The 1600 veriant is just a map variant, that is really easy to do.
I tried the 1900-variant some time ago, but the 1/2-strenght moves (like the suez canal) are always hard to do and make problems all the times...

The Diplomatic Pouch judges also have 1900 running. One of the Aussie players loves it, and I can put him in touch with you if you need players. I'm sure he'd be up for a game.

(PM me on webdip, though. I'm rarely here).

Oli: Sweet! So does that mean that we can put 1600 on the list? It's good to hear that you've already tried your hand at implementing 1900.

A_Tin_Can: I don't think I'll play a game anytime soon, but it is good to know that option. Though I couldn't figure it out: the DPjudge is PBEM?

Maybe tobi has a good idea on how to do the 1/2 power move over south africa...
The rest is rather easy to do for this variant.

Could you use the code from the Pirates variant? One of the units in that has an attack strength of two...

Correct Cap'n, Pirates was coded up for "units" to have different strengths: frigates double clippers, and the hurricane ten times a clipper.

I agree, that this move around South Africa is definitely the complex part of this variant and I cannot think of a trick to avoid making adjustments directly in the adjudicator. The implementation of the rules itself in the adjudicator shouldn't be a big problem, since the adjudicator is designed in a way, that makes it relatively easy to adjust unit strength in such a way or to prohibit some supports. But as you would be directly working on the adjudicator you would have to give some thought to possible new paradoxes and other unwanted effects, as well (I don't believe there are any new paradoxes but haven't thought about that systematically yet). So the solution might need to be a more elaborate one.
The 'forbidden supports' rule also causes some work on the order interface(s) if you want to have a clean solution, but that wouldn't be the big part of this rule change.
All in all I believe, this rule is possible with our system but it is definitely a more complex one that will need some time, since such rule changes 'make problems all the time'. I can give it a try myself if somebody else wants to serve the rest of the variant.

So The Russian Emergency Measures Rule isn't complicated to code?

The EMR is rather easy to do.
So I start working on the maps and links and tobi starts thinking about the adjucator.
Deal?

Maybe use the pirates-code as an inspiration.. :-) The other variant using different strength units (Imperium) is disabled at the moment because all kind of strange problems....

Ok, then I will take a look at the pirates variant. We probably have it a bit easier here, since only half strength moves and no supports are allowed.

Smallmap is looking nice. Maybe I can do the largemap tomorrow...
Anpther "problem" is gibraltar. It's a Sea-Space for convoy, but you can move there with an army to block the space...

Is there an easy way to see which variants are disabled?

I just want to say that I'm thrilled to see this discussion and the new development activity it represents. Thanks for the work you all put into this site, it is tremendously appreciated.

The maps and borders are all done.
Now to the special-rules.

PS: The 1600 map got implemented by my realpolitik->webdip converter with only a few issues to resolve (besides redrawing the maps).
This might be hitting the site real soon too...

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1600 is ready.
I will release it this week, as we wait for 1900...

Sweet! Guess that meand that I'll be playing a game soon after all!

Oh, no....
The variant was ready for upload, but somehow my version-control system deleted all files... Damn Win10. 10 hours work lost....
Sorry, now I'm not sure if I can do this again....

noooooooo :'((((((((((((((

Damn, I was looking forward to playing these.

-1
;)

And I just CDed a game so I'd have the time for a 1600 kick off this weekend (...or maybe I just screwed up again.)

Oli, you should know to do backups. Which VC do you use? Tortoise? TFS?

I use Tortoise.
Usually I make V 1.0 of a variant and commit them into the VC.
Somehow I had not set a branch (not sure how this could happen). So after submitting I switchend to the master-branch to submit the files again, but now they disappeared. And because I have no name for the branch I submitted the variant-files I can't switch. Really strange. I have a "backup" of an earlier dev-version, and all my coordinates are in the SQL-database, so I can get these, but I did put a lot of effort in optimizing the readability of the maps and this is now lost...
Well, I have some free time tonight to reconstruct most of the work.

Thanks for taking the time Oli. I know it always sucks having to redo any tech work (especially the fiddly stuff).

Ah, tortoise. I hate it sometimes. It's what we use at VSI.

Thank you very much for your work, Oli ! The 1600 variant seems very interesting.