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Diplomacy: Spring map 1911 on page 17. Down to E/F/T for the win
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i uh, i thought i would bounce out of greece. get out of there turkey. that is my sea it doesn't even fit you.
(retreat and build is next)
I had meant to bounce you out of Greece. Ah well...
I believe that specific response means that Black Sea was able to support Armenia to Sevatopol (it can reach Sevastopol), but the move command it was supporting failed. In this case, the totaled strength was not enough to exceed the unit in Sevastopol receiving a support hold from Moscow. It was 2v2. There is a different response if the support is illegal (Cannot Support Square Sev), and if the unit didn't issue a matching move command.
(The key is to then convince one of your neighbors that you can help them greatly improve their position by aiding in a stab against their apparent ally.)
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Yeah yeah, I know. I'm pretty much just saying I might be bad at this game, at least the diplomacy part. Hence why I prefer A Game of Thrones which can be played as a purer war game instead of a social experiment.
On convincing a neighbour to stab their apparent ally, I think the problem is conventional wisdom says you should find an ally in the early game and not stab them until you've built up your strength and then do it decisively. So if the triple you're involved in (east or west) ends up with the two others against you, I'm not sure there's much that can be done, once the war has started.
To be fair though, I sort of gave up once I was down to three centers. It is entirely possible someone more crafty than me could have wrung out a victory from that position.
Anyway, this isn't meant be whining, I had fun and will probably play again. Just musing. Thanks for the game - I'm cheering for Italy. Avenge us, you last of the central powers!
An award surely to France for most trusting nature?!
On a serious note, I was resigned to be out of this game a few turns ago.
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I'll change the title and year once the spring map is posted.
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Are any of you guys going to PAX? Maybe we could play a game in person! If we have 4 or 5 hours of downtime somewhere.
I am both going to PAX East and have the physical game.
I even got a hold of an old set of the metal pieces. It's very nice.
On that note, anyone know who put those GoT Wildling cards on HandTracker and if they're planning a GoT game here?
Could be fun...
AMERICAN! in Iron Weasel's Twilght Struggle #3
The Naalu Collective in MrBody's Twilght Imperium #7
Finn Edwards mi-go hunter's Arkham Horror - Slimy Shores: Innsmouth Time!
Hosting Pandemic Games
Hosting A Game of Thrones; tCG #1
Hosting Twilight Struggle Game 4 - Host Vs Host (Farangu vs. Iron Weasel)
Hosting CitOW game 81 - 2nd Morrs GoCs
Wasn't me. I've been playing a few consecutive games with some guys who've rigged their own very basic board app together, though. One of these days, I'll try to convince them to share it. I think it might require hosting however.
The last game of AGoT on the boards fizzled (the wildling deck might have been from that game, I guess? Mordenthral hosted, but he seems to have disappeared from Arcadia), but I guess with an interface where people move their own pieces it might have a greater chance.
AMERICAN! in Iron Weasel's Twilght Struggle #3
The Naalu Collective in MrBody's Twilght Imperium #7
Finn Edwards mi-go hunter's Arkham Horror - Slimy Shores: Innsmouth Time!
Hosting Pandemic Games
Hosting A Game of Thrones; tCG #1
Hosting Twilight Struggle Game 4 - Host Vs Host (Farangu vs. Iron Weasel)
Hosting CitOW game 81 - 2nd Morrs GoCs
PbP. We've been communicating through email, but the board, cards etc are saved on their own site where each player can then log in and move his stuff around.
http://sovereign.public.is/index.jsp
Come talk about boardgames with us
Edit: checked it out, and I'm not a fan of the hex based map and the fact that the names of everything have been changed. Clever way to avoid copyright infringement problems, but theme is just such a big part of the game for me. Plus I can't be bothered to learn new names just for this.
So begins the English-Russian War!
A year of intense fighting is ahead of us.
Never seem to be able to take advantage of the natural strengths of it.
E - How dare AU & GE still have regions loyal?!
AMERICAN! in Iron Weasel's Twilght Struggle #3
The Naalu Collective in MrBody's Twilght Imperium #7
Finn Edwards mi-go hunter's Arkham Horror - Slimy Shores: Innsmouth Time!
Hosting Pandemic Games
Hosting A Game of Thrones; tCG #1
Hosting Twilight Struggle Game 4 - Host Vs Host (Farangu vs. Iron Weasel)
Hosting CitOW game 81 - 2nd Morrs GoCs
Italy survives for another year.
We should hang out.
Also, your first mistake was making me your enemy. We could have been such good friends.
Spring 1908 Orders
England Advances!
Fall 1908 Orders
Italy Falls!
And now!
Spring 1909
The Story Continues!
One question though, how do you play this face to face? Seems like it would be difficult to conspire against someone secretly if I can see Doug and Jimbo talking things over at their end of the table.
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This, of course, brings us to the #1 rule of face to face Diplomacy amongst friends: Nothing I say in a game can ever be used against me outside of game and do not get mad at your friends for playing in the spirit of the game. If you can't separate the two, you shouldn't play with face to face with friends.
But seriously, english sevastapol is definitely double-take territory.
Like, everything I read said that Italy - Turkey is a bad alliance for Italy. Made me edgy about you the whole game.
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