turn 11
• 2 Afghans and Abdali at end of Afghan turn 15
• 6 Mauryans and Ashoka at beginning of turn 5
• 8 Guptas and Chandra at beginning of turn 8
• 8 Guptas at beginning of turn 9

 

•  increase restrictions as listed:

 

•  no increase for Mauryans during turn 5
• no increase for Guptas after turn 7
• no increase for Cholas after turn 9
• Muslims only count areas in South India from turn 12 onwards
• Mughals only count areas in South India during turns 15 and 16

 

•  Chola and Maratha reinforcements in vacant South Indian area if necessary (else: do not appear)
• british reinforcements: new armies in Indian Ocean

 

•  Submission:

 

•  only allowed, if listed:

 

•  Sinhalese if 1 area in Ceylon
• Sikhs if 1 area in North India
• Rajputs if 2 or fewer areas in North India
• Pandyas, Marathas and Muslims if 2 or fewer areas in South India
• Mughals from turn 11 onwards if 2 or fewer areas in North India or 1 area in South India (consider separately!)

 

•  lasts one turn; repeated submission possible
• at any time during movement or battle
• no movement or battle restriction for submitter
• attacker must retreat at once
• attacker must accept submission
• count submitted area towards Raj points
• submission during major invasion: may move through submitters area

 

•  Alliance:

 

•  declare at any time
• submission to British causes alliance
• allies must retreat immediately
• no battle among allies
• at declaration of alliance immediately loose one army from game board or population marker (i. e. no further increase of population); move it to British alliance box
• British armies may move through allied areas
• British may build factories in eligible allied areas

 

•  Factories:

 

•  factories only in listed coastal areas: Andhra, Bengal, Bijapur, Golconda, Gujarat, Karnatak, Kerala, Lanka, Maharashtra, Malabar, Orissa, Sind
• no factory in: Assam, Baluchistan, Simhala
• build up to 2 in factory phase
• may remove 1 in factory phase
• factory area must belong to Colonial nation or to friendly nation touching at least one Colonial sea area
• permission to build factory by diplomacy or force
• factory may co-exist with armies of any nation
• factory as immovable army; first destroy armies

 

•  Arms:

 

•  assign and or withdraw in arms phase
• nation shares area with Colonial factory and at least one Colonial army on land area (12.2 p. 8)
• acts as leader (together with normal leader: add 2 to die roll during battle)
• enters play in population phase
• each colonial nation has one arms marker

 

•  Raj:

 

•  for Mauryans Guptas, Muslims, Mughals, British
• at end of their players turn
• 9 areas Raja (1VP), 18 areas Maharaja (2VP), 27 areas Maharajadhiraja (3VP), 36 areas Chakravattin (4VP)
• occupied and submitted areas
• British: occupied by army or factory (no conflict!), allied areas, vacant areas
• count conflict for area: neither may count

 

•  Strategy:

 

•  attention on indigenous invasions:

 

•  turn 4: 3 Sinhaleses in Lanka
• turn 5: 6 Marathas in Maharashtra
• turn 13: 4 Sikhs in Lahore

 

•  mighty British
• 3 Player Short Game:

 

•  begins with turn 9
• Guptas do not remove armies at start of turn 9
• Starting Areas: (one army in each area)

 


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Pandyas:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Bijapur, Kerala, Malabar, Mysore
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Marathas:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Berar, Gondwana, Khandesh, Maharashtra
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Cholas:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Andhra, Bidar, Golconda, Karnatak
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Sinhalese:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Lanka, Simhala
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Rajputs:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Delhi, Gujarat, Lahore, Malwa, Punjab, Rajpuntana
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Guptas:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Agra, Bengal, Bihar, Bundelkhand, Jaunpur, Ladakh, Magadha, Nepal, Orissa, Oudh
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Muslims:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Baluchistan, Sind