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Diplicity Game: “Give it a Try” – 1904
Above are the W1903 adjustments. As you can see, Turkey took my advice and managed to get a build. Still, no opposition to my cake walk. Assuming Turkey now knew what they were doing, Austria’s time was over. Of course, there was always the chance that Austria, Italy and Turkey would get their act together…
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Diplicity Game: “Give it a Try” – 1903
Winter 1902 ended as shown above. I’m England; I’ve no opposition in the west and north. I’m on 8 SCs and it’s only the end of 1902. It’s a dream… or a nightmare. Well, OK, not a nightmare but I’m beginning to wonder just how enjoyable this game is for me. I mean, yeh, fine,…
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Diplicity Game 1: “Give it a Try” – 1902
The image above is the situation after Winter 1901. As a reminder, I’m England. France, having gained 3 SCs in 1901 didn’t order any builds; Russia NMRed in F01 and didn’t enter a build, either; Germany NMRed in S01. I didn’t believe any of them were still in the game. So, where did this leave…
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Diplicity Game: “Give it a Try” – 1901
I started a game on Diplicity in late January 2024. This was a trial game for me. I’d played one game on Diplicity before but didn’t stay in the game long because others didn’t stay in the game long. I got fed up with it. When I’ve finished the game, I’ll write a review of…
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Harbingers of Betrayal: Lessons
The previous two posts in this series described how research was done to find if language clues could predict when a betrayal was about to happen, and what the researchers found. One thing they found was that humans are bad at spotting impending betrayal in a game of Diplomacy. There are clear clues. A betrayer…
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