@C_F:
RR is Russia Restricted and it prevents Russia from attacking on their first turn. They can buy and move units, just no attacking. Bids are a way of balancing out the game. As you have seen from previous posts the Allies usually win, even with RR. So two players would bid to see who has to play the axis. Who ever is willing to play the axis with the least amount of help wins the bid. So one player bids 25 IPC’s, the other bids 22, and back and forth until the other player will not go any lower. Let’s say the winning bid is 15. The player who wins the bid at 15 gets to place 15 IPC’s worth of units on the board, no IC’s though, and you can only place German units on German territories and Japanese units on Japanese territories. You can also play that the winning bid just gets the money and buys the units at the beginning of his turn.
Been playing lots of tourny’s lately, and never heard of a bid process like that before. Usally it starts with 0 and goes up. Cause if someone started at 25, i’ll take the axis everytime and have my opponent concede to me after Germany’s first turn.