Does a player purchase and place his new units before the next player starts?
A3. According to the initial version of the board game rules, the answer is yes. However this can be unfair because the earlier players are at a disadvantage because they can’t respond to actions of other players (however they do have an advantage when it comes to revolting and westernizing natives). The computer makes it easy to use another method, one that was originally developed as a Donohoe Digital house rule: the Plan & Reveal purchase phase method. This method has been officially approved by Glenn Drover for use as the default method in the computer game. Plan & Reveal works as follows: Each player does his/her purchases effectively at the same time, but those purchases are not revealed until all players are done. In other words, when you are purchasing, you don’t know what the other players are going to do. We think this reflects more accurately what the time was actually like: it simulates the “simultaneous” nature of planning for war. It also removes any advantage from the ea
