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The Cogiavelli board - Italy, 1499

42 areas: 36 land provinces (24 of them cities) and 6 seas. There are NO SPLIT COASTS anywhere: every province that touches two seas touches two ADJACENT seas, so SPA/NC-style coast notation does not exist and never has to be disambiguated.

The land

code	name	kind	city	land neighbours	seas
TUR	Turin	inland	neutral	SAV PAV GEN MIL	-
SAV	Savoy	inland		TUR GEN PAV	-
COM	Como	inland	MILAN	MIL TRE	-
MIL	Milan	inland	MILAN	TUR COM PAV MAN	-
PAV	Pavia	inland	MILAN	TUR SAV MIL GEN MAN MOD	-
GEN	Genoa	coastal	neutral	TUR SAV PAV MOD PIS	LIG
TRE	Trent	inland		COM VER MAN	-
MAN	Mantua	inland		MIL PAV TRE VER MOD FER	-
VER	Verona	inland	VENICE	TRE MAN PAD FER	-
PAD	Padua	inland	VENICE	VER VEN FER FRI	-
VEN	Venice	coastal	VENICE	PAD FRI FER	UAD
FRI	Friuli	coastal		PAD VEN TRI	UAD
TRI	Trieste	coastal	neutral	FRI BOS	UAD
FER	Ferrara	coastal	neutral	MAN VER PAD VEN BOL RMG	UAD
MOD	Modena	inland		GEN PAV MAN BOL PIS	-
BOL	Bologna	inland	neutral	FER MOD RMG FLO	-
RMG	Romagna	coastal		FER BOL FLO URB	UAD
PIS	Pisa	coastal	FLORENCE	GEN MOD FLO SIE	LIG UTS
FLO	Florence	inland	FLORENCE	BOL RMG PIS SIE URB	-
SIE	Siena	inland	FLORENCE	PIS FLO PER ROM	-
URB	Urbino	inland		RMG FLO PER ANC	-
ANC	Ancona	coastal	PAPACY	URB PER ABR	LAD
PER	Perugia	inland	PAPACY	SIE URB ANC ROM ABR	-
ROM	Rome	coastal	PAPACY	SIE PER ABR NAP	UTS LTS
ABR	Abruzzi	coastal		ANC PER ROM NAP APU	LAD
NAP	Naples	coastal	NAPLES	ROM ABR APU CAL	LTS
APU	Apulia	coastal		ABR NAP BAR CAL	LAD
BAR	Bari	coastal	NAPLES	APU CAL	LAD
CAL	Calabria	coastal		NAP APU BAR	LTS ION
MES	Messina	coastal	neutral	PAL	LTS ION
PAL	Palermo	coastal	NAPLES	MES	LTS
BOS	Bosnia	inland		TRI RAG ALB	-
RAG	Ragusa	coastal	TURK	BOS ALB	LAD
ALB	Albania	inland		BOS RAG DUR AVL	-
DUR	Durazzo	coastal	TURK	ALB AVL	LAD
AVL	Avlona	coastal	TURK	ALB DUR	LAD ION

The seas

LIG Ligurian Sea (touches UTS) - UTS Upper Tyrrhenian Sea (LIG, LTS) - LTS Lower Tyrrhenian Sea (UTS, ION) - ION Ionian Sea (LTS, LAD) - LAD Lower Adriatic Sea (ION, UAD) - UAD Upper Adriatic Sea (LAD). A sea is adjacent to exactly the coastal provinces that list it in the table above.

The 24 cities

Home cities (18): VEN PAD VER (Venice) - MIL PAV COM (Milan) - FLO PIS SIE (Florence) - ROM ANC PER (Papacy) - NAP BAR PAL (Naples) - RAG DUR AVL (Turk). Neutral at start (6): TUR GEN TRI FER BOL MES.

The two movement graphs

ARMIES move on the land-neighbour column, land provinces only. An army never enters a sea and is never adjacent to one.
FLEETS move on: sea-to-sea edges; sea to each of its coastal provinces; COAST-HOPS, meaning two coastal provinces that are land-adjacent AND share at least one sea (GEN-PIS on the Ligurian, DUR-AVL on the Lower Adriatic; BAR-CAL is NOT a coast-hop, because they share no sea); and exactly one fleet-only edge, CAL-MES, THE STRAIT OF MESSINA. A fleet never enters an inland province.
AN ARMY REACHES SICILY (MES, PAL) ONLY BY CONVOY. Sicily is the only part of the land graph that is not connected to the mainland by land.

The 18 starting units

Venice A VER, A PAD, F VEN - Milan A MIL, A PAV, A COM - Florence A FLO, A SIE, F PIS - Papacy A ROM, A PER, F ANC - Naples A NAP, A BAR, F PAL - Turk A DUR, A AVL, F RAG. Every power starts with 12 ducats.

Order notation

One grammar, whitespace- and case-tolerant; -, - and -> all read as a move, and S/SUPPORT, C/CONVOY, H/HOLD/HOLDS are all accepted.

A VER H                  the army in Verona holds
A VER - MAN              the army in Verona moves to Mantua
A BAR - PAL VIA CONVOY   the army in Bari is carried to Palermo by sea
F VEN S A PAD - FER      the fleet in Venice supports Padua's move to Ferrara
F VEN S A PAD            the fleet in Venice supports Padua's hold
F LAD C A BAR - RAG      the fleet in the Lower Adriatic convoys Bari to Ragusa

Worked examples:

A URB - ANC  +  A PER S A URB - ANC   beats  F ANC H         Ancona is taken, the fleet retreats
A VER - MAN  +  A MOD - MAN                                   both bounce, STANDOFF in Mantua
A MAN - VER  cuts  A VER S A PAD - FER                        so the attack on Ferrara fails
A BAR - AVL VIA CONVOY  +  F LAD C A BAR - AVL                the army crosses the Adriatic

Each seat is handed the COMPLETE list of legal orders for each of its own units, in exactly this notation, in its orders prompt; an order that is not on that list becomes a hold.