Tigris and Euphrates

Setup

1. When you start a new Tigris and Euphrates game, VASSAL will ask which board you wish to use. You do need to choose one.
2. IMPORTANT! If you are logging this for a PBEM or PBF game, you need to start the vlog at this point.
3. If you want to add in the Ziggurat and or extra buildings, press the appropriate buttons. These are to be found in the Tiles and Monuments window.
4. You should also press the "Player Order" button and right click on the question mark piece to the right. Using the menu command there will select a player order.
5. Then the players should be ready to draw their initial six tiles into their hand from the tile deck in Tiles and Monuments.
6. Then you can start.

Private Hands

Each player has a private hand that only they can see. This should be used for storing their leaders, tiles and scoring cubes. It will automatically count your scores, which can be announced to other players using the button.

Scoring cubes

The private hand counts scoring cubes as they enter or leave. Scoring cubes include the four colours and treasure. When giving other scoring cubes to the rightful owners, you can select the cube and right-click it to send it to the correct player. If it is for you, you may simply drag it to your private window. New coloured cubes are created from the "scoring cubes" button. You cannot right-click them there, so you may need to first drag them to the main window. Treasure cubes that must be taken first have a halo around them, so long as they are in the main map.

Tiles

New tiles may be drawn from the "Tiles and Monuments" window. Ideally they should be drawn straight from the deck to your private hand. You can right-click the deck, to send 1-6 tiles straight to your private hand, where they will be sorted by colour. By right-clicking a tile you have a range of options that may be needed during the course of the game.

Conflicts

Tiles committed to a conflict can be sent to the Conflict window using the Ctrl-C command. When that phase of the war is resolved, all ties can be discarded using the the button the Conflicts window.

Summary of Commands

The following key commands are supported. There is no need to memorize them as you can always try right-clicking on them piece to see what is available. Not all commands are supported in all contexts. For example Ctrl-H is disabled and hidden in the main map.

Acknowledgements

Firstly I am grateful to the previous maintainers: Alham and glocko. Secondly I am grateful for feedback and help from Milton Soong and juan barroso. In particular Milton Soong provided his private version including alternative maps which was very helpful. The background to the Tiles and Monuments is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer, such as the United States (source: wikipedia). The image used in the Bull player's private hand was released into the public domain by its photographer, Marie-Lan Nguyen (source: wikipedia). The image used in the Potter player's private hand is used under a Creative Commons License 3.0 and was taken by Mbzt (source: wikipedia). The image used in the Lion player's private hand is used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic and was taken by Carole Raddato (source: wikipedia). The image used in the Archer player's private hand is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer, such as the United States (source: wikipedia). The image used in the Conflict window is is used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic and was taken by Anthony Huan (source: wikipedia). The 2 player Nile map was made by Brian Mullin. The rules pdf was found for me in the Wayback Machine by Ori Avtalion.

Change Log

4.3 Added Conflicts window and a Ctrl-C command on tiles to make conflicts clearer. Added hot keys. Added rule book pdf. Fixed bug where placing tiles outside of the main map could have them returned to the deck. Added count of tiles to stack viewer in players' hands. Prevented <observer> from executing certain commands. Tightened selection boundary of monuments.

4.2 Fixed bug where it was possible to add things to the Tile deck. Fixed bug where certain red tiles were sent to the deck on loading a saved game. Corrected the menu description of the Ctrl-H command for tiles.

4.1 Now those treasure cubes that must be taken first are visibly marked. Added SHIFT-R commands to extra buildings. Automated drawing tiles and player order randomization. Updated art work in private hands. Streamlined start up. Added recentre scoring cubes button.

3.0 Added SHIFT-R command to return Unification tile and leaders home. Added optional overview window. Added support for alternative maps and advanced buildings. Various minor bug fixes to behaviour of pieces. Some aesthetic changes.

2.1 Fixed bugs impacting Archer side.

2.0 Made private hands to be viewable only by their owner. Added logging of movements (without leaking private data). Added documentation. Limited deck to only three visible cards so that it is not so easy to foresee the end of the game.

1.2 Reimplemented to remove redundant "pre-saved" game. Now all components can be found from the toolbar.

1.0 Initial version with current graphics.

0.0 Obsolete version with 3D graphics.