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The F:AT Diplomacy Game Thread
15 Jul 2009 02:37 - 15 Jul 2009 02:43 #34996
by Dogmatix
Replied by Dogmatix on topic Re:Mini-Diplomacy by forum game?
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48-hour turnaround and no weekend limits sounds good to me.
After the first week, folks may want to note when the judge decides on when the clock for "the weekend" starts and ends since I suspect we're scattered across 3 to 5 time zones...
@ Loter: One interesting thing is that it doesn't do auto-checking of order syntax like the old email judges I played generally did. It means you can screw up your orders [which I think everyone on the planet does at least once], but it also means you can write deliberately broken orders to cover up your stabbing ways.
One slightly wonky thing is that for convoys, *all* sea zones must be specified to make it a valid move. I seem to recall in F2F pen-n-paper games, you could use shorthand to convey the convoy order [though it's been a loooong time since I played w/pen and paper]. The PBEM tools usually require convoys to be 100% explicit for each step, else they fail. That seems to be the case with Dipbounced.
If anyone doesn't have the rules [or, more likely, since everyone here has different versions with slightly different rulesets] handy, they can be found here:
www.diplom.org/~diparch/diplomacy_rules.htm
As far as I can tell the 1971 GRD and 1976 Avalon Hill rules are identical
48-hour turnaround and no weekend limits sounds good to me.
After the first week, folks may want to note when the judge decides on when the clock for "the weekend" starts and ends since I suspect we're scattered across 3 to 5 time zones...
@ Loter: One interesting thing is that it doesn't do auto-checking of order syntax like the old email judges I played generally did. It means you can screw up your orders [which I think everyone on the planet does at least once], but it also means you can write deliberately broken orders to cover up your stabbing ways.
One slightly wonky thing is that for convoys, *all* sea zones must be specified to make it a valid move. I seem to recall in F2F pen-n-paper games, you could use shorthand to convey the convoy order [though it's been a loooong time since I played w/pen and paper]. The PBEM tools usually require convoys to be 100% explicit for each step, else they fail. That seems to be the case with Dipbounced.
If anyone doesn't have the rules [or, more likely, since everyone here has different versions with slightly different rulesets] handy, they can be found here:
www.diplom.org/~diparch/diplomacy_rules.htm
As far as I can tell the 1971 GRD and 1976 Avalon Hill rules are identical
. 1982 was the revised Avalon Hill edition that addressed some of the years of people bitching about the convoy rules. The article about "The Rulebook Contradiction" concludes with a funny note about that.
Anyway, not sure what ruleset we want to use as reference, but we should probably pick one and make sure everyone is looking at the same one for any questions that arise. That way we can cite chapter and verse when we whine at Quozl
[And I really don't care which nation I get either--Germany and Italy can be rough going, but, then again, I've never claimed to be a GOOD Dip player in the past, just an enthusiastic one
]
Anyway, not sure what ruleset we want to use as reference, but we should probably pick one and make sure everyone is looking at the same one for any questions that arise. That way we can cite chapter and verse when we whine at Quozl
[And I really don't care which nation I get either--Germany and Italy can be rough going, but, then again, I've never claimed to be a GOOD Dip player in the past, just an enthusiastic one
]
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16 Jul 2009 03:50 #35184
by Matt Thrower
Replied by Matt Thrower on topic Re:F:AT Diplomacy game - need 1 more player!
I'm out of town next week as well. I'm happy if we're randomly assigning positions, but for obvious reasons I always prefer to play England
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