While on the topic, I thought I ought to clarify the scoring of the second competition, the "who has done best with Nation XXXX".
This competition, as I had conceived it, is scored each decade, but in absolute terms. In other words, for the French competition, the winner (in each decade) is the player who has accumulated the highest total of VPs for the French at the end of that decade.
The score acheived for the French in the preceding decade is not relevant - it is not the relative increase that is being scored, but the absolute one. Clear? Tournament points will be awarded each decade, as for the "Decade Performance" relative improvement competition.
Thus doing well in decade #1 will not make it harder to get a win in decade #2, as it would in the "Decade Performance" competition.
Whenever we decide the Tournament has ended, there will be a French winner in this half of the Tournament (and a Dutch one, and a Spanish one....etc). They could all be the same person, which would make it easy, but if not, the overall scoring uses the same 7,4,2,1,0 method for Tournament points.
Thus if I came first in the French national competition, second in the Dutch, fourth in the English, last in the Swedish and Spanish, I would score 7,4,1,0,0 for a total of 12 Tournament points. Thus the overall winner of the "National Competition" could be judged.
[OFF-TOPIC] Santa doesn't come to Spain, Steve. In Spain we recieve the gift froms the Three Magics Kings (Baltasar, Gaspar and Melchor) who come Januray the 5th at midnigth. They come from Middle East, not from the North Pole [/OFF-TOPIC]
Spain have aprox 220 units, even though only 188 is displayed at the start of the game.
