Age of Wonders II rus

General rules

1. You must not use gateway/domain bug
   If your army is blocking gateway, your opponent has the right to demand for your army to step aside 1 hex so he can attack and use domain in battle. There are some limitations though: the opponent is allowed to bring only 1 stack to fight all your stacks, and he must attack without going around your army to change terrain or casting global spells or having any other additional preparations that wouldn't be possible if the battle happened in the gateway.
2. You must not use Enchantment hall expoit
   It is forbidden to sell Enchantment hall or raze / loot / caravan city with it if some units are located inside and are affected by its spell.
3. You must not intentionally use any other bugs or eploits
   If you and your opponent have an argument over a potential rule violation, contact the judges.
4. You must not use fast combat against human opponent without his permission
   Some players allow to use fast combat in trivial cases to save time - you can discuss this with your opponent before the game or before every separate occasion you want to use fast combat in.
5. Handling disconnections in tactical combat

   If a disconnection happened during tactical combat:

   • autosave before TC is loaded;
   • any additional actions before the battle are forbidden (enchanting/dispelling armies, global spells, moving armies);
   • if the disconnection happened closer to the end of the battle, it is recommended that either both players disband units that were killed (or left with 1-2 HP) in battle and replay the battle with what's left, or (in case the battle outcome is clear) the player that was losing the battle surrenders the battle, his opponent disbands all his units that were killed (or left with 1-2 HP) and the game continues;
   • if the disconnection happened closer to the beginning of the battle, the battle is replayed, and the players should stick to original tactics until they are forced to change it to adapt to new random hits, misses and damages
6. Handling disconnections on the global bap

   If a disconnection occured on the global map:

   • By default the game is saved and continued from the moment of the disconnection
   • If a new day begins after the disconnection and the game has not been saved before it, the autosave is loaded.
   • If the game cannot be saved (e.g. if the game has crashed), the autosave is loaded and the players must repeat their global actions.

Simultaneous mode

7. Actions on the last seconds of turn
   One must not postpone his actions (like moving units, casting spells, destroying structures) until the last seconds of turn in order to deprive his enemy of the possibility to react on them. It doesn’t matter whether the turn was ended by the timer or by clicking the end of turn button. If a player had no time to react on the actions of his opponent, he is entitled to claim the loading of the autosave.

Default settings

8. Generator settings

   The tournament maps are generated with the following settings (unless specified otherwise in the tournament description):

   • Map size: M
   • Independents: few
   • All other settings: average
   • Underground: enabled
   • Shadow world: disabled
   • UG/SW start: disabled (this option is tweaked in the setup program)
9. Game settings
   • Simultaneous turns
   • Timer: 3 minutes
   • Tactical combat: always
   • Surrender: disabled

Restarts

10. Main concepts
    • Restart is executed by generating a new map with the same settings
    • After the game is restarted player must use the same combination of race, skills and sphere as in original game
    • If players restart the game, before they restart, they must provide judges with the current game’s last-turn save. If judges find out that an asserted restart reason is inconsistent with reality, then the player asserted it may be subject to punishment regardless of his intent up to forfeit defeat.
11. Complete domain isolation

    In case of absence of a ground level connection between players' domains (complete isolation by mountains or water), any player may demand to start the game anew. In such a case players may consent to continue the game anyway.

    The player who has detected the domain isolation must ascertain its completeness. Next he must immediately notify his opponent of the fact of domain isolation and together with him decide on the restart matter. If player has withheld of an ascertained complete domain isolation, he may be subject to a punishment up to forfeit defeat.

12. Massifs and rivers
    During the first 2 days a player may demand to start the game anew if the area within 10 hexagons from the starting city's central hexagon contains massif or river (massif/river is defined as 4 or more adjacent hexagons of the corresponding terrain type).
13. Hostile terrain
    During the first 2 days a player may demand to start the game anew if it's impossible to build an outpost within 10 hexagons from the starting city's central hexagon in a way that would allow it to grow all the crop fields.

Handling rule violations

14. Settlement
    In case of dispute about the rules, you may settle it with you ropponent instead of bringing it to the judges. If you have reached a settlement, then you lose the right to appeal to the judges on this particular matter.
15. Reporting

    In case of dispute about the rules that you can't settle on your own, contact the judges, providing them with:

    • description of the issue
    • autosave file made before the disputable situation
    • save file made after the disputable situation
    • screenshot(s) that illustrate additional info about the issue that is not clear from the save files
    • log or screenshot of the chat with your discussion of the issue

    The game should not be continued until the issue is resolved.

16. Punishment
    Measures taken to deal with the reported rule violations are determined by the judges. Player that breaks the rules gets a warning; possible decisions about the game the conflict happened in include instruction to load the autosave and continue the game (if this cancels the effect of the rule violation), declaring that the guilty player has lost the game or disqualification of the guilty player (if this is not the first warning for him).