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This new game rule option lets players abandon territories they own during game play freeing them from having to leave armies behind to hold a territory you no longer need. Once enabled you can attack with the full force of the territory you are attacking from and when transferring armies you can transfer all your armies out of a territory you occupy. This can be especially useful in team play when you want to transfer territories to team mates but don’t want to have to attack your team mates to get them. When you abandon a territory it turns back into a neutral territory and can be taken by other players without putting up a fight since the abandoned territory does not have any armies. Here are the settings for Abandon Territories:

In addition to being able to abandon territories a new option has been added that allows players to keep ownership of the territory after it has been abandoned rather than have it turn into a neutral territory. Keeping ownership allows you to create games where players do not need to devote resources to keeping the ownership of the inner territories within their continents. In this example using keep territory ownership you can see that green still occupies most of Europe even though no armies are allocated towards its defense:

Finally, since players can lose all of their armies while attacking there is a new feature that prevents you from attacking if there is a chance you maybe eliminating your self during the attack. In other words if you only have one territory left and Keep Territory Ownership is not enabled you will not be able to engage in an attack that could end in self destruction. In the following example you can see that blue only has one territory remaining on the board (in South America). Initiating an attack on North America with 2 armies would not be possible since it would be possible to lose both units in the process, however if blue initiated an attack with just 1 unit that would be possible since losing it would not cause blue to be eliminated.

All these features also apply to Blind-at-once play as well. Please join me in seeing how Abandoning Territories plays in practice and please send me any feedback you may have on it. Thank you to Dogness, Red Baron, SGodfrey and mike… for suggesting this feature and thoughts about how this feature should work.

Instead of having to page through all the game boards one page at a time you can now search game board titles as well as jump directly to the last page. You can search game boards that are shared or for sale in the Browse tab or game boards that are shared on the create game page.

This is what the search box looks like:

And here is what some search results look like:

The “Last Page” link isn’t a large feature but was also added and nonetheless helps navigate the boards directory so I thought I’d also mention it here. It is located just next to the “Next Page” link in the game directory and create game page:

I’d been putting off adding navigation tools to the Browse tab for a while because initially there weren’t that many game boards, but at this point I agree it is a little unwieldy. Thank you to Browncoat and the mojo for suggesting last week that this feature get added.

Instead of only being able to set the maximum number of units that can occupy any territory on a game board, designers and modders can now fine tune game boards to set a maximum number of units on a territory by territory basis. This way special areas can be created on the map that are limited in the number of units that can be played there.

You can check to see if the game table you’re playing on is using these board defined unit limits by viewing the game table rules tab.

Also you can check what the actual limits are by viewing the country details on the map tab.

When designing or modding a game board you can set this new unit stacking limit by editing the country you would like ot set the unit limit on.

Playing game boards using board defined unit limits is basically similar to playing with board wide unit limits in that you lose any bonus units you are unable to place on the board.