Balkans 1860 Variant Rules, Version 1.0.  Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/nairenvorbeck/files  The Balkans 1860 variant is a historical transplant of Hasbro/Avalon Hill's Diplomacy to the Balkans region, (almost) historically accurate to the year 1860.  The Balkans 1860 Variant conforms to the standard rules of Hasbro/Avalon Hill's Diplomacy in most every way, with the few exceptions listed below.  The standard rules are NOT copied here, and all players of the Balkans 1860 Variant are assumed to own or expected to purchase the Rules of Diplomacy (or better yet, the full game) through Hasbro/AH, as I did.  Turns move from Spring to Fall just like standard Diplomacy, and the first turn is Spring 1860.  Abbreviations are often not at all what you might expect them to be because of the significant number of provinces that share the same first three letters (i.e. Tirana/Tiraspol, Burgas/Burgas Bay, Agram/Agrinio, Salonika/Salzburg)  Be sure to check the names feature on Realpolitik.  Palermo and Catanzaro are land contiguous, as are Bursa and Salonika, though they appear separated by water on the map.  Both Armies and Fleets may cross from one of these territories directly to the other.  Movement by fleets through the surrounding sea zones is unaffected.  The "bridges" on the map indicate this movement.  Istanbul is one single territory that lies on both sides of the Sea of Marmara.  An army in Istanbul may move to Bursa, Edirne, Salonika, and Zonguldak.  A Fleet in Istanbul may move to Black Sea, Bosporus, Bursa, Edirne, Salonika, Sea of Marmara, and Zonguldak.  All other rules conform to Standard Diplomacy in every way.  18 SCs = solo victory.  

