Georgia 2x Army CapThis is effectively a completely different game mode and requires a different way of thinking about deployment and leftovers.
General IdeaThere is an army cap, which is set at 2x a player's income. This means that players have to be very careful about where they let stacks end up. The other thing that changes is that instead of conserving leftovers, players actively want to discard them, since they count towards the cap and may constrain deployment of armies in more useful places the subsequent turn.
CardsReinforcement for +5 in 4 pieces (Starts with 4 pieces)
Gift (starts with 1, but don't receive any more)
Bomb in 6 pieces (starts with 2 pieces)
Blockade for 200% (Starts with 30 cards)
Initial DistributionThe distribution is set by random wastelands of 2 over random cites. This is so that it's not possible to have an entire bonus in-distribution, but the 36 wastelands reduce the number of pickable spots so that the template has variety each time.
Players pick 5 starts, and each start has only 1 army, so you have maximal flexibility on turn 1. With 5 starts, 5 base income, and a +5 card, you start with 10 armies to deploy on turn 1.
NotesThe blockade card is so that players can get rid of territories (and armies) that they don't want to help stay under the cap. It's at 200%, so that a blockade of 1 army is indistinguishable from a regular neutral. The bomb makes big stacks an even bigger liability than they already were, since in addition to limiting deployment on the next turn (if you're at the cap) they are targets for bombs. The gift is a very situational card, but it can be used to give an opponent a large stack in a useless location, limiting their deployment.
All bonuses are valued at N-1 where N is the # of territories, so that bigger (and less defensible) bonuses are more valuable.
Templatehttps://www.warlight.net/MultiPlayer?TemplateID=757105Sample gameshttps://www.warlight.net/MultiPlayer?GameID=9937959https://www.warlight.net/MultiPlayer?GameID=9938247https://www.warlight.net/MultiPlayer?GameID=9951777