From: disney@mcnc.org (Dennis W. Disney)
Description: Need newbie advice on _After The Holocaust_

Yesterday, I received a copy of _After The Holocaust_ that I purchased
from a net auction, and I would like to play it Memorial Day with some
of my friends.  Anyone out there have advice for newbie players?  In
particular:
 
1)  Is it best to agree "no military units" for the first game?
 
2)  What are good initial labor/mech distributions, first trades,
    and first moves?
 
3)  I don't really understand rule 11.61 Labor Unrest (Strike) Routine.
    The part I don't understand is:
      Total the number of employed Labor Points which did not receive
      a "fair" share of the Consumer Points during the Consumption
      Round.
 
What is the comparison group?  The group with the best CP/labor point
amount?
 
Dennis W. Disney
disney@mcnc.org

From: imb@oasis.icl.co.uk (Ian Brown)
Description: Re: Need newbie advice on _After The Holocaust_

Dennis W. Disney (disney@mcnc.org) wrote:
: Yesterday, I received a copy of _After The Holocaust_ that I purchased
: from a net auction, and I would like to play it Memorial Day with some
: of my friends.  Anyone out there have advice for newbie players?  In
: particular:
: 
: 1)  Is it best to agree "no military units" for the first game?

Yes, in fact military units are a poor option at any time.
 
: 2)  What are good initial labor/mech distributions, first trades,
:     and first moves?

Just the obvious, concentrate on your strengths and trade for what you
are poor at. Expand to get the number of areas up so that the weather
table is less variable. Mechanise farming to avoid unemployment in bad
years. Watch production, avoid surpluses (except food) which are
expensive to stockpile.  Co-operate, only the FW has a balanced economy.
 
: 3)  I don't really understand rule 11.61 Labor Unrest (Strike) Routine.
:     The part I don't understand is:
:       Total the number of employed Labor Points which did not receive
:       a "fair" share of the Consumer Points during the Consumption
:       Round.
: 
:     What is the comparison group?  The group with the best CP/labor point
:     amount?
 
Yes not very clear is it...
My personal interpretation is:

Take the sector with the highest consumer poits (C) to labour (L).  For
the other sectors unemployment = labour - (consumer points * L / C)
 
: Dennis W. Disney
: disney@mcnc.org
 
--
        All the best
        Ian Malcolm Brown
 
Mail:         imb@dsbc.icl.co.uk
 
From: robertaw@halcyon.com (Robert A. Woodward)
Description: Re: Need newbie advice on _After The Holocaust_

In article <1994May26.195417.21628@mcnc.org>, disney@mcnc.org (Dennis W.
Disney) wrote:
 
> Yesterday, I received a copy of _After The Holocaust_ that I purchased
> from a net auction, and I would like to play it Memorial Day with some
> of my friends.  Anyone out there have advice for newbie players?  In
> particular:
> 
> 1)  Is it best to agree "no military units" for the first game?
 
It is best never to build any (read the supply rules carefully and point
them out to would be Rommels AFTER they build their army).
 
> 2)  What are good initial labor/mech distributions, first trades,
>     and first moves?
 
My strategy on the initial set up was to have just enough labor points
in the Farm sector to enable feeding my population after rolling
"snake-eyes" on the production roll (ex. FW has 8 food in stock, thus
has to have 22/.7 = 31 total pts in Farm of which 10 can be Mech and 21
be labor). As I recall, NE can't do this (not enough Mech and Food
Stock). I generally use up all my metal and fuel stock on the first
turn in order to have the maximum amount of mech production from
Industry sector.
 
Trading for the first round (and later) is greatly effected by the food
production rolls. You should help out your neighbors so they can help
you (the GAME is the enemy, not the other three players). Of course,
you should try to do well while doing good.
  
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robertaw@halcyon.com
cjpw69a@prodigy.com