Smid's Diplomacy Game Thread #3

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

Just call me Tzar Awesome


Also, a map

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

I've sent this as part of a note to the sultan, who has said here he is new. This part of the note is white (IE it has little to do with 'negotiation') and so I thought I'd share it, with any bits taken out as needed

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[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

Has anyone heard from Germany, or am I the only one who should be worried?

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

Has anyone heard from Germany, or am I the only one who should be worried?

Erc hasn't been around much lately.
He last posted on the forum on 19 September; but he was logged in very early yesterday.
I've not had any communication with him.

Does he want to play, or have circumstances changed for him?

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

Is today the deadline or was that extended?

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

The poles in Warsaw demanded I protect their brethren in Austria!

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

     Wow, only one bounce.

There are only a few places that regularly have bounces. Galacia is one. The Black Sea is perhaps the most well known, I think that most games have some kind of bounce there these days. Piedmont is another place where bounces are sometimes scheduled, it gives France a bit more security in it's back door.
Burgundy, and the English Channel *can* see scheduled bounces, but if they are unscheduled, then France could be in trouble.
In the fall, the biggest places for bounces tend to be Sweden, Norway (if Russia moves an army north) and Belgium. I've seen more than one game where E, F, and G have a 3 way bounce there (mostly no press games)

All of that, of course, ignores the Tri-Ven situation.

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

All of that, of course, ignores the Tri-Ven situation.

I'm keeping Italy honest.

We'll see just how honest he is
Besides, I was talking in general
(and no, I dont mean an army general, or a colonel)
[and no, I dont mean colonel sanders, or general motors]
{say major paine and I'll hurt you}

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

Lets examine...

moving the units as done
VS
moving rome to apulia

Lets assume Austria does nothing
no change in either set of orders, both units go though

lets assume Austria sends Trieste over to Venice
In the first set of orders, Italy ends up with a unit in ROM and APU
In the second, VEN and APU

what if Austria does above, but also moves to TYR?

In both instances, Italy can prevent Austria from taking Venice. So what's the difference?
Simple
No unit in Venice. If Austria were to attack Italy, the moves as done would allow Italy to build a unit in Venice, whereas the other set of moves would not.

Then again this is of trivial importance, as with an army in Rome, building one in Venice is not going to change the end-game much than if you had an army in Venice and built one in Rome. In fact the only real difference is if you build a fleet there. What is then done with the fleet is open to interpretation.

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

summore learnins clipped from one of my PMs

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[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

Depends on what ruleset your using I suppose.

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

Perhaps I'm mistaken

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

In other news, a new issue of Diplomacy World has come out. One of the articles is on a 1648 variant that I'll have the joy of playing (hopefully as Poland) shortly.

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

[Mr. Burns] Excellent [/ Mr. Burns]

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

For the record:
when I started this game, it was the first diplomacy game I'd played in, perhaps, 7 years.

At the moment, I find myself in a total of 22 diplomacy games

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

So wait.

Germany, Austria, and Italy are working against me, and possibly Turkey as well

while Germany is working with France against Britain...

but France is attacking Italy?

I mean my moves for this season were PFS, but that puzzles me.

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

pretty *@#$@%$ sweet.   

my units are right where I want them

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

Is it the spring or fall?? I forget.

If it is the fall, I'm disbanding my unit.
If it is the spring, I'm retreating it to sEV

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

Diplomacy on a World Map
On another forum I'm at we are playing Diplomacy on a world map, but are having a horrible number of drop outs. I'm wondering if anyone wanted to play as a fill in. Details found:
Click Here

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

Yea, we are getting pretty close to being desperate.

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

Diplomacy on a World Map
On another forum I'm at we are playing Diplomacy on a world map, but are having a horrible number of drop outs. I'm wondering if anyone wanted to play as a fill in. Details found:
Click Here

     That looks truly intriguing. What countries are suffering from drop outs? I might join that game depending on what countries are available.

None of the good ones, as those ones are being played.

China, Japan, and Turkey need players

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

Well well well. Is this not an interesting turn of events.

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

A Belgium Supports F North Sea - Holland (*Void*)
A Holland Supports F North Sea - Belgium (*Void*)

lol

Reminds me of a line from an Edi Birsan video

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

I think I need to wake up and start paying more attention to this game.

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

The title of the next Act of this play: Death of an Austro-Hungarian (or Two).

And it's quite a plot twist from the end of 1902. I actually thought that a strong Austro-Italian alliance might prove to be a winning combination. Of course the Spring of 1903 found my thoughts to be misplaced.

Yep, it turns out Austria was an untrustworthy so-and-so...

In my defence, I'm still a novice at this.

Tip: never tell Russia you plan to move to Galacia. If you must, ask him if it's okay first