This specifically allows players to:

• Revert to earlier save files to improve outcomes.
• Peek at other players' nations.

This specifically prevents players from:

• Editing the game file or using an outside cheat program.
• Changing the army, scenario, or other game data.
• Hacking the Warlords application itself.

These sorts of actions can be detected in their effects on the game, and anyone caught cheating will be expelled from all Warlords tournaments and the PBEM players list for life.

The above rules are to be interpreted liberally; the lists of specific examples are not exhaustive lists of what you can do within the program and can't do from outside the program.

• Human players must disband initial hero.
• Human players are not allowed to receive additional heroes.
  
  • Reverting to get new heroes and allies was responsible for 80-90% of the reverting and tedium in the Experiment game.)
  • Hero stack bonuses increase the need for reverts by altering the balance of unit strengths.
  • No Ruin Visiting: to minimize reverting at ruins, don't include heroes, and/or ruins. The randomness of ruins alters the balance of a scenario, as well.

• Army set should not include allies; alternatively, human players must disband any allies received from ruins or in other ways; alternatively, any allies in the army set should be weaker/slower/more expensive/harder to build than normal units, and therefore not much use. Reverting to get good allies with heroes was the dominant source of reverting in the Experiment game.

• Temples are largely irrelevant when reverting is allowed, since all units are effectively the same strength, and attackers will always win battles with enough reverts. (See army set notes). Allowing units to be blessed at temples just makes it take more reverts to kill them. If all units are strong and intense combat is on, then temple blessings will have no real effect on the game.

-- Bob Heeter