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Chaos Variant

The powers for the Chaos variant are

Aank	Bbel	Cber	Dbre	Ebud
Fbul	Gcon	Hden	Iedi	Jgre
Khol	Lkie	Nlvp	Plon	Qmar
Rmos	Smun	Tnap	Unor	Vpar
Wpor	Xrom	Yrum	Zser	0sev
1smy	2spa	3stp	4swe	5tri
6tun	7ven	8vie	9war

Thus, the first power is called Aank, starts owning the supply center Ankara and is abbreviated A. The next is BBel, starts in Belgium, and is abbreviated B. The third is CBer, starts in Berlin, and is abbreviated C. And so on. The last ten are prefixed with a digit. Thus, the last power is 9War, starts in Warsaw, and is abbreviated 9. M and O are skipped to make this consistant with the Ken Lowe e-mail judges (who reserve M for master and O for observer).

The game begins with no units on the board in Winter Adjustment, so powers decide which unit they would like to start with (if they are on a coastal supply center). Note that Spain and St. Petersburg require a coast specification for building fleets.

The colors are fixed as listed. There is no coloring scheme that will guarentee that two similarly colored powers won't share battle lines (and thereby make it difficult to read the map). The colors do not change later in the game to make it easier to read the map because that would be more confusing over all. The "border" maps tend to preserve the true colors better than the "texture" maps (due to the color limitations of the gif image format) and the "classic" maps have the abbreviations for the powers on the units.

Take care when viewing the maps.