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A Change of Map
I have to admit that I’ve neglected this site. In my defence, I’ve been busy with Diplomaticon Quarterly, my Diplomacy eZine. But I’m back here, if only briefly (as I have an upcoming issue of DQ to publish at the start of March and I’m putting it together). For this post, I wanted to let…
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Intro to England’s Opening Moves
England has, altogether, 125 possible moves. Each unit can move to four spaces and or be ordered to hold. Of these, there are ten that deserve some attention, but only five that make a lot of sense. I’m going to discuss nine of these in this series. Just to lay them out, here’s a table…
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Opening Moves – An Introduction
As I’m writing this I’m part way through rebooting this blog. One of the reasons I chose to do this is that I wanted to re-write the posts I’d produced on opening moves in a game of Diplomacy. Why do this? Because I’ve changed my opinion about what’s important about opening moves… yes, again! I’ve…
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Chris Martin’s Diplomacy Academy
Chris Martin is a former World Diplomacy Champion. He won WDC in 1998. The Diplomacy Academy is a YouTube site. It does what it says in the title – explains ways to play Diplomacy. What is impressive about the Academy is that it explains the game in an uncomplicated way. Martin’s first post is titled…
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How to handle orders with missing elements
In the rules of Diplomacy it states that orders should be written down. What happens if the written order isn’t exactly correct in format? The rules of Diplomacy have three different versions of inexact orders: Illegal orders – orders which aren’t possible, eg A Lpl-Bel; Ambiguous orders – orders which could have more than one…
