Diplomacy

[Akira]

I don't recall if this has been brought up or not before, but I shall mention it anyway.

There is a game that can be played via email called "Diplomacy," and since the boards have been quite active with this topic, I was wondering if anyone was interested in trying the game out.

Here are some links:


Diplomacy FAQs
Good Diplomacy Page
Some Diplomacy Maps

If anyone wants to take a gander at the rules let me know and I can email them to you.

There are opening for 7 countries in the standard version. I haven't looked at the "varients."

[Warin]

OOOOOOOH!

Diplomacy kicks ass! ***My circle of friends played this through high school, and it is totally amazing! ***Basically WW 1 era Europe. ***There is nothing like executing a perfect back stab on your best friend, and smirking at him as he runs the gamut from disbelief to anger to resignation. Boo-Yah!

I think we should try to get together a PBeM game with various forum goers. ***It could be an interesting exercise in international diplomacy!

edit: the coolest part of the game is that there is essntially no luck. Unlike Risk, or even some of the hard core strategy and/or tactics games I play, there are no dice rolls. It makes the game a totally hard core exercise in persuasivess and diplomacy.

[Tex [USMC]]

I'm in

[Akira]

Cool. Thats three at least. I need to bone up on the rules and the like. Played it a long time ago (through the SFC Forums ).

How do we handle the "Gamemaster" or should we use one of the "Judge" servers?

[USMC Sniper]

Sounds cool from Warin's description, but I have never played it. Send the rules to

[Harnu]

That's one long FAQ. Can you give me a basic overview of how it's played? What it is like and such.

[IceFire]

Ok, I don't know what you mean about this "diplomacy". But if you are talking about Irak, give me a break.

It's been how many years now?? Time for diplomacy is over.

[IceFire]

Ok, just looked at one of the links.

Forget what I said above.

[Akira]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (IceFire @ Feb. 22 2003,04:26)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Ok, just looked at one of the links. ***

Forget what I said above.[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
LOL

[Akira]

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I can send you the rules for the board game (which will be the same as the PBeM version).

Basically you control a country around 1900 Europe. Using Diplomacy and war you try to get a certain amount of Supply Centers. The rub is you can only have as many units as you have supply centers (ie 4 supply centers you can have 2 fleets and 2 armies, or 3 armies 1 fleet, etc etc).