Module:Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection

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'''Please read the module instructions below before emailing with questions. Thanks!'''

Module Instructions:
1. You will need to use VASSAL Engine version 3.2.13 or higher to use this module.

2. A right-click on Population circles (Cities and Provinces) produces a menu to expedite placement of most game pieces.

3. To create the deck, press the deck creation button on the right side of screen that corresponds to the scenario you wish to play. The button will generate the deck which will appear on the right side of the main map screen. All unused cards are deleted as are the deck creation buttons. Note that there are two buttons for each scenario. The tan button will construct a deck using the Period Events Option (see 2.1).

4. In accordance with GMT's wishes, we will not be including the Solitaire game charts in the module. Thank you for understanding!

5. The module automatically calculates Total Support and Opposition. To adjust Support/Opposition, right-click on the Support/Opposition/Neutral button in each space. As Support/Opposition is adjusted, the module will shift the markers on the map automatically. As you can see, there are shortcut keyboard commands that can be used on the Support/Opposition/Neutral buttons (Ctrl-[ and Ctrl-]).

6. Control of spaces is managed dynamically as you move pieces the module will automatically calculate control. During Winter Quarters card resolutions, press the "Control Snapshot" button on the toolbar. This will create temporary markers to mark the control situation. These temporary markers are deleted when the "Reset Phase" button is pressed.

7. To draw cards from the deck press the "Draw Card" button on the toolbar. Pressing this button will shift the card from the "Upcoming" slot to the "Current" slot on in the card play area on the left side of the main map window. Pressing the "End Card Play" button will discard the current card as well as rearrange the eligibility cylinders.

8. I do not intend to include an Overflow button. It is clunky and interferes with dynamic control calculation. If things get crowded, "wooden" pieces do stack atop one another. Double-click stacks to separate them.

9. The "Winter Quarters Phase" button clears movement trails, resets cylinders to underground, and deletes temporary control markers that were placed when the "Control Snapshot" button was pressed.

Enjoy!

Known bugs with current version:

1. Blockade placement does not diminish support. There is also no way to manually adjust this yet. Working on a fix. Until then, you'll just have to calculate manually what the Support score truly is.

2. Swapping out Winter Quarters with Current Event card gets the "Current" and "Upcoming" properties confused. Working on a solution for this as well.

© GMT Games 2016; Harold Buchanan Design (System designed by Volko Ruhnke

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