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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: The problem for online Diplomacy, especially websites, is that they often require orders to match exactly and to be precisely…
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webDip’s Lack of Mistakes
Isn’t it ironic, don’t you think? One of the issues I have with webDip is that you’re not allowed to make a mistake with your orders. That, in itself, is a mistake. webDip’s ordering system is click and select, as is Playdip’s. I think Playdip have an alternative ordering system but I’ve never wanted to…
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