ASIMOV'S FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE
WAR GAME
By C Gerard Luft

(4 PLAYER AND 1 PLAYER RULES)

FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE
BASED OFF OF THE FOUNDATION GAME (1973)
A WAR GAME SET IN THE 123RD CENTURY OF THE GALACTIC EMPIRE 
(3RD CENTURY OF THE FOUNDATION ERA)

SET UP

    This is a four player war game (solo game version is given below) set 
during Asimov's Foundation and Empire Novel.  Each player controls a quadrant 
of the Milky Way Galaxy:
(Listed from Terminus, going Spinward) THE FOUNDATION, THE IMPERIUM, THE 
UNION OF WORLDS (THE MULE) and TAZENDA.

    You will need an 8x6 game board with 24 major systems located equally the 
four quadrants.  You can print or copy and paste the provided game board 
(which is overlaid over an image of the Milky Way Galaxy) at:

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    You will also need 12 counters representing the three fleets of each 
quadrant. 
    
    Each player must place the one of each of his three fleets on a major 
system in his quadrant.  Each of these systems is then occupied.  

THE TURN

1.  ISSUE ORDERS: Movement and orders are simultaneous.  So each player will 
need to write his orders at the beginning of the turn and then reveal them 
together with the other players.

2.  MOVEMENT: Fleets only move 1 sector a turn.  You must choose which fleets 
move and which fleets support.  Due to Hyperspace, Fleets Supporting moving 
fleets need not be adjacent to those moving fleets (as opposed to the rule 
regarding fleets in the process of occupying a major system; see#3 and #4 
below). The number of supporting fleets determine a moving fleet's POWER 
during that turn:
# MOVING FLEETS 	# SUPPORTING FLEETS 	MOVING FLEETS' POWER
1   			2   			3
2   			1   			2
3   			0   			1
Only 1 fleet may occupy one sector.  If a fleet wishes to move into a sector 
with an opposing fleet in it, then it may attack it.  If the POWER of both 
fleets is equal, then it is a stand off, and the attacking fleet may not 
occupy that sector.  If one fleet's POWER is greater than the other, then the 
loosing fleet must retreat to an open sector.  If all sectors around it are 
occupied, then that fleet is destroyed (removed from the game).
3.  OCCUPYING SECTORS WITH MAJOR SYSTEMS:  If a system is not occupied a 
fleet may enter that sector.  If it remains in that sector for 4 consecutive 
turns, it is effectively occupied by that force.  That fleet must remain 
there to keep it occupied, but on that fourth turn, the player gains an extra 
fleet, which may be placed in any of the adjacent (orthogonally or 
diagonally) sectors which do not have a fleet in them.  Both fleets are then 
freed up to proceed in conquering new systems. While that system is still 
occupied, if there is no fleet there to defend it, then an opposing fleet can 
enter it an occupy it for four consecutive turns, thus taking that system 
away from the original holder (If that happens, the extra fleet that the 
system produced is immediately disbanded (removed from the game).
4.  CONQUERING SECTORS WITH MAJOR SYSTEMS: If a system is occupied by an 
enemy fleet then a fleet may combat it by moving to an open sector adjacent 
to it.  If the two fleets' POWER is equal it is then a stand off.  If one 
fleet's POWER is greater than the other, then the other fleet must retreat to 
an open adjacent sector.  If no sectors around it are open then that fleet is 
destroyed (removed from the game). If the defender is retreated, then the 
attacker is moved into that sector.  The occupying rule (four turns rule) 
from #3 applies for the newly occupying fleet.
"   ATTACKING FLEET'S POWER: as per the table in #2
"   DEFENDING FLEET'S POWER: The Defending Fleet's power is 1 +1 for each of 
adjacent sector (orthogonally or diagonally) occupied by one of its own 
fleets.

WINNING

    When one player occupies 13 Sectors with major systems, then that player 
is the winner.

FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE
SOLO GAME VERSION

    You are the FOUNDATION, and may set up your three fleets as mentioned 
above.
Your goal is to occupy 13 Sectors with major systems.

    The opponent is the IMPERIUM.  The Galactic Empire occupies the other 
three quadrants, and starts with 9 fleets.  To position the fleets, shuffle 
the nine fleet counters with 27 blank counters.  Beginning at the top left of 
the game board, and moving across (as if reading a paragraph) place a 
counter, upside down, on each of the sectors of the 3 quadrants of the 
IMPERIUM.  Position your fleets, and then turn the counters over to see where 
the enemy fleets are.

    The IMPERIUM will keep all fleets in a major system for four turns, 
before moving that fleet and its new fleet.

    IMPERIUM'S ACTION TABLE (Roll for every three fleets that are not in the 
process of occupying a system)

ROLL 	1d6    	# Fleets Moving 	# Fleets Supporting Moving Fleet's Action
1-2 	1   	2   	Move towards nearest FOUNDATION occupied system
3-4 	2   	1   	Move to nearest IMPERIUM occupied system to support that fleet
5-6 	3   	0   	Move towards nearest unoccupied systems