Combatants

Combatant is the individual player, representing a nation, organization or group, commanding all units associated with this player.

In the "Panama" scenario, four combatants have been defined (Panama, Nicaragua [guerilla], U.S. and Cuba) meaning that this scenario is played for four players (or less if one player assumes control of multiple combatants). 

Note: For the moment, alliances are fixed within a scenario and cannot be changed during play. It is being considered making these more flexible, allowing the player to switch alliance during game play in order to inject some political aspects but this has not yet been implemented (or even completely thought thru) at this point.

Alliances

Alliances are used to group combatants. The four combatants in the "Panama" scenario for example, are grouped into two alliances, West/NATO with Panama and the U.S. vs East/Warsaw Pact with Cuba and Nicaragua.

Advantages

Combatants in an alliance profit from this fact in a number of ways:

• all intelligence (i.e. position of enemy units) is shared

• sealift, landing and airlift capabilities are shared (but not paratroop capabilities)

• Power projection values are added and ownership is then determined by comparing the strengths of all combatants within the alliance.

Note: The last item needs some clarification which is given on the "Ownership" page.