I have no maps. If I ever sent you maps, they would have had to be right off of wikipedia.

I'm pretty sure you sent me some maps at some point...

Who would the belligerents be?
White army
Bolsheviks
Trotskyites

No Trotskyites.....Trotsky was the the commander in chief of the Bolsheviks. Reds, Whites and Blacks if memory serves....plus Allies?

Supporting the Whites, the Czecho-slovaks. And at their retreat to the East, Americans arrive Later, like Prussia at Waterloo.
Or earlier, Germany and their sealed train ... Muy complicado

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I have this old concept for RCW lying around, perhaps it could give you some ideas. I thought about a roughly 21 player map, each starting with 1-2 SCs and representing a commander participating in the RCW, so there would be several Red ones, White ones, 2 Czechoslovaks, Polish, Baltic Germans, the Allies expedition of Ironside, peasant anarchists of Makhno etc. I guess you could lump some of them up to have bigger blocks and variant for less players or you could set some sort of semi-permanent alliances to give it a twist on typical Diplomacy. The positions are roughly Fall 1918 till early 1919. Units would be armies and armored trains that act as ships and can only run on Transsiberian railway "sea provinces" and dock in SCs along the way, which would be a quicker route connecting the East and West theatres than going with just armies. No new rules to keep it simple. Just an idea I never had time to finish with my own gaming projects in the pipes :)

broken link?

sorry, my mistake.

looks like a good start there. Would the armoured trains be able to convoy along railway routes?

The 'permanent alliances' bit could be based off of the privateers in Pirate diplomacy.

Without the convoy ability, they would be too weak I think.

I'm not sure about permanent alliances, reading a little more about the civil war it seems like there was significant competition and distrust between the different contingents involved.

Yeah, that was why I tried to split the beligerents into the smallest units practical. But of course making bigger blocks would make the variant easier to balance. Although the more player mayhem would be more fun :)