The Italian Pasta Rule

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The Italian Pasta Rule is a rule from the best board game of all time, The Campaign For North Africa. The Italian Pasta Rule is notable for officially being the best rule in any board game ever. The Italian Pasta Rule has garnered significant attention from the worldwide community, as it has received 4 Nobel Prizes, 2 British Academy Awards, 2 Rotterdam Design Awards and a Darwin Award.

The rule

Below is the rule as written in The Campaign For North Africa:

“ [52.6] THE ITALIAN PASTA RULE

One of the biggest mistakes the Italians made during the entire Desert Campaign was to provide their troops with a diet which was composed, in large part, of spaghetti and macaroni. Aside from providing insufficient protein (this wasn't Buitoni Brand), pasta has one serious drawback in-the desert: you need water to cook it! Therefore, each Italian battalion, when it receives its Stores, must receive an additional 1 Point of Water when Stores are distributed. Any battalion-sized unit that does not receive their Pasta Point (one Water point) may not voluntarily exceed their CPA that Turn. Furthermore, Italian battalions not receiving their Pasta Point that have a Cohesion Level of -10 or worse immediately become Disorganized, as if they had reached -26. As soon as such units get their Pasta Point, they regain the original Cohesion Level (i.e., the level they had before they disintegrated).

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— Simulations Publications, Inc,

Analysis

The Italian Pasta Rule can be characterized by the four principled pillars upon which it stands: Humility, Nobility, Parity and Serendipity.

Humility

The Italian Pasta Rule is a rule that keeps itself in its own world, although that does not mean it cannot affect entities outside of itself, as its several awards communicate. The Italian Pasta Rule never once has the reader feel as a fool for not knowing much about The Italian Pasta Rule; for The Italian Pasta Rule is here to humbly guide you, as a sensei, to understanding and to knowledge of oneself and how The Italian Pasta Rule can be understood from within and without oneself.

Nobility

The Italian Pasta Rule is integrally noble; there is no argument to be made here. The Italian Pasta Rule, in one form or another, has been used to guide the nobles of the Kingdom of Sicily and other civilizations like it throughout history. I would know because I am a noble from the Kingdom of Sicily, and I am requesting urgent help from any time travellers reading this because i just got the news that Joachim Murat has been captured.

Parity

There is an undertone of urgency to The Italian Pasta Rule, like something is misaligned and gone terribly wrong, yet also slow-paced as The Italian Pasta Rule ensures its reader that this problem can be solved by them and they can become an expert in this field if The Italian Pasta Rule is followed and adhered to with accuracy; the parity it presents can be solved.

Serendipity

The Italian Pasta Rule is, above all, a perfect rule, and no-one is quite sure how it could come about that such a perfect rule could materialize, let alone perfectly cement itself as a cornerstone in human history. This is evidently characterizing of serendipity, as everything falls into place neatly, happily and seemingly in a manner that never could have been predicted.