From: hooton@salem.zk3.dec.com (David D. Hooton)
Subject: Re: Escape from Colditz
Date: 9 Aug 2000 21:54:08 GMT

We used several house rules when playing the game at the MITSGS in the
early 80s.  Among them are:

1. You only have to get 1 prisoner out to win.

2. The German player wins a major victory if nobody escapes within 2 hours
(or was it 90 minutes?).  Otherwise, the first player out wins a major
victory with the second player out winning a minor victory.  If only one
escapes, the German player gets the minor victory.

3. No "Do or Die" cards are used.  (Reid himself once mentioned that they
make the game "less intelligent".)

4. German and Allied players are both allowed to block doors.

5. The Allied player cannot get rid of a German on a teleport pad,
otherwise the Allies can clear the inner courtyard in short order as we
found out in our first game.  (This was called the anti-Hootonization
rule in honor of the first person against whom this tactic was used.)

							- DDH