[Board Game]Diplomacy 1914

[word321]

A thread dedicated to talk about the board game, Diplomacy.

[word321]

For those of u that dnt know the game, Diplomacy is a board game with a (relatively) big fandom throughout the years.. The premises of the game can be resumed with:

-No one can win alone
-Only one person can win the game
-It is an official rule that u must not abide to ANYTHING u say

It is a deterministic game; it has no dices, and the outcome of the game only depends of the actions of the players.

Essentially, 7 players, each controlling a country of europe in the years previous to the Great War, must compete with each other to gain control of the board.
It requires a degree of tactics and good social skills (as the game implies).

The official rules can be found here. There r also fanmagazines and a lot of strategy sites/articles on each country; despite having pretty simple rules (more than chess), it has gathered quite a fandom.

It would be good to poll if ppl know/r interested about the game; I thought of modding a sesion in the mish mash, but for that there must be enough players to play. A comod with previous experience on the game (or modding in general) would be great too, if the idea do lauch off the ground. I think ppl have played the chaos variant with open chat rules before on this site.

Its also good to have a thread just to give the game some luv I guess.

[word321]

yeah, its easy to get hooked once u play a good match, but it is hard to solve some of those issues when playing irl. Internet has made wonders to solve some of em, tho; nowadays u can even play by the cellphone, without needing to set a day aside for it.

[word321]

it is how it sounds; u cant rly muscle urself arount in a practical manner - u need to cooperate with someone to get somewhere, until u either achieve a crtical mass so u can win alone or u find someone else to ditch ur current ally
or at least indirectly, other ppl need to be bickering so u can get some profit

[word321]

Ahh, Diplomacy, breaking friendships since 1959
Tbh ur channel seems pretty awesome!
I rly liked how u explained on each stage.
Its rly hard to pull a Austria/Turkey, but I guess this demostrates fully what it is capable of; I do thing that by the most probable positioning of the troops, it will inevitable favour Turkey, or at least constantly incentive a backstabb, like it happened
And I think Italy actually played to their interests when they disbanded that Navy; contributing to the formation of the stalmate line instead of helping to break it ultimately guaranteed its survival, albeit for a few years, had the game not Drawed. The rupture of that line would most probably spell doom for him in the long run, like it almost happened when Frane was about to break it.