Europa compatibility

Even though all Europa games use the same basic system, there are some differences between individual games. From JET's point of view these differences can be divided into three groups:


JET compatibility per individual Europa game:

Europa Game

JET compatibility

Fire in the east 

Good

Scorched earth 

Good

Second Front

Fair *)

War in the Desert

<Not tested>

A Winter War

<Not tested>

For Whom the Bell Tolls

<Not tested>

Balkan Front

Good

Storm Over Scandinavia

<Not tested>

Lightning War

<Not tested>

First to Fight

<Not tested>

Fall of France

<Not tested>

*) Rules-as-written are supported. However, on-demand air system is not suitable for play-by-mail gaming. For this reason future versions of JET will probably include an optional play-by-mail friendly air system.
 

Tweaking JET

Most compatibility problems are caused by house rules. At this point JET supports only Grand Europa rules, charts and tables with minor exceptions that can be selected from the “Options->Rules” dialog box. One major exception is the combat result table (CRT), which is freely modifiable (see CRT section in the manual).

In the future more Europa tables may be made user configurable. Right now GE versions of the following charts and tables are hard-coded into JET: