Those rules make yours a completely different game. So, I don’t really have much to add from a strategy perspective. It’s not really AAPacific at all. It is simply an A&A-type game played on the AAPacific map. Sounds like fun, though.
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do they get to choose each round how they will spend that money,
or is it chosen at the start of the game how the brits will spend the points between india and australia²
It can be different each round.
ok thanks very nice, been playing it wrong for years now :-D
Does it say that in the rulebook?
Yes, on page 25.