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Into the Hobbiverse
Wait! What? There was a ‘zine’ (a what?) for new players to Postal Diplomacy? I was in! In the previous post I wrote about the early days of my Diplomacy life. Face-to-face play wasn’t working for me. But here, on a flyer in a game of Diplomacy, was the key to quenching my Diplomacy thirst – playing by post! The…
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Beginnings
You never forget your first game. Well, actually, I have. But, to balance this epic failure on my behalf, I can safely say I have never forgotten my early experiences of playing Diplomacy. Face-to-face Diplomacy is a hard thing to get into. There may be some people out there who haven’t even tried to play it…
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Game on Diplicity – Intro
I was hoping I’d be writing about a game on Playdiplomacy, frankly, but that’s proving hard to get going. Playdip seems to have problems, at the moment. It isn’t too long ago that Playdip was taken down by… let’s call them hackers although it wasn’t really hacked as such. It wasn’t down too long, and…
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The Hadrian Alliance
Powers: England/Italy Stage: Mid-game/Endgame Primary Target(s): France, Germany, Russia Also known as… ??? Associated 3-way alliances: The Spaghetti Western, The Guillotine, The Maritime Triple The E/I alliance is not a great Early Game alliance on its own. Both powers have much more interest in their own locality to deal with than in each other. The…
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DBNI 2023 – Spurtings of a Spectator
What makes a good game of Diplomacy? I’ve got to be honest, for me the DBNI didn’t seem to meet any of the thoughts I had about this. First, I wasn’t playing. Come on, how often do you really enjoy watching a board game as opposed to playing it? I was suspicious of the new…
